Zenryaku Milk House (manga/TV drama)

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

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

Reception

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

 

Zenryaku Milk House
Zenryaku Milk House manga vol 1.jpg

Cover of the first volume of Zenryaku Milk House
前略・ミルクハウス
Genre Romantic comedyslice of life
Manga
Written by Yumiko Kawahara
Published by Shogakukan
Imprint
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
Original network Fuji TV
Original run August 3, 1987
Episodes 1

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