Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail (Japanese: フェアリーテイル, Hepburn: Fearī Teiru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes. The story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel, a member of the popular wizard[4] guild Fairy Tail, as he searches the fictional world of Earth-land for the dragon Igneel.

Not to be confused with Fairy tale.
Fairy Tail,
Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Happy (upper left), Lucy Heartfilia (lower left) and Natsu Dragneel (upper right).
フェアリーテイル
(Fearī Teiru)
GenreAdventure, fantasy[1]
Manga
Written byHiro Mashima
Published byKodansha
English publisher
  • Del Rey Manga (1–12)
  • Kodansha USA (13–63)
DemographicShōnen
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
Original runAugust 2, 2006 – July 26, 2017
Volumes63
Anime television series
Directed byShinji Ishihira
Produced by
  • Taihei Yamanishi (#1–48)
  • Tomonori Ochikoshi (#1–226)
  • Yoshikazu Beniya (#1–277)
  • Yōsuke Imai (#49–214)
  • Tetsuya Endō (#215–277)
  • Noritoshi Satō (#227–328)
  • Aya Yoshino (#278–328)
  • Akiko Nabeiwa (#278–328)
Written byMasashi Sogo
Music byYasuharu Takanashi
Studio
  • A-1 Pictures
  • Satelight (#1–175)
  • Bridge (#176–328)
  • CloverWorks (#278–328)
Licensed by
Madman Entertainment
Funimation
Anime Limited
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
English network
Animax Asia
Funimation Channel
Original run October 12, 2009 – September 29, 2019
Episodes328[2][3]
Original video animation
Directed by
  • Shinji Ishihira (#1–6)
  • Tetsuo Amino (#7–9)
Produced by
  • Noriaki Matsuki
  • Shinji Horikiri (#1)
  • Ayano Iida (#1–2)
  • Takeshi Ozawa (#1–2)
  • Kensuke Tateishi (#1–2)
  • Ryōichi Ishihara (#2–6)
  • Nakuru Yamatani (#2–6)
  • Hiroshi Tatsukawa (#3–9)
  • Hideharu Gomi (#3–6)
  • Yōhei Itō (#7–9)
  • Yuri Terao (#7–9)
  • Osamu Hashimoto (#7–9)
  • Tomohiro Uchida (#9)
Written by
  • Masashi Sogo (#1, 5–9)
  • Atsuhiro Tomioka (#4)
  • Hiro Mashima (#6)
Music byYasuharu Takanashi
Studio
  • A-1 Pictures
  • Satelight (#1–6)
Released April 15, 2011 – December 18, 2016
Episodes9
Manga
  • Fairy Tail Zero
  • Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest
Films
  • Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess (2012)
  • Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)

The manga has been adapted into an anime series produced by A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Inc., Satelight, Bridge, and CloverWorks which began broadcasting in Japan on October 12, 2009. Additionally, A-1 Pictures has developed nine original video animations and two animated feature films. The series ended its initial run on March 30, 2013. A second series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2014, and ended on March 26, 2016. A third and final series aired from October 7, 2018 to September 29, 2019.[5][6][2][3] The series has also inspired numerous spin-off manga, including a sequel storyboarded by Mashima, titled Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, which launched on July 25, 2018.

The manga series was originally licensed for an English language release in North America by Del Rey Manga, which began releasing the individual volumes on March 25, 2008 and ended its licensing with the 12th volume release in September 2010. In December 2010, Kodansha USA took over the North American release of the series. The Southeast Asian network Animax Asia aired an English-language version of the anime for seven seasons from 2010 to 2015. The manga was also licensed in the United Kingdom by Turnaround Publisher Services and in Australia by Penguin Books Australia. The anime has been licensed by Funimation for an English-language release in North America. As of February 2020, Fairy Tail had 72 million copies in print.

Plot

The world of Earth-land is home to numerous guilds where wizards[4] apply their magic for paid job requests. Natsu Dragneel, a dragon slayer wizard from the Fairy Tail guild, explores the Kingdom of Fiore in search of his missing adoptive father, the dragon Igneel. During his journey, he befriends a young celestial wizard named Lucy Heartfilia and invites her to join Fairy Tail. Lucy forms a team with Natsu and his cat-like Exceed partner, Happy, which is joined by other guild members: Gray Fullbuster, an ice wizard; Erza Scarlet, a magical knight; and Wendy Marvell and Carla, another dragon slayer and Exceed duo . The team embark on numerous missions together, which include subduing criminals, illegal dark guilds, and ancient Etherious demons created by Zeref, an immortal dark wizard.

