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First Fairy Tail Dragon Cry PV & Visuals Hit The Web


It’s time to meet the members of the Fairy Tail guild… uh… again.

Earlier today, the official Fairy Tail Dragon Cry film’s website updated with a new promotional video, a key visual, and several character visuals.

Promo Video

The 30-second trailer teases that the series is entering its final arc.

Key Visual

The new visual shows off Natsu on a castle tower. His left half is transformed into a dragon.

Character Visuals

Visuals for the major cast members were unveiled, with seven images from returning characters, and three for film-exclusive roles.

Returning Characters

Film-Exclusive Characters

Fairy Tail Dragon Cry will hit Japanese theaters on May 6. Series creator Hiro Mashima is storyboarding the film and serving as Executive Producer.

Tatsuma Minamikawa will direct the project at A-1 Pictures, with Yuuko Yamada filling the dual role of character designer and chief animation director. Shoji Yonemura (, Smile Precure!) will write the film’s script. Music will be handled by series composer Yasuharu Takanashi.

The confirmed voice cast includes:

  • Natsu Dragneel: Tetsuya Kakihara
  • Lucy Heartfilia: Aya Hirano
  • Happy: Rie Kugimiya
  • Gray Fullbuster: Yuichi Nakamura
  • Erza Scarlet: Sayaka Ohara
  • Wendy: Satomi Satou
  • Charles: Yui Horie

Fairy Tail Dragon Cry was officially announced in the pages of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine in its May 2015 issue, though an official title wasn’t attached at the time. In March, the magazine reconfirmed that a Fairy Tail anime project was in the works.

The Fairy Tail anime is based on Hiro Mashima’s manga of the same name. Shinji Ishihira (Log Horizon, Super Lovers) directed the series at A-1 Pictures and Satelight, with Aoi Yamamoto (Re-Kan!, On the Way to a Smile – Episode Denzel: Final Fantasy VII) providing character designs. Masashi Sogo (Bleach, The Prince of Tennis) was in charge of series composition.

Funimation currently holds the domestic rights to the Fairy Tail anime, while Kodansha Comics USA releases the manga. Funimation describes the show as:

Across the Fiore kingdom, wizards join guilds and make their pay by filling magical needs—but one guild has a reputation as the roughest, rowdiest, most dangerous of all: Fairy Tail!

When four young Fairy Tail members unite, their bond is forged by a power found in neither muscle nor magic and grows stronger with every mission. Whatever you do, don’t mess with these friends or you’ll get a taste of Natsu’s flaming fist or Gray’s ice hammer, suffer a painful blow from one of Lucy’s celestial spirits or catch the edge of Erza’s mighty blade! Whether they’re stopping demons from devastating the world or wrestling in the mess hall, this mystical team manages to inflict as much damage to their rivals as they do to the surrounding area!

Source: Comic Natalie

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