| Fairy Tail (season 9) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 51[1] |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original release | October 7, 2018 – Ongoing |
| Season chronology | |
The ninth and final season of the Fairy Tailanime series was directed by Shinji Ishihara and produced by A-1 Pictures, CloverWorks, and Bridge.[2][3] Like the rest of the series, it follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia of the fictional guild Fairy Tail. This season contains two story arcs: the first seven episodes continue the 'Avatar' arc (アヴァタール編Avatāru-hen), which adapts material from the final chapter of the 49th volume to the second-to-last chapter of the 51st volume of the Fairy Tail manga by Hiro Mashima, depicting Natsu, Lucy, and Happy's journey to reorganize their disbanded guild; the remaining 44 episodes form the 'Alvarez' arc (アルバレス編Arubaresu-hen), which adapts material from the last chapter of the 51st volume to the manga's conclusion, depicting the guild's war with the militaristic Alvarez Empire, and Natsu's final battle with his adversaries Zeref and Acnologia.
On July 20, 2017, Hiro Mashima announced on Twitter that a third and 'final' series of Fairy Tail would air in 2018.[4] The final season premiered on October 7, 2018 on TV Tokyo,[5][6] and is simultaneously released by Funimation with a broadcast dub in North America.[7]
The anime contains six pieces of theme music: three opening themes and three ending themes. For episodes 278 to 290, the first opening theme is 'Power of the Dream', performed by lol, and the ending theme is 'Endless Harmony', performed by Beverly.[8] For episodes 291 to 303, the second opening and ending theme are 'Down by Law' by The Rampage from Exile Tribe and 'Pierce' by EMPiRE, respectively.[9] For episodes 304 onward, the third opening and ending theme are 'No-Limit' by Ōsaka ☆ Shunkashūtō and 'Boku to Kimi no Lullaby' by Miyuna.[10]
| No. | Official English title[a] Original Japanese title | Original air date[b][11] | |
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| 278 | 'The Lamia Scale Thanksgiving Festival' Transcription: 'Ramia Sukeiru Kanshasai' (Japanese: | October 7, 2018 | |
| Natsu Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, and Happy travel to the city of Marguerite to visit Lamia Scale, which now includes Wendy Marvell and Carla. Wendy declines the trio's invitation to help reorganize Fairy Tail, thinking that leaving Lamia Scale would upset her friend and current partner Sherria Blendy, who admonishes Wendy for her pity-based decision. That evening, the city is invaded by a horde of 100,000 monsters commanded by Orochi's Fin, a rival guild to Lamia Scale. Taking Happy over Natsu's objections, Sherria flies off to help Wendy defeat the wizard controlling the monsters; in his anger, Natsu stampedes through the advancing horde in pursuit of Sherria and Happy. | |||
| 279 | 'Because of Love' Transcription: 'Aishiteru kara' (Japanese: 愛してるから) | October 14, 2018 | |
| Wendy, Sherria, Carla, and Happy battle Orochi's Fin, but are quickly trapped under a gravity field created by Blue Note Stinger, the guild's strongest member and Grimoire Heart's ex-subcommander. Unaffected by the gravity, Natsu catches up to his friends and effortlessly defeats Blue Note with a single fire breath, which shocks the rest of Orochi's Fin into surrendering. After assuring Wendy of her own self-reliance, Sherria convinces her to rejoin Natsu's group together with Carla. The group set off for a deserted and rainy village where a heartbroken Juvia Lockser resides. | |||
| 280 | 'Avatar' Transcription: 'Avatāru' (Japanese: | October 21, 2018 | |
| Natsu's group find Juvia ill-stricken from the rain at the deserted village, where she has lived with Gray Fullbuster until he disappeared six months earlier. When Juvia recalls a pattern of black markings that appeared on Gray's body before he left, Natsu remembers the warning from Rogue Cheney's future self that Gray is supposed to kill Frosch around this time. Natsu visits Saber Tooth with Lucy and Happy to prevent Rogue and Frosch from undertaking a mission to destroy Avatar, a cult of Zeref's worshipers that Natsu correctly surmises Gray has joined. Meanwhile, Avatar's members suspect Gray of spying on them for the Magic Council, but he says that destroying the Book of E.N.D. is all that concerns him anymore, which convinces the cultists that he has been corrupted by his demon slayer magic. Elsewhere, the Council's custody enforcement unit – captained by Gajeel Redfox – discovers Gray's affiliation with Avatar and prepares to apprehend him with the rest of the cult. | |||
