Iguana Girl
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1996 · TV · 1 season · 11 episodes
The read
The series ran 1 season across 11 episodes and has finished, so there is no cliffhanger risk.
Synopsis
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".
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
3 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 11 ep1996 |
Key crew
- Kazuhisa ImaiDirector
- Yoshikazu OkadaWriter
Cast
- Miho KannoAoshima Rika
- Naomi KawashimaAoshima Yuriko
- Yoshinori OkadaOkazaki Noboru
- Rena KomineHashimoto
- Kanako EnomotoAoshima Mami
- Masao KusakariAoshima Masanori
- Hitomi SatoMikami Nobuko
- Koji YamamotoCast
- Miyuki KomatsuTakano Haruko