In the early part of the series, they form a team including: Happy, a flying cat and best friend of Natsu; Gray Fullbuster, an ice wizard; and Erza Scarlet, a knight who specializes in using various magic weapons and armors.
2:translation notes] When Funimation Entertainment acquired the license to release the Fairy Tail anime in North America, Mashima's worried about actor Todd Haberkorn's voice since the Natsu character did a lot of yelling throughout the series.
1] Following Igneel's disappearance on July 7, X777, Natsu searches for the dragon and is subsequently inducted into Fairy Tail, where he eventually becomes one of the guild's most destructive members known as "Salamander" (火竜, Saramandā).[ch.
538] Erza Scarlet (エルザ・スカーレット, Eruza Sukāretto) is a nineteen-year-old red-haired S-Class swordswoman of Fairy Tail who is nicknamed "Titania" (妖精女王, Titānia) for her notoriety as the guild's most powerful female wizard,[ch.
255] She is later revealed to possess the same immortality and life-stealing curse as series antagonist Zeref Dragneel, her former friend and lover, which also halts her outward physical maturity when she is first afflicted at thirteen years of age,[ch.
[13] While accompanying them on a journey to recover a stolen artifact, Mavis befriends a wandering Zeref, who teaches her a forbidden prototype of Fairy Law that triggers her curse when she performs the spell to save her friends' lives.[15][ch.
53:194] Succeeding Mavis Vermillion as second guild master upon her deathlike state caused by Zeref, Precht becomes engrossed in black magic when his attempts to resurrect her inadvertently produce Fairy Heart,[ch.
259, 448] He eventually sacrifices his life to annihilate the Alvarez Empire's army using his ultimate technique, Fairy Law (妖精の法律, Fearī Rō), which reduces the caster's lifespan to eliminate anyone they consider to be an enemy without harming their allies,[ch.
106] He can break any object or spell he touches down into blocks using the magic Crush (クラッシュ, Kurasshu), which requires Magnolia's streets to reconfigure into a single, narrow path towards the guild to prevent him from stumbling into buildings by mistake.[ch.
251] Gildarts discovers the truth from Cana twelve years later after Fairy Tail's battle with Grimoire Heart on Sirius Island, and subsequently begins doting on her in a comical fashion.[ch.
202, 279] Bickslow (ビックスロー, Bikkusurō), spelled "Bixlow" in the English dub, is a wizard who practices seith magic (セイズ魔法, seizu mahō) called Human Possession (人型憑, Hitotsuki) to implant up to five wandering souls within inanimate objects and control them.[ch.
200, 210] Eventually, it is revealed that Zeref is Natsu Dragneel's centuries-old elder brother, made immortal and unaging by a curse called the Black Magic of Ankhselam (アンクセラムの黒魔術, Ankuseramu no Kuro Majutsu), which randomly kills everything around him whenever he cherishes the value of life.
450] Living in solitude on Sirius Island, Zeref becomes disillusioned by the atrocities committed by Grimoire Heart in his supposed name as a mass-murdering embodiment of evil, leading him to spend the next seven years contemplating the eradication of humanity.[ch.
64] Deciding to demonstrate Phantom's supremacy to Fairy Tail, Jose sends Gajeel to destroy their guildhall and injure Levy McGarden's team, provoking them into an inter-guild war forbidden by the Magic Council.[ch.
Disguising himself as an armored wizard named Alexei (アレクセイ, Arekusei), Ivan leads a five-wizard team in the Grand Magic Games that consists of Obra, Flare Corona, Kurohebi, and Nullpudding.
Beneath Blue Note are the Seven Kin of Purgatory (煉獄の七眷属, Rengoku no Nana Kenzoku), an elite group of wizards who are trained by Hades in the use of Lost Magic (失われた魔法, Rosuto Majikku),[ch.
544] Mashima regretted not giving more time to develop the character in the manga, envisioning a "deeper setting" that he felt unable to include from the protagonists' perspective, which he hoped he would have the opportunity to explore "at some point".
445] Zeref's personal guards, the Spriggan 12 (スプリガン12, Supurigan Tuerubu), possess powers that surpass Ishgal's supreme Wizard Saint, the eight-element Dragon Slayer God Serena, who defects to join the group.[ch.
15] Blue Pegasus is usually represented by its ace member and black sheep, Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki (一夜=ヴァンダレイ=寿, Ichiya-Vandarei-Kotobuki), a stout, handsome man who uses magical perfumes that produce a variety of effects such as superhuman strength and speed.[ch.
137] A trio of defectors from the guild oppose Fairy Tail as Lyon Vastia's followers to take revenge against the demon Deliora for killing their families: the love-obsessed woman Sherry Blendy;[ch.
33] During Fairy Tail's disbandment, Wendy Marvell and Carla temporarily join Lamia Scale, with the former partnering with Sherry's God Slayer cousin Sherria Blendy (シェリア・ブレンディ, Sheria Burendi) as the Sky Sisters (天空シスターズ, Tenkū Shisutāzu).[ch.
38] Operating under the name "Reitei" (零帝, "Sub-zero Emperor"), Lyon brings Deliora to Galuna Island to release the demon, intending to defeat it and prove his superiority over Ur.[ch.
After losing to Gajeel in the Grand Magic Games seven years later, Rogue acknowledges that Saber lacks the camaraderie Fairy Tail has, and joins Sting in improving his own guild.[ch.
1, 48, 95] Using Heavenly Body Magic (天体魔法, Tentai Mahō) techniques, Jellal can boost his speed to imperceptible levels, and produce powerful energy-based attacks akin to falling meteors.[ch.
239] Eventually, Ultear realizes the truth about her mother while dueling with Gray Fullbuster, prompting her to help Fairy Tail defeat her master Hades and leave Grimoire Heart with Merudy.[ch.
225] She participates in her guild's hunt for Fairy Tail's members on Sirius Island, making Gray Fullbuster her primary target, blaming him for hurting Ultear through Ur's death.[ch.
Its king is Toma E. Fiore (トーマ・E・フィオーレ, Tōma Ī Fiōre), who also works incognito as "Mato" (マトーくん, Matō-kun), the pumpkin mascot of the kingdom's annual Grand Magic Games tournament.[ch.
2] Initially chaired by Crawford Theme (クロフォード・シーム, Kurofōdo Shīmu), the council's members have little tolerance for Fairy Tail's property-damaging tactics, despite their role in handling criminals and monsters that threaten the peace.[ch.
46] Before meeting Gray and Lyon, Ur brings her sickly daughter as a child to a magic research facility to save her life, only to later be told that Ultear has died while the doctors perform unethical, secret experiments on her.[ch.
Athena (アテナ, Atena) is a mechanical wizard created by Duke as a weapon against the Five Dragon Gods, becoming known as the Negative Legacy (負の遺産, Fu no Isan) of the Magic World for the destruction she caused.