History BigFancyHouse / AnimeAndManga

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Ash, Brock, and Misty are being taken to James's parents' house. First, they say that they must have left the front gates half an hour ago, then they see a simply enormous mansion. Upon their remarking that there must be a hundred people living in it, the butler indignantly replies that it is not the mansion... it is merely the doghouse for James's pet Growlithe. Then he points to another mansion that dwarfs the first one.

* ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'': Bubbles lives a big house that's been in her family for generations. Her family has a nice bit of land, a small pond, and TheThingThatGoesDoink.

* Ruki's house in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' and Touma's in ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. Note that Ruki's mother does ''not'' own the BigFancyHouse; it more exactly belongs to ''her'' mom, Ruki's maternal grandmother Seiko.

* ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'': Iori lives on one.

* In ''{{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 [[TheWoobie Rei's dad]] has been living in this huge house ''alone'' with all of these [[TearJerker reminders about his family's tragedies]].
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
** [[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]] and he ended up adopted by the Takakuras, who live in a tiny middle-to-low class household.]]
** 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 AttemptedRape of Tabuki by Ringo happens. And several episodes later, when Tabuki gets PutOnABus, Yuri is living there alone again.]]

-->'''Kaminari:''' I knew she was rich, but I didn't know she was ''that'' rich!

* Isabella from ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'' also lives in a BigFancyHouse.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul : Re'':

* When the gang of ''Manga/CodeBreaker'' 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 + TheNicknamer + a country that loooooves collectible toys = (mega) profit!). When Toki suggests that Yuuki is just being used to make a profit, Yuuki shows [[TheRainman that he's also really good at reading the stock market]] [[spoiler: not that any of that helps with what he really wants: [[TheWoobie friends]]]].

* Einzbern Castle in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' only has ''four'' inhabitants, nevermind that Berserker is one of them. Has its own forest too.
** 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.
*** 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 ''ryoken'' 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.

* Kai from ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' lives in a giant mansion. In the manga the Hiwatari Family even has a private training house the size of a normal Japanese house.

* The Himemiya family home in ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'', complete with maid staff.

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

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** Ayaka's family home could have been built by Louis XIV. But Konoka's home in Kyoto trumps it -- it's not just a BigFancyHouse, 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 [[TrainingFromHell training]]. Impressive considering that before it [[YearInsideHourOutside 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.

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

* Tsuruya's villa in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. 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.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':
** Shinichi Kudo used to take care of his ''massive'' and luxurious home on his own since his parents work abroads, but after got shrunk into Conan and went to live with the Mouris (who live in a two-store duplex whose first floor is outfitted as the detective agency's office), Ran and Sonoko had to drop by once in a while to get it clean. Later, uni student Subaru Okiya (whose apartment was burned down in the case he appeared) was hired by Shinichi's parents to become its landlord [[spoiler: though in reality he is the undercover cop Shuichi Akai under a disguise]].
** Dr. Hiroshi Agasa is not only an old friend of the Kudos, but their next-door neighbor. His house is just as big ''and'' it includes the laboratory where he produces all of the gadgets he makes for Shinichi/Conan. Later, Ai Haibara moves in as Agasa's sort-of adoptive daughter [[spoiler: and hopes that she will be able to use the lab to synthesize an antidote to APTX 4869..]]
** 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. At times, their massive floor plans have rooms that play ''vital'' roles in the cases themselves.
* The Saotome Residence in ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', complete with TheThingThatGoesDoink.
* Yasuko from ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'' 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 ''Manga/KOn'' appears to live in a huge mansion. The audience never gets 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'', one can get the idea that her home must be huge indeed.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Madoka's home, 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 [[MinorLivingAlone 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.)
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** Japan 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}}, since the Spain-centered strips/episodes take place during his Imperial years.
** 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 manse where Austria and Hungary interact with UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa plays this straight, which is again a JustifiedTrope considering that Vienna is very famous for palaces like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvedere_%28palace%29 Belvedere]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 mansion, too.
** The [[http://hetalia.livejournal.com/12289372.html "I, like, wanna be free" manga]] strip shows 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]].

