List of Fairy Tail chapters (volumes 1–15)
Fairy Tail is a Japanese manga series that was written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima; it has been translated into various languages[1][2][3] and has spawned a substantial media franchise. The series follows the adventures of the dragon-slayer Natsu Dragneel as he searches for a dragon called Igneel and partners with seventeen-year-old celestial wizard Lucy Heartfilia who joins the titular guild. In Japan, the series has been published by Kodansha in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2, 2006, and in tankōbon format since December 15, 2006.[4] Fairy Tail has 57 volumes and over 500 chapters.[5]
The series was originally published in English by Del Rey Manga beginning on March 25, 2008, and ending with the 12th volume in September 2010.[6][7] Since then, in the United States and Canada, Kodansha USA and Random House have published the English-language adaptation of the series, beginning with the 13th volume in May 2011;[8] they also re-published the earlier 12 volumes under their names.[9] Fifty-five volumes in English have been released.[10]
Volume list
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | North American release date | North American ISBN | ||
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1 | December 15, 2006[4] | 978-4-06-363771-7 | March 25, 2008[6] | 978-0-345-50133-2 | ||
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Seventeen-year-old celestial wizard Lucy Heartfilia wants to join the popular Fairy Tail wizard's guild despite its reputation for causing destruction. She inadvertently meets Natsu Dragneel, a dragon-slayer wizard who can control fire, and his cat Happy, both of whom are looking for the dragon Igneel. She also meets a man named Salamander who says he is a member of Fairy Tail and offers her membership. The man is quickly discovered to be a criminal who tries to sell Lucy as a slave; she is rescued by Natsu, who reveals himself as the real Salamander. Natsu defeats the imposter and Lucy accepts his invitation to join Fairy Tail. Shortly after becoming a member, Natsu and Lucy rescue Macao Conbolt from being possessed by a monstrous Vulcan. | ||||||
2 | January 17, 2007[11] | 978-4-06-363782-3 | March 25, 2008[12] | 978-0-345-50330-5 | ||
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With a team now formed, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy accept a request to destroy a book entitled Daybreak for the son of the book's author, who considers it the worst his father has ever written. Lucy discovers that the author was forced to write the book for its current owner, the corrupt Duke Everlue, during three years of solitary confinement. After defeating Everlue, Lucy returns the book to their client, and reveal a secret message from his father apologizing for abandoning his family. Shortly after returning home, Natsu and ice wizard Gray Fullbuster are approached by Erza Scarlet, one of Fairy Tail's strongest wizards, to help her stop the dark guild Eisenwald from using the cursed flute Lullaby to carry out an assassination plot. Lucy joins the wizards in Erza's mission. | ||||||
3 | March 16, 2007[13] | 978-4-06-363810-3 | June 24, 2008[14] | 978-0-345-50556-9 | ||
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Fairy Tail discovers that Eisenwald plans to assassinate the guild masters in Fiore, including their own master Makarov Dreyar. Natsu defeats Eisenwald's leader Erigor while Makarov persuades the guild's last standing member Kageyama not to carry out the plot. This enrages and awakens a demon sealed within Lullaby, which Natsu, Gray, and Erza destroy. Upon returning home, Natsu and Erza fight each other as part of a challenge they made to each other before fighting Eisenwald. Their battle is interrupted by an agent of the Magic Council, who arrests Erza for the damages caused during their battle against Eisenwald. | ||||||
4 | May 17, 2007[15] | 978-4-06-363832-5 | September 16, 2008[16] | 978-0-345-50557-6 | ||
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Natsu attempts to rescue Erza from the Magic Council and discover the Council contrived her arrest so they display their authority over Fairy Tail. Still determined to prove his strength, Natsu steals an S-Class job request with Happy against Makarov's permission, persuading Lucy to join them. Fairy Tail summon Grey to stop the three but he is dragged into the mission. The four are requested to lift a curse that transforms the islanders of Galuna Island into demons when they are exposed to moonlight. While investigating the island, they discover a frozen demon whom Gray recognizes as Deliora, whom his teacher Ur had sacrificed herself to seal away. They also learn that Gray's training mate Lyon Vastia has assembled a cult of wizards on the island so he may resurrect and defeat Deliora in an attempt to surpass Ur, blaming Gray for her apparent death. | ||||||
5 | July 17, 2007[17] | 978-4-06-363857-8 | January 27, 2009[18] | 978-0-345-50558-3 | ||
