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 Fairy Tail is written by Hiro Mashima in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Fairy Tail mostly takes place in the Kingdom of Fiore which is part of Earth Land. There magic is common and mages congregate together in Mage Guilds. Mage Guilds provide members both a place to socialize and the opportunity at jobs of the adventurous type. Members of a guild get a magic tattoo of their guild crest somewhere on their body. Not surprisingly Fairy Tail follows the exploits of one of the most famous of the Mage Guilds, Fairy Tail. What Fairy Tail is actually about Fairy Tail is a manga about expressing your love for your friends via massive property destruction. Important Characters  Lucy Heartfilia Lucy uses Celestial Magic. Born into a rich family, she ran away to become a mage and join Fairy Tail. While Lucy is pretty much the worst at fights, she’s beloved not only in Fairy Tail but in the Celestial Realm, which is all but of unheard of among Celestial Mages.  Erza”Titania” Scarlet Erza uses Requip Magic. Erza appears to be a very strict person, often criticizing the bad behavior and habits of the other guild members, causing most members to apologize for fear that they might invoke her wrath.  Gray Fullbuster Gray uses Ice Magic. Gray has a tendency to unconsciously strip off his cloths but is one of the top mages in Fairy Tail. He and Natsu have a rivalry thing going on and frequently get along as well as ice and fire would be expected to.  Jellal “Gerard” Fernandes A childhood friend of Erza, he almost always has something to do with whatever is going down with Fairy Tail. Even an alternate universe counterpart was a member of Fairy Tail for part of the story. Jellal has been good, evil, possessed by evil, neutral, and good. In this thread he’s most often called Gerard because that’s how his name was originally translated.  Natsu “Salamander” Dragneel Natsu uses Fire Dragon Slayer Magic. Accompanied by his best friend Happy, a flying cat, Natsu is on a quest to find out what happened to the dragon who raised him, Igneel.   Gajeel “Black Steel” Redfox Gajeel uses Iron Dragon Slayer Magic. When he isn’t strumming his guitar and singing for the delight of audiences, he’s off kicking rear end with the best flying cat, Pantherlily.  Wendy Marvell Wendy uses Sky Dragon Slayer Magic. Originally a member of another guild, Wendy and her flying cat, Carla, joined Fairy Tail in what seems to be a very strong trend for Dragon Slayers. Wendy’s magic is mostly healing based and Carla has limited precognitive powers that she frequently ignores.  Zeref “The Black Mage” Zeref is more or less the Boogey Man Hitler of the Fiore history. 500 years ago he more or less tried to take over the world and is more or less worshiped by many of the bad guys. At one point in the story he shows up as an amnesiac good guy, but of course becomes evil again soon after. Obligatory Jellal Link: Zeref once possessed Jellal in order to make a super tower of evil evilness. The Plot, should you for some reason want to just jump in without actually reading back chapters. The story began with Lucy joining Fairy Tail and having adventures with the rest of the guild. At this time Fairy Tail was the top guild in the land. At one point her father hired the guild Gajeel was then a member of to force her to leave Fairy Tail and return home. In another story the crew goes to an alternate universe, which it turns out is the home of all the flying cats and where Jellal is actually a prince. During testing on Fairy Tail’s private island, the guild members who were present were attacked by the dragon Achnologia. Just as the assembled members were about to be destroyed, the ghost of the first Fairy Tail guild master cast a magic spell that saved them all in a time bubble. Seven years later the guild has fallen from glory into near ruin. At this time the members of Fairy Tail who were on the island return, having not aged at all in the intervening 7 years. During the timeskip a tournament was set up for all the guilds in order to rank them. Every year Fairy Tail has come in last place. However, this year with all their member returned, they’ve vowed to once again become the top guild in Fiore. Are there any groups other than Fairy Tail who are important? The Magic Council: The worldwide governing body of magic. Pretty much a bunch of jerks who hate fun and do very little to save the world, but alot to inadvertently put it in harms way. Obligatory Jellal Link: Jellal was of course once a member. The Ten Wizard Saints: More or less the ten best wizards in the world. The Guild Master of Fairy Tail is a member. So far they haven’t done anything but be a title. Obligatory Jellal Link: Yep, Jellal was a member. Blue Pegasus: A guild that is friendly with Fairy Tail, often sharing in adventures. Blue Pegasus was the guild who found the missing Fairy Tail members post time skip. There’s also a flying cat who looks almost exactly like their 2nd in comand. Quatro Lamia Scale Yet another guild that's friendly with Fairy Tail. They've got one of the 10 Wizard Saints and the other apprentice of Gray's magic teacher in their ranks. The Exceed: The race of flying cats most often linked with Dragon Slayers. After Fairy Tail beat all the bad guys in the alternate dimension the Exceed are native to, the Exceed were sent back to Earth Land with Fairy Tail. Some people hate