Iguana Girl — Season 1, Episode 10: Sad Family Trip

Episode synopsis

Rika has decided she will become happy, and against Yuriko's protests, moves into her own apartment. She also starts a new part time job, and appears more cheerful to Noboru. However, Yuriko is convinced she should have died together with Rika a long time ago. Finally, Noboru realizes his feelings for Rika, and asks her to come to Boston with him as he studies abroad. Unexpectedly, Yuriko tells Rika to go with him, but before she wants to go on a family trip together with everyone...

About Iguana Girl

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".

More episodes from Season 1

• E1A Cursed Birth
• E2I Want to Die
• E3A Night at the High Plains, My First...
• E4Mom's Secret
• E5My Birthday... The Present Mom Threw Away
• E6Ripples - Mom Hired a Private Tutor
• E7A Mother's Confession... I Want to Kill You!
• E8A Friend for Eternity, Death, and Another Mother
• E9A Right to Happiness
• E11Mom! Mom... Mom!