A Fool And His New Money Are Soon Parted / Anime & Manga

Moments where Fools and their New Money are Soon Parted in Anime & Manga.

• Kankichi Ryotsu of Kochikame had been making his fortunes multiple times throughout the series whether from an inheritance, gambling or selling popular products. He always loses all his wealth from overspending, bad investments or from accidents. He's back to being a patrol officer again.
• Zig-zagged in the Water 7 Arc of One Piece. It's implied that, prior to stealing the Straw Hats' two hundred million, whenever the Franky Family got into some cash they'd lose it either through partying or betting at the races. However, Franky made much better use of the stolen funds, in order to buy some legendary Adam wood, the best quality wood in the world, to build the Straw Hats a new ship to replace the lost Going Merry. And what happened to the remaining one hundred million? It ended up being spent on the Straw Hats and friends' victory party. Nami is furious to learn this.
• In Tactics, whenever Kantarou and thus, the gang, come into any money, it's guaranteed never to last very long, much to Youko's despair.
• Faye from Cowboy Bebop has this as a recurring problem. Every time she comes into a good chunk of money (either through swindling or genuine bounty hunting) she'll blow it betting on races and lose it all in an instant. Spike even calls her out on it but she proclaims "It's better than keeping it in the bank." The episode "My Funny Valentine" explains why she does this: she's an amnesiac who was awakened from cryogenic suspension several years ago by a disreputable doctor who told that she owed a lot of money for her storage and thawing. On top of that, she was taken in by a charming con artist who faked his death in order to dump all the debt he'd racked up onto her as well. Since she's drowning in debt already and has neither a past nor a future, she sees no reason to actually try to save her money.
• Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura from City Hunter have this problem, with two good reasons: their continuous fights often damage their home and the Cat's Eye cafe (resulting in them having to pay for the repairs of their home and refunding Umibozu and Miki for the damage at the Cat's Eye), and Ryo tends to go through very expensive ammunition like it is water. Even before those fights started to give cause, Ryo managed to spend one hundred million yen in one week. The inserts in the Complete Edition of the manga explain he gave them all to the rehab center where he had recently sent a group of junkies.
• In one episode of Tenchi Universe, Ryoko is tasked to get food for the gang as they're running low on their trip to Jurai. Ryoko, being a little more amoral than her OVA counterpart, runs off with the money, wins big in races and treats herself to a vacation. When Ryo-Ohki guilt-trips Ryoko into doing the right thing, she's blown the money on the vacation and what's left is converted to almost nothing, forcing her to rob a bank to get the money.
• An early episode of Tenchi in Tokyo had the girls make money on their own so they can use it to visit Tenchi (they had a gateway, but Tenchi got tired of it and blocked it). Sasami ends up being the one who makes the most money. The very next episode, Sasami uses the gateway to escape the girls - they became so desperate, they started hounding her for her money - and Tenchi decides to let her use it.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • A variant happens in Diamond Is Unbreakable, when Josuke, Okuyasu, and Shigechi win a small fortune on a lottery ticket. Josuke's mom takes his share and puts it in a secure bank account to keep him from pulling this trope, so he ends up not seeing a single yen. (Okuyasu intentionally puts his share in the bank, as he's actually very sensible with money.)
    • Played straight in an earlier scene, where Joseph Joestar needs to buy baby supplies for the invisible baby they found and borrows Josuke's card with all his saved up money (since he doesn't have his own money on hand). Due to a combination of being rich enough to not really think about money, not understanding the dollar-to-yen exchange rate, the onset of senility and a very pushy salesman, the money is soon gone. However, Josuke gets back at him by stealing his wallet later on.
  • The eponymous Stand of the Milagro Man arc in Jojolion is capable of creating and duplicating money, and anyone who does as little as touch it will constantly earn money no matter how much they spend it, or how much they destroy. Oh, don't worry, there's no mandatory part where you'll inevitably lose all of it; instead, you'll be quite literally buried in ever-multiplying money and either get crushed to death or suffocate. The only way to dispel the Milagro Man's curse is to actually invoke this trope, either by returning the money to its previous owner or transfer the curse to some poor sap by tricking them into destroying it.
• In Kill la Kill Mako and her family have to live in the slums due to her status as a No-Star student in the despotic state run by the Kiryūin family. When she gets elevated to Two-Star, her family gets to live in a mansion and her father gets a fancy clinic as opposed to the back-alley one he operated in prior. And of course, the entire family ends up suffering from Acquired Situational Narcissism while Mako tries desperately to preserve their new way of life (just as Satsuki planned), only for them to realize what they've become and renounce their newfound wealth and status.
• In Eyeshield 21, the Devil Bats' coach, Doburoku Sakaki, wins $17 million betting on their game against the Shinryuji Nagas. A few chapters later, he loses all the money he didn't squander celebrating their win by betting on another game when the Taiyo Sphinx get stomped by the dark-horse Hakushu Dinosaurs.
• In Last Period, the broke heroes win a massive fortune from the lottery. Due to their profligate spending, they manage to end up back in bankruptcy by the end of the episode.