them, some people like them. Dragon Slayers: Raised by dragons, dragon slayers learn the magical abilities of their parent dragon. If a dragon slayer is low on magic, or even just hungry, they can eat whatever “element” their magic uses to recharge. If they’re in a real bind, some dragon slayers will even eat magic unrelated to their “element” which can give them a temporary power up but which is also pretty dangerous. There are also artificial dragon slayers who have had magic surgery to give them dragon slayer powers. These seem to be even rarer than actual Dragon Slayers. Useful links Kissmanga Fairy Tail wiki Is there an anime I can watch? There was/is, but nobody really talks about it and the last anime thread died. As of the 30th of March it is apparently on an indefinite hiatus, with the last episode covering chapter 297 and ending in the middle of the story arc. Gyges fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Mar 30, 2013 |
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Chapter 325 is up. The king looks kind of like a mix of Markov and Ichiya
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Mar 30, 2013 03:25
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ChronoReverse posted:I wonder what's behind that gate that's so heinous. The dragons, of course.
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Mar 30, 2013 04:55
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Redcrimson posted:Be honest, how long have you been waiting to bust out this thread title? I just looked it up because I didn't know the anime was over. It all ends with them discovering the dragon bones under the arena. So chapter 297, in the middle of the tournament. Edit: For anyone who quit watching when they went into filler, but wants to see the brief return to adaptation, episode 151 looks to be where it picks back up. Guess the filler they did was really bad. Edit 2: If blue hair Jellal surprised you, wait till you see what colors the frog cat is supposed to be. 
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Mar 30, 2013 05:23
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I think the plot synopsis is the most recent thing, and that's 60 chapters old. Everything else is from way before the time skip even, except for the picture of Zeref. Even then the spoilers are that other dragon slayers stick around in the plot, really. Other than maybe Gajeel's music career. That's just too good not to have, spoilers or no.
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Mar 30, 2013 21:32
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Future Rogue is either going to be sent back to the future or killed like future Lucy. For some reason I only just realized that future Lucy was the person Jellal was chasing around the tournament.
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Mar 30, 2013 23:40
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Man, future Rogue is a real dick. At least he doesn't appear to have brought his frog cat back in time with him though.
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Apr 5, 2013 20:07
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Monaghan posted:I'm a bit surprised that rogue managed to give natsu such a one sided beatdown. Isn't he from like 7 years in the future? That would put Natsu in essentially the same place power relationshipwise to before Ultear used her time magic to super train him.
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Apr 5, 2013 20:14
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If it was the Celestial Spirit World I don't think there'd be any real danger in having the gate be open. It's essentially just anther dimension like Edolas after all. Lucy's the one to close it because the gate seems to be based on some sort of amalgam of Zeref and Celestial magic. Basically magic gates are solidly in the wheelhouse of Celestial Mages and either Lucy or the former Saber Tooth mage are the only two present. I do have to say that I wish Carla would either tell people about her visions of the future or just not have them. Serious cat face at developments is not very interesting and the ominous future journals of Lucy/Levey are more than enough to set the mood.
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Apr 6, 2013 15:47
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On the one hand, there's got to be something that makes future Rogue into a total douchebag but doesn't also make current Rogue suspect. Him and Sting are all but certain to get picked up by the guild since Fairy Tail sees Dragon Slayers like Trainers see Pokemon. On the other hand, I don't see any member of Fairy Tail, let alone Lucy, being the actual cause of something as bad as a Dragon Blitzkrieg of Fiore. My guess is that there's a 3rd time traveler(or just Zeref or one of the rear end in a top hat Dark Guilds) who's been manipulating events so that when eclipse is opened Dragons pour out instead of time traveling back to kill Zeref or a super anti-dragon beam coming out. So while future Rogue went Highlander with the single remaining Dragon Slayer to see who got to go back in time to make sure the gate opens so the dragons are stopped, Lucy has realized the gate actually brings the dragons and is going to close it. Probably future Lucy waited too long to close the gate which both allowed the dragon horde to materialize and made it look like she short circuited the eclipse cannon.
