イグアナの娘 (1996): reparto, argumento y streaming

Released in 1996, イグアナの娘 is a ciencia ficción y fantasía and drama series.

What it’s about. 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".

Who’s in it. イグアナの娘 stars Miho Kanno as Aoshima Rika, Naomi Kawashima as Aoshima Yuriko, Yoshinori Okada as Okazaki Noboru and Rena Komine as Hashimoto, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.3/10, イグアナの娘 has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch イグアナの娘 page.

If you liked it. Fans of イグアナの娘 tend to enjoy Rick y Morty, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Guardianes de la Noche, Ataque a los Titanes and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.