Bogus Skill “Fruitmaster”: About that time I became able to eat unlimited numbers of Skill Fruits (that kill you)


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Harem:

ayla, the loli who showed up and her presence was explained with “for reasons”, lena, childhood friend who became SUPER TALENTED except not as talented as MC turns out to be, and monica, side character with tits out to HERE

Harem Scale

H: bro does stuff even if it hurts him and has an unreasonable drive to BE a hero, on purpose

A: bro carts around girls with 0 awareness

R: childhood friend

E: per usual

M: i got bored

In a world where eating “Skill Fruits” grants special powers, Light, a boy who seeks to become the world’s greatest adventurer, obtains the “Fruitmaster” skill, a bogus skill specializing in fruit cultivation that is completely useless in combat. Eating a second “Skill Fruit” results in death, so there are no do-overs. Meanwhile, his childhood friend Rena, who promised to become an adventurer with him, achieves S Rank in record time, and the gap between them widens. Light spends his days farming and training with a sword, but one day, he accidentally eats a second “Skill Fruit.”

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i watched 8 episodes and decided i wasn’t really into it. It’s a perfectly adequate shounen. harem. ecchi? zero to hero. unique skill

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ep 1

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/50
38%
Comics Read in 2026: 39/200
19%
Physical Owned Books Read: 477/830
58%


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Absolute Asshole NPC (86) A Fetish For Suffering (45) Can't Say No (67) Chekov's Gun (42) Childhood Friends (50) Curiosity Fucks You Up (76) Cursed (58) Damsel in Distress (57) Damsel in Distress (subverted) (85) Dangerous Reputation (85) Doting Husband (64) Double Identity (41) Everyone Loves MC (87) Evil Eyes & Big Heart (49) Fan Service (92) Grumpy x Sunshine (52) Hypercompetent MC (72) If You Love Them, Set Them Free (49) I Know a Guy (46) Last Minute Hero (97) Loss of Humanity (50) Main Character Coloring (69) MC's Skewed Metrics (71) Mean Boy (118) Mean Boy Love Interest (47) Modern Morals (45) Nat 20s (89) Not Actually Dead (74) Nuclear Revenge (68) OP Protag (91) Petty Revenge (44) Power of Friendship (73) Power of Love (68) Self-Sacrifice (67) Shock Value (44) Sympathetic Evil (63) The Moral is Community (60) Tragic Backstory (76) Twist! (55) Uniquely Skilled (87) Unreliable Narrator (53) Weird and Wacky On Purpose (74) Western-Style Fantasy (83) Wrong Place Wrong Time (64) Zero to Hero (77)


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