Fairy Tail Anime's TV Run to End on March 30 (Updated)
Manga creator Hiro Mashima: "Please be patient … for me to announce some good news"
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ANN confirmed that Kodansha's TV Magazine announced on Friday that the Fairy Tail anime's television broadcast run will end on March 30. The adaptation of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail fantasy adventure manga premiered on Japan's TV Tokyo station in October 2009.
The April issue of Shueisha's Jump Square magazine is revealing on Monday that the Driland anime will begin a new run in Fairy Tail's current Saturday 10:30 a.m. timeslot on April 6.
However, Mashima posted a statement to fans on his official Twitter feed on Saturday:
Until the time comes, I cannot say something I've always wanted to say, even on Twitter. Please be patient and wait until the time comes for me to announce some good news.
Crunchyroll has been streaming the Fairy Tail series as it airs in Japan. Funimation released the anime's fourth part on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in North America in February 2012.
Del Rey published 12 volumes of the original manga in North America, and Kodansha resumed publishing the manga with the 13th volume in 2011. The 38th volume of the manga will include an original anime DVD in a special-edition bundle in Japan on June 17.
The original manga's story began with a teenaged girl named Lucy Heartfilia who aims to join the world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. During a daring rescue, Lucy encounters Natsu "Salamander" Dragneel, a quirky Fairy Tail member and a teenaged practitioner of the ancient Dragon Slayer magic. Lucy is eventually welcomed into the Fairy Tail guild as she, Natsu, and other members go on various quests together.
Well, that's upsetting. But the anime has almost caught up to the manga again anyways. I guess they decided another filler arc wasn't going to be profitable enough. I'm relatively confident this will only be a temporary hiatus, though it might not come back on the same timeslot.
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Ratehr the hiatu than more filler. Been plagued enough with that in Bleach and Naruto.
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Filler can still be good. (and lately in Shippuden, it has been)
However, I doubt even Mashima (who wrote the Key to the Starry Skies Arc) himself could make something credible set in the very middle of the Grand Magic Games...so that option is out regardless.
The only alternative would be something in a separated continuity....and that is a bad concept that probably killed Bleach. (Filler should expand on the existing, not make what is essentially an animated fanfic that has no place in the overall story)
I can't lie. I hate hiatus ten times more than the other option....but it's fine here because I see no expansion potential to be used, so it's the only option.
Ooof, heart dropped when I read this, but ya, hopefully it's just a short hiatus until there's more material to adapt. Mashima's Twitter comment gives me hope for that anyway.
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Glad there not doing a filler to many can drag the series down for me the Naruto series is ruined because theirs to much BORING filler that seems to last forever i'm glad there not doing the same for Fairy Tail and like you all said hope it's just a short hiatus for the series.
The problem is filler can't do that. That's why filler is almost always terrible. Any development or worldbuilding you do during a filler arc has the potential to contradict later canon or even current canon. For example, Naruto can't learn any new powers during a filler arc because then either those powers would have to be retconned into the main storyline or forgotten entirely and leave a massive plothole.
And the other problem I have with filler is that it literally fills up DvD volumes. I don't want to pay 60+ dollar for an entire volume of filler.
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Actually, it can and often does in the context of anime-original material during manga-based arcs.
e.g. Whenever a character has an elaborated background not from the manga (which even Fairy Tail has done, like with Oracion Seis, and is hinted to be part of the manga universe as well) or when canon fights are expanded with additional action. Done well, both types of expansion can be great and enhance the story.
IMO, Naruto Shippuden has made a wonder of both types in the current (also likely to be final) arc.
I won't deny that there is bad filler. Some laughably so, some where you can only wonder what you just watched.....but IMO, that type is in the minority. From shows I watch, I find most filler to range from decent to excellent. (Yes, the latter being more rare than the former, but still...)
Mind you, I'm not talking just whole arcs and one-shot episodes. I mean anything that is anime-original, even if the overall arc happened in the manga and we see something that wasn't in the manga in it.
I don't have quite the problem with DVDs. I just skip the really bad episodes. (Unlike many, though, I don't skip episodes just for being filler.)
Of course, there is an alternative. Let the mangaka write the story like Mashima did for the only full-length filler arc for Fairy Tail (Key of the Starry Skies). That way, you don't have to worry about things like in-story contradiction.
Sadly, not every mangaka has that kind of time on their hands to put work into their manga work as well as write for the animated adaptation.
Sad to see it end but this is a series that will get another series down the road like Bleach will on the bright side it will give FUNi more time to get the rest of the Fairy Tail series before it eventually starts up again.
HA!! Agreed i just skip the fillers now since they have nothing to do with the main story arc
I wil watch some fill cause yes at times it can be good. Such as the Zampakto arch in Bleach. But alas most filler to me is boring and thus I usually stop watching till the series is back on track.
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I'll admit, they do some pretty cool filler stories, but I hate the one off's as they are pure crap. Also, it's far from the final arc in Naruto. In the anime, it still has the Naruto vs. Tobi fight that's still going in the manga and there's still a few things after that, like the eventual final showdown between Naruto and Sasuke.
Back on topic, I doubt it's the "end" like Bleach, but more of a long hiatus. Honestly, I'd rather have a hiatus than a filler in the middle of an arc. Before the hiatus, though, there is one fight I would like to see:
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1. Dragonball Z. 2. One Piece. 3. Naruto. 4. Fairy Tail. 5. Bleach.
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