Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル Fearī Teiru?, romanized asFAIRY TAIL in Japan) is a Japanese manga series byHiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006, and has been published by Kodansha in 27 tankōbon volumes as of June 2011. An ongoing anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009,[1] and has spawned two original video animations. The series follows the adventures of Lucy Heartfilia, a teenage wizard who joins the titular wizards' guild and teams up with fellow guild member Natsu Dragneel as he searches for thedragon Igneel.
The 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 on September 28, 2010. The series was taken over by Kodansha USA Publishing, who continued its North American release.[2] The anime adaptation was originally licensed by Animax Asia, which began airing the series with a Hong Kong-based English dub on September 30, 2010, but dropped the series after airing its 48th episode on December 6 the same year.[3] It has since been licensed by Funimation Entertainment for distribution in North America.[4]
[edit] Plot
See also: List of Fairy Tail characters
A 17-year-old celestial wizard named Lucy Heartfilia runs away from home to join Fairy Tail, a rambunctious wizards' guild whose members are infamous for their overly destructive antics. Along the way, she meets Natsu Dragneel, a boy who is traveling the land of Fiore together with his partner Happy, a talking cat, in search of his foster parent, a dragon named Igneel who had disappeared without a trace seven years prior. Shortly after their meeting, Lucy is abducted by a wizard claiming to be the famous Salamander of Fairy Tail to be sold as a slave. Natsu rescues Lucy and reveals himself to be the real Salamander and a Dragon Slayer, a wizard with the abilities of a dragon. Natsu offers membership to Fairy Tail for Lucy, which she accepts.
Lucy forms a team together with Natsu and Happy, as well as Gray Fullbuster, an ice wizard with a habit of stripping, and Erza Scarlet, an armored female wizard. The five go on missions for their guild together and battle a wide variety of villains, which include: multiple dark (illegal) guilds led by an organization called Baram Alliance; demons created by an ancient, evil wizard namedZeref; Phantom Lord, a rival guild to Fairy Tail; Erza's former childhood friend Jellal Fernandes; and Laxus Dreyar, the renegade grandson of Fairy Tail's master,Makarov. The Fairy Tail guild also sees the inclusion of two other Dragon Slayers—Gajeel Redfox from the Phantom Lord guild and Wendy Marvell from the Caitshelter guild—who were both raised by dragons (Metalicana and Grandeeney, respectively) that disappeared on the same day as Igneel.
Later on in the series, several members of Fairy Tail, including Natsu, Lucy, and their friends, gather for an annually held examination on their guild's sacred groundof Tenrou Island, where they discover that Zeref has been living on the island and is being sought out by one of the guilds of the Baram Alliance, Grimoire Heart. Though Fairy Tail defeats Grimoire Heart, the incident summons the black dragon Acnologia, which attacks the island. However, everyone on the island is protected by the spirit of Fairy Tail's founding member, Mavis Vermillion, and reappear seven years later.
[edit] Manga
Main article: List of Fairy Tail chapters
Fairy Tail is written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima, theFairy Tail manga premiered in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in the August 23, 2006 issue. The series is still ongoing, with 250 chapters serialized As of June 2011. The individual chapters are collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, which released the first volume on December 15, 2006. As of June 2011, 27 volumes have been released in Japan. A special in Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a crossover with Flunk Punk Rumble(ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん), released in 2008. The official fanbook, Fairy Tail+ was released on May 17, 2010 in Japan.
The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Del Rey Manga.[5] 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. Kodansha Comics USA took over the series and continued the release on May 2011.[2]
[edit] Anime
Main article: List of Fairy Tail episodes
An anime adaptation co-produced by A-1 Pictures andSatelight, and directed by Shinji Ishihira premiered on October 12, 2009.[1] As of February 2, 2011, thirteen DVD volumes containing four episodes each have been released, with five more scheduled to be released between March 2 and July 6 of 2011.[6] Animax Asiastarted broadcasting the English dubbed version of the series on September 30, 2010, but due to lack of time, it was canceled after the 48th episode. It is still airing in some parts of Asia and in the Philippines, where they initially used the Hong Kong based English dub but are now using the original Japanese audio. The anime series won Animax Asia's "Anime Of The Year" award. 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.[7] On April 21, 2011, they had confirmed that the first volume with 12 episodes would be released in February 2012;[8] however, they later announced that the first volume would be released on March 5, 2012. At the 2011 Sakura-Con, North American anime distributorFunimation Entertainment announced that they had acquired the first 48 episodes of the ongoing series.[4]They will release the first volume box set on Blu-ray andDVD on November 22, 2011.
[edit] OVA
Two OVA episodes of Fairy Tail have been produced and released on DVD by A-1 Pictures and Satellite. The first OVA is an adaptation of the manga omake "Welcome to Fairy Hills", and was released together with the 26thtankōbon manga volume on April 15, 2011. The second is a 25-minute adaptation of the omake "Yōsei Gakuen Yankee-kun to Yankee-chan", and was released together with the 27th volume of the manga on June 17, 2011.[9]It has also been confirmed that a third OVA will be released together with the 31st volume of the manga in February 2012. It will feature an original story written by series creator Hiro Mashima.[10]
[edit] Film
Kodansha announced on October 12, 2011 that a film adaptation of Fairy Tail will be released on August 18, 2012. It has not been specified whether the film will beanimated or live action.[11]
[edit] Video games
An action video game for the PlayStation Portable titledFairy Tail: Portable Guild was unveiled at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show.[12][13] The game was developed by Konamiand was released on June 3, 2010. A sequel to Portable Guild was released on March 10, 2011, also on the PlayStation Portable. Two fighting games, Fairy Tail Gekitō! Madōshi Kessen (FAIRY TAIL 激闘! 魔道士決戦?) and Fairy Tail Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidō (FAIRY TAIL 激突! カルディア大聖堂?), were released for the Nintendo DS on July 22, 2010 and April 21, 2011, respectively.[14]
[edit] Music
The music for the anime was composed and arranged byYasuharu Takanashi. As of July 2011, three original soundtrack CDs have been released, containing music from the anime: the first soundtrack volume was released on January 6, 2010,[15] the second volume on July 7, 2010,[16] and the third volume on July 6, 2011.[17]Character song singles were also produced; the first single, featuring Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Yuichi Nakamura (Gray) was released on February 17,[18] while the second single, featuring Aya Hirano (Lucy) and Rie Kugimiya (Happy), was released on March 3, 2010.[19]Another character song album, entitled "Eternal Fellows," was released announced on April 27, 2011. Two of the songs from the album, performed by anime cast membersTetsuya 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 (Charle)[20]
[edit] Reception
In Japan, 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.[21] About.com's Deb Aoki lists Fairy Tail as the best shōnen manga of 2008.[22] It also won the 2009Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.[23] It has also won the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation's Industry Award in 2009 for best comedy
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