Fruits Fulcute! ~The Great Tree of Creation and the Fruit Maidens~ (ふるーつふるきゅーと！〜創世の大樹と果実の乙女〜) was a RPG Gacha Game developed by UPRIGHT Inc. (also known as Smile Maker before the rebrand), published on the FANZA/DMM site and on the Google Play store. The game's servers started since August 28th of 2019, with it later going defunct on August 31st of 2023 — the fourth anniversary of the game.
The world was brought into existence by the Tree of Creation and the apple which fell from it. But it is also followed by another world brought forth by the Rotten Tree, whose inhabitants wish to infect the world of fruits. And thus, the Creation Tree summoned a human to act as a commanding force who calls upon the Fruitea and guide them into protecting the world.
Since the game going offline, the only way to see the story is through archival footage, including the Main Campaign here
and the Event Stories here.
This game features examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Fruits Fulcute!. It's more noticeable with Japanese pronunciation because both words start with furu-.
- Anvil on Head: Carvil experiences this at least three times within the introductory chapter alone from the large fruits falling from the Creation Tree. First with Apple responding to Carvil calling the Creation Tree an idiot by introducing herself via a giant apple as her vessel, which targets the witch's head and knocks her out, then after the witch gets back up, Grape and Mikan's respective fruits do the same.
- April Fools' Day: The event "Metamoru Furukyuto!" features an incident in which Apple is turned into an actual apple and gets caught up in a lot of confusion and avoiding hungry individuals.
- Authority Sounds Deep: The Creation Tree, the creator and protector of the Fruit World, is given a voice — that of which is both deep and gravelly.
- Banana Peel: As Carvil rants to herself her jealousy over the group and plots her vengeance, her Evil Laugh gets interrupted by her falling after stepping on a banana peel, prompting an angry outburst at the Fruitea for littering... and slipping on another peel soon after. On the path to Geona Gold city, Kogyoku Highway, Mikan soon similarly runs into a peel and slips onto her backside, with the group soon finding other people who have fallen down — which is ultimately revealed to be caused by a rampaging gorilla, one that's of Carvil's family.
- Basilisk and Cockatrice: The situation of fruits turning to stone in Mission 5 is revealed to be caused by a Cockatrice originating from the Rotten World, whose absorbing the energy of the petrified fruit through their screeches.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The opening battle, in what would usually be a straightforward tutorial mission, its suddenly interrupted once a witch character, Carvil, approaches the popup interface to kick away the 'OK' button and grab the edge of said interface — the text on said interface naturally changing in response — before throwing it at the assembled team of girls. And with them landing on top of the portrait interface, they're subsequently chased off by the witch and her enemy group, leaving only Pine as the sole unit for the tutorial battle.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears:
- A variant extending to those who aren't children; shortly after the first battle with Carvil, an impromptu break is soon followed by Apple getting ambushed by a "Slime Honey Chef", which proceeds to "make curry with apple juice" in the words of Grape — the resulting scenario prompting Watermelon and Pine to block the protagonist's eyes. Grape extends the same courtesy to the Creation Tree, somehow blocking all five of their senses.
- In Mission 10, the Fruitea group find all the people who were "spirited away" by the sealed away Loquat tree... and those same people are found in a perpetual state of euphoria and pleasure, of which prompts Loquat to shield away Lemon's eyes, saying it's too early for her.
- Distressed Dude: In Mission 19, the protagonist gets suddenly kidnapped by Carvil's family in an ambush, with the guy in the process of being delivered to Death Valley by the next mission; the Fruitea trying to rescue him throughout.
- Elemental Powers: Each unit and enemy has an associated element, which can be fire, water, wind, earth, light, and dark.
- Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors: The Elemental Powers give units and enemies a 1.5 damage modifier against an opposing element one is strong against the defending element, while having a 0.5 damage resistance if a defending element is strong against an opposing element. Fire is weak to water, water is weak to earth, earth is weak to wind, and wind is weak to fire. Light and Dark are different from the rest, being weak to each-other and thus both dealing 1.5 times damage.