| 281 | 'Underground Clash' Transcription: 'Chika no Gekitō' (Japanese: 地下の激闘) | October 28, 2018 | |
| Natsu, Lucy, and Happy use Virgo's tunneling magic to infiltrate Avatar's base. When Natsu alerts Avatar to their presence by calling out to Gray, they encounter three of the cult's elite black wizards, whom Natsu quickly defeats before Gray arrives and attacks him. Natsu implores Gray to rejoin Fairy Tail, thinking he is possessed, but Gray refuses and says that he has joined Avatar of his own volition. The elites capture the trio before leaving to carry out their 'purification' plan, which involves a ritualistic massacre of innocents in an attempt to summon Zeref. One of the elites, Gômon, stays behind to torture and interrogate the trio, but Gray freezes him and releases his friends, revealing that he has been secretly working undercover together with Erza Scarlet. | |||
| 282 | 'The Purification Plan' Transcription: 'Jōka Sakusen' (Japanese: 浄化作戦) | November 4, 2018 | |
| After Gray and Erza explain the reasons for their espionage to their friends, including Gray's extended absence from Juvia, the five wizards intercept Avatar's entire congregation at the town of Malva to keep the cultists from massacring its citizens. Lucy, Gray and Erza each demonstrate their own improved magical skills by overpowering many of Avatar's soldiers and elites, while Wendy and Carla return to assist their friends, reuniting a healed Juvia with Gray as well. Natsu eventually reaches Avatar's high priest and leader, Alok, who has anticipated these events and says that the 'purification' ritual will begin with the arrival of a being called Ikusa-Tsunagi. | |||
| 283 | 'Ikusatsunagi' Transcription: 'Ikusatsunagi' (Japanese: イクサツナギ) | November 11, 2018 | |
| After being defeated by Natsu, Alok summons the colossal war god Ikusa-Tsunagi to attack his own followers, whom he reveals to be the intended sacrifices for his ritual instead of the townspeople. An enraged Natsu climbs onto Ikusa-Tsunagi's head and uses his Fire Dragon King's Demolition Fist to destroy the god. Gajeel's squad then arrives and captures the cultists after following directions left behind by Gray at Avatar's base. While the Fairy Tail wizards celebrate their reunion and victory, Rogue arrives with Frosch to investigate, despite Natsu's instructions. When Gray cuddles Frosch, however, Natsu is assured that the Exceed's prophesied death has been avoided. | |||
| 284 | 'Memoirs' Transcription: 'Kaisōroku' (Japanese: 回想録) | November 18, 2018 | |
| In a flashback to over 400 years earlier, a young Zeref Dragneel studies at Mildian Academy in search of a way to resurrect his dead brother, Natsu. The school board eventually expel Zeref out of fear that his forbidden research will anger the god of life and death, Ankhselam; when Zeref still refuses to accept Natsu's death, Ankhselam afflicts him with the curse of contradiction, which kills everyone else in the academy and makes Zeref immortal. Consumed with guilt and self-loathing over his actions, Zeref creates the Etherious to assist in his suicide, using Natsu's preserved body to complete E.N.D., his final demon. Back in the present, Zeref meets with the human form of Acnologia, whom he challenges to a battle between themselves and humanity. Meanwhile, Lucy and her friends return to Magnolia, where Lucy worries that the other guildmates she has contacted have moved on with their lives. To her delight, she sees them all gathered at the ruins of Fairy Tail's guildhall, where Natsu announces Fairy Tail's revival. | |||
| 285 | 'The 7th Guild Master' Transcription: 'Nanadaime Girudo Masutā' (Japanese: 七代目ギルドマスター) | November 25, 2018 | |
