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[[caption-width-right:350:Seiran High's Exploration Club [[note]] ''clockwise from left'': Homura Hinooka, Ameno, Mayo Misasagi, and Takumi Touya. [[/note]] ]]
-> '''Touya:''' It’s because you’re a magician, isn’t that obvious?\\
'''Homura:''' Say that one more time.\\
'''Touya:''' We want a magician in our Exploration Club.\\
'''Homura:''' You’re talking about some game, right?\\
'''Touya:''' That’s what you’d normally think. But this isn’t about a game. It’s real.\\
'''Homura:''' You’re aware that you’re saying something strange, right?\\
'''Touya:''' Yeah.\\
''[Beat]''\\
'''Touya:''' ''[Laughs]'' But, you know, the Exploration Club is fun! I think you’ll like it too, Hinooka.
''Fire Girl'' is a Japanese LightNovel series published under the famous VisualNovel company Creator/TypeMoon, written by Meteor Hoshizora of ''Anime/WorldConquestZvezdaPlot'' and ''[[DevelopmentHell Girls' Work]]'' fame, and featuring art and character designs by BUNBUN of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' and ''Literature/ABraveHeartOfRedRose'' fame.
Homura Hinooka is just your [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent average]] girl in school: she's cute, friendly, sociable, and highly popular with the boys. But at heart, she's the type of person who finds things like thinking deeply - [[BookDumb a skill that she's weak at]] - really bothersome, is a bit of a goofball to boot, and is someone you just couldn't bother giving schoolwork to since she'll just sleep it off. Even club activities are something she finds troublesome. After all, why would you participate in something that would just tire you out anyway when you already have your hands full with the snoozefest known as school? The idea of it all was so absurd to her that she puts it in herself not to join in any school clubs in her first year of high school in Seiran High, a famous university prep school widely known to have a high rate of participation in club activities. Homura's first year of high school life since then has been dull, boring, and uneventful.
One day, as she was walking home alone from school, a boy in her grade, Takumi Touya, suddenly stops to invite her to join UNPIEP[[note]]United Nations' Pioneering Imaginary Earth Program[[/note]], or their school's Exploration Club, a club dedicated to exploring the uncharted planet known as Imaginary Earth: Nutella, a world that's twice as large as Jupiter, urging her to be their club's resident magician. [[FlatWhat Homura reacts as well as you'd expect]].
Initially wary of the invitation at first, Homura readily accepts and she finds herself thrust into a grand adventure of a lifetime. Along with Touya, the beautiful club president Mayo Misasagi, and the golem girl Ameno, Homura sets out with her newfound friends to investigate the uncharted planet. But, being an investigator for the club isn't an easy task. What dangers await her and her friends in the mysterious planet Nutella?
The first volume was released alongside ''[[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Fate/Apocrypha]]'' during the Winter 2012 Comiket. The novels have three volumes with seven books (two per volume for the first two volumes and three books in the last one) and are released as separate parts, with Parts 1 following Homura and her friends' lives in school, and Parts 2 detailing her adventures as she explores Nutella.
An ongoing translation for volume one can be found [[https://firegirlthetranslation.wordpress.com/ here]].
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!! '''''Fire Girl''''' contains the following tropes:
%% * TheAce: Mayo Misasagi.
* AcidTripDimension: The trip to Imaginary Earth when teleporting there is...trippy to say the least. You know it's that intense when you can hear the ''grains of your skin grate against each other''.
* ActionGirl: Misasagi-senpai, Homura, and Sachi Kamikoma from Hiyoshi High's Exploration Club are the main examples from volume one. Other female characters who pop up in later volumes are this as well.
* ActionHero: You have to be this as a requisite to be a member of the Explorations Club, since its members brave the dangers found in exploring an uncharted planet. If you aren't one from the beginning, [[TookALevelInBadass you grow to be one]] thanks to the Exploration Club's activities.
* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Plenty of ruins and remnants of a lost civilization are found in Nutella, and UNPIEP exists to studying and exploring these remains by sending in Investigators from various Exploration Clubs in different schools.
* AdventurersClub: UNPIEP's Exploration Club, natch, with different branches from various schools.
