Fairy Tail Creator Scares Fans With Murderous Lucy Sketch

Anime fans, you can’t ask for a better manga creator than Hiro Mashima. Not only is the artist heavily involved with his on-going series like Fairy Tail, but the creator has a present sense of humor. Over on Twitter, Mashima is the kind of guy who promotes his work, sends love to his fans, and shares behind-the-scenes photos all in a single day. However, the artist did manage to scare fans a bit with his social media sharing. Mashima shared a slew of sketches which left fans fearing the worst for Lucy.

Well, mostly.

Over on Twitter, Mashima shared a picture of Lucy apparently falling from the sky. The heroine is shown in brown riding boots, a white crop top, and shorts which show off her long legs. Complete with pigtails, Lucy looks more than happy as she free-falls to the waiting arms of Natsu? Erza? Perhaps Gray?

Sadly, none of those heroes are waiting for the girl. Instead, one of Lucy’s own celestial spirits is waiting to murder the girl! In a second sketch shared with fans, Mashima teased how Lucy’s fall ended when he added a picture of Plue looking up to his owner. However, the creature’s sharp carrot nose is pointed right at his master’s head, and Lucy is not about to avoid the accidental strike.

What a sad way to go, Lucky. Hopefully, the character will not meet such an end in the actual Fairy Tail series. The heroine still has much to do, and besides, Plue would be traumatized for life if he were to be the cause of Lucy’s death. Maybe the two should keep their distance when Lucy makes her return in Mashima’s upcoming movie, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry.

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry is being overseen by a group of industry professionals. It is directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa over at A-1 Pictures. Shoji Yonemura wrote the film’s script while Yuuko Yamada oversaw all of its character designs. As for its music, Yasuharu Takanashi returned to score the feature. Back in May 2015, Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine confirmed the feature was coming. The franchise’s first film, Fairy Tail The Movie: Phoenix Princess, debuted back in 2012.

You can read a translated version of the synopsis for Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry below:

A new story of the popular manga “FAIRY TAIL” from “Weekly Shonen Magazine” is engraved on the screen.

The movie this time is an original story based on an a new 200-page story authored by original creator Hiromu Mashima himself!

On an isolated island surrounded by cliffs in the Stella Kingdom, familiar characters like Natsu and Lucy and other original characters color the screen. The manga has already entered its final chapter! While the excitement is ramping up, will its origins finally revealed on the big screen!?

If you are not familiar with Fairy Tail, then it is about time you familiarized yourself with the anime. The series follows a guild of young, powerful wizards who call Fairy Tail family. Set in a fictional Earth, a boy named Natsu teams up with an unlikely friend Lucy Heartfilia as the latter dreams of becoming a powerful wizard. To date, there are more than 250 episodes of the acclaimed series, and fans can expect more to come in the new year.

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry will begin showing in Japan on May 6.