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Lyon dispatches his henchmen Sherry Blendy, Yȗka Suzuki, and Toby Orrolta to destroy the islanders' village but Natsu and Lucy take them out. Having tracked down the wizards, Erza arrives to return the four to the guild for punishment but reconsiders when Gray stands up to her for the first time, stating his determination to stop Lyon. Meanwhile, Natsu goes to stop the ceremonial Moon Drip spell that is intended to resurrect Deliora and his friends to follow him. Gray tells his friends that when he was young, he was taken in by Ur after Deliora destroyed his hometown and he later attempted to take revenge against Deliora. Ur freezes herself and Deliora at the cost of her own life and asks Gray to tell Lyon she has died, sparking Lyon's resentment of Gray. | ||||||
6 | September 14, 2007[19] | 978-4-06-363890-5 | April 28, 2009[20] | 978-0-345-50681-8 | ||
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Knowing Ur has survived, Lyon intends to melt her body and "kill" her. Enraged at this possibility, Gray defeats Lyon but fails to prevent Deliora's resurrection. Deliora is revealed to have died while frozen. Everyone returns to the village to find it has been repaired by Ur's daughter Ultear Milkovich, who is a member of the Magic Council disguised as one of Lyon's henchmen. When the islanders reason the curse can only be lifted by destroying the moon, Natsu and Erza destroy the true cause of the curse—a magical membrane that formed over the island as a side effect of the Moon Drip ceremony. It is revealed that the islanders, rather than being transformed into demons by the curse, have been demons all along, and the curse has affected their memories. The five return to Magnolia and discover that their guildhall has been demolished by Gajeel Redfox, a dragon slayer from the rival guild Phantom Lord. When Gajeel assaults Levy McGarden and her friends, Makarov declares war against Phantom and attacks their guildhall. Lucy is captured by Juvia Lockser and Sol, two members of Phantom's elite team Element 4. | ||||||
7 | November 16, 2007[21] | 978-4-06-363914-8 | July 7, 2009[22] | 978-0-345-51039-6 | ||
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Element 4's leader Aria drains Makarov of his magical power and Fairy Tail retreats. Phantom master Jose Porla tells Lucy her father has hired Phantom to return her home. Natsu rescues Lucy and she is returned to their guildhall. Jose arrives with his forces to attack Fairy Tail. Erza is hit by a blast from Phantom's magic cannon Jupiter. Natsu, Gray, and Elfman Strauss enter Phantom Lord's fortress and destroy the cannon's power source and defeat Totomaru, a member of Phantom. In response, Jose transforms the fortress into a giant robot and prepares to cast a spell on the town. Disguising herself as Lucy, Mirajane Strauss hides the real Lucy away and offers herself to Phantom but her disguise fails and Jose nearly kills her. While searching for a means to stop the robot, Elfman battles with Sol and defeats him. Gray battles Juvia, who falls in love with him. | ||||||
8 | January 17, 2008[23] | 978-4-06-363940-7 | October 27, 2009[24] | 978-0-345-51040-2 | ||
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Gray, struggling with a severe injury inflicted by Lyon, duels with Juvia and Erza battles Aria. Both Element 4 wizards are defeated and the casting of the spell is stopped. Gajeel recaptures Lucy and is confronted by Natsu, who is overpowered by Gajeel's iron magic. Natsu defeats Gajeel after watching the destruction of his own guildhall, regains his energy when Lucy summons her spirit Sagittarius to start a fire for him to eat. Jose confronts Erza and attempts to kill her; Makarov takes Erza's place and casts an evil-destroying spell on Jose; the spell also destroys Phantom Lord's guildhall. | ||||||
9 | March 17, 2008[25] | 978-4-06-363965-0 | December 29, 2009[26] | 978-0-345-51233-8 | ||
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With Jose's defeat, the war ends and the Magic Council dissolves Phantom Lord. Lucy breaks her ties with Jude and rejoins her friends. Normalcy returns to Fairy Tail and its members begin to reconstruct their guildhall. Lucy discovers Loke behaving strangely and he tries to distance himself from her. After investigating, Lucy discovers that Loke is the celestial spirit Leo, who has been exiled from his realm for causing the death of his owner, Karen Lilica, in an effort to save fellow spirit Aries from Karen's cruelty. Loke reveals that he will soon run out of energy and die. Desperate to save Loke, Lucy challenges the Celestial Spirit King and persuades him to reconsider Loke's exile, allowing Loke to return to his realm and become one of Lucy's contracted spirits. | ||||||
10 | May 16, 2008[27] | 978-4-06-363986-5 | March 23, 2010[28] | 978-0-345-51457-8 | ||
