It has been a while since we heard news about the Fairy Tail anime. Now the silence has already been broken as Hiro Mashima, the creator of the Fairy Tail manga announced in his official Twitter account that the ‘final season’ of the Fairy Tail anime will be aired in 2018.
FAIRY TAIL アニメファイナルシリーズ、2018年放送決定！です。
— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) July 20, 2017
The Final Season of FAIRY TAIL TV anime will go on air in 2018!
— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) July 20, 2017
Last May, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry premiered in Japan and said was rumored to be the ending of the franchise’s anime adaptation. Shortly after the opening day of the movie, it was announced that the manga series will now have a few chapters left and will be ending officially this year.
For those who are curious about the movie, you can check out the trailer video below:
The story of Fairy Tail begins with Lucy Heartfilla, a seventeen-year old wizard who ran away from to join the Fairy Tail guild. The guild is popular in the fictional world of Earth-land due to the wizard members there are filled with a lot of antics up their sleeve. She was actually invited to the guild by a “dragon slayer” wizard named Natsu Dragoneel. Along the way, Natsu and Lucy and acquainted with more members into the guild like Gray Fullbuster and Erza Scarlet as the go through different guild missions together and deal with evil forces along the way.
Some of you probably have mixed feelings over Fairy Tail’s development in both the manga and anime. The important thing here is that it is one of those series that you’ve been hooked on years ago and now it’s finally come to an end. The final chapter is next week— hope it will be a good one!
Source: Hiro Mashima’s Twitter Account.