Million Yen Women


Million Yen Women is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from November 2015 to September 2016. The series was adapted into a television drama series in 2017, co-produced by Netflix and TV Tokyo co-production, starring Yojiro Noda, lead vocalist of Radwimps.

Plot

Shin Michima is an unpopular novelist. He has lived with five mysterious women in the same house for half a year. Minami Shirakawa loves coffee. Hitomi Tsukamoto loves black tea, yoga and reading good books. Yuki Kobayashi is a polite woman and loves roasted green tea. Midori Suzumura is a high school student and loves acerola juice. Nanaka Seki loves drinking milk.
These five women pay Shin a million yen every month for rent and living expenses, about 30x higher than normal. They have rules in the house and questions about the women are banned.

Characters

;Shin Michima
;Minami Shirakawa
;Hitomi Tsukamoto
;Yuki Kobayashi
;Midori Suzumura
;Nanaka Hiraki

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by, Million Yen Women was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from November 16, 2015, to September 5, 2016. Shogakukan collected its chapters in four volumes, released from March 30 to November 30, 2016. An extra chapter, published as "episode 0", was released on April 10, 2017.

Drama

A 12-episode television drama adaptation, starring Radwimps's lead vocalist Yojiro Noda in his first television show, started streaming on Netflix on April 7, 2017, and was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 14 to June 30 of that same year. The theme song is "Tadayō Kanjō" by Kotringo.