Fairy Tail Creator Reveals Final Chapter’s Title

The time has almost come. If you have been sticking it out with Fairy Tail for all these years, then you will soon be relieved from your weekly reading. After all, Hiro Mashima’s staff has finished its work on the last chapter of Fairy Tail, and fans know what to expect from the finale now.

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Over on Twitter, scans from the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump have revealed the name of Fairy Tail’s final chapter. User Yonkou Productions shared the image online for fans, and the caption confirms the finale will be titled “Irreplaceable Friends.” The chapter itself will be a double-issue as it is expected to be 48-pages long.

Aside from its title, there is not much known about the Fairy Tail finale. The chapter is expected to come out in July or early August, and it will complete the current arc Fairy Tail has been slogging through. Fans have high-hopes for the chapter as it will wrap up Mashima’s on-going tenure with Natsu and his guild mates. If the manga includes a flash-forward, they ware hoping the creator will reveal how the Fairy Tail guild is doing once Acnologia has been dealt with for good. And, of course, everyone wants to know where Lucy manages to hook up with Natsu.

If they don’t – well, NaLu shippers will make sure their complaints are heard loud and clear.

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.