Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル Fearī Teiru?) is a Japanese manga series by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 23, 2006 where it is still ongoing. The individual chapters are being collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, with 24 released as of February 2011. An anime produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight was released in Japan on October 12, 2009. The series follows the adventures of the celestial spirit mage Lucy Heartfilia after she joins the Fairy Tail guild and teams up with Natsu Dragneel, who is searching for the dragon 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. The series was taken over by Kodansha USA Publishing who will continue its North American release with the 13th volume due in May, 2011
A young 17-year-old celestial spirit mage, Lucy Heartfilia, runs away from home and travels to the land of Fiore to join the magical Fairy Tail Guild. Along the way, she meets Natsu Dragneel, a teenage boy looking for his foster parent, a dragon named Igneel, with his best friend, Happy, a cat. Shortly after their meeting, Lucy is abducted by Bora the Prominence, who was posing as Salamander of Fairy Tail, to be sold as a slave. Natsu rescues her and reveals that he is the real Salamander of Fairy Tail and has the skills of a Dragon Slayer [fire type], an ancient magic. He offers her membership into the guild, which she gladly accepts. They, along with Happy become a team and perform various missions offered by the Fairy Tail guild. They are some times accompanied by Erza Scarlet, an armored maiden, and Gray Fullbuster,an ice wizard with a strange habit of removing his clothes- which was produced by his former teacher, Ur. They find on Garunda Island, an old student of Ur, Lyon, who was trying to release one of Zeref's demons, Deliora, from the magic of Ur's Iced Shell. Then, they meet Ur's daughter, Ultear, who is wearing a mask and uses the name 'Zalty'. She has the power to twist time. Lucy, Natsu, Gray and Erza meet her again-without the mask when Fairy Tail is holding an exam for becoming an S-class mage.
Then, a dark guild known as 'Phantom Lord' attempted to kidnap Lucy and bring her back to her father and destroy Fairy Tail. This was because Lucy was the daughter of an incredibly wealthy family so therefore her father offered them a large amount of money to bring her back. Furthermore, Phantom Lord's master was worried that if Fairy Tail got their hands on the Heartfilia funds, Fairy Tail would surpass them and become the most influential and top guild. However, soon, mysteries about the Balam Alliance of the dark guilds rise. Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, Cait Shelter and Lamia Scale 'band' together without the Council's approval and manage to take down Nirvana and a corner of the Balam Alliance, Oracion Seis. With them was also Jellal, although he is arrested by the Council.
However, since the guilds of the Balam Alliance control all the other dark guilds, and there are 3 parts to the Balam Alliance and the remaining guilds were extremely powerful, Oracion Seis is 'avenged' by Grimoire Heart. Grimoire Heart is a trying to kidnap Zeref. Makarov faces off with Master Hades, who produces a magic called 'Grimiore Law' (the 'opposite' of Makarov's ultimate technique, Fairy Law). This causes Makarov to back down, because his first priority was the guild, and if they died he would have not fulfilled his role as master. Master Hades was the 2nd master of Fairy Tail (Makarov being the 3rd),, though why he turned to being a master of a dark guild is unknown. As of now, Fairy Tail has managed to defeat four of the seven Puragtory kin
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Alternative Titles
English: Fairy Tail
Japanese: フェアリーテイル
Fairy Tail Episode 1-56 with OP
