Iguana Girl | |
![]() Cover of Iguana Girl, featuring Rika | |
イグアナの娘 (Iguana no Musume) | |
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Genre | Drama, fantasy[1] |
Created by | Moto Hagio |
Manga | |
Written by | Moto Hagio |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | Fantagraphics |
Magazine | Petit Flower |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Published | May 1992 |
Volumes | 1 |
Television drama | |
Directed by | Kazuhisa Imai |
Written by | Yoshikazu Okada |
Original network | TV Asahi |
Original run | April 15, 1996 – June 24, 1996 |
Episodes | 11 |
Iguana Girl (Japanese: イグアナの娘, Hepburn: Iguana no Musume, alternately translated as Daughter of the Iguana or Iguana Daughter) is a 1992 manga written and illustrated by Moto Hagio. A 52-page one-shot (single chapter series) originally published in the manga magazine Petit Flower, the story follows a mother who rejects her daughter because she perceives her as an iguana; the daughter internalizes this rejection, and in turn comes to regard herself as an iguana.
Iguana Girl is a semi-autobiographical story that reflects Hagio's own strained relationship with her mother, while also utilizing fantasy elements to comment on the role of women in post-war Japanese society. In 1996, Iguana Girl was adapted into a live-action television drama that aired on TV Asahi. An English-language translation of the Iguana Girl manga was included in the anthology A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, published by Fantagraphics in 2010.