Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry Film Teases Original Manga's Climax in Trailer

The official website for the Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry anime film began streaming a teaser trailer on Wednesday. The teaser emphasizes that Hiro Mashima's original manga is in the "final arc" as it heads "towards the climax!"
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• Natsu: We're the Fairy Tail mages!​
• Text: Fairy Tail Final Arc​
• Narrator: A decade after starting its serialization, creator Hiro Mashima's story …​
• Text: Over 60 million in print worldwide​
• Text: Original Work: Hiro Mashima​
• Text & Narrator: … Is finally heading towards the climax!​
• Text: Film executive producer: Hiro Mashima​
• Natsu: It doesn't matter what happens to me! My blood, flesh, bones — all of it!​
• Lucy: Stop, Natsu!​
• Natsu: For my friends!​
• Text & Narrator: Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry​
• Lucy: Natsu, open your eyes …​
• Text: That power … is it hope or destruction…?​

The film will open in Japan on May 6, and the tagline on the new poster visual (pictured below) by manga creator Hiro Mashima reads, "That power … is it hope or destruction…?"

Mashima is drawing 193 pages of storyboard for the film (pictured below), and is also serving as executive producer. Mashima also drew the key visuals for the film, which features Natsu half transformed into a dragon (as also seen in the teaser).

The returning cast includes:
Tetsuya Kakihara as Natsu Dragneel

Aya Hirano as Lucy Heartfilia

Rie Kugimiya as Happy

Yūichi Nakamura as Gray Fullbuster

Sayaka Ohara as Erza Scarlet

Satomi Satou as Wendy

Yui Horie as Charles

The film-original characters include:
Sonya, an aide to King Animus

Zash Caine, the minister of state of Stella Kingdom

King Animus, the king of Stella kingdom.

Mashima drew the original rough sketches for all of the above characters. The new characters' voice cast has yet to be revealed.

Tatsuma Minamikawa (episode director for Aldnoah.Zero, Attack on Titan, Haganai NEXT) is directing the film at A-1 Pictures. Shoji Yonemura is returning from the previous two television anime series to write the script, Yuuko Yamada (chief animation director for Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Persona 3 the Movie #3 Falling Down) is the character designer and chief animation director, and Yasuharu Takanashi is returning from the previous anime series and Fairy Tail Zero to compose the music. GAGA is distributing the film.

Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine had announced in May 2015 that Fairy Tail was getting a second anime film.

The manga follows the adventures of world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. The manga already inspired two television anime, several previous original video anime projects, and spinoff manga. The franchise's first anime film, Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess, opened in Japan on August 18, 2012.

The television anime series also revealed in March that a new project is in the works.

Del Rey published the first 12 volumes of the original manga in North America, and Kodansha Comics resumed publishing the manga in English with the 13th volume in 2011. Crunchyroll streamed the second television anime into several countries as it aired in Japan, and Funimation has been releasing DVD/Blu-ray Disc sets.​