Volume 1:Volume 2:Volume 3:Volume 4:Volume 5:Volume 6:Volume 7:Volume 8:Volume 9:Volume 10:Volume 11:Volume 12:Volume 13:Volume 14:Volume 15:Volume 16:Volume 17:Volume 18:Volume 19:Volume 20:Volume 21:Volume 22:Volume 23:Volume 24:Volume 25:Volume 26:Volume 27:Fairy Tail is the second major work of Hiro Mashima after Rave Master. It came out in 2006 and contains quite a few throwbacks to Rave.
Let's enjoy some friendship, magic, guilds, fanservice and nonsense, shall we?
Last volume we continued the Tenrou Island arc. Grimoire Heart lost Kain to Team Natsu, Caprico/Zoldeo to Loke and Meredy to Juvia. FT lost Juvia to Meredy. In the meantime Cana's being kind of an idiot and Gray met up with Ultear.
Mashima pretty much let the whole anime team run wild without telling them anything. Even Akira Ishida was left completely in the dark to Zeref's background and motivations, probably because Mashima had nothing solidified for him yet.
Landon Roberts
Mostly wondering because the opening pretty much jumpstarted a pairing that would become very plot relevant later on. The wonders of crack shipping I guess.
The manga was 32 chapters ahead of the anime by the time OP 10 was released, and it was only 13 chapters since the time skip happened, so the studio probably had time.
Why is he such a cunt anyway? There's falling to the dark side and there's trying real hard to murder a bunch of kids who probably aren't even trying to fight you anyway.
Caleb Taylor
Ah, you mean Zervis. Well, Mashima DID say that their relationship was one of the ideas he settled on before he drew it, but I don't know when he did.