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Apr 6, 2013 18:56
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Serious Frolicking posted:We can assume that there will be dragons and there will be destruction, but everything else is unclear. I'm guessing that when future-Lucy did this, she didn't have her guild with her so whatever the hell she did wasn't successful. This time, she is surrounded by people who can punch their way through most situations so everything will work out all right. Lucy's only got the awesome power of 3 flying cats and Wendy. Natsu got beat up and Marajane is further back in the prison with the other Celestial Mage girl. Of course there is Jellal's request to the magic council guys, so who knows when that'll show up. Actually, Celestial Mage whatshername has a sister who was taken by a Zeref cult. My guess is that sister is the one actually messing with the Eclipse plan.
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Apr 7, 2013 22:46
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:That is certainly one element of the fanservice going on this chapter. Can't wait to see if any Dragon Slayers will actually live up to their names. And what will that do to the past? Didn't the dragons more or less disappear around 400 year ago? Guess the Eclipse plan of the future was the answer all along. It really looks like Earthland would be better off getting rid of both the Magic Council and it's governments and letting the Guilds take over. They at least seem to be competent.
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Apr 12, 2013 20:31
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Wasn't Wendy's dragon just some sort of thought projection?
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Apr 12, 2013 23:34
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So, are we going to end up with a 5 Dragonslayer Unison Raid? Man that princess is stupid though, future Rogue is clearly not someone you can trust.
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Apr 19, 2013 17:43
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attackbunny posted:What are the chances that the 'favour' Gerard wanted is getting Cobra out of prison? We know he's still around because he was in the anime filler arc Mashima's canonised, and with him we've got seven dragonslayers versus seven dragons. I always forge that Laxus is technically a dragonslayer.
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Apr 19, 2013 21:12
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SatansBestBuddy posted:And what was that thing on the front page about "Fairy Tail Best" on every week? I thought the anime was canceled? I think they're doing repeats Western TV style and just calling it Fairy Tail Best.
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Apr 20, 2013 02:18
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bondster posted:I know I shouldn't overanalzye a manga about punching dudes with fire, but Fairy Tail irks me for some reason. If future Rogue created a magic to control dragons but it doesn't on work on the only dragon available in the future, how does he know it will work on the dragons at all once he pulled them from the past? It may be a translation issue, because at least according to this one, only Acnologia is there in the future? Isn't Acnologia actually a Dragon Slayer who killed a shitload of dragons, becoming a dragon himself? If future Rogue knows the origin, it seems reasonable to assume your dragon leash spell would work on "real" dragons even if it doesn't work on Acnologia. Maybe his dragon mentioned the concept of the spell to him when he was little and he just figured it out in the next 7 years.
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Apr 30, 2013 17:55
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Zilconis, the mighty fanservice Dragon. After Wendy beats him he's going to end up hanging out at the Fairy Tail Guildhouse, isn't he?
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May 10, 2013 17:26
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I guess Natsu just needed a Mega Pervert to inspire his plan.
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May 17, 2013 13:21
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attackbunny posted:
Depends upon which generalized concept of time travel you're working with. Paradoxical actions are however quite common in most time travel conceptions and effects without the cause they stem from are not at all outside the "rules".
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May 17, 2013 20:18
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I know it's probably just an onomatopoeia, but I like to think Happy actually yelled drop in Natsu's entrance panel.
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May 24, 2013 15:50
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Chapter 333 Man, how did Future Rogue not see that coming on page 5? Also that is a helpful timeline chart, though the answer to Jellal's question is obviously a flux capacitor.
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May 31, 2013 13:21
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I don't think so. There's only two time branches. Any more messing with the future like that and there'll need to be another Future Rogue or perhaps a Future Sting mucking about.
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May 31, 2013 17:36
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Nalin posted:The only solution is for future Jellal to fix everything. I think you mean the only solution is for Jellal to time travel. One Jellal is not enough, but how about one present Jellal, 3 future Jellals, a past Jellal, and 3 alternate dimensional Jellals?
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Jun 2, 2013 03:37
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Holy poo poo, Grey. But yeah, Ultear seems like the likely method of his rivival. I assume Juvia is about to wreck some poo poo though.