* [[RichBitch Sayoko's]] parent's house in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''.
* In ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'', Moe's family has two such houses: one in Tokyo and one in Kobe.
* ''Manga/HaouAiren'' replaces the big fancy homes with big fancy ''buildings and skyscrapers''. This ''is'' UsefulNotes/HongKong, after all.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** The Kuchiki Manor (aka Yachiru's playhouse) is so big and fun that Yachiru (in {{omake}}s) 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. {{Hilarity Ensue|s}}d.
** Shukuro Tsukishima lives in an European mansion located in the woods surrounding either Karakura or Naruki. Not to mention Yukio seems to own the ''whole'' building that is used as the X-Cution HQ.
** Flashback arcs reveal that the Ishida Manor is a huge sprawling house on its own private land somewhere in Karakura Town. It came complete with servants, too. [[spoiler: One of them being the maid Kanae Katagiri, who'd eventually become Ryuuken's wife and Uryuu's mother.]] This was Souken Ishida's home and where Ryuuken lived as a child and a teenager. Uryuu's memories of Souken imply Souken had a much smaller home by the time Uryuu was born and Uryuu's classmates have commented that Uryuu is very poor. Since Uryuu refuses to live with his father, and Ryuuken's current home or wealth status has never been revealed, the ''current'' state of the Ishida family's wealth and residency is a complete mystery, but until not too long ago the family was clearly fantastically wealthy.
* ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'':
** [[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]] and he ended up adopted by the Takakuras, who live in a tiny middle-to-low class household.]]
** 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 AttemptedRape of Tabuki by Ringo happens. And several episodes later, when Tabuki gets PutOnABus, Yuri is living there alone again.]]
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': 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 as the freaking massive building itself.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** Sesshoumaru's mother is a very powerful, high-ranking lady who dwells in an appropriately huge, sprawling traditional palace. Location? Floating amongst the clouds. It takes even someone with Sesshoumaru's insanely good nose a good few days of active searching to actually find it and even then his mother has to come to meet him before he can locate it. His mother must be [[IncrediblyLamePun an absolute bitch]] to get in touch with at short notice.
** 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. This one, however, is just empty.[[/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, placed on huge grounds ''atop of a hill in the middle of Tokyo''. The novels explain that the family lives there ''specifically'' because both house and shrine were too big and lonely for Grandpa Higurashi to handle after his wife died, not helped by how Kagome's father had died in an accident around the same time.
** This is explained even more later. The shrine has been where is is since Edo was a small fishing village, and the city has grown up around the shrine. The Higurashis are the ancestral caretakers of the shrine, and had the house built so they would not have to sleep in the shrine. The shrine makes a fair bit of money, since it's a tourist attraction and popular wedding spot, but the Higurashis have little disposable income since most of the money they make gets spent on upkeep and maintenance.
** In both manga and anime, the deaths of Sango's family as well as the brainwashing/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 his long-lost little 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.
* 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).
* Subverted in ''Manga/LegendOfHeavenlySphereShurato''. The house in which Shurato Hidaka 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.
* Marble Mansion, the Russell's huge manor in ''Manga/{{Lady}}''. [[spoiler: Which is sold-off later since they're also {{Impoverished Patrician}}s... and that becomes a plot point in the sequel ''Hello!Lady Lynn'' as Lynn's rival Mary manipulates Lynn via promising to help her get it back -- but only if she relinquishes her bid to the ''Lady's Crest'' that both of them want so badly.]]
* The home of Chairman Morinomiya in ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'', which Ryuuichi and Kotarou now also live in after the plane crash that killed their relatives.
* ''Manga/LoveLucky'': [[spoiler:Fuuta and Kirari move from their condo into one in the last chapter]].
* In ''Manga/TenYoriMoHoshiYoriMo'', both the Shijou and the Narumiya families live in big European homes (Though the Shijou's household isn't as rich as it used to be). In the meantime, the Fujiwara family resides in a traditional Japanese complex. This contrasts with the Mizumoris, who lived in a standard two-bedroom apartment before the story started and said condo got blown up, forcing Mio to move with the Shijous.
* 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 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII; [[spoiler: the backstory that took place 600 years ago shows parts of a ''very'' similar complex owned by the Kusanagi ancestor and his clansmen.]]
* ''Manga/SakuraGari'', a manga that takes place in the Tokyo of TheRoaringTwenties, has three of these:
** 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 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.]]
** Dr. Katsuragi lives in a traditional Japanese house, which is located within the city itself. [[spoiler: Said house gets burned down, ''[[KillItWithFire with him inside]]''.]]
** The Kawamori family has a mansion that is just as beautiful and ornate as the Saiki's. The [[DancesAndBalls dance]] at the start of the manga happens there.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Lucy's former home was a large mansion. Her guildmates take it in stride, until they discover that the land outside the walls all the way to the mountains on the horizon is also part of the grounds.
* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'':
** In the original series, [[HotBlooded Genzo Wakabayashi]]'s house is a ''big ass'' European mansion in the outskirts of the port of Shizuoka.
** 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 [[LonelyRichKid El Sid]] [[NonIdleRich Pierre]]'s house.
* Exaggerated in ''Manga/WitchcraftWorks'' with Kagari's mother's impossibly gigantic 41-story mansion, and its synchronized army of maids. Her family supposedly has another such architectural monstrosity somewhere. [[spoiler:Good thing, too, because it gets leveled within minutes of its first appearance.]]
* ''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.
** After vague mentions of it in the original series, the sequel finally shows the estate owned by the insanely wealthy Tsukiyama family. It's a massive western-styled mansion with beautiful rose gardens and a multistory library. Tsukiyama himself has made an off-hand mention to his childhood bedroom being about ''73 square meters'' large. He's clueless as to why the others consider this strange.
* In ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'', the Shiina household live in a large Japanese mansion, complete with its own pond, vegetable garden, and a boundless bamboo grove.
* The ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' has two of these:
** In the prequel ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', Takiko Okuda's family moves into a large Japanese complex located in Morioka (Iwate Prefecture), implied to be owned by her maternal family.
** The original ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' has Suzuno Ohsugi and her grandson Toki's house, a just as big Japanese mansion. [[spoiler: Fans speculate that this '''might''' be the same home featured in ''Genbu Kaiden'', as the house itself is also in Morioka, and Takiko and her dad died without leaving direct heirs to the family home; since Suzuno's dad was the NumberTwo to Takiko's and inherited the ''Universe of the Four Gods'', him eventually inheriting the house and ''then'' passing it to Suzuno wouldn't be too unbelievable.]]
* In ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'', Nagisa's friend Mokuzu Umino is [[TheOjou an eccentric rich girl]] who 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.]]
* In ''Manga/SlowStart'', Kamuri's house is shown to be modeled on a European mansion, only slightly smaller, and Kamuri's room is straight out of a fairy tale.

