Iguana Girl — Season 1, Episode 11: Mom! Mom... Mom!

Episode synopsis

Prepared to die, Rika asks Yuriko for one last favor, but Yuriko refuses. It seems as if Yuriko would rather die than hug Rika. The day of Rika's departure is approaching, and Yuriko won't even show her face. Inside the house, Yuriko finds an old diary. In it, she reads that her husband helped an injured iguana in Galapagos long ago. It's finally the day of their departure, and Rika and Noboru head towards the airport...

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
• E10Sad Family Trip