One of the biggest anime films of the season is debuting in a couple of days, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry. The highly anticipated new feature has made a splash with its marketing online, as the highly popular franchise shows off explosive action and drama.
The new teaser, seen above, is back to back action, fighting, explosions, and wizard dueling galore. The fans get a sneak peek at familiar characters such as Juvia, Grey, Erza, and Happy, and the beautiful new island Stella Kingdom.
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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 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!?
The film will begin showing in Japan on May 6.