[[caption-width-right:333:Wait, wait, wait! Tomoyo-chan lives THERE?!]]

* The Kurata home in ''Manga/KodomoNoOmocha''. Also Misako's parents's house, doubling as [[HotSpringsEpisode an onsen]].

* The mansion in ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai'' is so big, they're able to park a blimp in the driveway. With ''plenty'' of room to go around it.

* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'':

-->'''Ashido:''' I knew she was rich, but I didn't know she was ''that'' rich!

* Midoh in ''Manga/AsagiriNoMiko'' 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.

* ''Manga/OniisamaE'':
** Fukiko and Takeshi's family have several European mansions, complete with greenhouses, rose gardens, huge pools, picturesque forests, and the odd RoomFullOfCrazy in one of them to even everything out.
** 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 bachelor apartment [[spoiler: and Rei's flat with a RoomFullOfCrazy.]]
** 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 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 ($815,000 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.

* Kai from ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}'' lives in a giant mansion. In the manga they even have a private training house the size of a normal Japanese house.

* When the gang of ''VisualNovel/CodeBreaker'' 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 + TheNicknamer + a country that loooooves collectible toys = (mega) profit!). When Toki suggests that Yuuki is just being used to make a profit, Yuuki shows [[TheRainman that he's also really good at reading the stock market]] [[spoiler: not that any of that helps with what he really wants: [[TheWoobie friends]]]].

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Ash, Brock, and Misty are being taken to James's parents' house. First, they say that they must have left the front gates half an hour ago, then they see a simply enormous mansion. Upon their remarking that there must be a hundred people living in it, the butler indignantly replies that it is not the mansion...it is merely the doghouse for James's pet Growlithe. Then he points to another mansion that dwarfs the first one.

* In ''Literature/TanteiTeamKZJikenNote'', Wakatake's large house is surrounded by olive trees, something Aya awed about when she first see it in episode 5. In particular it has a very large library, of which [[ParentalAbandonment during Wakatake's father's absence]] Wakatake uses it as the meeting spot for Detective Team KZ.

