Moto Hagio

Moto Hagio

76 (1949-05-12)
Omuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Japanese mangaka, known for works such as Poe no Ichizoku (The Poe Clan), They Were Eleven, and Thomas no Shinzou (The Heart of Thomas).

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They Were Eleven 1986 (6.4)

A group of students from the Cosmo Academy are about to take their final exam: surviving for over fifty days in a derelict ship. But when they arrive, they discover that instead of ten students, there are eleven. One of them doesn't belong there...
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Summer Vacation 1999 1988 (6.1)

Summer Vacation tells the story of four teenage students who spend their summer vacation at school – unsupervised and untouched by the outside world.
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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".