After several adventures, Natsu and his companions find Zeref living in isolation on Fairy Tail's sacred ground of Sirius Island.[7] A battle over Zeref ensues between Fairy Tail and the dark guild Grimoire Heart, which attracts the attention of the evil black dragon Acnologia. The Fairy Tail wizards survive Acnologia's assault when the spirit of their guild's founder and Zeref's estranged lover, Mavis Vermillion, casts the defensive Fairy Sphere spell that places them into seven years of suspended animation. After later participating in the Grand Magic Games tournament, Fairy Tail wages war against Tartaros, a dark guild of Etherious that aim to unseal a book believed to contain E.N.D., Zeref's ultimate demon. When Acnologia returns to annihilate both guilds, Igneel – revealed to have sealed himself within Natsu – emerges to battle Acnologia, only to be killed in front of a helpless Natsu, who departs on a training journey to avenge Igneel.

After Natsu returns one year later, Fiore is invaded by the Alvarez Empire, a military nation ruled by Zeref, who intends to acquire Fairy Heart, a wellspring of infinite magic power housed within Mavis's preserved body beneath Fairy Tail's guildhall. While battling Zeref, Natsu is informed of his own identity as both Zeref's younger brother and the true incarnation of E.N.D., whom Zeref resurrected as a demon with the intention of being killed by him. When Natsu fails to do so after happy stops him, Zeref absorbs Fairy Heart from Mavis in a bid to rewrite the present timeline with one where he might prevent the atrocities he and Acnologia have caused. After Natsu defeats Zeref to stop the drastic changes to history his actions would create, Mavis lifts her and Zeref's shared curse of immortality by reciprocating his love, which kills them both.

Meanwhile, Fairy Tail and their allies detain Acnologia within a space-time rift created by the use of Eclipse, Zeref's time travel gate. However, Acnologia escapes while his disembodied spirit traps all of the present dragon slayers within the rift to maintain his godlike power. Lucy and the other wizards across the continent immobilize Acnologia's body within Fairy Sphere, while Natsu accumulates the other dragon slayers' magic and destroys Acnologia's spirit, killing him and freeing the dragon slayers from captivity. The following year, Natsu and his team depart on a century-old guild mission,[8] continuing their adventures together.

Production

After finishing his previous work, Rave Master, Hiro Mashima found the story sentimental and sad at the same time, so he wanted the storyline of Fairy Tail to have a "lot of fun [for everyone]".[9] His inspiration for the series was sitting in bars and partying with his friends, imagining everyone as magicians.[10] He also described the series as being about young people finding their calling, such as a job.[9] He stated that while he tries to consider both his own interests and the fans' on what will happen next in Fairy Tail, the fans' take precedence.[9]

Mashima described his weekly schedule for creating individual chapters of Fairy Tail in 2008: script and storyboards are written on Monday, rough sketches the following day, and drawing and inking are done Wednesday through Friday; time in the weekends was for Monster Hunter Orage, a monthly series Mashima was writing at the same time as Fairy Tail. He usually thinks up new chapters while working on the current ones. Mashima had six assistants in 2008 that worked in an 8,000 square feet (740 m2) area with seven desks, as well as a sofa and TV for video games.[10] In 2011, he stated that he worked six days a week, for 17 hours a day.[11]

For the characters of the series, Mashima drew upon people he has known in his life. In establishing the father-son relationship between Natsu and Igneel, Mashima cited his father's death when he was a child as an influence.[12] He based Natsu's motion sickness on one of his friends, who gets sick when taking taxis together. When naming the character, the author thought western fantasy names would be unfamiliar to Japanese audiences, so he went with the Japanese name for summer; Natsu.[10] Mashima based the humorous aspects of the series on his daily life and jokes his assistants would make.[12]

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima, Fairy Tail was serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2008 to July 26, 2017.[13][14] The 545 individual chapters were collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha between October 15, 2006 and December 26, 2017.[15][16] A special in Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a crossover with Flunk Punk Rumble, released in 2008. The official fanbook, Fairy Tail+, was released on May 17, 2010 in Japan. Another crossover with Mashima's first series Rave was published in 2011.[17] A special issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, published on October 19, 2013, featured a small crossover between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where each artist drew a yonkoma (four-panel comic) of the other's series.[18] An actual crossover chapter between these two ran in the magazines' combined 4/5 issue of 2014, which was released on December 25, 2013.[19] A two-volume series called Fairy Tail S, which collects short stories by Mashima that were originally published in various Japanese magazines through the years, was released on September 16, 2016.[20][21]