* AlliterativeName: Let's see, we have our heroine '''H'''omura '''H'''inooka, her fellow club member '''T'''akumi '''T'''ouya, and their [[SenpaiKohai senpai]] and club president '''M'''ayo '''M'''isasagi.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Imaginary Earth looks a lot like Earth from the ancient times.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Orie Kujou, Homura's classmate since middle school, comes across as a cold person towards everyone she speaks to, ''especially'' towards Homura.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tsuyu Hinooka, Homura's younger sister, to Homura, but it's also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] as well.
* AnotherDimension: Imaginary Earth Nutella.
* BadassCrew: The Exploration Club of course. And it's not just limited to the Seiran High group either.
* BeachEpisode: The main setting for the first book of volume 2 is on a tropical island primarily reserved for the Explorers as part of their training camp. In an interesting spin of this trope however, there are ''two'' versions of the tropics used here: the main one on Earth, and the one on Nutella where selected first years and subsequent novice Explorers are coerced by Nanakubo to come to as part of an annual club tradition.
* BigBad: Subaru-hime for the first volume's second book. She has a HeelFaceTurn after she's defeated however.
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding: The Exploration Club's building, or their "club room", is ''huge''. The building houses a variety of facilities for the club members to use: a training room, an astronomical dome on the roof deck, and even a ''hot springs room''. And that's only some of the rooms mentioned.
* BookEnds: Volume 1-A begins with Homura chasing after Kujou and trying to ask her to go home together with her at the end of school and failing. Volume 1-B ends with almost the exact same scenario...except this time, with newfound confidence and resolution, it's ''Homura'' leading the way while Kujou follows shortly behind her after Homura succeeds in convincing her to do so in her own way.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: This line when Misasagi was about to hop in the bath they made on Nutella:
--> '''Homura:''' I forgot about your changing speed, senpai. Y-You should be a bit more conscious of service for the viewers and such, you know…
* CallToAdventure: The plot kickstarts when Touya gives Homura an invitation to join the Explorations Club as their Magician.
* ChekhovsGun: The Spirit Stone Misasagi gives Homura. Also counts as a {{Macguffin}}.
* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that woman from the station who was handing out "missing" flyers in an attempt to find her missing baby that Homura met back in Vol 1-A? [[spoiler: Her missing kid shows up as an important character later in Vol 1-B.]]
* ChildrenAreSpecial: Apparently, due to their stronger IE reactions compared to adults, only kids aged between 9-19 are capable of traveling to Nutella. Thanks to the UN's intervention and rules, only high school teens aged 14/15 and up are allowed to do interplanetary travel to Nutella, hence why the Exploration Clubs in high schools exist.
* CookingDuel: Homura competes in one in the first volume under Fujimori-sensei's insistence that she needs to win in any contest in their SchoolFestival so she'll approve her admission in the club.
* CustomUniform: The Explorer Club's Investigator outfits are basically just the students' winter uniforms with a few differences in design plus traveling gear. According to Misasagi, the reason their Investigator getups resemble their winter uniforms is due to Imaginary Earth having colder temperatures at night.
* DavidVsGoliath: [[spoiler: Homura the new, rookie apprentice Magician of the Exploration Club vs Subaru, the powerful witch and princess of Nutella.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[{{Troll}} Homura]], [[TheStoic Orie]], [[BrutalHonesty Touya]], and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Tsuyu]] are the primary contenders for this trope.
* {{Dismotivation}}: Homura starts out as a disinterested girl who had no goals to look forward to in her high school life. That all changes when she's invited to the Explorations Club.
* TheDitz: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Homura has a tendency to be a bit goofy at times. Touya has some shades of it too, but in a different way.
* DualWielding: Touya's main method of fighting is dual wielding two kendo swords.
* DudeMagnet:
** Homura is ''really'' popular with boys no matter where she goes. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kujou much to her annoyance.
---> '''Kujou:''' I hate how boys gather around when I’m with you even though they have no business with us.
** When Touya's friends heard that he was having lunch with Homura,they all [[CrazyJealousGuy strangled him and flipped him over for being so lucky as to get to eat lunch together with her]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[ChekhovsGunman Ameno]] appears briefly in one chapter being dragged away by Fujimori-sensei in Book A of volume 1 and is featured along with the Seiran Explorer Club trio on the book's cover. Apart from that one scene and a couple of mentions later, Ameno herself doesn't appear afterwards nor gets to interact with any of the characters until Volume 1-B.
