History BigFancyHouse / AnimeAndManga

** The Kuchiki Manor (aka Yachiru's playhouse) is 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 [[AffectionateNickname 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. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]].

* Shiina of ''Manga/KoufukuGraffiti'' has a large Japanese-style mansion within the boundaries of Japan, complete with a bamboo grove, a pond, and a vegetable patch.

* In ''Manga/KoufukuGraffiti'', the Shiina household live in a large Japanese mansion, complete with its own pond, vegetable garden, and a boundless bamboo grove.

* In ''Manga/YamadaTaroMonogatari'', 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 DeusExMachina 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 ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' are this. In fact, after Shinichi got shrunk into Conan and went to live with the Mouris (who live in a simple apartment whose living room is outfitted as the detective agency's office), 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) is hired by Shinichi's parents to become its landlord.
** Many cases take place in either just as huge Western mansions or in Japanese traditional complexes, almost always located in the Japanese countryside for obvious reasons.

* In ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'', Nagisa's friend Mokuzu Umino is a rich girl lives with her father Masachika in an insanely cool house in the city's upscale district. Masachika is an ex IdolSinger and minor celebrity who seems to be a smart investor, so it's justified. [[spoiler: Heartbreakingly, however, it's also the place where [[AbusiveParents Masachika]] [[OffingTheOffspring ends up murdering Mokuzu and dismembering her remains.]]; Nagisa finds a lot of proof of it in the house's otherwise lovely bathroom.]]

* Momoka on ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'' lives in a huge mansion with an on-site shopping plaza and other absurdly luxurious accommodations. Dororo's family also had a BigFancyHouse on his home planet. The Hinatas also have a reasonably large home (in inner Tokyo, no less), [[HauntedHeadquarters but for an obvious reason]].
** The Momoka estate has apparently been granted sovereignty by the Japanese government. It even maintains a heavily armed private security force to defend against all manner of conventional and supernatural threats.

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters: KYO'' manga, [[TheHero Kyo Kusanagi]] lives with his parents Saisyu and Shizuka in a ''huge'' traditional Japanese house located in the outskirts of Osaka ''and atop of a big hill''. It looks like it's either an inherited home mantained through centuries and recently outfitted for modern use, or a reconstructed version of a traditional house destroyed in the Osakan bombings of WorldWarTwo; [[spoiler: the backstory that took place 600 years ago shows parts of a ''very'' similar complex owned by the Kusanagi ancestor and his clansmen.]]

** The Kunō estate is ''even bigger'', being almost a medieval Japanese castle -- at least in the anime. It's more reasonable-sized in the manga, though still quite large and fancy.

It's also worth pointing out that if the work is still set in Japan but not in the Tokyo and Osaka/Kyoto metroplexes, and especially on Hokkaido or Kyushu, then larger houses aren't ''quite'' as completely absurd - Japan is crowded, but not so crowded that it lacks rural areas or smaller cities with somewhat less sky-high land values. ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is a good example of a work set in such a place, although even there, the huge size of the Sonozaki residence is meant to foreshadow a good deal about their nature. This is also why a number of pieces of media, like the image-header-provider Manga/CardCaptorSakura, are set in technically-made-up cities or townships - they get to ''look'' like the Tokyo metroplex in a lot of ways, but the creators can HandWave away questions about just why everyone has such big houses.

* Honoka Yukishiro's home in ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' 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 [[Anime/YesPrecure5 the fourth series]].

* The estate where Midori and her mother live in ''Manga/MidoriNoHibi'' is almost as large and impressive as Ayaka's.

* In the also non-canon Anime/StreetFighterAlphaGenerations OVA, Gouken and Akuma's master Goutetsu lived in a huge-ass Japanese traditional complex located ''atop of a hill''. The only persons living there are these three alongside the housekeeper, a young woman named Sayaka. And a good part of the action happens in a ''very'' similar complex owned by a local OldMaster, who strikes an InterGenerationalFriendship with Ryu [[spoiler: and once was a friend of the dead Goutetsu.]]

It's also worth pointing out that if the work is still set in Japan but not in Tokyo and Osaka/Kyoto metroplexes, and especially on Hokkaido or Kyushu, then larger houses aren't ''quite'' as completely absurd - Japan is crowded, but not so crowded that it lacks rural areas or smaller cities with somewhat less sky-high land values. ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is a good example of a work set in such a place, although even there, the huge size of the Sonozaki residence is meant to foreshadow a good deal about their nature. This is also why a number of pieces of media, like the image-header-provider Manga/CardCaptorSakura, are set in technically-made-up cities or townships - they get to ''look'' like the Tokyo metroplex in a lot of ways, but the creators can HandWave away questions about just why everyone has such big houses.

