Franchouchou Mansion

The Abandoned Mansion formerly known as the Base of the Saga Sagako Busters, is one of the main settings of the Zombie Land Saga anime and is where Kotaro, Romero and the rest of Franchouchou live.

It is based on The Karatsu City History and Folklore Museum, which was formerly the main building of the branch of Mitsubishi Joint Stock Company.

History
The port of Karatsu was developed as a shipping port for the Karatsu coal field with the opening of the Karatsu line in 1902. This building was constructed in 1891 on land reclaimed from the coast as the Karatsu branch of a Mitsubishi joint-stock company. that exported coal.

In 1978, the city of Karatsu designated the main building as an important cultural property of the city, restored it during the following year and returned it to its original condition. It was designated as an important cultural property of Saga Prefecture in 1980, and is now the Karatsu City Folklore Museum.

1989
In 1989, the mansion is used by the Saga Sagako Busters as their refuge to hunt down Saga demons, there they keep all their equipment to fight the demons, Kotaro's van is in fact the van of Tae and the group, in at that time the mansion looked well cared for and quite clean both inside and outside because of the group's actions.

2018-2020
At present, the mansion does not look very good from the outside but at least it is well preserved internally, it is the place of operations of Franchouchou.

Exterior
It is a two-story western-style building with 23.3 m frontage and 18.3 m side walls. There is a terrace on the first and second floors facing the sea. The building was designed by the Mitsubishi Marunouchi Building Office. At the time, Mitsubishi's architectural advisor was Soda Nadakura, who was from the city of Karatsu, and was said to have participated in the design of this building.

On the first floor there is a parking lot, entrance hall, corridor, stairs, calculation room, utility section, coal transportation section, second floor reception and dining room, type room, meeting room, conference room. general manager, general affairs section room, branch manager Floor plan is for bedroom. At the time of construction, people in the neighborhood called this building "Mitsubishi Goten."

The base of the building is a red brick (Akarenga) pile base, and on top of this is a granite blow stone (Kakogan) (Saoi), and the veranda pillar base is also a granite finish. The large roof is built on a purlin, with a large gable 1 in front and stepped gables on both sides, and there is a tower roof with a weather vane after the gable.

Interior
Looking inwards, the floor is the entrance hall on the first floor, the corridor is terrazzo 2 finishes, all the others are etched, and the ceiling is the first ceiling and the second floor is a raised ceiling.

The stair railings are finished with a potter's wheel, and the detailed design is expressed in rich decoration. The windows in each room are high and low windows, and the outer wall is covered with clapboard, and part of it is painted with white plaster. The inner wall is plastered with a sliding wooden base.

Notable Areas

 * Kotaro’s Room
 * Living Room
 * The Isolation Room
 * Bathrooms
 * Kotaro’s Bathroom
 * Second Bathroom
 * Dining Area
 * Basement

Trivia

 * Despite having multiple rooms, as a mansion would normally have, the girls are only given the living room to act as their makeshift bedroom.
 * The Isolation Room (unofficial name) is used by Junko and Sakura when they were undergoing their depressive episodes.
 * The floor of the basement wherein Kotaro holds his daily morning assembly has a giant stain resembling the Saga Prefecture, similar to the birthmark on Romero’s body.
 * As of “Episode 18”, Maria Amabuki is the first non-zombie outsider to enter the premises of the mansion.
 * Maimai Yuzuriha became the second in “Episode 19” to enter the premise of the mansion; albeit she was kidnapped by Kotaro after the latter assumed he had indirectly killed her, but in fact, had knocked her unconscious.
 * In the Zombie Land Saga Gaiden manga, it is revealed that the mansion belonged to the group of demon hunters, Saga Sagako Busters, this being their base of operations.

Mansión abandonada