[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: [Digital edition only! Includes complete color pages from "Shonen Jump +"! Satoru Mizushima moves to the mountain village of Minehana Jiong Village and meets a beautiful girl in the mountains. He meets a beautiful girl in the mountains, not knowing that it is forbidden to touch the village's secret.... The villagers change, the temptation is sweet, and there are many mysteries and plots.... The romantic suspense over the "secret fruit" begins!
(Translator: DeepL)
Short and sweet mystery shounen
秘密の果実 is a very decent little mystery shounen about a boy and his father who move to a creepy, isolated community. It doesn't do anything revolutionary, but I had a good time reading it nonetheless. The story takes place in a contemporary rural setting, so the vocabulary seems generally common and useful, and despite the setting, all the important characters speak standard Japanese. The main things that I found difficult was that sentences can get long, and because of the mystery aspect of the