Fairy Tail

***Fairy Tail*** is a shonen manga published in the _Weekly Shônen Magazine_ from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017. It was created by Hiro Mashima. It has 545 chapters and 63 tankōbon volumes. The series is also aired. Some video games are released by Konami. In August 2012 The Phoenix Priestess, a Fairy Tail movie, was released, and in May 2012 a sequel Dragon Cry, a Fairy Tail sequel movie, was released.

## Story

The story of Fairy Tail focuses around the adventures of main characters Natsu and Lucy, who are sometimes with the members of the Fairy Tail Guild.

In the beginning, Lucy is a young sorceress (a "mage"), who wants to join Fairy Tail Guild. On her trip, she meets Natsu, a young boy, who is looking for Igneel the Salamander. She offers Natsu and Happy (his partner) a lunch and Natsu explains that Igneel is a dragon. Lucy talks about her dream to join a famous guild, which she later told him was the Fairy Tail Guild. Later, she is tricked and taken by Bora of Prominence to be sold as a slave. She is rescued by Natsu, who is the real Salamander, and a true member of Fairy Tail Guild. He offers her to be a member of Fairy Tail. Lucy says yes and joins the guild. Since then, Natsu and Lucy formed a team. This is the beginning of the adventures that the two have while carrying out missions from the guild.

## Reception

According to Oricon, _Fairy Tail_ was the eighth best-selling manga series in Japan for 2009. It became the fourth best in 2010 and 2011 and the fifth best of 2012. It also won the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.

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.

## Other websites

- Fairy Tail World (US)

## Infobox (animanga/header)

- **name**: Fairy Tail
- **ja kanji**: フェアリーテイル
- **ja romaji**: Fearī Teiru
- **genre**: Adventure fiction, Adventure, fantasy


## Infobox (animanga/print)

- **type**: manga
- **author**: Hiro Mashima
- **publisher**: Kodansha
- **demographic**: _Shōnen manga, Shōnen_
- **magazine**: Weekly Shōnen Magazine
- **first**: August 2, 2006
- **last**: July 26, 2017
- **volumes**: 63
- **volume list**: List of Fairy Tail volumes


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: TV series
- **director**: Shinji Ishihara
- **producer**: Taihei Yamanishi
Tomonori Ochikoshi
Yoshikazu Beniya
Yōsuke Imai
- **writer**: Masashi Sogo
- **music**: Yasuharu Takanashi
- **studio**: A-1 Pictures <small>(2009–2019)</small>
Satelight <small>(2009–2013)</small>
Bridge (studio), Bridge <small>(2014–2019)</small>
CloverWorks <small>(2018–2019)</small>
- **network**: TX Network, TXN (TV Tokyo), AT-X (company), AT-X
- **first**: October 12, 2009
- **last**: September 29, 2019
- **episodes**: 328
- **episode list**: List of Fairy Tail episodes


## Infobox (animanga/video)

- **type**: ova
- **director**: Shinji Ishihara <small>(#1-6)</small>
Tetsuo Amino <small>(#7-9)</small>
- **writer**: Masashi Sogo <small>(#1, 5-9)</small>
Atsuhiro Tomioka <small>(#4)</small>
Hiro Mashima <small>(#6)</small>
- **music**: Yasuharu Takanashi
- **studio**: A-1 Pictures
Satelight <small>(#1–6)</small>
Bridge (studio), Bridge <small>(#7–9)</small>
- **first**: April 15, 2011
- **last**: December 18, 2016
- **episodes**: 9
- **episode list**: List of Fairy Tail episodes#Original_video_animations


## Infobox (animanga/other)

- **title**: Manga
- **content**: * _Fairy Tail Zero_
* _Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest_


## Infobox (animanga/other)

- **title**: Films
- **content**: * _Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess_ (2012)
* _Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry_ (2017)


## Infobox (animanga/footer)