Your instant Fairy Tail manga collection! Stylish box includes Vol. 54-63 -- ten volumes! -- of the magical shonen adventure that became an anime megahit, plus an exclusive bonus sticker sheet.
Lucy is a young, rebellious celestial wizard with a to join Fairy Tail, the world's most rambunctious and powerful magical guild! When she happens to meet one of Fairy Tail's top wizards, he turns out to be not quite what she a slob traveling with a flying cat. But the promise of adventure is real, and together they escape from pirates and a devious magician! Their next to steal a book from the evil wizard-killing Duke Everlue, and outsmart his death trap. Eccentric new friends join along the way in this lushly-drawn modern classic!
Hiro Mashima (Jap: 真島ヒロ) is a Japanese manga artist.
He gained success with his first serial Rave, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of the best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print. Mashima began the currently ongoing Edens Zero in 2018.
Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
Even though the whole series personally touches me, I cannot in good conscience give 5 stars here....Still I'd recommend the series full-heartedly and I will get into why in a second.
This series gets a lot of flack from all kinds of people for having plot holes, inconsistencies and being way to fan servicy. And it's all true. I'd personally add to that by saying that at several points in the story the potential of the plot is completely thrown out of the window because of erratic whims or uncareful plotting by Mashima-sensei.
However, the core of this series is what stands for me. It is a perfect amplification of what draws me to many anime. It really gives a pedestal to the power of bonds. It shows that we pick our people and how we treat the people that we choose and how we give shape to what we want to be is what truly determines our strength in life. And yes, that's all cheesy and the main point of most shonen plots. But I think Fairy Tail outshines many in this respect, exactly by the lack of an amazing plot, incredible world building, or philosophical questions about the world and society. The central themes of belongingness, found family and friendship are so incredibly central.
Anyway, I personally love this series. It makes me laugh and cry and feels incredibly wholesome and purposeful.