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".
Japanese study overview
Iguana no Musume is a Japanese drama of 54,015 characters, with 2,471 unique words and 795 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,471 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×427
- 言うto say×145
- 思うto think×138
- 昇Katsuzaki×137
- お母さんmother×99
- お姉ちゃんolder sister×91
- お前you×75
- 岡崎Okasaki×71
- あの子that child×58
- 自分myself×57
- 好きliking×50
- 青島Aoshima×50
- 青島Qingdao (China)×41
- 橋本Hashinomoto×22
- 三上Sanjō×15
- 伸子Shinko×15
- 伸子temple (on a loom)×13
- 東都the Eastern Capital (now Tokyo)×12
- 中谷Nakatani×12
- 最終電車last train (of the day)×4