New Fairy Tail Novel Announced By Kodansha

If you are one of the many fans who call Fairy Tail home, then you will be excited to hear the good news. Over on Amazon Japan, the site has update one of its listing about Hiro Mashima's beloved franchise. The new page has revealed that a brand-new Fairy Tail novel is coming, and it's going to make you think about a certain Alice stuck in a Wonderland.

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The website is now listing a novel titled Fairy Tail in Wonderland. Mashima is credited on the project, but Ren Kanan is listed as its author. The writer has worked on previous Fairy Tail projects like Ōedo Fairy Tail.

So far, there's not much known about the novel, but fans are eager to get their hands on it. Two light novels have been published about Fairy Tail, and they were both written by Miu Kawasaki. Fairy Tail: The Color Residing Within the Heart and Fairy Tail: Each of the Fighers' Days After the Grand Magic Games were released in 2012 and 2014. Then, in 2015, a third light novel titled Fairy Tail: Ōedo Fairy Tail was released.

So far, 2017 is shaping up to be a good year for the long-running shonen series. Later this year, the second Fairy Tail film is set to debut and will be titled Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry. The main anime series itself is still on-going, and Mashima continues to publish new content for its manga.

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.

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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.

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry will hit theaters in Spring 2017.

[HT] ANN