Plot
Iguana Girl is a manga by Moto Hagio published in Petit Flower. It was adapted into a television drama in 1996. It is about a young girl, Rika, whose mother views her as being ugly, and favours her other daughter, Mami. Rika thinks of herself as ugly and as an iguana, but after her mother's death, realises that her mother was also an ugly iguana. Iguana Girl reflects Hagio's own relationship with her mother, and it took her "years to write this story". Hagio saw an iguana in a documentary on television and identified with it, feeling it was "lamenting its failure to become a human, just like me".
Cast
as Aoshima Rika
as Aoshima Yuriko
as Okazaki Noboru
as Hashimoto
as Aoshima Mami
as Aoshima Masanori
as Mikami Nobuko
as Takano Haruko
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
April 15, 1996
Last Aired Date
June 24, 1996
Production Companies
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
11
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