Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster"

For the light novel series by Kennoji, see Hazure Skill.

Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster": About that Time I Became Able to Eat Unlimited Numbers of Skill Fruits (That Kill You)
First light novel volume cover
外れスキル《木の実マスター》　〜スキルの実(食べたら死ぬ)を無限に食べられるようになった件について〜 (Hazure Sukiru "Kinomi Masutā": Sukiru no Mi (Tabetara Shinu) o Mugen ni Taberareru Yō ni Natta Ken ni Tsuite)
Genre	Fantasy
Novel series
Written by	Hanyuu
Published by	Shōsetsuka ni Narō
Original run	May 23, 2020 – present
Manga
Written by	Hanyuu
Illustrated by	Air Matsukoto
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	Kodansha
Magazine	Suiyōbi no Sirius
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 6, 2021 – present
Volumes	6
Light novel
Written by	Hanyuu
Illustrated by	Yasutaka Isekawa
Published by	Kodansha
Imprint	Kodansha Ranobe Books
Demographic	Male
Original run	May 2, 2022 – present
Volumes	1
Anime television series
Directed by	Ryuichi Kimura
Written by	Gigaemon Ichikawa
Music by	Selin
Studio	Asahi Production
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	Tokyo MX, BS Fuji, MBS
Original run	January 7, 2025 – present
Episodes	8

Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster": About that Time I Became Able to Eat Unlimited Numbers of Skill Fruits (That Kill You) (Japanese: 外れスキル《木の実マスター》　〜スキルの実(食べたら死ぬ)を無限に食べられるようになった件について〜, Hepburn: Hazure Sukiru "Kinomi Master": Sukiru no Mi (Tabetara Shinu) o Mugen ni Taberareru Yō ni Natta Ken ni Tsuite) is a Japanese web novel series written by Hanyuu. It began serialization online in May 2020 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. A manga adaptation with art by Air Matsukoto has been serialized online via Kodansha's Niconico-based Suiyōbi no Sirius manga service since July 2021 and has been collected in six tankōbon volumes. A light novel version with illustrations by Yasutaka Isekawa began publication under Kodansha's Kodansha Ranobe Books imprint in May 2022. An anime television series adaptation produced by Asahi Production premiered in January 2025.

Characters

Light (ライト, Raito)

Voiced by: Takuma Nagatsuka

A young man who dreams of becoming an adventurer. His Skill, "Fruitmaster", lets him grow fruits, dooming him to life as a farmer, until he discovers that it also makes him the only person in the world who can eat multiple Skill Fruits without dying, allowing him to get as many Skills as he wants.

Lena (レーナ, Rēna)

Voiced by: Lynn

Light's childhood friend. She gets the rare Skill "Sword Saint" and quickly becomes a famous adventurer.

Ayla (アイラ, Aira)

Voiced by: Haruna Mikawa

A young girl who lives with Light at his farm. Her Skill, "Appraisal", lets her see what Skills other people have and monsters' stats.

Monica (モニカ, Monika)

Voiced by: Hana Tamegai

Dratena (ドラテナ, Doratena)

Voiced by: Akira Sekine

Saint (聖女, Seijo)

Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

A Saint at the church where Skill Fruits are given out. She has the "Appraisal" Skill, like Ayla.

Hanabōshi (花帽子)

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma

Torahige (虎髭)

Voiced by: Katsuhisa Hōki

Hakamori (墓守)

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu

Media

Web novel

Written by Hanyuu, Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster" began serialization as a web novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website on May 23, 2020.

Manga

A manga adaptation illustrated by Air Matsukoto began serialization on Kodansha's Nico Nico Seiga-based Suiyōbi no Sirius manga website on July 6, 2021. The first tankōbon volume was released on November 9, 2021. The manga's chapters have been compiled into six tankōbon volumes as of June 2024. The series is published in English on Kodansha's "K Manga" app.

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	November 9, 2021	978-4-06-525960-3
2	February 9, 2022	978-4-06-527089-9
3	June 9, 2022	978-4-06-528364-6
4	November 9, 2022	978-4-06-529832-9
5	July 7, 2023	978-4-06-531303-9
6	June 7, 2024	978-4-06-535075-1
7	March 7, 2025	978-4-06-538354-4

Light novel

A light novel version with illustrations by Yasutaka Isekawa began publication under Kodansha's Kodansha Ranobe Books light novel imprint. A single volume has been released as of May 2022.