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Jun 7, 2013 13:39
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Centzon Totochtin posted:Ultear's time magic doesn't work on living things (I think? Wasn't this mentioned when she was in disguise on the Demon Island when she was trying to use THE MOON to melt Deliora?) so I wonder how they will bullshit Grey back to life It works on living things. She used it on the giant tree and gave everyone a power-up with it.
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Jun 8, 2013 02:52
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The set it up and more or less spelled out exactly what was going to happen, and I still laughed pretty good at destroying the nigh unbreakable gate by punching a dragon into it.
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Jun 21, 2013 22:46
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Thoren posted:I thought they were doing the whole split timestreams thing. If the recent event changes the future, then wouldn't everything else that's happening already have changed the future? Maybe the gate has a high concentration of chronotons and sits astride all time streams.
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Jun 22, 2013 18:25
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New Chapter's up. 3 chapters a week for the next two weeks?
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Jun 28, 2013 13:07
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Alpha Kenny Juan posted:I think you're talking about Future Lucy returning to her timeline since Eclipse was destroyed. Instead of her being one of a few survivors in a wasteland she was greeted by a now alive Natsu and Happy. It's more like Dragonslayers went 2 and 4. Natsu beat one with his fists and one with the power of friendship/shared culinary interests.
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Jun 28, 2013 17:33
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pointlessone posted:Dead. Even less meaning to her sacrifice now. How is there any less meaning to her sacrifice? The dragons got time bounced, but all the destruction and death they caused up to this point still happened. It's just that the future is no longer distopian
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Jun 29, 2013 23:04
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pointlessone posted:She killed herself for a minute of reversed time, when Natsu was already in range for punching a dragon into the gate. I don't think for a second she's going to stay dead though. She killed herself to save Gray, who still would have died without that extra minute. Natsu's fire punching of the dragon happened after that.
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Jun 30, 2013 19:51
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Time only changes from the point of the dragon being punched into the gate forward. Future Lucy and Future Rogue dematerialize but their actions carried out to this point remain. The city is still wrecked, people are dead, and the mages are all beat up. Everyone who died in the attack isn't coming back and if Ultear hadn't given her life for one minute of time then Gray and several other people would still be dead.
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Jun 30, 2013 23:32
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Bernardo Orel posted:I am also glad these three chapters got released together, because the only cool thing that happened there was in chapter 338 - Natsu crashing the castle party like a boss There's also the part when he goes to pull out the tournament trophy and pulls out the king's crown he ganked while looking for it. I'm still not sure how I feel about Mavis's ghost though. It seems like all she really brings to the table is a way to drop exposition in dialogue instead of monologue.
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Jul 5, 2013 18:03
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attackbunny posted:Is Zeref just flipping a coin to decide his morality or what? You're over complicating things. All good headbutts come when the headbuttee is wrapped up, like in a hug.
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Jul 5, 2013 19:14
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Rodyle posted:Who cares about all this plot nonsense, the best part of these recent chapters was that party (I stopped reading for like, 2 months and just remembered to catch up). I'd add the fight between the dragonslayers and the final battle royal where Fairy Tail won without losing anyone. Also anyone who doesn't think Elfman's fight is worthy of the highlight reel isn't a man.
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Jul 7, 2013 03:23
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At this point I kind of have to wonder how it is that the Magic Council always has such a hate boner for Fairy Tail. Apparently they've been a collection of the world's greatest mages for over a century, save the world on a fairly regular basis, and all the most important people apparently were members at one point or another. Is the not-king of Edolas just pissy because Markov won't get rid of the embarrassing pictures of not-king of Edolas' initiation?Rainbow Pony Deluxe posted:So 341, 342, and 343 are out. I would say I read them but 341 is about as close as you can get to softcore porn in a shonen manga I think, so it might be worth skipping. Clearly not a reader of History's Strongest Disciple.
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Jul 12, 2013 00:59
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Silver2195 posted:It's because they cause too much property damage. Increasing the Fiore economy through public infrastructure spending funded via the private sector. 
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Jul 12, 2013 03:46
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Fairy Tail 345 So is that like, one panel that wasn't either a gag or a set up for a gag? Hell of a joke to start out on too.
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Thoren posted:Is it strange that I absolutely love this Flare chick's character? Yeah, Lucy needs her own Juvia.
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