It's also worth pointing out that if the work is still set in Japan but not in Tokyo and Osaka/Kyoto metroplexes, and especially on Hokkaido or Kyushu, then larger houses aren't ''quite'' as completely absurd - Japan is crowded, but not so crowded that it lacks rural areas or smaller cities with somewhat less sky-high land values. ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry]]'' is a good example of a work set in such a place, although even there, the huge size of the Sonozaki residence is meant to foreshadow a good deal about their nature. This is also why a number of pieces of media, like the image-header-provider [[Manga/CardCaptorSakura]], are set in technically-made-up cities or townships - they get to ''look'' like the Tokyo metroplex in a lot of ways, but the creators can HandWave away questions about just why everyone has such big houses.

This is not so much a [[JapaneseMediaTropes Japanese Media Trope]] as a fact of Japanese economics, but it makes for a great visual shorthand when the animators want to let the viewer know someone is outrageously wealthy. The same premise usually applies to characters mentioning their family has a summer home somewhere.

* Ren Mihashi's and his mother's house in ''Manga/OokikuFurikabutte''.

* As does Shinobu in ''VideoGame/TriangleHeart 3''; so does Alisa in the spinoff, ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''.

* The residences of Shinichi Kudo and Professor Agasa in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' 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.

* Mugi from ''Manga/KOn'' 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.

** 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.)

** Spain and young!Romano (and maybe Belgium and Netherlands too) live in a castle. {{Justified Trope}}, this is Imperial!Spain we're talking about.

** 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. It's not clearly stated ''who'' it belongs to, but since Iceland is the one who asked them to gather (and we see his puffin having lunch as well), he's the most likely option.
** Switzerland and Liechtenstein seem to live in a rather cozy home, too.
** The [[http://hetalia.livejournal.com/12289372.html "I, like, wanna be free" manga]] strip gives us a glimpses of China's living room. It looks like he, Macau and Hong Kong live in [[http://kathyinmongolia.blogspot.com/2011/08/traditional-chinese-home.html a traditional Chinese complex home]].

** [[ActionGirl Masako Natsume]] lives in a HUGE and VERY fancy black mansion in the outskirts of Tokyo. [[spoiler: Which is also ''Kanba's'' original home, before he and his (and Masako and Mario's) father [[IHaveNoSon were kicked out of the Natsume clan]].]]

** In both manga and anime, the deaths of Sango's family as well as the brainwashing and then temporal death of Kohaku ''and'' Sango's almost death happen in the grounds of a local clan's huge traditional castle where Naraku has taken over the body of Hitomi, the IllBoy prince of the clan - stealing his looks from then on.

* In ''Manga/EdenNoHana'', when Tokio Wakatsuki moves back to Japan to find sister Midori and rebuild his life in his home country (after almost one and a half decades in the USA), he invokes the trope via intending to purchase a really big house for the two of them. And yup, the one in which he and Midori live is pretty big and cozy per Japanese standards.

* Subverted in ''Manga/LegendOfHeavenlySphereShurato''. The house in which Shurato lives with his parents, sister and grandfather is pretty big by Japanese standards (and is in the middle of Tokyo, meaning the grounds where it's located can be pretty expensive), but it seems to also be ''very'' old. It may be yet another old family-owned home that just hasn't really changed.

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters: KYO'' manga, [[TheHero Kyo Kusanagi]] lives with his parents Saisyu and Shizuka in a ''huge'' traditional Japanese house located in the outskirts of Osaka. (And atop of a big hill). It looks like it's either an inherited home mantained through centuries and recently outfitted for modern use, or a reconstructed version of a traditional house destroyed in the Osakan raids of WorldWarTwo; [[spoiler: the backstory that took place 600 years ago shows parts of a ''very'' similar complex owned by the Kusanagi ancestor and his clansmen.]]

* In the original ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' series we get to see [[HotBlooded Genzo Wakabayashi]]'s house. It's a ''big ass'' European mansion in the outskirts of a small port town.
** In the ''Road to 2002'' TV series, the episode that showcases the start of the Japan vs. France match begins with the view of a HUGE palace. It's [[NonIdleRich El Sid Pierre]]'s house.

* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', Takiko's family moves into a large Japanese complex located in Morioka (Iwate), implied to be owned by her maternal family.

In Japan, the BigFancyHouse takes a meaning well beyond what it does in the US or UK. Japan is a very densely populated nation -- equivalent to packing half of the USA's population in a space roughly the size of Montana -- which results in some of the highest real estate prices in the world. This is doubly the case in Tokyo and other big cities where even the smallest homes can cost 100 million yen ($1 million US) and up. Consequently, a large home with a lot of space around it is ''fantastically'' expensive, and indicates its owner has more money than the rest of the cast combined.