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	May 2, 2022	978-4-06-528057-7

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on June 7, 2024. It is produced by Asahi Production and directed by Ryuichi Kimura, with Gigaemon Ichikawa writing series scripts, Risa Miyadani and Yasuka Ōtaki designing the characters, and Selin composing the music. The series premiered on January 7, 2025, on Tokyo MX and other networks. The opening theme song is "Bravely Dance" (ブレイブリーダンス, Bureiburī Dansu), performed by VTubers Yukihana Lamy and Aglio, Olio e Peperoncino (a.k.a. Pepechi), while the ending theme song is "Sonna Bokura no Bōkentan!" (そんな僕らの冒険譚!, Such Is Our Adventure Saga!), performed by TrySail. Crunchyroll streams the series.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original release date
1	"The Only Ingredient" Transliteration: "Yuītsu no Sozai" (Japanese: 唯一の素材)	Ryūichi Kimura	Gigaemon Ichikawa	Ryūichi Kimura	January 7, 2025 (2025-01-07)
Light lives in a world where skills are acquired by consuming Skill Fruits, however people can only consume one as eating a second is fatal. Light hopes to gain a combat skill but whilst his childhood friend Lena receives the skill Sword Saint Light only receives the skill Fruitmaster, allowing him to grow fruits more efficiently. Lena decides they will start a farm together, but as her skill is so rare the priestess Saint forces her to become an adventurer. Lena rapidly rises to S Rank whilst Light unwillingly starts a farm growing Skill Fruits for the church. Ayla, an orphan who lives with Light, unknowingly uses the fruit in a stew. Light is astonished when he survives and gains a second skill, Sword God. This causes Saint to receive a divine revelation of the appearance of a great evil. Ayla gains the skill Appraisal which tells her Fruitmaster makes Light immune to poisonous fruits. Thrilled, Light registers as an adventurer. Gene, another adventurer, tries to bully him and is outraged when Light expertly defends himself. Gene and his party later encounter an ogre and, spotting Light nearby, try to use him as bait. However, Light kills the ogre. Lena appears at the guild and Light rushes to see her, only for her to claim she isn’t Lena.
2	"Incomplete Light" Transliteration: "Mikan no Kagayaki" (Japanese: 未完の輝き)	Tomio Yamauchi	Tomoko Shinozuka	Ryūichi Kimura	January 14, 2025 (2025-01-14)
Lena visits Light in disguise so her party leader Grouse doesn’t see them. Light manages to explain about his second skill. Lena reveals Saint forced her to join the Sacred party; Grouse is a thug, and the church overlooks his behaviour. Light demands Grouse let Lena quit. Lena also demands her freedom but Grouse beats her until she obeys. Light publicly challenges Grouse to duel. Ayla appraises Grouse and learns his skill is God Speed, allowing him to move from one place to another instantly. Grouse destroys Light’s sword but becomes enraged when Light decides to fight with a broom. Light realises he is losing because he is trying to match Grouse’ speed, so instead he decides to rely solely on his Sword God skill. Grouse tries to cut his head off but Light simply places the broom in the right position so Grouse’ face smashes into it and he is thrown unconscious into a wall. Lena joins Light’s party so Saint retaliates by ensuring they only receive extremely low paying jobs helping commoners. Lena accepts every job, making their party popular with most of the citizens. Light names their party Luxeria. Saint retaliates further by assigning Luxeria an S Rank quest certain to result in their deaths.
3	"The Magic Castle of Spirits" Transliteration: "Shiryō no Yōjo" (Japanese: 死霊の妖城)	Maki Kamiya	Seiichiro Mochizuki	Takehiro Nakayama	January 21, 2025 (2025-01-21)
Light, Lena and Ayla are sent to investigate the castle of the deceased adventurer Count Montes where 18 adventurers have recently disappeared. Lena senses the job might be more dangerous than they can handle. Arriving, they find hundreds of adventurers dead and turned into zombies. Light hesitates to attack but Lena helps him understand it will end their suffering. Light is impressed by Lena, who has mastered her Sword Saint skill, whereas he is still learning to use Sword God. Wondering why undead seem drawn to the area they head deeper into the castle. Inside, a mysterious woman looks forward to killing "the Fruitmaster." Ayla appraises that the undead are tamed servants belonging to a powerful necromancer. Following the threads of magic they enter the ballroom and meet Dratena, whose skill lets her control corpses and spirits. She reveals her employers want Light assassinated. Lena is distracted by several of her undead friends, leaving Light to protect Ayla alone. Lena exorcises her friends, who thank her before passing on. Struggling to protect Ayla Light has her climb on his back. Elsewhere, Saint has a vision of a shadow covering the moon, which she interprets as good news for her future plans.
