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If the front door is more than a few feet from the street, if there are more than four or five rooms, if the rooms are bigger than the typical American walk-in closet... you are looking at the residence of somebody with wads of cash. If it looks like a French chateau and is surrounded by an actual estate, then we are well out of filthy rich and into [[Fiction 500]].
This doesn't stop many ''manga-ka'' from driving the point home by giving their characters homes opulent beyond Versailles, however.
A family that is extremely traditional will invariably have [[The Thing That Goes Doink]] somewhere in the yard of their [[Big Fancy House]]. It may also be found on [[Middle of Nowhere Street]].
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* Kyou and Asu, in ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]'' used to live in one.
* Many characters in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' have big houses, the less fancy one belonging to the Kinomoto family. Sakura's dad is a famous archaeologist, her [[Missing Mom]] was a famous model... however, they weren't always ''that'' well-off, having lived for some years in a cosy but small apartment. They only moved into that house around three years ago, when they arrived to Tomoeda: by that time, Nadeshiko had already died and Fujitaka [[Self-Made Man|had only begun]] to make himself a name as an uni professor.
** Pictured above (and once on the main page): Tomoyo Daidouji, being the daughter of a toy-company CEO, lives in a classic [[Big Fancy House]]; Tomoyo's bedroom is bigger than the entire second floor of Sakura's house. And then are the ''mansions'' in England and Japan where Eriol lives, and, in the first movie, the big
* When the gang of ''[[Code Breaker]]'' needs shelter for the night, the apparently homeless [[Cloudcuckoolander|Yuuki]] suggests a bench, then a park, then the big fancy house that envelopes the park. Naturally, it's his house (big imagination + [[The Nicknamer]] + a country that loooooves collectible toys = (mega) profit!). When Toki suggests that Yuuki is just being used to make a profit, Yuuki shows [[The Rainman|that he's also really good at reading the stock market]] {{spoiler|not that any of that helps with what he really wants: [[The Woobie|friends]] :(}}
* The Student Council in ''[[Code Geass]]'' has its own entire fancy house, and then there's the rest of the academy.
** And we're not counting the imperial villages and castles as well.
* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Yotsuba Group's Shingo Midou has one of these with a large front yard. His living room was redecorated in the anime but his TV remained tiny. The Yagami family house also qualifies, as does the HQ/apartment Light and Misa live in later on.
** Did anyone else notice that Mido's [[Big Fancy House]]'s front stairs [https://web.archive.org/web/20100402174133/http://www.onemanga.com/Death_Note/50/01/ went missing in the manga]?
* Ruki's house in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' and Touma's in ''[[Digimon Savers]]''.
** Note that Ruki's mother does ''not'' own the [[Big Fancy House]]; it more exactly belongs to ''her'' mom, Ruki's maternal grandmother Seiko.
* In ''[[Eden of the East]]'', amnesiac Akira Takizawa is quite surprised to learn that he apparently has a fully stocked ''supermall'' to himself. To be fair, it's assumed that its property values were unusually low thanks to its proximity towards a missile disaster zone, but still - ''fully stocked supermall.''
* Einzbern Castle in ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'' only has ''four'' inhabitants, nevermind that Berserker is one of them. Has its own forest too.
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* The Sohma family in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' has an enormous gated compound with multiple roomy houses. The house that Yuki, Shigure, and Kyo share doesn't seem especially big, but it is in the middle of a huge plot of undeveloped land.
* The Armstrong manor in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Mustang comments to Olivier that it's so big, she could hide an army in there. {{spoiler|And that's exactly what she does.}}
* Honoka Yukishiro's home in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' is a traditional Japanese dwelling with a garden and walled yard, but is also located in the middle of a city; upon just seeing the gate Nagisa realizes that she's ''way'' out of her economic stratum. Same goes for Komachi's digs in [[Yes! Pretty Cure 5|the fourth series]].
** Karen, from the same series as Komachi, could probably buy Honoka and Komachi's combined assets with her pocket change. Not only is her home positively ''huge'' even by American standards, but ''it's not all.'' She has a smaller house just sitting around completely unused, which she just ''gives'' to Coco and Nuts to live in like it's nothing. At the start of the second series, that house is unavailable... so she gives them ''another one.'' ''And'' she has a summer home. On her ''island.'' Are you getting the picture here?
*** Just in case you ''weren't'' getting the picture, the second season later also shows us her ''mountain villa.''
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* Mint's got one in ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]''. In [[Galaxy Angel (video game)|the games]], you get to see the inside.
