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Line 35: * In ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', Nana burns thousands of yen on the beach for warmth on a cold night due to never having experienced the world outside the laboratory where she was used as a test subject. ** She then has nightmares of being crucified while naked at the hands of vengeful money-people, thanks to Mayu. * Taken in all directions in the manga and anime ''[[One Piece]]'': * ~~Taken in all directions in the manga and anime ''[[One Piece]].''~~* Hidden in the Skypeian island of Upperyard is an entire ''city'' of gold. The natives of Skypeia, where otherwise people live on clouds and there is no natural soil, find the dirt of the originally blue-sea island itself far more valuable than any gold. The arc's [[Big Bad]], [[A God Am I\|God Eneru]], ''does'' have a use for the gold. However, it's of no monetary value to him, either. He instead uses its conductive properties to enhance his own [[Shock and Awe\|lightning-based powers]]. ~~Finally~~Of course, ~~our~~the heroes, the Straw Hat Pirates, ''do'' value the gold for its monetary worth, and make plans to steal what Eneru didn't make off with. The Skypeians actually intend to ''let'' the Straw Hats have all the gold they want in gratitude of the [[Big Bad]]'s defeat, but the Straw Hats (believing they were stealing the gold) misinterpret this as their being caught and run away with only what they were carrying, when they could have gotten far more just by waiting. Notably, this is the only time they've ever actually stolen something (as a crew, anyway, Nami's another story) before or after this point (at least up to Whole Cake Island Arc. They didn't really steal anything then either, I'm just future-proofing this example). ** Speaking of the Whole Cake Island arc, Big Mom has no use for gold or any other valuable material, demanding candy as tribute from her subjects. Before that arc officially started, Fish Man Island is unable to make this payment on time (the equipment at their candy factory breaks) and Luffy volunteers to tell Big Mom about the delay (the fish-men are too afraid to); Luffy claims he had eaten it himself by accident, offering Big Mom a large amount of treasure as monetary compensation; while she does accept that offer (she's lost two ships in a schism with the Kid Pirates and needs funds for the damages) she is still furious, telling him she can't eat gold. Fortunately, this does do what Luffy intended and gets the fish-men off the hook. * In ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', there's a scene where a merchant throws a hissy-fit when Ashitaka pays for his bag of rice with a small, yellow rock...At least until a passing monk notices and points out that it's a solid gold nugget, and that it's probably worth three times what she gave him. * While it's not gold, when [[Hayate the Combat Butler\|Hayate]] is told to spend a few (3) days away from the mansion because Nagi's embarrassed, he's given one million yen (~$11,000 US, £8,000). Which he promptly loses. It gets returned to the mansion and Maria counts it, stating that it's almost exactly what he was given for living expenses. Nagi passes by the table and asks what all the [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hayate_the_combat_butler/c077/13.html chump change] is.