Iguana Girl

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 [ja]
Written by	Yoshikazu Okada [ja]
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.