The official Twitter account for Mashima Hiro has announced that his Fairy Tail (フェアリーテイル ) manga will get a new manga mini series to celebrate the franchise’s 20th anniversary. The new manga will start serialisation in Kodansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine on August 5th, 2026, in the magazine’s combined 36th and 37th issue.
[https://x.com/mashima_tantou/status/2041531452169638044?s=20]
Shounen Magazine also released a commemorative video celebrating the original series.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHh7fi7yX8o]
Mashima’s original Fairy Tail manga started in August 2006 and ended in July 2017. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in December 2006 and the 63rd and final volume in November 2017.
Kodansha USA Publishing has released all of the original manga volumes in English under the name Fairy Tail, and it describes the manga story 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?”
The original Fairy Tail manga has inspired a television anime, animated films, several OVA’s, and spinoff manga. Author Mashima and Ueda Atsuo also began an ongoing manga sequel titled Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest (フェアリーテイル １００年クエスト) in July 2018, which inspired a TV anime in July 2024.
