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Iguana Girl

Iguana Girl

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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".

Created by Yoshikazu Okada
Written by Yoshikazu Okada, Moto Hagio
Networkstv asahi

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

About Iguana Girl

Iguana Girl is a sci-fi & fantasy, drama series that first aired in 1996. Created by Yoshikazu Okada, it stars Miho Kanno, Naomi Kawashima, Yoshinori Okada. 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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