* EasingIntoTheAdventure: The first eight chapters of volume 1 part 1 delve into Homura's normal life and relationships when she got the [[CallToAdventure call]]. It isn't until chapter 9 that the plot starts to turn its heels for Homura.
* {{Expospeak}}: Chapter 15 of Vol 1-B dedicates itself to Homura reflecting on the things she learned so far about UNPIEP and the history of how Nutella was discovered and the complications it created between nations who wanted to explore it for their own purposes. The same chapter also explains why only young adults can go to Nutella and how the magic system works in their universe. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools The infodumping here isn't as boring as it sounds though]] like in most cases.
* FantasyCharacterClasses: Used by the Exploration Club's Investigators to classify their specialties. Homura is a Magician Class, Touya is a Light-Weight Warrior class, Misasagi is a Magical Warrior Class, and Ameno is a Thief Class.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Homura and Tsuyu respectively, despite Homura being the older sibling, it's Tsuyu who carries most of the responsibilities at home while Homura is satisfied just lounging around.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Homura, Touya, and Misasagi discuss protocol over what to do if they encounter wild animals, Touya comments that he'd rather not encounter something like a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]] since "fighting a lump of muscle like that is no joke." [[spoiler: Guess what they eventually encounter in Volume 1-B.]]
** Mentions of wolves and stories about a witch were dropped during Volume 1-A before their actual debuts.
** Homura's uncanny ability to come up with several vivid {{Imagine Spot}}s in a rapid manner actually end up becoming ''very'' important later.
* FuroScene: Two occur on separate instances:
** The first one happened during Homura's first night on Nutella. She, Misasagi, and Touya create a make-shift bath on their own using a couple of tools on a nearby spring. Once built, Misasagi and Homura take the first dip in it...then Misasagi decides to invite Touya to bathe along with them, much to Homura's horror and Touya's embarrassment. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) for both of them, all three were wearing [[ModestyTowel modesty towels]] that time.
** The second one happened when the Explorer Club girls from different schools bond together in a bath house [[spoiler: along with Subaru on her castle on Nutella]] in a chapter during Volume 2 part B. This time, without the aforementioned ModestyTowel and with {{Fanservice}} to boot.
* ImagineSpot: Some chapters contain vivid and detailed descriptions of Homura's wild imagination. The best instance of this trope was her initial image of the Exploration Club's president before she met her in person: she thought her to be a giant first, then a mountain gorilla for some reason, then there was her reaction when she actually sees her...
** In a turn of events, this trope actually ends up becoming an ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} important]]'' plot point for Homura's character sometime later.
* InfoDump: A whole chapter was dedicated entirely to this both as a quick recap and to cover the things that weren't explained previously. See {{Expospeak}} above.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The Exploration Club. Seiran High, Homura's high school, is particularly known for hosting a variety of different school clubs, with student rate participation being an all time high.
* LargeHam: Takara Rokujizou, the StudentCouncilPresident of Seiran High. When she appears, expect her to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]]. Fujimori-sensei is also this too at times, but in a more zen way.
* LastNameBasis: Nearly everyone refers to each other by their surnames only.
* TheLegendOfChekhov: Kamikoma warns Homura about a witch near the end of volume one's first book. Misasagi later explains that the witch was a superstition previous club members came up with among themselves whenever something mysterious happens and casually dismisses it as such. Of course, later on they really ''do'' meet a witch...
* LethalChef: Homura. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she's an inexperienced cook.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to other Type-Moon works such as ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', and ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''. Though that doesn't mean it doesn't have any dark moments either.
* MeaningfulName: Homura's first name literally means "flame", plus she specializes in [[{{Fireballs}} Fire Magic]], hence the title of the series.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Homura's mom is said to have often been mistaken for being Homura and Tsuyu's older sister.
* TheOneGuy: PlayedWith in that while Touya definitely ''is'' the lone male member of Seiran's Exploration Club, other male characters who are members of the Exploration Clubs from different schools begin appearing in later volumes.
