Zenryaku Milk House

Japanese manga series
Zenryaku Milk House
Cover of the first volume of Zenryaku Milk House
前略・ミルクハウス
GenreRomantic comedy, slice of life
Manga
Written byYumiko Kawahara
Published byShogakukan
Imprint
  • Flower Comics
  • Sonorama Comic Bunko
MagazineBessatsu Shōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runMarch 1983May 1986
Volumes10
Television drama
Directed byKeiichirō Yoshida
Produced byChihiro Kameyama
Written byHideo Takayashiki
Studio
  • Fuji TV
  • Watanabe Productions
Original networkFuji TV
Original runAugust 3, 1987 (1987-08-03)
Episodes1

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.[1] In 2014, the series was reissued as bunkoban edition of six volumes were published by Asahi Sonorama under imprint Sonorama Comic Bunko.[2]

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.

Media

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.[3]

Cast

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

Reception

In 1985, the series won the 31st Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo.[4]

References

  1. ^ 前略・ミルクハウス. Kotobank (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  2. ^ 前略・ミルクハウス 1巻 (in Japanese). BookLive. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  3. ^ 前略ミルクハウス (1987) (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  4. ^ 小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

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