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''The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and [=SOAP=]!'' (''Hibon Heibon Shabon!'') is a shojo fantasy series by Nao Wakasa. It Originally a WebSerialNovel released on Shousetsuka ni Narou from 2015 to 2016, it was later published as a series of LightNovels from 2016 to 2017 for three volumes with illustrations by Ica. The novels are translated into English by J-Novel Club Creator/JNovelClub and fully released in April 2020.
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''The Extraordinary, the Ordinary, and [=SOAP=]!'' is a shojo fantasy series by Nao Wakasa. It was translated into English by J-Novel Club and fully released in April 2020.
In a StandardFantasySetting where everyone has one spell unique to them, young laundrymaid Lucia works at the royal castle. Her concerns are mundane ones: friends, debt repayment, and chatting to that cute knight who visits on sunny days. Even her spell seems mundane: all it does is conjure up a bubbly fluid that can clean anything...
...including, it turns out, ''the human soul''.
Unfortunately, Lucia's "Soap" is needed for more than just laundry. The [[WorldTree Cristallo Sacro]] that support her world have been corrupted, and the Sacred Maiden summoned from another world to purify them needs all the help she can get. Even worse, this cycle's Maiden- the TroubledButCute teenager Maria Nishime- is ''not'' happy about being yanked away from everything she knew and loved.
Therefore, the king decrees that Lucia must accompany Maria on her quest to purify the Cristallo Sacro.
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!!This series contains the following tropes:
%%* BlowYouAway:
* BrickJoke: In one of Celes' [=POV=] chapters, he explains that the soldiers nicknamed Lucia "Soap Bubble Saint" after her magic inspired them to fight off a dragon. A chapter later, Lucia is confused when someone actually calls her that to her face.
%%* CharmPerson:
%%* TheChainsOfCommanding:
%%* TheConfidant:
* DramaticIrony: Celes comforts himself with the thought that, while he's out fighting monsters for the kingdom, his LoveInterest will be safe at home. Less than a ''week'' after he's left, an army of monsters attacks the city she's in.
%%* GoodIsNotSoft:
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A social example. The adventuring party has been working like hell to placate Maria, who only treats them like shit in return....then Lucia joins them a few days later and gets better results in a hour than they have in months. When Lucia asks why they hate Maria so much, an extremely irritated Eric replies, (paraphrased) "If you had been through what we have, you would understand." A JustifiedTrope in that nobody can ''force'' a friendship to happen, and that compatible personalities count for something. Also, Lucia is the only person that doesn't have ulterior motives for being nice to Maria, which the latter immediately recognizes.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: "Soap" basically generates happiness. No brainwashing, no [[DealWithTheDevil cost]], no prerequisites: it just makes you ''feel better'', no matter how awful your situation is. Lucia's superiors govern her usage of it carefully to [[FantasticDrug prevent addictions]].
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners:
* HopelessWar: There is ''no'' hope of winning against the Sacro's monsters, only of purifying the Sacro [[RaceAgainstTheClock before humanity gets annihilated]]. Extremely powerful warriors or large battalions can slay monsters, but there aren't nearly enough of either to protect the world.
* IdiotHero: Lucia is fairly stupid, not seeing through Celes' RealNameAsAnAlias, completely misunderstanding his feelings (both [[ObliviousToLove romantic]] and otherwise), and readily trusting shady strangers. If not for the other members of the party guiding her, she would have ended up shanked in an alleyway.
%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness:
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Lucia didn't like breaking off her friendship with Celes after she [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe found out who he really was]], but internalized classism is a hell of a thing.
%%* KnightInShiningArmor:
%%* LightEmUp:
%%* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine:
* LightIsGood:
** Both spells of the Purification type are extremely shiny: "Light Arrow" summons a blindingly radiant spear that incinerates evil, and "Soap" summons pearlescent bubbles that reflect any light in the vicinity.
** [[TheHero Lucia]]'s name is a Latin word for light.
* MagicalIncantation: Lucia and Maria only need to say the names of their personal spells ("Soap" and "Light Arrow", respectively) to cast them. Everyone else needs PowerCrystal[=s=]. And if you're out of mana, you can't cast anything.