* When the gang of ''VisualNovel/CodeBreaker'' 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 + TheNicknamer + a country that loooooves collectible toys = (mega) profit!). When Toki suggests that Yuuki is just being used to make a profit, Yuuki shows [[TheRainman that he's also really good at reading the stock market]] [[spoiler: not that any of that helps with what he really wants: [[TheWoobie friends]] :(]]

* Due to his father being a famous professional baseball player, Goro's family in ''Manga/MajorSecond'' has a large house with a pool.

* Many characters in ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'' have big houses, the less fancy one belonging to the Kinomoto family. Sakura's dad is a famous archaeologist, her MissingMom 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 [[SelfMadeMan had only begun]] to make himself a name as an uni professor.

* The Student Council in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has its own entire fancy house, and then there's the rest of the academy.

* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', 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 BigFancyHouse's front stairs [[http://www.onemanga.com/Death_Note/50/01/ went missing in the manga]]?
* Ruki's house in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' and Touma's in ''Anime/DigimonSavers''.
** Note that Ruki's mother does ''not'' own the BigFancyHouse; it more exactly belongs to ''her'' mom, Ruki's maternal grandmother Seiko.

* 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/YesPrettyCure5 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.''

* Kai from ''anime/{{Beyblade}}'' lives in a giant mansion. In the manga they even have a private training house the size of a normal Japanese house.

* Sanzenin Nagi in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' has a massive mansion, plus tall walls that surround the grounds, that is about the size of downtown, so ridiculously large that a lake, space center, and theme park can fit into it. This is especially to the shock of Hayate, who has been living a poor life prior to working for Nagi. And Nagi says that, as not many people live here, it's SMALL. Then, when they visit Nagi's grandfather, when Hayate sees HIS mansion, he's convinced he's no longer in Japan.

* ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' - Iori lives on one.

* Ayaka's family home in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' could have been built by Louis XIV. But Konoka's home in Kyoto trumps it -- it's not just a BigFancyHouse, 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 [[TrainingFromHell training]]. Impressive considering that before it [[YearInsideHourOutside became as it is today]] it is implied she dug them from her real land.

* Sachiko's mansion in ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' 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.

* Momoka on ''Manga/SgtFrog'' 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.
* The non-canon ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' 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.
* 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 and Goutetsu's niece, 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.]]

* In ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'', the unlucky hero Seina discovers that his family was able to afford a new BigFancyHouse by the time he returns to Earth after being shanghaied into the Galaxy Police. Fortunately for his self-esteem, it's as much because of the money he'd been sending home as their not having to deal with him jinxing their store.

* The Mendo estate in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' actually ''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.

* Madoka's home in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', with a very big and empty-looking bathroom among other things. It's hinted that it was built by friends of Madoka's parents.

* Japan from ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' lives in a rather large and traditional Japanese complex home.

* [[Manga/HunterXHunter 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 as the freaking massive building itself.

* In ''Manga/OniisamaE'', Fukiko and Takeshi's family have several European mansions, complete with greenhouses, rose gardens, huge pools, picturesque forests, and the odd RoomFullOfCrazy in one of them to even everything out.

* In the original ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' series, [[HotBlooded Genzo Wakabayashi]]'s house is a ''big ass'' European mansion in the outskirts of the port of Shizuoka.

* In ''Manga/SatouKashiNoDanganWaUchinukenai'', Nagisa's friend Mokuzu Umino is [[TheOjou an eccentric rich girl]] who 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.]]

* Chiyo-chan's spacious, walled-and-gated, far-off-the-street house in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' is a source of much wonderment for her friends, who had no idea she was so wealthy until they visited. ''And'' she has a summer home.
** Tomo's response on reaching the gate: "M-Maybe we should have brought a gift?"

* Yasuko from ''Manga/AoiHana'' 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]].

** Pictured above (and once on the main page): Tomoyo Daidouji, being the daughter of a toy-company CEO, lives in a classic BigFancyHouse; 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 estate of Shaoran's family in Hong Kong. And don't forget Great-Grandpa Masaaki's HUGE own European-style country mansion, either!

* ''Manga/HaouAiren'' replaces the big fancy homes with big fancy ''buildings and skyscrapers''. This ''is'' HongKong, after all.