* The main house of the Gowa family in ''[[Gasaraki]]'', a very traditional place indeed.
* What little we see of Madoka's house in ''[[GetBackers]]'' implies it to be very large; she has room for all of Shido's animals on her lawn, and Akutsu Shunsuke, the man Shido was working for when he met her, definitely applies. Flashbacks show Kazuki's family's home to be even bigger and fancier.
* In the episode ''¥?$'' of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', the team visits an eccentric billionaire's mansion to save him from a hitman. It's absolutely ginormous, with a large estate around it. Another sign of his wealth is the wall-to-wall stacks of gold bullion in his bedroom.
* Kazuharu Fukuyama from ''[[Girls Bravo]]'' owns a [[Big Fancy House]] so large that it has an elevator. Along with that, his family also owns a multi-billion dollar stadium, an entire gaming company, and an entire mountain range.
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** {{spoiler|Hayate has the same problem navigating Nagi's 'small' mansion at times equal to the trouble he has navigating Athena's.}}
* Yoshitaka's house in ''[[He Is My Master]]'' is positively ''enormous'', taking up what seems to be a hundred city blocks on a side, with its own small lake and stream, as well as a very large house filled with expensive treasures. What gets ''broken'' each episode would pay for a decently-sized house.
* Saya Takagi from [[Highschool of the Dead]] lives in a what could only be described as less of a palace and more of a ''castle''. Her parents are fabulously rich ultranationalist Crazy Survivalists, so ''of course'' their house is built like a bunker and has it's own shielded power plant and a small army of guards (in addition to being amazingly luxurious on the inside, of course).
* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Iori lives on one.
* The Himemiya family home in ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', complete with maid staff.
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* The Kurata home in ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]''.
** Also Misako's parents's house, doubling as [[Hot Springs Episode|an onsen]]
* In the ''[[Liar Game]]'', quite a few of the meeting places where the games took place were a [[Big Fancy House]].
* In ''[[Living Game]]'', Raizo briefly has the opportunity to date someone living in a huge mansion. His regret on not marrying into money is tempered by finding out she uses most of the house to house her pet snakes, though.
* The Burton Manor in ''[[Madlax]]''.
* Ayaka's family home in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' could have been built by Louis XIV. But Konoka's home in Kyoto trumps it -- it's not just a [[Big Fancy House]], it's ''an entire temple complex'' staffed by priests, mages, and a dozen or more maids/shrine maidens who treat her like a princess. And then there are Evangeline's numerous estates, which consists of at least a castle, a summer resort, a hot spring, as well as other areas used for Negi's [[Training
** To the Japanese audience, the isolated two-story log cabin (somewhere on the huge school grounds) Eva apparently lives in was already noteworthy. Although it was probably meant to carry subtext that the school ''really'' doesn't want her having to room with the students... or them with her.
* Sachiko's mansion in ''[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'' is remarkably big. Interestingly enough, her summer house is much smaller, Sachiko remarks that she prefers it as it gives her a feeling of comfort because it is cozy. Sachiko's fiance Suguru also lives in a very large mansion.
* The home shared by the Koshikawa and Matsuura families in ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' is large enough for the six of them to live together comfortably, but the house Meiko Akizuki's family lives in dwarfs even that, and Miki herself says that when she spends the night there. Miwa and Suzu also live in rather fancy houses, understandable since their fathers ''are'' famous architects.
* In ''[[Mars (manga)|Mars]]'', Rei's father lives in a more realistic version of this; Rei and Kira move into it after Kira runs away from her place. It's full of flashback fodder for Rei's childhood, such as the room in which his mother {{spoiler|hanged herself}} and the room still crammed with his dead brother Sei's paintings. Consider then, that [[The Woobie|Rei's dad]] has been living in this huge house ''alone'' with all of these [[Tear Jerker|reminders about his family's tragedies]].
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** Of course, popular [[Fanon]] has it that the Tendo and Kuno family homes are simply old family-owned homes that just haven't really changed with the times (it certainly seems likely for the Kuno's).
* In the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' manga, Ami Mizuno (Sailor Mercury) brings her friends home to a place they immediately call an example of a millionaire's home, with a marble foyer she tells them not to worry about when it accidentally gets cracked. While the anime and live-action series don't play this up as much, her mother remains a doctor in all versions, the ostensible source of the wealth.