* PluckyGirl: Homura. Despite being somewhat lazy, she isn't the type to give up on getting what she wants and quickly rises to challenge the occasion.
* PunnyName: Admit it, Imaginary Earth's official name being ''[[FoodThemeNaming Nutella]]'' probably brought out a few snickers. Even better, one of its planetary rings is named ''Bagel''.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Homura had initially planned to turn down Touya's invitations for her to join the Exploration Club due to lack of interest and motivation on her part, but one epiphany later she changes her mind and gets gung ho on joining (though with doubts still on her mind).
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Ameno. While she's officially called a Golem, she's a humanoid android powered up by a spirit stone found on Nutella, and definitely looks and acts like a regular human on her part, even if she's a little eccentric at times.
* SavageWolves: Homura's party encounters [[spoiler: sentient]] SavageWolves in the 2nd half of volume one, much to their dismay.
* SchoolFestival: The Shinryoku Festival in Seiran High, where lots of contests take place.
* SchoolIdol: Homura. While it's slightly downplayed due to her being a little BookDumb, Homura's ''definitely'' a popular student thanks to being considered as ''the'' cutest girl among the first years (though she herself says that she can't compete with someone like [[TheBeautifulElite Misasagi-senpai]]), and while she doesn't join in any sports clubs herself, her fitness training with Touya shows that she can easily adjust to strenuous activities.
* ShipperOnDeck: Homura's mother and father both approve of Touya being the one for Homura. Notable for her dad since out of all the boys she brings home with her, Touya is the only one he actually likes. Tsuyu doesn't seem to like him all that much though.
* ShoutOut: The Seiran Exploration Club has copies of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'', and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' on their clubroom's bookshelf. Based on the number of copies they have of ''Fate Stay Night'' there, it's likely that instead of being a visual novel, ''Fate Stay Night'' is a light novel series in the world ''Fire Girl'' is set in. That, or one of the members (likely Ameno) is such a hardcore fan of the VN that they simply bought more than ''three copies'' of the game to play with.
* SiblingRivalry: Implied between Homura and Tsuyu as both sisters want something the other has.
* SliceOfLife: The first halves of all three volumes.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Nutella, New Terra, or Nuterra? Translators can't seem to agree on which spelling they should use to name the enigmatic planet.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Sisters Homura and Tsuyu are said to each resemble their mother and father respectively.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Takara Rokujizou
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: UNPIEP monitors its members due to the classified nature of the Exploration Club.
* TeleportationSickness: Touya became briefly afflicted with this during Homura's first trip to Imaginary Earth. [[AcidTripDimension Can't blame him though]].
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Exploration Club members use a Transport Ring to directly teleport themselves to Imaginary Earth.
* TrainingFromHell: Homura and other members of the Exploration Club from other schools go through one of these when they were all sent to Antarctica for training camp to prepare them for a snowy trek on Nutella. While the novel glosses over the details of [[NoodleIncident what they went through there]], it was apparently strenuous enough that Homura and Akiho were beyond relieved when they got back from it. However, the training was effective enough that even someone like Homura begrudgingly admits that it was a necessity she's thankful for as she's more than prepared for the expedition she trained for in the first place.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Before [[spoiler: Ameno and Inari officially join the club (rejoins in Inari's case)]], Homura, Touya, and Misasagi comprised Seiran High's team of explorers on Nutella for the entirety of volume 1.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Played straight during the Shinryoku Festival Bento-making contest. [[spoiler: Homura makes weird-looking udon as her contest entry, and is the last one sampled by Rokujizou, the StudentCouncilPresident, for not being as eye-catching or delicious-looking enough compared to the other entries. When she and Misasagi tried it however, they both declare it to be the best tasting dish presented and Homura wins first prize as a result.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Strangely enough, Homura and Touya don't seem to have much of a problem with attacking [[spoiler: Suzuran]] who is only about 12 years old [[spoiler: in Nutellan time, that is. She's supposed to be only around two-three years old in Earth time]].
