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
| Fairy Tail | |
 Cover of Fairy Tail volume 1 as published by Kodansha | |
| フェアリーテイル (Fearī Teiru) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hiro Mashima |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher |   Kodansha Comics USA |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | August 23, 2006 – ongoing |
| Volumes | 28 |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Shinji Ishihara |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures, Satelight |
| Licensed by | Funimation Entertainment |
| Network | TV Tokyo |
| English network |         Animax Asia GMA 7(Comming Soon) AXN Philippines The Philippines Feed Only |
| Original run | October 12, 2009 – ongoing |
| Episodes | 95 |
| Original video animation | |
| Welcome to Fairy Hills!! | |
| Directed by | Shinji Ishihara |
| Written by | Masahi Sogo |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures, Satelight |
| Released | April 15, 2011 |
| Original video animation | |
| Fairy Academy - Yankee-kun and Yankee-chan! | |
| Directed by | Shinji Ishihara |
| Written by | Shinji Ishihara |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures, Satelight |
| Released | June 17, 2011 |
Plot
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, who possesses an ancient form of magic called Dragon Slayer magic, which grants him control over and protection from fire. 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 strange habit of stripping, and Erza Scarlet, an armored female wizard. The five go on missions for their guild together, battling illegal guilds known as dark guilds, as well as demon servants of the ancient dark wizard Zeref.During their adventures, Fairy Tail wages war with Phantom Lord, a rival wizard guild commissioned by Lucy's wealthy yet estranged father to return Lucy to him, destroying Fairy Tail's guildhall in the process. While fighting Phantom Lord, Natsu encounters Gajeel Redfox, another Dragon Slayer who Natsu is surprised to learn had been raised by another dragon, Metalicana, who disappeared the same day as Igneel. Fairy Tail defeats Phantom Lord, prompting Lucy to cut ties with her father completely. Lucy and her friends go on a vacation while their guildhall is being rebuilt, only for Erza to be kidnapped by her former childhood friend, Jellal Fernandes, who had been manipulated by the wizard Ultear Milkovich into helping her revive Zeref using a construct known as the R-System. Jellal attempts to use Erza as a sacrifice for Zeref, but Natsu rescues her, destroys the R-System, and defeats Jellal, who disappears and is believed to be dead.
Lucy and her friends return to their newly renovated guildhall to find that Gajeel has joined Fairy Tail. After dealing with Laxus Dreyar, a renegade Fairy Tail wizard and grandson of Fairy Tail's master Makarov, the guild is faced with an alliance of three of Fiore's most powerful dark guilds known as the Baram Alliance. Fairy Tail is commissioned to fight one of the Baram Alliance guilds, Oración Seis, by forming their own alliance with wizards from the Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, and Cait Shelter guilds, the last of which is represented by Wendy Marvell, another Dragon Slayer whose dragon guardian Grandeeney went missing. Wendy is accompanied by Charles, another talking cat like Happy. During the mission, Jellal is discovered to be alive after Oración Seis forces Wendy to revive him. However, Jellal suffers from amnesia and helps Fairy Tail defeat Oración Seis instead before he is arrested for his previous crimes. Afterward, Wendy's guild is discovered to be an illusion created to care for Wendy after she was abandoned by Grandine, leading Wendy to join Fairy Tail.
Just as Wendy adjusts to life at Fairy Tail, the guild is destroyed along with the city of Magnolia by a magical portal called Anima, which acts as a gateway to a parallel universe called Edolas inhabited by alternate versions of the series's characters. Because the residents of Edolas are unable to use magic on their own, the king of Edolas, Faust, had set up multiple Anima portals throughout the normal Fairy Tail universe, Earth Land, to absorb the normal universe's magic by transforming its residents into crystalline lacrima. As the only ones unaffected by the transformation, Natsu, Wendy, and their cat partners travel to Edolas and save their guildmates with the assistance of Mystogan, another member of Fairy Tail and Jellal's counterpart from Edolas, who had originally come to Earth Land to stop his father Faust's plans. In addition, Happy learns of his and Charles's heritage as exceeds, a race of cat-like creatures from Edolas, while Gajeel meets and befriends his own exceed partner, Pantherlily.
With their guild restored, several members of Fairy Tail, including Natsu and his friends, go to Fairy Tail's sacred ground of Tenrō Island to take part in an exam allowing those who participate to attain the elite "S-Class" wizard rank. However, the exam is interrupted by the arrival of Grimoire Heart, another guild from the Baram Alliance headed by Makarov's former master Hades. Natsu and his friends discover that Zeref is living on Tenrō Island, with Grimoire Heart seeking to obtain his power.
