Key facts
- Genre
- Adventure Fantasy
- Written by
- Hiro Mashima
- Published by
- Kodansha
- English publisher
- AUS : Penguin Books NA : Del Rey Manga (former) Kodansha USA UK : Turnaround
- Imprint
- Shōnen Magazine Comics
- Magazine
- Weekly Shōnen Magazine
- Original run
- August 2, 2006 – July 26, 2017
- Volumes
- 63 ( List of volumes )
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Fairy Tail (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2006 to July 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes. The story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel, a member of the popular wizard guild Fairy Tail, as he searches the fictional world of Earth-land for the dragon Igneel.
The manga has been adapted into an anime series by A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Inc., Satelight, Bridge, and CloverWorks which aired on TV Tokyo from October 2009 to March 2013. A second series aired from April 2014 to March 2016. A third and final aired from October 2018 to September 2019. The series has also inspired numerous spin-off manga, including a prequel by Mashima, Fairy Tail Zero, and a sequel storyboarded by him, titled Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest.