| Iguana Girl | |
 Cover of Iguana Girl, featuring Rika | |
| イグアナの娘 (Iguana no Musume) | |
|---|---|
| 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.
- ^ Kuribayashi 2018, pp. 246–247.