All Fairy Tail arcs in order

Publish date: 2024-06-10

Over the course of the decade of its run, Hiro Mashima’s bestselling manga series Fairy Tail became a staple of the shonen genre.

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Although not a part of the big 3, Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece, it comes immediately after that ranking, on the same or similar level as other over-a-decade-old long-running popular fantasy/supernatural/sci-fi shonen like Gintama, Full Metal Alchemist, Hunter x Hunter, Hitman Reborn!, among other examples.

Over the years, Fairy Tail became entrenched in the collective consciousness of avid anime fans everywhere, as its vividly colorful mages became highly recognizable, even to those who had yet to watch a single episode.

As often happens with long-running series that span many years, Fairy Tail has a lot of content to sift through, and not everyone has the patience or time to dedicate to getting through everything, filler episodes and arcs included.

So, here’s what you need to know about the order of the Fairy Tail arcs: whether they are canon or filler, which chapters and episodes they span, and when they were released.

The chronological list of the ‘Fairy Tail’ arcs

If we were to go along the chronology of the world itself, we’d start with the prequel Fairy Tail: Zero, which follows the guild’s founder Mavis Vermillion, and what led up to her creating Fairy Tail. The story can be found compiled into a single 13-chapter volume, separate from the rest of the series.

However, instead of starting here – which you could – it would probably be best to go along with the anime’s release date order.

It should be worth noting that the anime series also has 2 additional movies and 9 OVAs. If you’ve gone through the hours upon hours that make up the whole series and would like to see the return of our eclectic guild of mages, we should expect to hear of a release window confirmation for the anime adaptation of Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest sometime this year.

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