Zenryaku Milk House (Japanese: 前略・ミルクハウス, “Omission Milk House”) is a Japanese slice of life romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Yumiko Kawahara.

The manga was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Bessatsu Shōjo Comic from the March 1983 issue to the May 1986 issue, with a total of 39 chapters. The individual chapters were compiled by Shogakukan under their imprint Flower Comics into ten tankōbon volumes. In 2014, the series was reissued as bunkoban edition of six volumes were published by Asahi Sonorama under imprint Sonorama Comic Bunko.

In 1987, a television drama special adaptation was broadcast by Fuji TV.

Plot

Serika Matsumoto moves to Tokyo to begin her university life, and while looking for a room, she come across a beautiful woman dressed in kimono, Suzune Sakuragawa. Suzune offers her a room at the Milk House, a Western-style house, and she accepts it with a half-hearted reply. Serika considers looking for another room, but when a woman she meets in town, Mizuki, moves in, she decides to live in the Milk House. Later, she was joined by Professor Yoshikawa and his son Isamu, and their lively lodging life at the Milk House begins.

Television drama

A live action TV drama special aired on August 3, 1987 on Fuji TV’s Monday Dramaland (月曜ドラマランド, Getsuyō Doramarando) program.

Cast

• Yōko Ishino as Serika Matsumoto
• Hideyuki Nakayama as Fuji Yasuhara
• Daisuke Matsuno  as Takayuki Tashiro
• Fukumi Kuroda as Mizuki Hashimoto
• Chiaki Watanabe  as Suzune Sakuragawa
• Meika Seri  as Maiko Yoshikawa
• Katsuma Nakagaki (中垣克麻 Nagaki Katsuma) as Isamu Yoshikawa
• Kōji Nakamoto as Professor Yoshikawa
• Toshirô Shimazaki  as Tetsu
• Yasuo Kawakami  as Ron
• Susumu Kobayashi as Yasu
• Miyuki Imori as Yayoi Sakurada
• Tadashi Satō as Sensei
• Seiko Asaga (浅賀誠子 Asaga Seiko) as Store manager
• Shin Yasuda  as Officer
• Takeo Chii as Hanada-gumi, Kumichō

Reception

In 1985, the series won the 31st Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo.

Zenryaku Milk House
Cover of the first volume of Zenryaku Milk House
前略・ミルクハウス
Genre	Romantic comedy, slice of life
Manga
Written by	Yumiko Kawahara
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Flower Comics Sonorama Comic Bunko
Magazine	Bessatsu Shōjo Comic
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	March 1983 – May 1986
Volumes	10
Television drama
Directed by	Keiichirō Yoshida
Produced by	Chihiro Kameyama
Written by	Hideo Takayashiki
Studio	Fuji TV Watanabe Productions
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	August 3, 1987
Episodes	1