50 Fun Facts About Fairy Tail

Who wrote and illustrated the Fairy Tail manga?

Mashima came off Rave Master wanting a story with 'a lot of fun' and drew inspiration from partying in bars with friends.

In which Kodansha anthology was Fairy Tail serialized from 2006 to 2017?

The 545 chapters were collected into 63 volumes by Kodansha.

What is the name of the dragon Natsu spends the series searching for?

The Fire Dragon King vanished on July 7, X777, the same date every other Dragon Slayer's guardian disappeared.

What is the name of the fictional world where Fairy Tail takes place?

Fiore is the kingdom within it where most of the story unfolds; Edolas is a parallel world visited mid-series.

Which little dog-like spirit of Lucy Heartfilia's is a carry-over from Mashima's previous manga?

Plue is a Nikora, a breed of dog spirit summoned with a store-bought silver key.

Happy, Natsu's flying blue cat, belongs to which race?

Mashima nearly named him after the Norse god Freyr but decided that was 'too much' for a talking cat.

Which black wizard created the Etherious demons that Fairy Tail keeps running into?

Cursed with immortality 400 years earlier, he wants to die to atone, and turns out to be Natsu's older brother.

Where does Fairy Tail's S-Class trial take place, ending with Grimoire Heart and the arrival of Acnologia?

Mavis Vermillion's Fairy Sphere spell froze the guild there in suspended animation for seven years.

How long are the Fairy Tail wizards frozen in suspended animation by the Fairy Sphere spell?

They return to find Sabertooth has replaced them as Fiore's top guild, setting up the Grand Magic Games arc.

Which dark guild of Etherious demons tries to unseal the book of E.N.D.?

E.N.D. stands for Etherious Natsu Dragneel, a twist revealed only in the final war with Alvarez.

What is the name of the military nation, ruled by Zeref, that invades Fiore in the final arc?

Zeref wants Fairy Heart, the infinite magic source housed in Mavis's cursed body beneath the guild hall.

What is the time-travel gate that sent Natsu and the young Dragon Slayers 400 years forward called?

The dragons hid inside their foster children as part of a long game to defeat Acnologia.

Which Mashima manga did Fairy Tail follow, a series he found 'sentimental and sad'?

Rave Master's hero Haru is named for spring, so Mashima named his new hero Natsu, the Japanese word for summer.

Natsu's name comes from the Japanese word for which season?

Mashima avoided Western fantasy names he thought would sound unfamiliar to Japanese readers.

In Mashima's earliest concept, Natsu was a fire-user working for what kind of organisation?

He talked his editor into changing it to a wizard guild after imagining different kinds of wizards hanging out in one place.

Which real-world quirk of Natsu's did Mashima borrow from a friend who gets ill in taxis?

Mashima says the motion sickness and pink hair are what make Natsu unique; Wendy's magic can temporarily relieve it.

Mashima named Lucy Heartfilia after a song by which band?

Mashima says Lucy represents his artistic side and is one of the three characters he'd want on his own team.

Which two voice actors play Natsu in Japanese and in the English dub, respectively?

Kakihara originally hoped to voice Gray; Haberkorn's favourite part was leaving the studio with no voice left.

Which magic does Gray Fullbuster use to instantly create ice in the shape of any object he imagines?

His teacher Ur taught it to him after the demon Deliora orphaned him at eight; his stripping habit is Mashima's own.

Gray's habit of subconsciously stripping off his clothes came from what?

Mashima admits he based the tic on a personal habit of his own.

Erza Scarlet's nickname 'Titania' references the fairy queen from which Shakespeare play?

Her surname was given by Jellal Fernandes, after her red hair, when they were both slaves at the Tower of Heaven.

What is the name of Erza's magic, which lets her instantly swap weapons and armour?

The technique is called 'requip', and her mother is later revealed to be Irene Belserion of the Alvarez Empire.

Which dragon raised Wendy Marvell and taught her Sky Dragon Slayer Magic?

Wendy's magic heals injuries and can temporarily cure other Dragon Slayers' motion sickness.

Which Fairy Tail Dragon Slayer eats iron and started out as a member of the rival guild Phantom Lord?

He was raised by the dragon Metalicana and joined Fairy Tail after wounding Levy McGarden and her team.

Juvia Lockser first appears as part of which elite team of Phantom Lord?

She can turn her body into water and, in the Japanese version, always speaks in the third person.

Laxus Dreyar's name derives from a unit measuring what?