Manga
Fairy Tail is written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima, the Fairy 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[update]. 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[update], 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. 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.
Anime
An anime adaptation co-produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight, and directed by Shinji Ishihira premiered on October 12, 2009. 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. Animax Asia started 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. On April 21, 2011, they had confirmed that the first volume with 12 episodes would be released in February 2012. However, they later announced that the first volume will be released on March 5 2012. At the 2011 Sakura-Con, North American anime distributor Funimation Entertainment announced that they have acquired the first 48 episodes of the ongoing series. They will release the first volume box set on Blu-ray and DVD on November 22, 2011.Sixteen pieces of theme music have been used for the episodes: eight opening themes and eight ending themes. For the first eleven episodes, the opening theme song is "Snow Fairy" by Funkist and the ending theme is "Kanpekigu-no ne" by Watarirouka Hashiritai. The second opening and ending theme songs, which are used for episodes 12 through 24, are "S.O.W (Sense of Wonder)" (S.O.W.センスオブワンダー S.O.W Sensu obu Wondā) by Idoling!!! and "Tsuioku Merry-Go-Round" (追憶メリーゴーランド Tsuioku Merīgōrando, "Reminiscence Merry Go Round") by Onelifecrew, respectively. For episodes 25 through 35, the opening used is "Ft." by Funkist and the ending is "Gomen ne Watashi" (ごめんね。私, "I'm Sorry. Me") by Shiho Nanba. For episodes 36 through 48, the opening used is "R.P.G. (Rockin' Playing Game)" by SuG and the ending theme is "Kimi ga Iru Kara" (君がいるから, "Because You Are Here") by Mikuni Shimokawa. Season two premiered on October 11, 2010, with "Egao no Mahō" (エガオノマホウ, "Magic Smile") by Magic Party and "Holy Shine" by Daisy x Daisy as the fifth opening and ending for the series, respectively. The sixth opening song is "Fiesta" by +Plus with and the sixth ending is "Be as One" by W-inds. The seventh opening is "Evidence" by Daisy x Daisy and the seventh ending is "Lonely Person" by ShaNa. The eighth opening is "The Rock City Boy" by Jamil and the eighth ending is "Don't Think. Feel!!!" by Idoling!!!
OVA
An anime side-story was released on exclusive DVD with limited edition copies of the 26th collected volume of Hiro Mashima's manga on April 15, 2011. The anime adaption of the manga side story "Welcome to Fairy Hills!"The official Japanese website of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail fantasy adventure manga has confirmed on Thursday that the 27th volume would bundle the manga's second original anime DVD when it ships on June 17. The special edition's DVD contains the 25-minute anime adaptation of the manga side story "Yōsei Gakuen Yankee-kun to Yankee-chan."
Besides the DVD, the special edition of the 27th manga volume includes the original "Yōsei Gakuen Yankee-kun to Yankee-chan" manga side story in a separately bound booklet, as well as an exclusive alternate cover drawn by Mashima.
Shinji Ishihira is directing the new anime at A-1 Pictures Inc. and Satelight, just as he does for the television anime series and the previous original anime DVD. Similarly, the television anime and first original anime DVD's series script supervisor Masashi Sogo and character designer Aoi Yamamoto are also involved.
The manga's first original anime DVD shipped with the 26th manga volume on April 15, while the second original anime DVD was be shipped out being bundled along with the manga's 27th volume on June 17, 2011.
Video games
An action video game for the PlayStation Portable titled Fairy Tail: Portable Guild was unveiled at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show. The game was developed by Konami and was released on June 3, 2010. A sequel to Portable Guild was released on March 10, 2011. A fighting game for the DS, entitled Fairy Tail Gekitō! Madōshi Kessen (FAIRY TAIL 激闘! 魔道士決戦) was released on July 22, 2010. Another fighting game for the DS, entitled Fairy Tail Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidō (FAIRY TAIL 激突! カルディア大聖堂) was released on April 21, 2011.Music
The music for the anime was composed and arranged by Yasuharu 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, the second volume on July 7, 2010, and the third volume was released on July 6, 2011. Character song singles were also produced; the first single, featuring Tetsuya Kakihara and Yuichi Nakamura (the voices of Natsu and Gray, respectively) was released on February 17, while the second single, featuring Aya Hirano and Rie Kugimiya (the voices of Lucy and Happy, respectively), was released on March 3, 2010. 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 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 and Yui Horie (Happy and Charle)Source : Wikipedia.com
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