* YearInsideHourOutside: Time moves faster on Nutella than on Earth. Homura's first trip alone cost her two days and a night there while only six hours had passed on Earth.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Seiran High's Exploration Club [[note]] ''clockwise from left'': Homura Hinooka, Ameno, Mayo Misasagi, and Takumi Touya. [[/note]] ]]
-> '''Touya:''' It’s because you’re a magician, isn’t that obvious?\\
'''Homura:''' Say that one more time.\\
'''Touya:''' We want a magician in our Exploration Club.\\
'''Homura:''' You’re talking about some game, right?\\
'''Touya:''' That’s what you’d normally think. But this isn’t about a game. It’s real.\\
'''Homura:''' You’re aware that you’re saying something strange, right?\\
'''Touya:''' Yeah.\\
''[Beat]''\\
'''Touya:''' ''[Laughs]'' But, you know, the Exploration Club is fun! I think you’ll like it too, Hinooka.
''Fire Girl'' is a Japanese LightNovel series published under the famous VisualNovel company Creator/TypeMoon, written by Meteor Hoshizora of ''Anime/WorldConquestZvezdaPlot'' and ''[[DevelopmentHell Girls' Work]]'' fame, and featuring art and character designs by BUNBUN of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' and ''Literature/ABraveHeartOfRedRose'' fame.
Homura Hinooka is just your [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent average]] girl in school: she's cute, friendly, sociable, and highly popular with the boys. But at heart, she's the type of person who finds things like thinking deeply - [[BookDumb a skill that she's weak at]] - really bothersome, is a bit of a goofball to boot, and is someone you just couldn't bother giving schoolwork to since she'll just sleep it off. Even club activities are something she finds troublesome. After all, why would you participate in something that would just tire you out anyway when you already have your hands full with the snoozefest known as school? The idea of it all was so absurd to her that she puts it in herself not to join in any school clubs in her first year of high school in Seiran High, a famous university prep school widely known to have a high rate of participation in club activities. Homura's first year of high school life since then has been dull, boring, and uneventful.
One day, as she was walking home alone from school, a boy in her grade, Takumi Touya, suddenly stops to invite her to join UNPIEP[[note]]United Nations' Pioneering Imaginary Earth Program[[/note]], or their school's Exploration Club, a club dedicated to exploring the uncharted planet known as Imaginary Earth: Nutella, a world that's twice as large as Jupiter, urging her to be their club's resident magician. [[FlatWhat Homura reacts as well as you'd expect]].
Initially wary of the invitation at first, Homura readily accepts and she finds herself thrust into a grand adventure of a lifetime. Along with Touya, the beautiful club president Mayo Misasagi, and the golem girl Ameno, Homura sets out with her newfound friends to investigate the uncharted planet. But, being an investigator for the club isn't an easy task. What dangers await her and her friends in the mysterious planet Nutella?
The first volume was released alongside ''[[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Fate/Apocrypha]]'' during the Winter 2012 Comiket. The novels have three volumes with seven books (two per volume for the first two volumes and three books in the last one) and are released as separate parts, with Parts 1 following Homura and her friends' lives in school, and Parts 2 detailing her adventures as she explores Nutella.
An ongoing translation for volume one can be found [[https://firegirlthetranslation.wordpress.com/ here]].
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!! '''''Fire Girl''''' contains the following tropes:
%% * TheAce: Mayo Misasagi.
* AcidTripDimension: The trip to Imaginary Earth when teleporting there is...trippy to say the least. You know it's that intense when you can hear the ''grains of your skin grate against each other''.
* ActionGirl: Misasagi-senpai, Homura, and Sachi Kamikoma from Hiyoshi High's Exploration Club are the main examples from volume one. Other female characters who pop up in later volumes are this as well.
* ActionHero: You have to be this as a requisite to be a member of the Explorations Club, since its members brave the dangers found in exploring an uncharted planet. If you aren't one from the beginning, [[TookALevelInBadass you grow to be one]] thanks to the Exploration Club's activities.
* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Plenty of ruins and remnants of a lost civilization are found in Nutella, and UNPIEP exists to studying and exploring these remains by sending in Investigators from various Exploration Clubs in different schools.
* AdventurersClub: UNPIEP's Exploration Club, natch, with different branches from various schools.