* MeaningfulName: Maria's name has three meanings- "bitter", "rebellion", and [[TheChosenOne "wished-for child"]]- all of which describe her. [[ThemeNaming It also ends the same way]] as the name of her HeterosexualLifePartner.
* MutualEnvy: All three protagonists hate the strain of travelling, and are convinced the others are holding up better than they are.
* NobleBigot: Lucia doesn't hate the upper classes, but she has a bit of trouble grasping the idea that they have problems too
* OppositesAttract: Lucia and Maria are a non-romantic example, both embodying different types of good. Lucia is gentle and comforting and friendly to everyone; Maria is fierce and pragmatic and proud. They fight monsters, Maria dealing with the truly evil ones who are BeyondRedemption.
* ThePollyanna: Lucia is optimistic about damn near everything, including her indentured servitude and the untimely death of her mother. It's not that she thinks those events were ''good'', but that she knows things could have been a lot worse. At least she managed to find a steady, respectable job. Other people in her position have been sold into slavery.
* RapeAsDrama: Lucia gets drugged by a SerialRapist as a cliffhanger.
* RousseauWasRight: "Soap" doesn't change the target's morality, as such. It just makes them happy, [[FreudianExcuse at which point the target chooses to stop fighting of their own volition]]. The fact that "Soap" works on monsters too implies that they were ForcedIntoEvil by the Sacro's corruption- something that horrifies the people who've had to kill monsters in the past.
* SlaveToPR: This trope is why Celes is so upset by his title of "Dragonslayer". It was forced on him by the higher-ups after a battle in which most of his comrades died horribly, effectively whitewashing their sacrifice to make the whole thing look like a greater success than it was. When he objected to it, the Knight Commander told him that his feelings didn't matter and maintaining the populace's morale was more important.
* SomeoneElsesProblem: The fantasy world's inhabitants are (mostly) good people, but they deal with all their negative feelings about the war by assuming that [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne the Sacred Maiden will take care of it]]. They don't care how the Maiden feels about being TrappedInAnotherWorld or forced to kill [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman real living beings]] for the first time ever - largely because they're busy dealing with their own trauma.
%%* TragicMonster:
%%* TheUnchosenOne:
%%* WorkingClassHero:
%%* YeGoodeOldeDays:
%%* YouAreNotAlone:
* YouNeedToGetLaid: The Third Regiment has recently been subjected to TrainingFromHell because [[TheChainOfHarm their captain]] wasn't brave enough to confess his feelings to the girl he likes. (They get back at him later.)
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In a StandardFantasySetting where everyone has one spell unique to them, young laundrymaid Lucia works at the royal castle. Her concerns are mundane ones: friends, debt repayment, and chatting to that cute knight who visits on sunny days. Even her spell seems mundane: all it does is conjure up a bubbly fluid that can clean anything...
...including, it turns out, ''the human soul''.
Unfortunately, Lucia's "Soap" is needed for more than just laundry. The [[WorldTree Cristallo Sacro]] that support her world have been corrupted, and the Sacred Maiden summoned from another world to purify them needs all the help she can get. Even worse, this cycle's Maiden- the TroubledButCute teenager Maria Nishime- is ''not'' happy about being yanked away from everything she knew and loved.
Therefore, the king decrees that Lucia must accompany Maria on her quest to purify the Cristallo Sacro.
----
!!This series contains the following tropes:
%%* BlowYouAway:
* BrickJoke: In one of Celes' [=POV=] chapters, he explains that the soldiers nicknamed Lucia "Soap Bubble Saint" after her magic inspired them to fight off a dragon. A chapter later, Lucia is confused when someone actually calls her that to her face.
%%* CharmPerson:
%%* TheChainsOfCommanding:
%%* TheConfidant:
* DramaticIrony: Celes comforts himself with the thought that, while he's out fighting monsters for the kingdom, his LoveInterest will be safe at home. Less than a ''week'' after he's left, an army of monsters attacks the city she's in.