The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Del Rey Manga.[22] The company released the first volume of the series on March 25, 2008 and continued until the release of the 12th volume in September 2010. After Del Rey Manga shut down,[23] Kodansha USA acquired the license and began publishing Fairy Tail volumes in May 2011.[24] 61 English-language volumes have been published. Kodansha USA began publishing a larger omnibus version of the series in November 2015. Called Fairy Tail: Master's Edition, each installment corresponds to five regular-sized volumes.[25] They published the first volume of Fairy Tail S: Tales from Fairy Tail on October 24, 2017.[26]

The manga has also been licensed in other English-speaking countries. In the United Kingdom, the volumes are distributed by Turnaround Publisher Services.[27] In Australia and New Zealand, the manga is distributed by Penguin Books Australia.[28]

Eight spin-off manga series based on Fairy Tail have been released. The first two series—Fairy Tail Zero by Mashima and Fairy Tail: Ice Trail by Yūsuke Shirato—were released with the launch of a monthly magazine titled Monthly Fairy Tail Magazine on July 17, 2014,[29] and ended in the magazine's final issue published on July 17, 2015.[30] A third series, Fairy Tail Blue Mistral by Rui Watanabe, ran in Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi from August 2, 2014 to December 1, 2015,[31] while another, Fairy Girls by Boku, was released in Kodansha's Magazine Special from November 20, 2014 to August 20, 2015.[32] Kyōta Shibano created a three-part meta-series titled Fairy Tail Gaiden, which was launched in Kodansha's free weekly Magazine Pocket mobile app.[33] The series began in 2015 with Twin Dragons of Saber Tooth from July 30 to November 4,[34] continued with Rhodonite from November 18, 2015 to March 30, 2016,[35] and concluded with Lightning Gods in 2016 from May 4 to September 14.[36] On July 25, 2018, a sequel manga titled Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest was released on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app, storyboarded by Mashima and illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.[37][38] Another spin-off, Fairy Tail: Happy's Heroic Adventure by Kenshirō Sakamoto, was released on July 26 on the same app.[38] On June 27, 2018, Hiro announced another spin-off manga, titled, Fairy Tail City Hero, written and illustrated by Ushio Andō.[39]

Fairy Tail Zero, Ice Trail, Blue Mistral, Fairy Girls, all three installments of Side Stories, and 100 Years Quest are licensed for English release by Kodansha USA.[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]

Anime
The Funimation staff and voice cast of the anime at the 2011 New York Comic Con, from left to right: Todd Haberkorn (Natsu), Cherami Leigh (Lucy), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Erza), Newton Pittman (Gray), and Tyler Walker (ADR director).

A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Entertainment, and Satelight produced an anime adaptation of the manga. The anime, also titled Fairy Tail and directed by Shinji Ishihira, premiered on TV Tokyo on October 12, 2009.[48] The series ended its run on March 30, 2013,[1] with reruns beginning to air on April 4, 2013 under the title Fairy Tail Best!.[49] Forty-one DVD volumes containing four episodes each have been released.[50] The Southeast Asian network Animax Asia aired the series locally in English.[51][52] On January 18, 2011, British anime distributor Manga Entertainment announced on Twitter that the company would release the anime series in bilingual format at the end of the year.[53] On April 21, 2011, they had confirmed that the first volume with 12 episodes would be released in February 2012;[54] however, they later announced that the first volume would be released on March 5, 2012.[55] In 2011, North American anime distributor Funimation Entertainment announced that they had acquired the first season of the ongoing series.[56] The series made its North American television debut on November 22, 2011 on the Funimation Channel.[57] The anime is also licensed by Madman Entertainment, who streamed and simulcasted the series on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand Melanesian Region (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu), Polynesian Region (Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu).[58] Funimation Entertainment announced that the ninth installment will get the DVD/Blu-ray release on March 25, 2014.[59]

