Creation and conception
When Hiro Mashima was creating Fairy Tail, he cited Akira Toriyama, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Yudetamago as influences in his works.[2][3] Mashima based the titular guild on a local bar he was visiting at the time.[4] He based Natsu Dragneel on his early years as a junior high school student.[3] Mashima based Natsu's motionsickness on one of his friends, who gets sick when taking taxis together, and he also cited his father's death as an influence for the relationship between Natsu and the dragon Igneel.[2]
When Funimation Entertainment acquired the license to dub Fairy Tail in North America, Mashima was worried about actor Todd Haberkorn voicing Natsu since he had a lot of yelling in the series.[5] Tyler Walker, the ADR Director for the dub, revealed that a "Fairy Tail tea" was made to accommodate the voice actors after each recording session.[5]
Fairy Tail
The main protagonists are all members of Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル Fearī Teiru?),[a] the titular wizard's guild, founded by Mavis Vermillion. It is considered to be one of the most powerful guilds in the series.[ch. 210] However, its members are infamous for being rambunctious and causing extensive collateral damage during missions.[ch. 2] For this reason, the Fairy Tail guild is seen as a nuisance by the Magic Council despite the guild members' heroic deeds, to the extent that the Magic Council actively tries to disband the guild.[ch. 200]
Fairy Tail's guildhall is stationed in Magnolia, a city located on the southern coast of the fictional country of Fiore.[ch. 1] It is first depicted as a two-story public house with a pyramidal design. The first floor of the building serves as a lunch hall for its guild members to hang out, and contains a bulletin board where job requests are posted.[ch. 2] The guild's most dangerous job requests, called S-Class jobs, are posted in the second floor of the building, which only S-Class wizards, who are officially recognized as the guild's most powerful members, are permitted to enter.[ch. 24] Eventually, the guildhall is destroyed by Phantom Lord, a rival guild, but is later rebuilt as a large, extravagant Gothic building, with resort-like amenities such as a stage, recreation room, outdoor gift shop, swimming pool, and café.[ch. 103] Guild members are permitted to access the upper floors, but S-Class jobs are still restricted.[ch. 103] Seven years after the primary guild members' disappearance on Sirius Island (天狼島 Tenrō-jima, lit. "Heaven Wolf Island"),[vol. 24:translation notes] the guild loses most of its members and is re-stationed in a rundown building even smaller than the first guildhall.[ch. 254]
Mashima has insisted that the spelling of the guild's name, which is a play on the phrase "fairy tale", is intentional. In the story, the guild's second guild master Purehito speculates that the origin of the guild name comes from the mystery of whether or not fairies, which are considered as mythical creatures within the series, have tails.[ch. 244] Tyler Walker likens Fairy Tail to the Scooby-Doo franchise: "it's got a core group of characters, with one talking animal, sometimes two...they travel, it's episodic...you know, we've seen this kind of thing before with the core group that's affiliated in some way going through adventure after adventure."[6]
When Hiro Mashima was creating Fairy Tail, he cited Akira Toriyama, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Yudetamago as influences in his works.[2][3] Mashima based the titular guild on a local bar he was visiting at the time.[4] He based Natsu Dragneel on his early years as a junior high school student.[3] Mashima based Natsu's motionsickness on one of his friends, who gets sick when taking taxis together, and he also cited his father's death as an influence for the relationship between Natsu and the dragon Igneel.[2]
When Funimation Entertainment acquired the license to dub Fairy Tail in North America, Mashima was worried about actor Todd Haberkorn voicing Natsu since he had a lot of yelling in the series.[5] Tyler Walker, the ADR Director for the dub, revealed that a "Fairy Tail tea" was made to accommodate the voice actors after each recording session.[5]
Fairy Tail
The main protagonists are all members of Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル Fearī Teiru?),[a] the titular wizard's guild, founded by Mavis Vermillion. It is considered to be one of the most powerful guilds in the series.[ch. 210] However, its members are infamous for being rambunctious and causing extensive collateral damage during missions.[ch. 2] For this reason, the Fairy Tail guild is seen as a nuisance by the Magic Council despite the guild members' heroic deeds, to the extent that the Magic Council actively tries to disband the guild.[ch. 200]
Fairy Tail's guildhall is stationed in Magnolia, a city located on the southern coast of the fictional country of Fiore.[ch. 1] It is first depicted as a two-story public house with a pyramidal design. The first floor of the building serves as a lunch hall for its guild members to hang out, and contains a bulletin board where job requests are posted.[ch. 2] The guild's most dangerous job requests, called S-Class jobs, are posted in the second floor of the building, which only S-Class wizards, who are officially recognized as the guild's most powerful members, are permitted to enter.[ch. 24] Eventually, the guildhall is destroyed by Phantom Lord, a rival guild, but is later rebuilt as a large, extravagant Gothic building, with resort-like amenities such as a stage, recreation room, outdoor gift shop, swimming pool, and café.[ch. 103] Guild members are permitted to access the upper floors, but S-Class jobs are still restricted.[ch. 103] Seven years after the primary guild members' disappearance on Sirius Island (天狼島 Tenrō-jima, lit. "Heaven Wolf Island"),[vol. 24:translation notes] the guild loses most of its members and is re-stationed in a rundown building even smaller than the first guildhall.[ch. 254]
Mashima has insisted that the spelling of the guild's name, which is a play on the phrase "fairy tale", is intentional. In the story, the guild's second guild master Purehito speculates that the origin of the guild name comes from the mystery of whether or not fairies, which are considered as mythical creatures within the series, have tails.[ch. 244] Tyler Walker likens Fairy Tail to the Scooby-Doo franchise: "it's got a core group of characters, with one talking animal, sometimes two...they travel, it's episodic...you know, we've seen this kind of thing before with the core group that's affiliated in some way going through adventure after adventure."[6]
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