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* Arguably omnipresent in this category given that Japan has higher housing costs than almost anywhere else. Just about every anime has an unspoken district in Tokyo where decently sized apartments or full-fledged houses can be bought cheaply. A few acknowledge it with even a line about it being an old family home or something, once... maybe. The breadwinner in [[Death Note|Light Yagami]]'s household is a policeman (Though he is Chief of Japan's National Police Agency which is comparable to say the FBI); in [[Sailor Moon]]'s household (in the particularly expensive Tokyo district of Juubangai), it's a ''news photographer'' (although later it seems he's been promoted to editor, and in the Manga and live-action television series he's instead highly respected and well-known photojournalist); and in ''[[Tantei Gakuen Q]]'', it's not clear if Kyu's mom actually ''has'' a job, but they're all able to afford houses in Tokyo.
** Another baffling example from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is the case of Makoto Kino/Jupiter, who is orphaned and does not have a job but owns and maintains her own apartment. [[Fanon]] tends to say that her parents left her a very large inheritance. The same is also true of Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Mask, however in the anime he is seen working at various jobs and it is explicitly stated that his parents left him a ''very'' large trust fund
** Also averted with any series where the protagonist basically lives in a box of an apartment. These are fairly standard, and a lot of anime seem to be shifting to showing this (probably because the artists themselves live in these sorts of apartments).
* In ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', one has to wonder how Delia Ketchum affords her house, considering that she doesn't seem to work and she has no husband. While it's not alluded to in the show, [[All There in the Manual|additional material]] reveals that she runs a local restaurant.
* Averted in the [[Studio Ghibli]] film ''[[Whisper of the Heart]]'' where the main character Shizuku lives in a realistically cramped apartment with her parents and shares a small room with her twenty-something sister until the older sibling moves out. Nishi's antique shop plays it straight however.
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** Furthermore, at least in the OVA continuity the Jurai Empire has serious covert influence on Earth, and Katsuhito has basically infinite funds, if he ever chose to use them.
* ''Possibly'' averted in ''[[My Lovely Ghost Kana]]'', because the apartment building where Daikichi lives is described as "nearly abandoned" and he may actually be squatting. Neither is it entirely clear what he actually does for a living.
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