| During the reconstruction of Fairy Tail's guildhall, Levy McGarden registers Erza as the guild's seventh master to substitute for Makarov Dreyar, who has been missing for the past year. Mest Gryder arrives and reveals Lumen Histoire to Erza and her eavesdropping friends, explaining that Makarov disbanded the guild to protect them from the Alvarez Empire, a military superpower on the western continent of Alakitasia that intends to obtain Lumen Histoire by invading Ishgal. Reasoning that Makarov has been taken hostage during his attempt to negotiate peace with Alvarez, the group prepare to infiltrate the empire and rescue him by themselves. However, Gajeel overhears them and organizes his own team to recruit Laxus Dreyar. | |||
| 286 | 'Law of Space' Transcription: 'Kūkan no Okite' (Japanese: 空間の掟) | December 2, 2018 | |
| While receiving the Magic Council's approval for Fairy Tail's revival, Levy learns from the councilors that the strongest of Ishgal's Ten Wizard Saints, God Serena, has defected to join Alvarez's Spriggan 12, which consist of eleven other wizards of similar strength. Horrified, Levy joins Gajeel and his team's search for Laxus to support Natsu's team, advising them against battling the Spriggan 12. Meanwhile, Natsu's team stop at Caracol Island to rendezvous with a secret informant while disguised as members of Cait Shelter, only to break cover to stop Alvarez soldiers from killing a child. The wizards unwittingly attract the attention of Alvarez officer Marin Hollow, who uses his spacial magic to negate Lucy, Erza, and Mest's magic and attack the others before being stopped by Brandish μ, his superior officer and one of the Spriggan 12. | |||
| 287 | 'Emperor Spriggan' Transcription: 'Kōtei Supurigan' (Japanese: 皇帝スプリガン) | December 9, 2018 | |
| Gajeel's team visit a hot spring owned by Blue Pegasus, where Ichiya Vandalay Kotobuki reveals that Laxus and the Raijin Tribe have joined his guild, ruining Gajeel's surprise for the others. Meanwhile, Brandish demonstrates her tremendous power by expanding and then shrinking Caracol Island's landmass as a warning to Natsu's team, informing them of Makarov's safety. Mest transports the group to an underwater submarine piloted by their informant from Crime Sorcière, former Oración Seis member Sorano Agria, who takes them to Makarov's location. In the imperial capital of Vistarion, Makarov witnesses the return of Alvarez's ruler, Emperor Spriggan, whom he discovers to be Zeref. After revealing his knowledge of Lumen Histoire's real name, Fairy Heart, Zeref attempts to kill Makarov to provoke Natsu's anger, but Mest rescues Makarov and reunites him with Natsu's team. | |||
| 288 | 'To the God-Forsaken Land' Transcription: 'Kami ni Misuterareta Chi e' (Japanese: 神に見捨てられた地へ) | December 16, 2018 | |
| Natsu and his team's reunion with Makarov is interrupted by the arrival of Ajeel Raml, one of the Spriggan 12. The Fairy Tail wizards flee on a magic-powered carriage, but Ajeel gives pursuit on a colossal golem made of sand and eventually traps them in a giant sand pit. Makarov tries protecting them from Ajeel's deadly sand magic until Laxus arrives aboard Blue Pegasus's Christina airship. Mest teleports the entire group onto the ship before Laxus retaliates against Ajeel with an explosion of lightning, but Ajeel is protected by a barrier conjured by August, another one of the Spriggan 12. Returning to Fairy Tail's finished guildhall, Makarov is reinstated as master and apologizes for fruitlessly disbanding the guild. In preparation of Alvarez's invasion, Mavis Vermillion decides to tell the guild the origins of Fairy Heart and her relationship with Zeref. | |||
| 289 | 'Mavis and Zeref' Transcription: 'Meibisu to Zerefu' (Japanese: メイビスとゼレフ) | December 23, 2018 | |
| In X686, Mavis learns the unperfected black magic spell Law from Zeref, which she later uses to save her friends' lives at the cost of her physical growth. She re-encounters Zeref ten years later after she and the rest of Fairy Tail have participated in a four-year-long war. Zeref discovers that she has been inflicted with Ankhselam's curse for using Law, reasoning that Mavis's tactical command during the war has offset her life-stealing powers by dulling her respect for life. Mavis denies Zeref's statements out of disgust, only to later realize the truth when she unintentionally kills Makarov's mother on the day of his birth, causing Mavis to exile herself from the guild. When Zeref finds Mavis again one year later, she empathizes with his cursed state and proposes that they lift their shared curse together. The two fall in love and kiss, but as a result, Zeref's curse kills Mavis despite her immortality. | |||
