Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry Debuts English Trailer

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry took over theaters in Japan, but the movie has yet to hit the United States. Funimation will be bringing the movie to the West for a limited theatrical release, and in preparation has released an English Dubbed trailer to get fans even more excited. You can check out the trailer above.

Earlier this year, the second Fairy Tail movie debuted in Japan to rave reviews. The movie earned $500,000 in its first weekend to take the box office’s number ten spot. Funimation has announced that the film will be hitting North American theaters August 14 with a Subbed and August 16 and 19 dubbed.

You can read a translated version of the synopsis for Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry here: 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!?

You can check out Kodansha Comics’ summary of Fairy Tail below:

“Cute girl wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates led by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. Natsu’s not your typical hero—he gets motion sickness, eats like a pig, and his best friend is a talking cat. With friends like this, is Lucy better off with her enemies?”

If you are not familiar with Fairy Tail, then it is about time you familiarized yourself with the story. 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.

To date, several million copies of Fairy Tail have been sold worldwide. Published by Del Ray in the west, there are over 35 million volumes of the manga in circulation at the moment. Kodansha Comics is now overseeing the release of Fairy Tail projects in the U.S. and other western territories, and the licensing return has helped the publisher amass popularity. Other series like Attack on Titan have also helped bolster Kodansha’s visibility outside of Japan, so fans can expect the company to continue pushing out new content as it becomes available.