- Everything Fades: Discussed. Upon Pine questioning why the witch families disappears whenever they're defeated, Apple explains that they've actually just been sent back to their world, upon which they'll eventually revive after a long time.
- Festering Fungus: Mission 7 has Carvil try and weaponize a mushroom that was imbued with her magic. Things going awry when a chemical reaction results in an explosion that afflicts Kushal with the same mushroom growing on her head, becoming a manic spore-spreading threat who's afflicting passing people with the same type of infection, mentally affecting them as well.
- Loose Lips: In the act of the Creation Tree explaining to the protagonist his circumstance and purpose (not helped by their booming voice which echoes throughout the area), they ended up giving away that info to the nearby Witch of Jealousy Carvil, thus letting the antagonists know who to target.
- Moe Anthropomorphism: A majority of the cast are personifications of fruits in the form of cute girls, including apples, oranges, lemons, etc. Not only that, there are other loosely related personifications, like vegetables such as carrots, other edible plants like vanilla, and even foodstuff like tofu and honey.
- Mood Whiplash:
- At the end of Mission 3, when Kushal's laziness effect on Blueberry is nullified by the Captain's purification, the reinvigorated maid is ready to land the finishing blow on their opponent with her gun... only for her to slip and fall, loosing her grip on the gun, with Apple and Strawberry caught off guard.
- In Mission 6, the group brave the area near the volcano to face off against a legendary "King of Calamity" that is said to have been sealed away, and when the monster, Typonysk, makes its appearance and speaks to the Fruitea group with demands to despair before them, the group react with silent stares that's soon followed by gushing at the actual form of the "monster": a small duck.
- Purification: The protagonist's power aside from summoning Fruitea is to revive the areas of earth that have been tainted by the moldy invaders.
- Seasonal Baggage: Each character is associated with the four seasons — Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter — with this category granting units a buff if they're used on stages with a matching season.
- Seven Deadly Sins: Of the Rotten World, there are several groups — witches, priestesses, princesses and witches from a thousand years ago — which embody the seven deadly sins with each individual member.
- Super-Deformed: The diorama-like character skit scenes show its subjects depicted as big-headed, small bodied chibis.
- The Swarm: The first mission of the second part of the main story features a large cloud formation of locusts terrorizing the farmer's crops, spurring the group to combat the insects.
- A Twinkle in the Sky: While the depiction of the aftermath (where the subject lands in front of the Fruitea group) doesn't show or hint at this happening, Tokeru indicates in Mission 14 that this had happened to Sinavil after they tried to order around her fanatical followers — the former remarking she'd though the latter had become a star after getting launched away.
- United Heroes, Divided Villains: The Rotten World generals, particularly the Witches of the Deadly Sins, tend to either not get along at best or outright get into conflict with one another at worst, contrasting the Player Character's Fruitea members being generally unified to help counteract that which threatens the World of Fruits. Occasionally, this can lead into one member wronging another, thus spurring a desire for vengeance — like Carvil towards Sinavil, when the latter turned the former into an unrecognizably wrinkly state, with the self-conscious Carvil furiously wanting Sinavil's head shortly after being cured.
- Walking Wasteland: The monsters which accompany the antagonistic moldy characters gradually make the atmosphere they reside in more toxic, making it urgent for the Fruitea to get rid of them.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: After Carvil's encounter concludes, before making her leave she threatens the Captain about apprehending them at a later point, which has the Creation Tree remark that although the Captain is a threat, they should logically just eliminate them instead of just taking them away. Given Carvil's crush on the Captain, she certainly has her own reason to not take the quick solution.
- World Tree: The Tree of Creation, planted by God when the concept of the world did not exist, which brought about the World of Fruit to life following the tree growing and dropping the primordial apple. Contrasting that is the Evil Tree, which governs over the Rotten World and spawns its own moldy inhabitants — including those who represent the Seven Deadly Sins.