* Similarly, the Tendo home in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is a positively ''huge'' traditional-style Japanese complex featuring a two-story house and a detached training hall surrounded by a large yard and bordered by a stone wall. The Kuno estate is ''even bigger'', being almost a medieval Japanese castle. Both of them supposedly exist in the center of the resolutely middle-class Nerima district of Tokyo... 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 Kunos).

* Subverted in ''Anime/TenkuuSenkiShurato''. The house in which Shurato lives with his parents, sister and grandfather is pretty big by Japanese standards (and is in the middle of Tokyo, meaning the grounds where it's located can be pretty expensive), but it seems to also be ''very'' old. It may be yet another old family-owned home that just hasn't really changed.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul : Re'', the Quinx Squad live together in an impressive multistory house aptly nicknamed "The Chateau". Not only does it seem to be a large and luxurious house by even Western standards, but it appears to be located in the Chiyoda Ward -- with some of the highest real estate prices in Japan.

* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters: KYO'' manga, [[TheHero Kyo Kusanagi]] lives with his parents Saisyu and Shizuka in a ''huge'' traditional Japanese house located in the outskirts of Osaka. (And atop of a big hill). It looks like it's an inherited home mantained through centuries and recently outfitted for modern use, [[spoiler: as the backstory that took place 600 years ago shows parts of a ''very'' similar home owned by the Kusanagi ancestor and his clansmen, and which ''might'' be the same one.]]

** The Saiki family lives in a huge, HUGE Western mansion. That one is pretty recent, however; it looks like it was erected in the space that the original one used to have, and the only thing left from that one is an abandoned Japanese-style warehouse located behind the new mansion. This is very plot important: [[spoiler: [[CreepyChild Saku]][[YanDere rako]] [[MadwomanInTheAttic was locked away]] for ''nine'' years in the warehouse, [[ColdBloodedTorture and MANY things]] happen in there.]]
** Katsuragi lives in a traditional Japanese house, which is located within the city itself. [[spoiler: Said house gets burned down, ''[[KillItWithFire with him inside]]''.]]

* In ''Manga/SakuraGari'', there are two of these in the lands of the Saiki family. One is a Western mansion that seems to be pretty recent, the other is a traditional and abandoned Japanese one used as a warehouse (almost surely the original home). [[spoiler: This is very plot important, as Sakurako was locked away for nine years in the latter, and ''many'' things happen there afterwards. And in the second-to-last chapter, Sakurako burns it down to kill Souma and Masataka.]]
** Dr. Katsuragi lives in a huge traditional Japanese home near the city. [[spoiler: Which gets burned down, ''[[KillItWithFire with him inside]]''.]]

** 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).
*** To be precise, Sakura and Rin both live in Western style mansions; dimensions and size are never explicitly pointed out although both are LARGER then Shirou's home. Shirou, on the other hand, lives in a Japanese style mansion that has 4 separate buildings (Main, Out, a Dojo, and a Large Shed) that is stated to have enough rooms to serve as a hotel. In his case, there's a subversion -- the house doesn't belong to him but to the local Yakuza, and they let him stay there as payment for some ''huge'' favors that his [[spoiler: and Ilya's]] DisappearedDad Kiritsugu did to them. That also explains why Taiga stays there: she is the [[YakuzaPrincess Yakuza leader's granddaughter]] and Shirou's guardian.

* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'' has [[ActionGirl Masako Natsume]] living in a HUGE and VERY fancy black mansion in the outskirts of Tokyo.

** Inuyasha's mother is strongly implied to have been [[TheOjou an aristocratic lady]]. As a result, the anime extrapolates that she lived in a human aristocrat's palace. However, WordOfGod imagined her having [[ImpoverishedPatrician a sad background involving a fallen lineage living in poverty]] - which isn't what the anime chose to do, showing Inuyasha's childhood home as a pretty well-kept place.[[note]]Historically, aristocratic poverty would still have meant living in a palace environment... just a heavily dilapidated, run-down, empty palace.[[/note]]
** Kagome Higurashi comes from a shrine family. Her house is a normal two-stores one... but is attached to her (maternal) grandfather's large shrine on huge grounds ''atop of a hill in the middle of Tokyo''. The novels explain that the family lives there ''specifically'' because the house and shrine were too big and lonely for Grandpa Higurashi to handle after his wife died, not helped by how Kagome's father died in an accident around the same time.

* The residences of Shinichi Kudo and Professor Agasa in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' 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.