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* Most of the houses in ''[[
* The Mishima estate in ''[[
* Midoh in ''[[Asagiri no Miko]]'' lives in a comically exaggerated Big Fancy House that puts the Palace of Versailles into shame - it has individual rooms whose back walls disappear into the horizon.
* Chiyo-chan's spacious, walled-and-gated, far-off-the-street house in ''[[
** Tomo's response on reaching the gate: "M-Maybe we should have brought a gift?"
* Kyou and Asu, in ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]'' used to live in one.
* Many characters in ''[[
** 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 state of Shaoran's family in Hong Kong. And don't forget Great-Grandpa Masaaki's HUGE own European-style country mansion, either!
* When the gang of ''[[Code
* 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 ''[[
** Did anyone else notice that Mido's [[Big Fancy House]]'s front stairs [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
** Actually, except for during the Grail Wars (of which there have been five in about 200 years, and which last at most two weeks), it has ''no'' inhabitants. The Einsberns own the castle for the sole purpose of providing a base for whoever is representing them in the war, and Ilya only moved there from Europe a few weeks ago, at most. Yes, they're ''that'' rich.
** The houses of the other three main (human) characters (Shirou, Rin and Sakura) are also rather large. In Rin's case, however, she's implied to have rather little actual ''spending'' power, because she spends any spare money that she has on jewels (for her magic).
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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!
** 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.''
* Randoll from ''[[
* Mint's got one in ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* The main house of the Gowa family in ''[[Gasaraki]]'', a very traditional place indeed.
* What little we see of Madoka's house in ''[[
* In the episode ''¥?$'' of ''[[Ghost in
* Kazuharu Fukuyama from ''[[
* The residence of Shin Sawada's family in ''[[Gokusen]]''.
** In the second live action series of ''[[Gokusen]]'', Yankumi tries to track down a chronic absentee student only to find he lives in a ludicrously large house, and his neighbors apparently feel the need to speak about his family in exceedingly obsequious [[Keigo]].
* The mansion in ''[[
* Sanzenin Nagi in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Athena Tellos}} also lives in a huge and very fancy mansion. In fact, Hayate utters the quote above as he goes searching for her {{spoiler|after Nagi smashes her inheritance stone, which also was a [[Mineral MacGuffin]] related to Athena's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].}}
*** {{spoiler|Hayate ends up blowing Athena's mansion to kingdom come. She's not exactly happy about it, but has more important things on her mind, such as her release from said evil side and being reunited with Hayate.}}
** In ''[[
** {{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 (
* The Himemiya family home in ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', complete with maid staff.
* The Battour estate in ''[[
* ''[[Kekkaishi]]'' has more than anyone dares to count.
* Momoka on ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' lives in a huge mansion with an on-site shopping plaza and other absurdly luxurious accommodations. Dororo's family also had a [[Big Fancy House]] on his home planet. The Hinatas also have a reasonably large home (in inner Tokyo, no less), [[Haunted Headquarters|but for an obvious reason]].
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* 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 From Hell|training]]. Impressive considering that before it [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|became as it is today]] it is implied she dug them from her real land.
** 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 ''[[
* 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 (
* The estate where Midori and her mother live in ''[[Midori no Hibi]]'' is almost as large and impressive as Ayaka's from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''.
* The Hyuuga and Uchiha households in ''[[Naruto]]''; Very big, to the point of almost being a town within a town in the Uchihas' case, very traditional, [[The Thing That Goes Doink]] sounding off in the background. Used to convey power and tradition more than loadsacash {{spoiler|We eventually learn there was a reason the Uchiha were kept in one area}}.
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* Given the nature of the protagonists of ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', it's no surprise that all of them except Haruhi live in enormous European or Japanese-style mansions. Haruhi, by contrast, lives with her [[Hot Dad]] in a two room apartment that's actually smaller than their club room.
* Isabella from ''[[Paradise Kiss]]'' also lives in a [[Big Fancy House]].