On March 4, 2013, Mashima announced on his Twitter account that the anime would not end yet,[49] and confirmed on July 11 that a sequel series was greenlit.[60] The sequel series was officially confirmed in Weekly Shonen Magazine on December 28, 2013 with a special edition chapter.[61][62] The sequel is produced by A-1 Pictures and Bridge, featuring character designs by Shinji Takeuchi; the original series' voice actors also returned to the project along with director Shinji Ishihira and writer Masashi Sogo.[61] The official website for the sequel was launched on January 7, 2014.[63][64] The series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2014, and was being simulcast by Funimation Entertainment.[65][66] The second series concluded its run on March 26, 2016.[67] On March 22, 2016, Mashima announced via Twitter that another Fairy Tail series was being developed.[68] On July 20, 2017, Mashima confirmed on Twitter that the final season of Fairy Tail would air in 2018.[69] The final season of Fairy Tail aired from October 7, 2018 to September 29, 2019.[5][6][70] A-1 Pictures, CloverWorks, and Bridge produced and animated the final season,[71][72] which ran in 2018 and 2019 for 51 episodes.[2]

Original video animation

Nine original video animations (OVAs) of Fairy Tail have been produced and released on DVD by A-1 Pictures and Satelight, each bundled with a limited edition tankōbon volume of the manga. The first OVA, "Welcome to Fairy Hills!!",[JP 1] is an adaptation of the manga omake of the same name, and was released with Volume 26 on April 15, 2011. The second, "Fairy Academy: Yankee-kun and Yankee-chan",[JP 2] is also an adaptation of the omake of the same name, and was released together with Volume 27 on June 17, 2011.[73] The third, "Memory Days"[JP 3] was released together with Volume 31 on February 17, 2012,[74] and features an original story written by series creator Hiro Mashima.[75] The fourth, "Fairies' Training Camp", is based on chapter 261 of the manga, and was released with Volume 35 on November 16, 2012. The fifth, "Exciting Ryuzetsu Land",[JP 4] is based on chapter 298 of the manga and was released with Volume 38 of the manga on June 17, 2013. A sixth OVA, titled "Fairy Tail x Rave"[JP 5] is an adaptation of the omake of the same name and was released on August 16, 2013, with Volume 39 of the manga.[76]

Theatrical films

An anime film adaptation of Fairy Tail, titled Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess, was released on August 18, 2012.[77] It was directed by Masaya Fujimori, and its screenplay was written by anime staff writer Masashi Sogo. Series creator Hiro Mashima was involved as the film's story planner and designer for guest characters appearing in the film.[78] To promote the film, Mashima drew a 30-page prologue manga "The First Morning"[79], which was bundled with advance tickets for the film.[80] The DVD was bundled with a special edition release of Volume 36 of the manga on February 13, 2013, and included an animated adaptation of "Hajimari no Asa" as a bonus extra.[81] The film was aired on Animax Asia on March 23, 2013.[82] Funimation has licensed North American distribution rights to the film.[83] The English dub premiered at Nan Desu Kan on September 13, 2013, and was released on Blu-ray/DVD on December 10, 2013.[84]

A second anime film was announced on May 15, 2015.[85] On December 31, 2016, the official title of film was revealed as Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, which was released on May 6, 2017 in Japan.[86]

Video games

An action video game for the PlayStation Portable, titled Fairy Tail: Portable Guild,[JP 6] was unveiled at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show.[87][88] The game was developed by Konami Examu Games inc. and was released on June 3, 2010. Two sequels to Portable Guild have also been released for the PlayStation Portable—the first, subtitled Portable Guild 2, was released on March 10, 2011; the second, Fairy Tail: Zeref Awakens,[JP 7] was released on March 22, 2012. Two fighting games, Fairy Tail: Fight! Wizard Battle[JP 8] and Fairy Tail: Attack! Kardia Cathedral,[JP 9] were released for the Nintendo DS on July 22, 2010 and April 21, 2011, respectively.[89] The characters Natsu and Lucy also appeared in the crossover video game Sunday VS Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen as playable characters.[90] In 2016, a browser game developed by GameSamba titled Fairy Tail: Hero's Journey was announced to be open for closed beta testing.[91] On September 5, 2019, it was announced that a role-playing video game developed by Gust Co. Ltd. and published by Koei Tecmo would be released for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Steam on March 19, 2020 worldwide;[92] the game was later delayed to June 25.[93]

Audio

The music for the anime was composed and arranged by Yasuharu Takanashi. Four original soundtrack CDs have been released, containing music from the anime: the first soundtrack volume was released on January 6, 2010,[94] the second volume on July 7, 2010,[95] the third soundtrack volume on July 6, 2011,[96] and the fourth soundtrack volume on March 20, 2013.[97] Character song singles were also produced; the first single, featuring Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Yuichi Nakamura (Gray) was released on February 17,[98] while the second single, featuring Aya Hirano (Lucy) and Rie Kugimiya (Happy), was released on March 3, 2010.[99] Another character song album, entitled "Eternal Fellows," was released on April 27, 2011. Two of the songs from the album, performed by anime cast members Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Aya Hirano (Lucy), were used for both OVAs as the opening and ending themes, respectively. Other songs on the volume are performed by Yuichi Nakamura (Gray), Sayaka Ohara (Erza), Satomi Satō (Wendy), Wataru Hatano (Gajeel), and a duet by Rie Kugimiya (Happy) and Yui Horie (Carla).[100]