4	"Taboo Skills" Transliteration: "Kinki no Sukiru" (Japanese: 禁忌の能力（スキル）)	Yoshihide Kuriyama & Harume Kosaka	Gigaemon Ichikawa	Naoki Matsuura	January 28, 2025 (2025-01-28)
Ayla realises Dratena has control of the undead Count Montes, and through him his summoned servant the Soul Reaper, a monster that can create undead. Dratena explains about Taboo Skills, skills so unpopular their owners are rejected by society. Montes' summoning was considered Taboo; people feared his monsters and sent assassins after him, but all were made undead by the Soul Reaper, including Montes himself. Light realises Fruitmaster might be considered Taboo if it became public. Lena destroys Soul Reaper while Light exorcises Montes. Before he fully disappears Dratena forces Montes to summon Wicked Dragon, which not even S Rank adventurers can defeat. Dratena loses control of it and is rescued by a man in a mask. Ayla gives Light four more skill fruits; the useless skills Insect Resistance and Cat Charmer but also Weapon Durability Booster. With both his and Lena's swords broken Light cannot use Durability Booster and must rely on the fourth skill Sleep Pixie that emits a sleeping powder so powerful even Wicked Dragon is put to sleep. The mansion collapses, burying the dragon. The quest complete they return home where Light collapses. Saint, revealed to be Dratena's master the Black Swan, starts to consider Light might be valuable in a way she had not foreseen yet.
5	"A Tumultuous Battle of Words" Transliteration: "Haran no Zessen" (Japanese: 波乱の舌戦)	Aoi Mori	Seiichiro Mochizuki	Aoi Mori	February 4, 2025 (2025-02-04)
Light is sent to bed. Lena takes Ayla shopping. With Appraisal Ayla spots a diamond being sold by a shady merchant unaware of its true value, so Lena buys it for her and turns it into a necklace. Light resents being confined to bed but Sleep Pixie monitors him. Lena reports to the guild council, made up of the Heads of the Four Bureaus. Flower Hat, head of Investigations, Tiger Beard, head of Security, Grave Keeper, head of Finance, and Saint, head of Inspections. Lena notices Saint dodges questions about Dratena. Since the dragon disappeared without a trace Lena offers one of its scales for a tracking spell if they provide information. Flower Hat confirms Dratena received her Necromancy skill during a ceremony overseen by Saint. Saint points out she has granted skills to 10,000 children since then and can’t remember Dratena specifically. She also disbands Luxeria, claiming Grouse submitted a complaint against Light. Light appears at that moment, having escaped Sleep Pixie. Saint appraises him and decides to leave Luxeria alone, but she does demand they atone for assaulting Grouse by killing an S rank monster. Ayla is confused Saint cannot be appraised. Light learns that having broken two swords loaned to him by the guild he must pay a fine of 5000 gold. Light decides to have a new sword forged by a blacksmith. As this will take several days Lena leaves to continue investigating Dratena.
6	"The Legendary Blacksmith" Transliteration: "Dentō no Kaji-shi" (Japanese: 伝統の鍛冶師)	Masato Suzuki	Tomoko Shinozuka	Masato Suzuki	February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)
Light learns of the legendary blacksmith Bolst. Light saves a girl named Monica from thugs and she reveals she is Monica Bolst. Her skill Super Forge allows her to give any metal any property she desires. As thanks she forges him fruit harvesting scissors. However, when Light requests a sword she refuses and sends him to her father Ival, who runs the shop across the street and with whom she has a strained relationship. Unfortunately, Ival is so busy without Monica's help he has a 6 month waiting list. Ival's apprentice Cain reveals Monica's grandmother was murdered using a sword Monica forged, so she swore never to forge a weapon again. Weapon merchants Zamdo and Doug arrive with more work for Ival, revealing that unless he complies they will simply torture Monica into making weapons. Ival asks Light not to reveal this to Monica. Saint summons Zamdo and demands even more weapons for an unknown purpose. She also demands he kidnap Light and bring him to her. Doug kidnaps Monica and demands Light surrender himself to get her back. Instead Light easily rescues Monica by putting Doug and his men to sleep with Sleep Pixie. Saint becomes convinced Light is the legendary A Priori.