* Kotonoha's [[media:koto_house.jpg|huge, fancy home]] in ''[[School Days]]''. [[media:koto_room.jpg|Kotonoha's bedroom]] is at least twice the size of [[media:sekai_room.jpg|Sekai]] and/or [[media:makoto_room.jpg|Makoto's]] own rooms, and this is considering Makoto's bedroom is quite large
* The non-canon ''[[Street Fighter]]'' manga ''Sakura Ganbaru''! depicts the Kanzuki Estate as so large, it doesn't just have its own rivers, mountains, and savannas, it has its own ''climate''. Even though it's in the middle of Tokyo, visitors don't arrive by car, they arrive by chartered plane and land at the private airstrip.
* Yurika from ''[[Sugar Sugar Rune]]''.
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* The residences of Shinichi Kudo and Professor Agasa in ''[[Case Closed]]'' are this. In fact, after Shinichi got shrunk into Conan and went to live with the Mouris, Ran and Sonoko had to drop by once in a while to get it clean, and later uni student Subaru Okiya (whose apartment was burned down in the case he appeared) moves in and becomes its landlord.
* The Saotome Residence in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', complete with [[The Thing That Goes Doink]].
* Yasuko from ''[[Aoi Hana]]'' lives in a large estate, which her girlfriend Fumi found out when she gets invited to meet Yasuko's mother and sisters. Luckily all the residents appear to be normal and well-natured folk. {{spoiler|It's just too bad that Yasuko chooses that day to ''dump'' Fumi}}.
* Mugi from ''[[K-On!]]'' appears to live in a huge mansion. We never get to see it, but Sawako-sensei was impressed when she drove Mugi home one day. Since Mugi claims that her family's beach estates are ''small'', we can get the idea that her home must be huge indeed.
* Madoka's home in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', with a very big and empty-looking bathroom among other things. It's hinted that it was built by friends of Madoka's parents.
** Also, for someone who lives alone {{spoiler|after her parents's deaths}}, Mami Tomoe's apartment is ''huge''. (If, in the original TV series, rather empty. The Blu-Ray release makes it much cozier.)
* Japan from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' lives in a rather large and traditional Japanese complex home.
** Spain and young!Romano (and maybe Belgium and Netherlands too) live in a castle. [[Justified Trope]], this is Imperial!Spain we're talking about.
** Subverted in the case of Chibitalia, Hungary, Austria and HRE. Austria's mansion ''is'' pretty big but the end of the Chibitalia strips suggests (if not outright states) that their ''spending wealth'' is very limited, which is remarked when {{spoiler|HRE leaves the mansion with other Germanic states.}} OTOH, the fancy palace where Austria and Hungary interact with [[Maria Theresa]] plays this straight, which is again a [[Justified Trope]] considering that Vienna is very famous for [[wikipedia:Belvedere (palace)|Belvedere]] or [[wikipedia:Sch%C3%B6nbrunn Palace|Schonbrunn]].
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** Switzerland and Liechtenstein seem to live in a rather cozy home, too.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Season 0, the [[True Companions]] get the shock of their lives when they see Kaiba's house, complete with a hedge maze modeled after the Palace at Versailles. Jounouchi/Joey says "His house is HUGE! There must be a law about living in a house that big!".
* [[Rich Bitch|Sayoko's]] parent's house in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''.
* In ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'', Moe's family has two such houses: one in Tokyo and one in Kobe.
* ''[[Haou Airen]]'' replaces the big fancy homes with big fancy ''buildings and skyscrapers''. This ''is'' [[Hong Kong]], after all.
* The Kuchiki Manor (aka Yachiru's playhouse) in ''[[Bleach]]'' qualifies. It's so big and fun that Yachiru (in [[omakes]]) has modified it with hidden doors and tunnels and holds the Women's Shinigami Association meetings there much to [[Affectionate Nickname|Bya-kun's]] chagrin.
** It wasn't, however, big enough to hide the enormous swimming pool the women decided to build and "hide" smack in the middle of his yard. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]].
** Similarly, Shukuro Tsukishima lives in a European mansion located in the woods surrounding either Karakura or Naruki City. Not to mention Yukio seems to own the ''whole'' building that is used as the X-Cution HQ.
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* Kuro's house in ''Kodomo No Jikan''. Justified, as she's ''extremely'' rich (she has a Gold Card at 10 and a 4 poster bed with a room that puts American master bedrooms to shame).
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