His father Ivan implanted a lacrima crystal in him as a child, making him a second-generation Lightning Dragon Slayer.

Makarov Dreyar is which numbered master of the Fairy Tail guild?

Mashima chose the name because he wanted it to sound Russian; Makarov is one of the Ten Wizard Saints.

Which magic lets Mirajane Strauss take on the forms and powers of demons she has defeated?

Mirajane doubles as the guild barmaid and a pin-up girl for the fictional Weekly Sorcerer magazine.

Gildarts Clive's Crush magic is so dangerous that which town rearranges its streets for him?

He lost his left limbs and several organs to Acnologia on a failed mission, and Cana Alberona is secretly his daughter.

Cana Alberona's name is derived from which word?

Fittingly, she fights and tells fortunes with magic cards, and drinks about 30% of the guild's alcohol.

What does Levy McGarden's signature magic do?

She is also the guild's decoder of ancient languages and runes, and bonds with Lucy over books.

Loke, the playboy of the guild, is secretly which zodiac celestial spirit?

His name comes from the Norse god Loki; his ring Regulus produces blinding light.

How many golden Gatekeys, tied to the zodiac, exist for celestial wizards?

Silver keys are store-bought and summon lesser spirits such as the little dog Nikora.

Which guild replaces Fairy Tail as the strongest in Fiore during the seven-year gap and is led by Ziemma?

Its Twin Dragons, Sting and Rogue, are third-generation Dragon Slayers, both dragon-raised and lacrima-implanted.

Frosch, the small companion who follows Rogue Cheney everywhere, is always dressed as what?

Rogue once apprenticed himself to Gajeel under the name Lios during the Phantom Lord days.

Which title does Acnologia hold for nearly wiping out an entire species?

Originally a human Dragon Slayer, he has no elemental affinity, which makes him immune to every kind of magic.

Which Fairy Tail co-founder later becomes Hades, master of the dark guild Grimoire Heart?

His surname comes from the Irish spear Gáe Bolg; he turned to black magic trying to revive Mavis and accidentally created Fairy Heart.

Which studio led the animation of the three Fairy Tail TV series aired 2009-2019?

Satelight, Bridge and CloverWorks co-produced across the 2009-2013, 2014-2016 and 2018-2019 runs on TV Tokyo; the 2024 100 Years Quest anime was made by J.C.Staff.

What is the title of the first Fairy Tail feature film, released in Japan in 2012?

Its priestess Éclair was voiced by Aya Endō; the sequel Dragon Cry followed five years later.

In Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, the guild infiltrates which kingdom to recover a stolen staff?

The film sits between the manga's penultimate and final arcs and Mashima served as chief producer.

Who illustrates the sequel manga Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, which Mashima storyboards?

The quest sends the team to the continent of Guiltina to seal the Five Dragon Gods.

In 100 Years Quest, which of the Five Dragon Gods is the biological son of Natsu's foster father?

Ignia helps Natsu subdue Mercphobia only so he can fight a stronger Natsu one-on-one later.

Roughly how many copies of the Fairy Tail manga were in print by February 2020?

France alone accounted for 7.7 million copies by 2018.

Which prize did Fairy Tail win in 2009?

Mashima later picked up a Harvey Awards spotlight in 2017 and a Fauve Special Award at Angoulême in 2018.

Which Mashima series reuses Happy as an alien android who doubles as a pair of blaster weapons?

That version has a black-tipped tail; Mashima tried other animal mascots first but felt it was 'bound to become Happy'.

How many tankōbon volumes collect the 545 chapters of the Fairy Tail manga?

Kodansha published them between December 2006 and November 2017, and an extra one-shot chapter followed in July 2024.

What was the title of the 2002 one-shot in Magazine Fresh that served as the series' pilot?

Mashima said his real inspiration was sitting in bars partying with friends, wanting his next series to have 'a lot of fun' after Rave Master.

Which real manga critic, who interviewed Mashima at 2008's San Diego Comic-Con, inspired a reporter character?

Another character was based on an employee of Del Rey Manga, the series' first North American publisher.

Which Nakaba Suzuki manga had a 2013 crossover with Fairy Tail, each artist drawing a strip of the other's series?

An earlier 2008 crossover with Miki Yoshikawa's Flunk Punk Rumble was titled Fairy Megane.

Which company developed the first Fairy Tail video game, Portable Guild, for the PSP in 2010?

Two PSP sequels followed, Portable Guild 2 and Zeref Awakens, before Gust and Koei Tecmo's 2020 RPG.