* AlliterativeName: Let's see, we have our heroine '''H'''omura '''H'''inooka, her fellow club member '''T'''akumi '''T'''ouya, and their [[SenpaiKohai senpai]] and club president '''M'''ayo '''M'''isasagi.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike: Imaginary Earth looks a lot like Earth from the ancient times.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Orie Kujou, Homura's classmate since middle school, comes across as a cold person towards everyone she speaks to, ''especially'' towards Homura.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Tsuyu Hinooka, Homura's younger sister, to Homura, but it's also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] as well.
* AnotherDimension: Imaginary Earth Nutella.
* BadassCrew: The Exploration Club of course. And it's not just limited to the Seiran High group either.
* BeachEpisode: The main setting for the first book of volume 2 is on a tropical island primarily reserved for the Explorers as part of their training camp. In an interesting spin of this trope however, there are ''two'' versions of the tropics used here: the main one on Earth, and the one on Nutella where selected first years and subsequent novice Explorers are coerced by Nanakubo to come to as part of an annual club tradition.
* BigBad: Subaru-hime for the first volume's second book. She has a HeelFaceTurn after she's defeated however.
* BigLabyrinthineBuilding: The Exploration Club's building, or their "club room", is ''huge''. The building houses a variety of facilities for the club members to use: a training room, an astronomical dome on the roof deck, and even a ''hot springs room''. And that's only some of the rooms mentioned.
* BookEnds: Volume 1-A begins with Homura chasing after Kujou and trying to ask her to go home together with her at the end of school and failing. Volume 1-B ends with almost the exact same scenario...except this time, with newfound confidence and resolution, it's ''Homura'' leading the way while Kujou follows shortly behind her after Homura succeeds in convincing her to do so in her own way.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: This line when Misasagi was about to hop in the bath they made on Nutella:
--> '''Homura:''' I forgot about your changing speed, senpai. Y-You should be a bit more conscious of service for the viewers and such, you know…
* CallToAdventure: The plot kickstarts when Touya gives Homura an invitation to join the Explorations Club as their Magician.
* ChekhovsGun: The Spirit Stone Misasagi gives Homura. Also counts as a {{Macguffin}}.
* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that woman from the station who was handing out "missing" flyers in an attempt to find her missing baby that Homura met back in Vol 1-A? [[spoiler: Her missing kid shows up as an important character later in Vol 1-B.]]
* ChildrenAreSpecial: Apparently, due to their stronger IE reactions compared to adults, only kids aged between 9-19 are capable of traveling to Nutella. Thanks to the UN's intervention and rules, only high school teens aged 14/15 and up are allowed to do interplanetary travel to Nutella, hence why the Exploration Clubs in high schools exist.
* CookingDuel: Homura competes in one in the first volume under Fujimori-sensei's insistence that she needs to win in any contest in their SchoolFestival so she'll approve her admission in the club.
* CustomUniform: The Explorer Club's Investigator outfits are basically just the students' winter uniforms with a few differences in design plus traveling gear. According to Misasagi, the reason their Investigator getups resemble their winter uniforms is due to Imaginary Earth having colder temperatures at night.
* DavidVsGoliath: [[spoiler: Homura the new, rookie apprentice Magician of the Exploration Club vs Subaru, the powerful witch and princess of Nutella.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: [[{{Troll}} Homura]], [[TheStoic Orie]], [[BrutalHonesty Touya]], and [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Tsuyu]] are the primary contenders for this trope.
* {{Dismotivation}}: Homura starts out as a disinterested girl who had no goals to look forward to in her high school life. That all changes when she's invited to the Explorations Club.
* TheDitz: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Homura has a tendency to be a bit goofy at times. Touya has some shades of it too, but in a different way.
* DualWielding: Touya's main method of fighting is dual wielding two kendo swords.
* DudeMagnet:
** Homura is ''really'' popular with boys no matter where she goes. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Kujou much to her annoyance.
---> '''Kujou:''' I hate how boys gather around when I’m with you even though they have no business with us.
** When Touya's friends heard that he was having lunch with Homura,they all [[CrazyJealousGuy strangled him and flipped him over for being so lucky as to get to eat lunch together with her]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[ChekhovsGunman Ameno]] appears briefly in one chapter being dragged away by Fujimori-sensei in Book A of volume 1 and is featured along with the Seiran Explorer Club trio on the book's cover. Apart from that one scene and a couple of mentions later, Ameno herself doesn't appear afterwards nor gets to interact with any of the characters until Volume 1-B.
