Fairy Tail: Manga, anime, universe ... the keys to approaching its adaptation in J-RPG

As surprising as it may seem, the manga Fairy Tail has never seen a real adaptation in video games internationally and has been content with projects designed exclusively for the Japanese market. However, Koei Tecmo and Gust Studios (“Atelier” saga) have looked into the subject. Fairy Tail… the J-RPG was thus born. Faced with a dense universe and a story beginning in the middle of the saga, the sportsgaming.win editorial staff offers interested and other curious people some essential keys to approach Fairy Tail the game in the best conditions.

Fairy Tail is a Shonen (term for a type of manga targeting young male adolescents) written and drawn by Hiro Mashima (Rave, Monster Soul, Edens Zero). Pre-published in the weekly Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2006, the series ends almost eleven years later in July 2017. Faced with the immense success of the manga, the Japanese animation studios A1 Pictures , Satelight, Bridge and CloverWorks adapt the paper work between 2009 and 2019 as an animated series (available on Netflix) for a total of 328 episodes, 9 OAVs and 2 films.

The story of Fairy Tail takes for frames the kingdom of Fiore, a colorful heroic-fantasy universe in which a small percentage of the population (nearly 10%) manipulate magic. These extraordinary individuals are placed under the responsibility of guilds, themselves placed under the jurisdiction of the Council of Magic in order to supervise (and if necessary control) the mages. In this “fantastic” context, the Fairy Tail manga focuses on the eponymous guild located in the town of Magnolia ... a guild respected for its acts of bravery, and feared for the material damage it causes during each mission.

Among the many members of the guild, the story follows more particularly the adventures of Natsu Dragnir (hunter fire dragon) Lucy Heartfilia (constellationniste), Happy (cat anthropomorphic blue able to fly), Erza Scarlett (mage knight) and Grey Fullbuster (mage, ice). All characters mentioned will be playable, with the exception of the cat Happy, as well as many others for a total of 16 mages in addition to media, invited guests, caméos and of course the villains.

The video game Fairy Tail begins in the middle of the arc “Island Tenrô” (chapters 201 - 253 // episode 97 to 132) in the clash between the guild of the city of Magnolia in Hades, a powerful mage, formerly master of Fairy Tail. Following the cataclysm caused by the black dragon of the apocalypse Acnologia, several key members of the guild are missing. Seven years later, these bubble to the surface without having taken a ride to the difference of the entire kingdom of Fiore and his subjects. Natsu Dragnir, Lucy Heartfilia, Happy, Erza Scarlett, Grey Fullbuster... discover, then, a guild of Fairy Tail to become a shadow of itself.

The first player's objective will be to put Fairy Tail on foot, and win a magical between the formal structures of the kingdom of Fiore while beings with dark intentions advance their pawns on the sidelines of the event. The J-RPG developed by the studios Gust covers the story arcs Great Games Inter-Magical, Eclipse, Eclipse of the Spirits-Stellar (exclusive to the lively)... to finish with the arc “Tartaros”, which corresponds to chapters 258 to 416 of the manga, and episodes 151 to 265 of the animated. The publisher Koei Tecmo also mentions several original stories.

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