
Iguana Girl
Sci-Fi & Fantasy·Drama·1996·1 Seasons
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".
Starring: Miho Kanno,Naomi Kawashima,Yoshinori Okada,Rena Komine
Episodes
Season 1
S01 | E01
A Cursed Birth
1996-04-15

S01 | E02
I Want to Die
1996-04-22

S01 | E03
A Night at the High Plains, My First...
1996-04-29

S01 | E04
Mom's Secret
1996-05-06

S01 | E05
My Birthday... The Present Mom Threw Away
1996-05-13

S01 | E06
Ripples - Mom Hired a Private Tutor
1996-05-20

S01 | E07
A Mother's Confession... I Want to Kill You!
1996-05-27

S01 | E08
A Friend for Eternity, Death, and Another Mother
1996-06-03

S01 | E09
A Right to Happiness
1996-06-10

S01 | E10
Sad Family Trip
1996-06-17

S01 | E11
Mom! Mom... Mom!
1996-06-24
Cast

Miho Kanno
Aoshima Rika

Naomi Kawashima
Aoshima Yuriko

Yoshinori Okada
Okazaki Noboru

Rena Komine
Hashimoto

Kanako Enomoto
Aoshima Mami

Masao Kusakari
Aoshima Masanori

Hitomi Sato
Mikami Nobuko

Koji Yamamoto

Miyuki Komatsu
Takano Haruko