* EasingIntoTheAdventure: The first eight chapters of volume 1 part 1 delve into Homura's normal life and relationships when she got the [[CallToAdventure call]]. It isn't until chapter 9 that the plot starts to turn its heels for Homura.
* {{Expospeak}}: Chapter 15 of Vol 1-B dedicates itself to Homura reflecting on the things she learned so far about UNPIEP and the history of how Nutella was discovered and the complications it created between nations who wanted to explore it for their own purposes. The same chapter also explains why only young adults can go to Nutella and how the magic system works in their universe. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools The infodumping here isn't as boring as it sounds though]] like in most cases.
* FantasyCharacterClasses: Used by the Exploration Club's Investigators to classify their specialties. Homura is a Magician Class, Touya is a Light-Weight Warrior class, Misasagi is a Magical Warrior Class, and Ameno is a Thief Class.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Homura and Tsuyu respectively, despite Homura being the older sibling, it's Tsuyu who carries most of the responsibilities at home while Homura is satisfied just lounging around.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Homura, Touya, and Misasagi discuss protocol over what to do if they encounter wild animals, Touya comments that he'd rather not encounter something like a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]] since "fighting a lump of muscle like that is no joke." [[spoiler: Guess what they eventually encounter in Volume 1-B.]]
** Mentions of wolves and stories about a witch were dropped during Volume 1-A before their actual debuts.
** Homura's uncanny ability to come up with several vivid {{Imagine Spot}}s in a rapid manner actually end up becoming ''very'' important later.
* FuroScene: Two occur on separate instances:
** The first one happened during Homura's first night on Nutella. She, Misasagi, and Touya create a make-shift bath on their own using a couple of tools on a nearby spring. Once built, Misasagi and Homura take the first dip in it...then Misasagi decides to invite Touya to bathe along with them, much to Homura's horror and Touya's embarrassment. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) for both of them, all three were wearing [[ModestyTowel modesty towels]] that time.
** The second one happened when the Explorer Club girls from different schools bond together in a bath house [[spoiler: along with Subaru on her castle on Nutella]] in a chapter during Volume 2 part B. This time, without the aforementioned ModestyTowel and with {{Fanservice}} to boot.
* ImagineSpot: Some chapters contain vivid and detailed descriptions of Homura's wild imagination. The best instance of this trope was her initial image of the Exploration Club's president before she met her in person: she thought her to be a giant first, then a mountain gorilla for some reason, then there was her reaction when she actually sees her...
** In a turn of events, this trope actually ends up becoming an ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} important]]'' plot point for Homura's character sometime later.
* InfoDump: A whole chapter was dedicated entirely to this both as a quick recap and to cover the things that weren't explained previously. See {{Expospeak}} above.
* JapaneseSchoolClub: The Exploration Club. Seiran High, Homura's high school, is particularly known for hosting a variety of different school clubs, with student rate participation being an all time high.
* LargeHam: Takara Rokujizou, the StudentCouncilPresident of Seiran High. When she appears, expect her to [[ChewingTheScenery chew the scenery]]. Fujimori-sensei is also this too at times, but in a more zen way.
* LastNameBasis: Nearly everyone refers to each other by their surnames only.
* TheLegendOfChekhov: Kamikoma warns Homura about a witch near the end of volume one's first book. Misasagi later explains that the witch was a superstition previous club members came up with among themselves whenever something mysterious happens and casually dismisses it as such. Of course, later on they really ''do'' meet a witch...
* LethalChef: Homura. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she's an inexperienced cook.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to other Type-Moon works such as ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', and ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners''. Though that doesn't mean it doesn't have any dark moments either.
* MeaningfulName: Homura's first name literally means "flame", plus she specializes in [[{{Fireballs}} Fire Magic]], hence the title of the series.
* MumLooksLikeASister: Homura's mom is said to have often been mistaken for being Homura and Tsuyu's older sister.
* TheOneGuy: PlayedWith in that while Touya definitely ''is'' the lone male member of Seiran's Exploration Club, other male characters who are members of the Exploration Clubs from different schools begin appearing in later volumes.