7	"The Thundering Beast" Transliteration: "Raimei no Kemono" (Japanese: 雷鳴の獣)	Tomio Yamauchi	Gigaemon Ichikawa	Tomio Yamauchi	February 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)
Ival cancels all his contracts with Zamdo's Blackbird Merchant Group. Due to the late hour Light and Ayla stay at Ival's shop. Monica becomes uncertain whether her belief that swords are evil is valid, since a sword in Light's hands could be used for good. Zamdo decides to capture Light himself. The next morning Light explains to Monica about possessing multiple skills. Zamdo attacks Ival's shop and demands Light duel him, With his Thunder Charge skill that controls lightning Zamdo is able to nullify Sleep Pixie's sleeping powder and generate a lightning shield that not even Light's Sword God can cut through. Monica realises Zamdo uses iron balls to more easily direct his lightning, so she throws Light a frying pan she made magnetic, trapping the balls in the pan. Unfortunately, this only works once, and Light's borrowed sword starts to splinter. Unable to stand the guilt of watching Light defend Ival's shop by himself, Monica escapes with Ayla. Elsewhere, Lena reaches the western mountains just in time for the Athena Fairy Festival. Zamdo shows he can create objects from lightning, including a sword and a magical lightning beast, and beats Light to the ground. Monica reveals to Ayla she plans to rescue Ival from Zamdo's thugs and forge a sword for Light.
8	"The Indomitable Torch Flame" Transliteration: "Fukutsu no Tomoshibi" (Japanese: 不屈の灯火)	Maki Kamiya	Seiichirō Mochizuki	Naoki Matsuura	February 25, 2025 (2025-02-25)
Monica distracts the guards while Ayla cuts Ival's chains with Light's new scissors. Ival and Monica use their skills together to forge Light a powerful sword in only a few minutes. Monica throws Light the sword whilst Ayla throws him another skill fruit, but the fruit is caught by Zamdo who is unaware of Light's Fruitmaster skill. Believing the fruit will kill Light he forces it into Light's mouth and is dumbfounded when Light gains the skill Torch Flame, the ability to set any object he touches on fire. Ignoring Saint's orders Zamdo decides to kill Light. Light sets his new sword blade on fire, enabling him to cut through Zamdo's lightning and knock him unconscious. Light's new sword is also destroyed in the attack but Monica promises to make him an even stronger one. Tiger Beard arrives with the city guard and arrests Zamdo and his men for their crimes. Light passes out, but Tiger Beard is still impressed by what he did. Ayla receives a letter from Lena explain she has reached Athena, the City of the Lake, but her investigation of Dratena will take longer than expected. Everyone celebrates the downfall of the Blackbird Merchant Group. Ival is happy Monica wants to work with him again. Saint is angry at Zamdo's failure.
9	"The Reunion By the Lake" Transliteration: "Kohan no Saikai" (Japanese: 湖畔の再会)	Harume Kosaka	Tomoko Shinozuka	Takehiro Nakayama	March 4, 2025 (2025-03-04)
Lena finds Athena in the middle of a festival called Dance of the Fairies. She learns Dratena is a daughter of the Belbury family. She encounters Flower Hat investigating Dratena and asks to assist her. Flower Hat bribes an informant and learns Dratena was disowned by her father after receiving her Necromancy skill and was taken in by Saint. The informant demands more money, so Flower Hat's guard Yuan threatens him and learns Dratena is in the Theatre District. Lena protests at the violence but is silenced by Flower Hat. Meanwhile, Dratena prepares to dance on the last night of the festival. Yuan explains centuries ago the Fairy King protected Athena from monsters with a Fairy Stone. During the festival, young ladies dance to show gratitude and this year Dratena will be dancing, so Flower Hat and Lena infiltrate the theatre. Overhearing other dancers talk cruelly about Dratena Lena feels sorry for the childhood Dratena must have had. Flower Hat arrests Dratena, who begs her to wait two days so she can dance at the festival. Feeling sorry for her Lena helps Dratena evade arrest. Meanwhile, a festival entertainer reveals a servant of the Fairy King is sealed in the Fairy Stone, acting as an eternal guardian of Athena as long as his dreams are soothed by the dancing. Flower Hat senses a great evil from the Fairy Stone and realises she may need to rely on Lena and Dratena if Athena is to survive.

External links

• Web novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
• Manga official website (in Japanese)
• Anime official website (in Japanese)
• Bogus Skill "Fruitmaster" (light novel) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia