It’s a scene I often think of when I think of the Fate-verse, Gilgamesh, looking out at the rest of Babylon, with his pet Lion by his side. Gilgamesh is a seriously domineering dude who has a palace that’s fitting of his station. It’s expansive, it’s got an amazing view, and it’s as lavish as you’d expect of a pharaoh or, well, a Sumerian legendary king. Plus, there’s top quality wine all the time and that Lion looks like a pretty serious upgrade over your average housecat.

There was something so plain about Misato’s house as a whole but something that became really familiar throughout the course of the series. It looks like the apartment’s you see in a lot of Anime. But the living room is where a lot of the characters throughout Evangelion would go, hang-out, talk and there were a number of key scenes here and throughout the apartment as a whole. In first few episodes of Evangelion, when the apartment is established as Shinji’s living space, it really does give the feel of ‘home base’ for the series after a few episodes.

If you weren’t in the know, Maria’s house would look like just a little shack in the woods somewhere. However, it’s woodland surroundings and its reclusiveness are part of it’s allure. If you ever partake in a little HGTV, Maria’s house is definitely ‘open concept’, it’s really one big room with a lot of different compartments. But there’s everything you need for a comfy, magical existence in the first half of 15th century Europe. It’s an easy stride from a nice peasant village, and of course, you’re likely to run into the exploits of Maria and her various cohorts!

Araragi’s living room is pretty wild from an aesthetic point of view. It’s got this dominant white color scheme that make it feel almost translucent and almost otherworldly, which really fits with the tone and visual style of the Monogatari franchise. It has these set-ladders, catwalks and stage lights which give it a fun theater vibe and seem to be some kind of in-universe meta elements to it. And for more spice, it has some neat looking art and couches too. Plus you can’t beat hanging out with the fire sisters!

Motoko Kusanagi is every bit as imposing as she is admirable, someone you’ll always want to follow, and never want to cross. She’s such a authoritative yet magnetic presence it only makes sense that where she lives has some of the same allure. Cyberpunk architecture often has two extremes, luxurious futurism, or exacerbated urban decay, and Motoko’s house totally exemplifies the latter. We picked the bedroom because of it’s sweet view and… Motoko has this implied Yuri cyborg harem thing going on? Just another reason the Major, and her place, is on another level.

Sometimes where you work does really feel like home. I’ve had the luxury of working some jobs I really loved, with co-workers I loved, and in that situation, an office sometimes can just feel downright comfy. That’s the feeling I get from the production staff office in Shirobako. It may be full of files on the wall’s, and doesn’t have any fancy, stand-out décor but the desk plan feels open, but not intrusive, kind of like a college library. So many times watching Shirobako and the scenes that take place at Musashino animation, while seeing the various offices, conference rooms, and miscellaneous areas, it's a place I felt could definitely be a work home away from home, and nothing gave me that feeling more than the production office.

Boarding school seem’s pretty intimidating. Hell, living on a college campus was intimidating for me, years after I would have started High School. But Hachiken’s dorm is pretty comfy, when you get down to it. It’s a simple room with bunk beds, and desks, like so many dorms before and after it. But it had windows looking out into a vast countryside, and this is the dorm’s significance. This is Hachiken’s entry-point to the wide world of Agricultural High School and Hokkaido as a whole, and that’s why it’s simplicity is itself an attraction. It helps that’s there’s also sorts of crazy characters going in and out too.

Yuuko’s house in xxxholic, while not garish, certainly doesn’t lack for flare. She has all sorts of mystical and magical items which she brings up every now and again, each with it’s own story to tell. Speaking of stories, hanging around here, you’d be sure to hear some tales of the supernatural and how they come into play in human endeavors. It’d be great to just lounge around, and soak in the mystical air that surrounds Yuuko and her house as a whole. Plus, she’s always drinking and eating wonderful foods! Sasuaga, Yuuko! She’s truly living her life correctly!

It’s really kind of a plain old club room, but the light music club has made it a seriously enviable destination! There’s lots of seriously high-quality silverware all over the place, and of course all the goofy stuff the club members leave lying around as well. It’s also on the top floor of the school, so it seems the light music club has the penthouse, as it were. But the real opportunity is to sit down and indulge in all the amazing tea and desserts the light music club eats! Plus, we you can always hear them practice! Set your clocks to Fuwa Fuwa time, please.

Something about the Lab in Steins;Gate truly draws you in and makes you feel at home. I’ve seen an image of what a recreation of the Lab would look like in real life, and had an instant desire to live there. It has the feeling of a NEET’s recluse, while also an grad-student apartment where you always visited for casual drinks. Maybe it’s just conditioning from all the wonderful characters and hijinks that goes on in Steins;Gate, especially in the almost slice of lifey first half, but it’s somewhere that has as much charm as any place you can imagine living in.