Fans of Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail manga have a reason to celebrate, as Kodansha announced the series’ return with a new one-shot chapter.
The one-shot will be published in the 31st issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine, releasing on July 3, 2024.
The announcement was made on Kodansha’s official X account, where they posted images and a video featuring special advertisements for Mashima’s works displayed at Gokukuji Station in Tokyo, including the advertisement for the new Fairy Tail one-shot.
Fairy Tail manga was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from August 2006 to July 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 tankobon volumes.
By February 2020, the Fairy Tail manga had over 72 million copies in print.
The series has also inspired numerous spin-off manga, including a prequel by Mashima, Fairy Tail Zero, and a sequel storyboarded by him, titled Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest.
The manga has been adapted into an anime series by A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Inc., Satelight, Bridge, and CloverWorks which was broadcast in Japan on TV Tokyo from October 2009 to March 2013. A second series was broadcast from April 2014 to March 2016. A third and final series was aired from October 2018 to September 2019.
A-1 Pictures has developed nine original video animations and two animated feature films.
Source: X