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Iguana Girl - Season 1

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".

Top Cast

  • Miho Kanno

    Miho Kanno

    Aoshima Rika

  • Naomi Kawashima

    Naomi Kawashima

    Aoshima Yuriko

  • Yoshinori Okada

    Yoshinori Okada

    Okazaki Noboru

  • Rena Komine

    Rena Komine

    Hashimoto

  • Kanako Enomoto

    Kanako Enomoto

    Aoshima Mami

  • Masao Kusakari

    Masao Kusakari

    Aoshima Masanori

  • Hitomi Sato

    Hitomi Sato

    Mikami Nobuko

  • Koji Yamamoto

    Koji Yamamoto

  • Miyuki Komatsu

    Miyuki Komatsu

    Takano Haruko

Overview

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".

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