Final Fairy Tail Anime Reveals Returning Staff, Cast

The official website for the anime adaptations of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail manga confirmed on Thusday that the "final series" for the television anime will air this fall, and revealed the main cast and staff.


The main staff are all returning from the second and most recent television anime. Shinji Ishihira is directing at A-1 Pictures and Bridge, Masashi Sogo is handling series composition, and Shinji Takeuchi and Toshihiko Sano are designing the characters. Shoji Hata is the sound designer and Yasuharu Takanashi is composing the music. With the exception of the second animation studio and the character designers, the main staff is also the same as the first anime.


Returning cast members include:

• Tetsuya Kakihara as Natsu
• Aya Hirano as Lucy
• Rie Kugimiya as Happy
• Yūichi Nakamura as Gray
• Sayaka Ohara as Erza

Mashima's Fairy Tail manga series follows the adventures of world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. The manga launched in 2006, and ended last July.


The manga has inspired two television anime, two anime films, several original video anime projects, and spinoff manga. Kodansha Comics publishes the original manga and a number of its spinoffs in North America.