An internet radio program began airing on HiBiKi Radio Station on February 11, 2012, featuring anime voice actors Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Mai Nakahara (Juvia) as announcers.[101]

Reception

Manga

As of February 2020, the Fairy Tail manga had 72 million collected volumes in circulation.[102] According to Oricon, Fairy Tail was the eighth best-selling manga series in Japan for 2009,[103] fourth best in 2010 and 2011,[104][105] fifth best of 2012,[106] dropped to ninth in 2013,[107] to 17th in 2014,[108] and was 15th in 2015.[109] The fifth volume of Fairy Tail was ranked seventh in a list of the top ten manga, and the series once again placed seventh after the release of the sixth volume.[110] About.com's Deb Aoki listed Fairy Tail as the Best New Shōnen Manga of 2008.[111] It also won the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.[112] At the 2009 Industry Awards for the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, the organizers of Anime Expo, Fairy Tail was named Best Comedy Manga.[113] Volume 9 of the series was nominated in the Youth Selection category at the 2010 Angoulême International Comics Festival.[114]

Reviewing the first volume, Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network felt Fairy Tail followed standard shōnen action manga tropes, writing "the mix of goofy humor, face-crushing action, and teary-eyed sap is so calculated as to be mechanical."[115] Carlo Santos, also of Anime News Network, agreed in his review of volume three; having positive views towards the art, particularly the action scenes, but citing a lack of story and character development.[116] By volume 12 Santos suggested that Mashima's true talent lies in "taking the most standard, predictable aspects of the genre and somehow still weaving it into a fun, fist-pumping adventure."[117]

Kimlinger, his colleague Rebecca Silverman, and A.E. Sparrow of IGN all felt Mashima's artwork had strong similarities to Eiichiro Oda's in One Piece.[118] While Sparrow used the comparison as a compliment and said it had enough unique qualities of its own, Kimlinger went so far as to say it makes it difficult to appreciate Mashima's "undeniable technical skill."[115][119]

Anime

The anime has also received a positive response from critics and viewers alike. In Southeast Asia, Fairy Tail won Animax Asia's "Anime of the Year" award in 2010.[120] In 2012, the anime series won the "Meilleur Anime Japonais" (best Japanese anime) award and the best French dubbing award at the 19th Anime & Manga Grand Prix in Paris, France.[121]

In reviewing the first Funimation Entertainment DVD volumes, Carlo Santos of Anime News Network praised the visuals, characters, and English voice acting, as well as the supporting characters for its comedic approach. However, Santos criticized both the anime's background music and CGI animation.[122] In his review of the second volume, Santos also praised the development of "a more substantial storyline," but also criticized the inconsistent animation and original material not present in the manga.[123] In his review of the third volume, Santos praised the improvements of the story and animation, and said that the volume "finally shows the [anime] series living up to its potential."[124] In his reviews of the fourth and sixth volumes, however, Santos praised the storyline's formulaic pattern, though saying that "unexpected wrinkles in the story [...] keep the action from getting too stale," but calling the outcomes "predictable".[125][126][126]

Notes
  1. ようこそフェアリーヒルズ!! Yōkoso Fearī Hiruzu
  2. 妖精学園 ヤンキー君とヤンキーちゃん Yōsei Gakuen: Yankī-kun to Yankī-chan
  3. メモリーデイズ Memorī Deizu
  4. ドキドキ・リュウゼツランド Dokidoki Ryuzetsu Rando
  5. フェアリーテイル x レイヴ Fearī Teiru x Reivu
  6. フェアリーテイル ポータブルギルド Fearī Teiru: Pōtaburu Girudo
  7. フェアリーテイル ゼレフ覚醒 Fearī Teiru: Zerefu Kakusei
  8. フェアリーテイル 激闘! 魔道士決戦 Fearī Teiru: Gekitō! Madōshi Kessen
  9. フェアリーテイル 激突! カルディア大聖堂 Fearī Teiru: Gekitotsu! Karudia Daiseidō

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