Iguana Girl
tv show
11 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired April 15, 1996
Genres:
Overview
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".
Ripples - Mom Hired a Private Tutor
Season 1 - Episode 6 - 1h 46m
Air Date
May 20, 1996
Overview
After Mami finds out she's in danger of failing a course, her mother enlists a private tutor to help her study. Since Mami is busy studying, Rika takes over Mami's part-time job at a restaurant. Since social skills aren't Rika's strong point, she struggles with the job. One day, Mami's private tutor comes to the restaurant, and Rika overhears him talking about how he's trying to sleep with Mami, and she gets extremely angry. After that, Mami finally realizes how kind Rika is, and gives Rika the ticket to the amusement park. Noboru had brought them to Rika's house on her birthday. Clutching the ticket, Rika runs towards the amusement park. Little by little, Rika's surroundings are somehow changing...