* PluckyGirl: Homura. Despite being somewhat lazy, she isn't the type to give up on getting what she wants and quickly rises to challenge the occasion.
* PunnyName: Admit it, Imaginary Earth's official name being ''[[FoodThemeNaming Nutella]]'' probably brought out a few snickers. Even better, one of its planetary rings is named ''Bagel''.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Homura had initially planned to turn down Touya's invitations for her to join the Exploration Club due to lack of interest and motivation on her part, but one epiphany later she changes her mind and gets gung ho on joining (though with doubts still on her mind).
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Ameno. While she's officially called a Golem, she's a humanoid android powered up by a spirit stone found on Nutella, and definitely looks and acts like a regular human on her part, even if she's a little eccentric at times.
* SavageWolves: Homura's party encounters [[spoiler: sentient]] SavageWolves in the 2nd half of volume one, much to their dismay.
* SchoolFestival: The Shinryoku Festival in Seiran High, where lots of contests take place.
* SchoolIdol: Homura. While it's slightly downplayed due to her being a little BookDumb, Homura's ''definitely'' a popular student thanks to being considered as ''the'' cutest girl among the first years (though she herself says that she can't compete with someone like [[TheBeautifulElite Misasagi-senpai]]), and while she doesn't join in any sports clubs herself, her fitness training with Touya shows that she can easily adjust to strenuous activities.
* ShipperOnDeck: Homura's mother and father both approve of Touya being the one for Homura. Notable for her dad since out of all the boys she brings home with her, Touya is the only one he actually likes. Tsuyu doesn't seem to like him all that much though.
* ShoutOut: The Seiran Exploration Club has copies of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'', and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' on their clubroom's bookshelf. Based on the number of copies they have of ''Fate Stay Night'' there, it's likely that instead of being a visual novel, ''Fate Stay Night'' is a light novel series in the world ''Fire Girl'' is set in. That, or one of the members (likely Ameno) is such a hardcore fan of the VN that they simply bought more than ''three copies'' of the game to play with.
* SiblingRivalry: Implied between Homura and Tsuyu as both sisters want something the other has.
* SliceOfLife: The first halves of all three volumes.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it Nutella, New Terra, or Nuterra? Translators can't seem to agree on which spelling they should use to name the enigmatic planet.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Sisters Homura and Tsuyu are said to each resemble their mother and father respectively.
* StudentCouncilPresident: Takara Rokujizou
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: UNPIEP monitors its members due to the classified nature of the Exploration Club.
* TeleportationSickness: Touya became briefly afflicted with this during Homura's first trip to Imaginary Earth. [[AcidTripDimension Can't blame him though]].
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Exploration Club members use a Transport Ring to directly teleport themselves to Imaginary Earth.
* TrainingFromHell: Homura and other members of the Exploration Club from other schools go through one of these when they were all sent to Antarctica for training camp to prepare them for a snowy trek on Nutella. While the novel glosses over the details of [[NoodleIncident what they went through there]], it was apparently strenuous enough that Homura and Akiho were beyond relieved when they got back from it. However, the training was effective enough that even someone like Homura begrudgingly admits that it was a necessity she's thankful for as she's more than prepared for the expedition she trained for in the first place.
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Before [[spoiler: Ameno and Inari officially join the club (rejoins in Inari's case)]], Homura, Touya, and Misasagi comprised Seiran High's team of explorers on Nutella for the entirety of volume 1.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: Played straight during the Shinryoku Festival Bento-making contest. [[spoiler: Homura makes weird-looking udon as her contest entry, and is the last one sampled by Rokujizou, the StudentCouncilPresident, for not being as eye-catching or delicious-looking enough compared to the other entries. When she and Misasagi tried it however, they both declare it to be the best tasting dish presented and Homura wins first prize as a result.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Strangely enough, Homura and Touya don't seem to have much of a problem with attacking [[spoiler: Suzuran]] who is only about 12 years old [[spoiler: in Nutellan time, that is. She's supposed to be only around two-three years old in Earth time]].
* YearInsideHourOutside: Time moves faster on Nutella than on Earth. Homura's first trip alone cost her two days and a night there while only six hours had passed on Earth.
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