%%* GoodIsNotSoft:
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A social example. The adventuring party has been working like hell to placate Maria, who only treats them like shit in return....then Lucia joins them a few days later and gets better results in a hour than they have in months. When Lucia asks why they hate Maria so much, an extremely irritated Eric replies, (paraphrased) "If you had been through what we have, you would understand." A JustifiedTrope in that nobody can ''force'' a friendship to happen, and that compatible personalities count for something. Also, Lucia is the only person that doesn't have ulterior motives for being nice to Maria, which the latter immediately recognizes.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: "Soap" basically generates happiness. No brainwashing, no [[DealWithTheDevil cost]], no prerequisites: it just makes you ''feel better'', no matter how awful your situation is. Lucia's superiors govern her usage of it carefully to [[FantasticDrug prevent addictions]].
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners:
* HopelessWar: There is ''no'' hope of winning against the Sacro's monsters, only of purifying the Sacro [[RaceAgainstTheClock before humanity gets annihilated]]. Extremely powerful warriors or large battalions can slay monsters, but there aren't nearly enough of either to protect the world.
* IdiotHero: Lucia is fairly stupid, not seeing through Celes' RealNameAsAnAlias, completely misunderstanding his feelings (both [[ObliviousToLove romantic]] and otherwise), and readily trusting shady strangers. If not for the other members of the party guiding her, she would have ended up shanked in an alleyway.
%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness:
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Lucia didn't like breaking off her friendship with Celes after she [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe found out who he really was]], but internalized classism is a hell of a thing.
%%* KnightInShiningArmor:
%%* LightEmUp:
%%* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine:
* LightIsGood:
** Both spells of the Purification type are extremely shiny: "Light Arrow" summons a blindingly radiant spear that incinerates evil, and "Soap" summons pearlescent bubbles that reflect any light in the vicinity.
** [[TheHero Lucia]]'s name is a Latin word for light.
* MagicalIncantation: Lucia and Maria only need to say the names of their personal spells ("Soap" and "Light Arrow", respectively) to cast them. Everyone else needs PowerCrystal[=s=]. And if you're out of mana, you can't cast anything.
* MeaningfulName: Maria's name has three meanings- "bitter", "rebellion", and [[TheChosenOne "wished-for child"]]- all of which describe her. [[ThemeNaming It also ends the same way]] as the name of her HeterosexualLifePartner.
* MutualEnvy: All three protagonists hate the strain of travelling, and are convinced the others are holding up better than they are.
* NobleBigot: Lucia doesn't hate the upper classes, but she has a bit of trouble grasping the idea that they have problems too
* OppositesAttract: Lucia and Maria are a non-romantic example, both embodying different types of good. Lucia is gentle and comforting and friendly to everyone; Maria is fierce and pragmatic and proud. They fight monsters, Maria dealing with the truly evil ones who are BeyondRedemption.
* ThePollyanna: Lucia is optimistic about damn near everything, including her indentured servitude and the untimely death of her mother. It's not that she thinks those events were ''good'', but that she knows things could have been a lot worse. At least she managed to find a steady, respectable job. Other people in her position have been sold into slavery.
* RapeAsDrama: Lucia gets drugged by a SerialRapist as a cliffhanger.
* RousseauWasRight: "Soap" doesn't change the target's morality, as such. It just makes them happy, [[FreudianExcuse at which point the target chooses to stop fighting of their own volition]]. The fact that "Soap" works on monsters too implies that they were ForcedIntoEvil by the Sacro's corruption- something that horrifies the people who've had to kill monsters in the past.
* SlaveToPR: This trope is why Celes is so upset by his title of "Dragonslayer". It was forced on him by the higher-ups after a battle in which most of his comrades died horribly, effectively whitewashing their sacrifice to make the whole thing look like a greater success than it was. When he objected to it, the Knight Commander told him that his feelings didn't matter and maintaining the populace's morale was more important.
* SomeoneElsesProblem: The fantasy world's inhabitants are (mostly) good people, but they deal with all their negative feelings about the war by assuming that [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne the Sacred Maiden will take care of it]]. They don't care how the Maiden feels about being TrappedInAnotherWorld or forced to kill [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman real living beings]] for the first time ever - largely because they're busy dealing with their own trauma.
%%* TragicMonster:
%%* TheUnchosenOne:
%%* WorkingClassHero:
%%* YeGoodeOldeDays:
%%* YouAreNotAlone:
* YouNeedToGetLaid: The Third Regiment has recently been subjected to TrainingFromHell because [[TheChainOfHarm their captain]] wasn't brave enough to confess his feelings to the girl he likes. (They get back at him later.)
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