TV series
Iguana Girl
1996, Japanese, on tv asahi.
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".
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 11
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Status
- Ended in 1996
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S1 E11: Mom! Mom... Mom!
Aired 24 June 1996
Seasons 1
Cast & crew
Details
- First aired
- 15 April 1996
- Last aired
- 24 June 1996
- Network
- tv asahi
- Original title
- イグアナの娘
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Type
- Scripted
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What Iguana Girl is based on
Iguana Girl is based on Iguana Girl, a manga series by Moto Hagio.
Manga series
Iguana Girl
By Moto Hagio
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How many seasons of Iguana Girl are there?
Iguana Girl has 1 season and 11 episodes, about 60 minutes each.
Is Iguana Girl finished?
Yes. Iguana Girl ended in 1996, so you can watch the whole story.
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What is Iguana Girl based on?
Iguana Girl is based on Iguana Girl, a manga series by Moto Hagio.