Fairy Tail Adventure Manga Gets Film Next August!!

About time!

The email newsletter for Kodansha's Comic Plus members revealed on Wednesday that a film adaptation of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail manga will open next August.

More details will be provided in future postings of the newsletter.The manga and the ongoing television anime follow the adventures of world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail.

In addition to the television series, three original anime DVDs have been bundled or will be bundled with the manga.Del Rey published the 12th volume of the original manga in North America last September, and Kodansha resumed publishing the manga in English with the 13th volume this past February. Crunchyroll streams the television anime into several countries as it airs in Japan, and Funimation will release the first DVD/Blu-ray set in November.

Source: ANN

Fairy Tail has been renewed for a 3rd year!

Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine has just confirmed that the anime version of Hiro Mashima's fantasy adventure manga will continue into its third year this September. The third year will begin with the "Tenrōjima" story arc.

Source: ANN

Fairy Tail second year confirmed!

Kodansha announced in the most recent edition of Weekly Shonen Magazine that the anime adaptation of this great manga by Hiro Mashima will continue into its second year.

The director, Shinji Ishira, said that the anime will deal with the Nirvana arc. Meanwhile Del Rey will publish the 12th volume in the United States and of course Crunchyroll will continue in its simulcast.

If you haven't checked it out yet, Fairy Tail has been serialized since 2006 in Weekly Shonen Magazine and the anime is done by A-1 Pictures and Satelight studios, it is the story of a young celestial mage (sorceress) named Lucy Heartfilia, who 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 the cat. Shortly after their meeting, Lucy is abducted by Bora of 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, an ancient fire magic. He offers her membership into the guild, which she gladly accepts, and as she meets along Erza Scarlet, Gray Fullbuster, and Happy, they become a team performing various missions offered to the Fairy Tail guild.