* The protagonists' house in ''[[
* The Awayuki residence in ''[[Prétear]]''.
* Nozomi Uedo in ''[[Pretty Face]]'' - her family's got a trained team of riot police and a ''fucking Tyrannosaur skeleton''.
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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 ''[[
* 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]]''.
* Subverted in ''[[Summer Wars]]'', where the Jinnouchi family's mansion is all that remains of their wealth.
* Tsuruya's villa in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. Apparently, there is nothing it doesn't have. Kyon's first line in the anime upon seeing it is wondering what evil he has to commit to be able to live somewhere like that.
* In ''[[
** It's still smaller than the one that Amane lets him stay in, though. He notes that his entire old house could fit in one bedroom. And that's just her family's summer home.
** The [[Tenchi Muyo!|Masaki]] home is nothing to sneeze at, either, although being moved wholesale onto the grounds of Yosho's shrine and rebuilt several times since doesn't hurt...
** The Juraian royals are an unusual example in that they are filthy rich and live in trees. Trees with ''[[Another Dimension|pocket universes]]'' inside them.
* Minto Aizawa in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has one.
* As does Shinobu in ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ~sweet songs forever~]] 3''; so does Alisa in the spinoff, ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''.
* The Tohno mansion in ''[[
* The Mendo estate in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' is a medieval Japanese castle, somewhere in the middle of Tokyo.
** ...as heavily fortified as Fort Knox; land mines, watchtowers with spotlights, secret passages, vaults with timed locks, etc.
* Youta Moteuchi from ''[[
* In ''[[Yamada Taro Monogatari]]'', after one of the students found out about the fact that Yamada is actually poor and planned to prove that Yamada is truly in poverty. Thankfully [[Deus Ex Machina]] saves Yamada from certain disaster as his dad's best friend owned many holiday homes and planned to let them stay there free of charge. Yamada isn't too happy living there though, prefering the cramped home.
* 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 ''[[
* Madoka's home in ''[[
** 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 ''[[
** 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 chr(28)palacechr(29)|Belvedere]] or [[wikipedia:Sch%C3%B6nbrunn Palace|Schonbrunn]].
** In the manga, the Nordics gathered for lunch and Iceland's "announcement" in a house that looked pretty average-sized. In the anime, said house is ''much'' bigger.
** 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!
* 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.
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** 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.
* ''[[
** Yuri Tokikago also lives in an awesome loft located in a VERY high-class condo, which amazes Shouma when he and Ringo drop by. {{spoiler|Her boyfriend Tabuki moves in there when they get engaged... and then the [[Attempted Rape]] of Tabuki by Ringo happens. [[It Gets Worse]] afterwards. And several episodes later, when Tabuki gets [[Put
* [[Hunter X Hunter|Killua Zaoldyeck]] lived on a massive estate with his family, a bunch of world-class Assassins before he ran away to become a Hunter.
** How big is it? The mere ''front'' is more than enough to count as the local '''tourist attraction'''. And when Gon manages to get in, it has an '''impressive''' front yard and luxurious gardens as well.
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** As a little boy, Inuyasha is shown living with his own mother (a human noblewoman named Izayoi) in a more normal traditional Japanese palace. By "more normal", we don't mean "small": it had huge gardens and at least three separate buildings.
** There's also a variation in regards to Kagome's house. If we count solely the living space it's a normal two-store house... but if we consider it's located inside a Shinto shrine's grounds, then the size increases quite a bit.
* In ''[[Oniisama
** Also, for a middle-class girl Nanako lives with his parents in a pretty large house. Likely to contrast with her "Oniisama" Takehiko's rather simple apartment {{spoiler|and Rei's flat with a [[Room Full of Crazy]].}}
** Mariko and her mom Hisako live in a really nice home too. {{spoiler|After the Shinobus's divorce, they move out into a cozy but small flat.}}
* In ''[[
* 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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