Iguana Girl
TV Show| Title | イグアナの娘 |
| User score | 6 |
| Release date | Apr 15, 1996 |
| Release date of last episode | Jun 24, 1996 |
| Genre | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
| Director | Moto Hagio |
| Production country | Japan |
| Series status | Ended |
| Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
| Episodes count | 11 |
| Run time | 60 min. |
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".
Latest episodes
List of episodes
S1.E11 ∙ Mom! Mom... Mom!
Jun 24, 1996
S1.E10 ∙ Sad Family Trip
Jun 17, 1996
S1.E9 ∙ A Right to Happiness
Jun 10, 1996
S1.E8 ∙ A Friend for Eternity, Death, and Another Mother
Jun 3, 1996
S1.E7 ∙ A Mother's Confession... I Want to Kill You!
May 27, 1996
S1.E6 ∙ Ripples - Mom Hired a Private Tutor
May 20, 1996
S1.E5 ∙ My Birthday... The Present Mom Threw Away
May 13, 1996
S1.E4 ∙ Mom's Secret
May 6, 1996
S1.E3 ∙ A Night at the High Plains, My First...
Apr 29, 1996
S1.E2 ∙ I Want to Die
Apr 22, 1996
S1.E1 ∙ A Cursed Birth
Apr 15, 1996