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As thanks for saving him, Loke invites Lucy and her friends to a paid vacation at a resort. They are joined by Juvia, who wants to join Fairy Tail. Four of Erza's childhood friends arrive and accuse her of turning on them in the past. The four take Erza to the Tower of Heaven, a construct built by Erza's former friend Jellal Fernandez. Erza's friend Millianna takes Happy. Natsu, Lucy, Gray, and Juvia go to the tower to find that Erza has escaped, and Natsu finds Happy. In a flashback, a young Erza, Jellal, and their friends are enslaved by a cult of evil wizards and forced to build the Tower of Heaven. Erza leads a revolt to free her fellow slaves but Jellal is corrupted by a being purporting to be Zeref's spirit. Wishing to resurrect Zeref himself, Jellal manipulates his other friends into continuing the tower's construction, leaving Erza to escape on her own. In the present, Siegrain, a member of the Magic Council, persuades the council to destroy the tower with a weapon called Etherion. | ||||||
11 | August 12, 2008[29] | 978-4-06-384023-0 | June 22, 2010[30] | 978-0-345-51992-4 | ||
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Erza, Lucy, Gray, and Juvia climb the tower in search of Natsu. They are joined by two of Erza's childhood friends; Simon and Shô. After Natsu finds Happy and defeats Erza's two other friends Wally Buchanan and Millianna, Jellal announces the council's decision to destroy the tower and challenges everyone to defeat him before the council's attack. They continue through the tower and defeat a trio of assassins called Trinity Raven. | ||||||
12 | October 17, 2008[31] | 978-4-06-384050-6 | September 28, 2010[7] | 978-0-345-51993-1 | ||
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At the top of the tower, Erza battles Jellal but fails to stop him before Etherion fires at it. The attack is absorbed by the crystalline lacrima inside the tower, sparing everyone inside. Jellal reveals that he (as Siegrain) has tricked the Magic Council into providing the tower with enough magical energy to resurrect Zeref. He attempts to use Erza as a hostage but Natsu rescues her, and he and Jellal fight. Jellal decides he no longer needs Erza; Simon protects her and Natsu from Jellal's fatal spell. Natsu eats the Etherion-infused lacrima in anger and achieves a higher form of dragon slayer magic called Dragon Force, which gives him enough power to defeat Jellal and destroy the tower. Erza merges herself with the lacrima to prevent it from exploding. Natsu and Erza escape. | ||||||
13 | December 17, 2008[32] | 978-4-06-384075-9 | May 10, 2011[8] | 978-1-935-42932-6 | ||
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Erza bids farewell to her slave friends, and she and the other members of Fairy Tail return to find their guildhall has been renovated. They also discover that Juvia and Gajeel have joined Fairy Tail. The guild prepares for their annual Fantasia parade. Lucy learns of a Miss Fairy Tail beauty contest, an opportunity for her to make her rent payments. Makarov's grandson Laxus Dreyar declares his intention to take over the guild by force. He and his bodyguards the Raijin Tribe turn the Miss Fairy Tail contestants to stone and challenge the rest of the guild to find and defeat the Raijin Tribe. He imprisons everyone above the age of 80 inside the guildhall to keep Makarov from interfering; Natsu is also affected by the trap. The Fairy Tail members are tricked into fighting each other. | ||||||
14 | March 17, 2009[33] | 978-4-06-384098-8 | July 12, 2011[34] | 978-1-935-42933-3 | ||
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Gajeel appears; like Natsu he is trapped inside the guildhall. Erza's artificial eye allows her to be restored to normal; she engages and defeats Evergreen, restoring the rest of the petrified girls. Laxus casts a Thunder Palace spell over Magnolia, threatening to destroy the city. The stress of the situation causes Makarov to collapse. Levy uses her decoding expertise to rewrite a runic enchantment and free Natsu and Gajeel inside the guildhall. Lucy engages Bickslow and defeats him with the help of Loke. Juvia and Cana encounter Fried Justine, who casts a spell that forces them to fight each other. Juvia sacrifices herself by destroying one of the Thunder Palace drones. Mirajane rushes in to find Cana defeated and Fried torturing Elfman, prompting her to use a transformation in anger. After engaging and overpowering Fried, Mirajane regains control of herself and persuades Fried to stop fighting his teammates. | ||||||
15 | May 15, 2009[35] | 978-4-06-384136-7 | September 27, 2011[36] | 978-1-935429-34-0 | ||
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With the Raijin Tribe defeated, the masked Mystogan engages Laxus and fights him to make him lift the Thunder Palace spell. Their battle attracts the attention of Natsu and Erza, who see Laxus blasting off Mystogan's mask, revealing that he resembles Jellal. Erza and the rest of Fairy Tail destroy the Thunder Palace. Natsu and Gajeel fight Laxus but their attacks are ineffective. Laxus reveals himself to be a dragon slayer. Frustrated with his plans' failure, Laxus casts a spell to destroy Magnolia. Laxus dismisses Levy, who arrives to tell him that Makarov is dying from the stress Laxus has placed on him. After casting the spell, Laxus discovers it has no effect because he does not truly consider everyone his enemy. Laxus continues fighting and Natsu defeats him. |
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External links
- Official Kodansha Fairy Tail website (in Japanese)
- Official Del Rey Fairy Tail website
- Fairy Tail (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia