Basic Info

First Air: April 15, 1996

Rating: ⭐ 6.0/10 (2 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 11

Last Episode

Name: Mom! Mom... Mom!

Season: 1, Episode: 11

Air Date: 1996-06-24

Runtime: 46 min

Prepared to die, Rika asks Yuriko for one last favor, but Yuriko refuses. It seems as if Yuriko would rather die than hug Rika. The day of Rika's departure is approaching, and Yuriko won't even show her face. Inside the house, Yuriko finds an old diary. In it, she reads that her husband helped an injured iguana in Galapagos long ago. It's finally the day of their departure, and Rika and Noboru head towards the airport...

Iguana Girl

1996 1 seasons 11 episodes ⭐ 6.0/10 2 votes

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".