| 290 | 'Fairy Heart' Transcription: 'Fearī Hāto' (Japanese: | January 6, 2019 | |
| In X697, Zeref returns Mavis's body to Fairy Tail's acting guild master, Precht Gaebolg. Sensing that Mavis is in a state between life and death, Precht puts her in stasis beneath the guildhall and attempts to revive her, eventually discovering her curse and falsifying her death to keep it a secret from the guild. Thirty years later, Precht's continued revival efforts produce Fairy Heart, a source of limitless magic power. Back in the present, Mavis surmises that Zeref intends to use Fairy Heart to defeat Acnologia, making himself an unstoppable force. Natsu reveals he has obtained a secret technique from his year-long training that he believes will defeat Zeref, who simultaneously assembles the Spriggan 12 for war. Meanwhile, Acnologia decides to participate in the oncoming battle. | |||
| 291 | 'The Magnolia Defensive War' Transcription: 'Magunoria Hōeisen' (Japanese: マグノリア防衛戦) | January 13, 2019 | |
| After Magnolia is evacuated for Alvarez's invasion, the city is struck by a surprise western attack from an armada of imperial airships commanded by Ajeel. Fried Justine maintains a jutsu-shiki barrier that protects the city, allowing Bisca Moulin to fire on the armada with the guild's Jupiter cannon, but Ajeel effortlessly disperses the attack. When Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy's counterattack against Ajeel fails because of their motion sickness aboard his airship, Erza arrives to duel him, sending the dragon slayers to battle his ground forces. Meanwhile, Spriggan 12 member Wall Eehto breaches Fried's barrier, while Lucy discovers Brandish and a shrunken Marin in her bathroom. As Fairy Tail's other members assess the presence of three Spriggan 12 members within the city, they detect three larger factions of Alvarez's army approaching from all other directions, each accompanied by three of the remaining Spriggan 12. | |||
| 292 | 'Morning Star' Transcription: 'Myōjō' (Japanese: 明星) | January 20, 2019 | |
| Fairy Tail continues to battle Alvarez's forces that have infiltrated Magnolia. Meanwhile, Brandish finds Lucy familiar and threatens her into sharing a bath to discover her identity. Upon realizing that Lucy is Layla Heartfilia's daughter, Brandish shrinks the building and attempts to kill her as she flees. After being rescued by Cana Alberona, Lucy incapacitates Marin to fight Brandish, unknowingly stopping Marin from negating Erza's magic during her own duel with Ajeel. When Erza deduces Ajeel's weakness to water and wind magic, Ajeel resorts to conjuring a sandstorm that engulfs the city. Overwhelmed, Erza uses her Morning Star armor to create a beacon that helps Bisca fire Jupiter at Ajeel through the storm, which results in his defeat. | |||
| 293 | 'For Whom the Parfum Flows' Transcription: 'Sono Parufamu wa Ta ga Tame ni' (Japanese: その | January 27, 2019 | |
| Brandish contracts a pollen allergy from Ajeel's sandstorm, allowing Cana to knock her unconscious. Meanwhile, Wall targets Fried to completely dispel his jutsu-shiki, creating an army of robotic soldiers tailored to the weaknesses of Fairy Tail's other members. Ichiya arrives to help the Raijin Tribe fight the mechanical Wall, who absorbs Ichiya's electric attacks to assume a more powerful form. After Alvarez's surrounding armada and Wall's soldiers are defeated, Fried drops the barrier and destroys Wall's body alongside Ichiya. However, Wall's head explodes and injures the Raijin Tribe when they protect Ichiya from the explosion, revealing the robot to be a puppet remotely controlled by the real Wall from Alvarez's southern advancement. Wall fires on Fairy Tail's guildhall with a long-range magic cannon, but Ichiya uses the Christina to block the attack before contacting the other wizard guilds in Fiore, beckoning them to join the war against Alvarez. | |||
| 294 | 'Natsu vs. Zeref' Transcription: 'Natsu vs. Zerefu' (Japanese: ナツ vs. ゼレフ) | February 3, 2019 | |
| With Alvarez's vanguard defeated and Brandish imprisoned, the guilds of Fiore hold back the advancing armies. Mavis sends several members to reinforce their allies in the northern and southern fronts, while the Four Emperors of Ishgal defend the eastern side. Suddenly, the guild detects Natsu flying with Happy towards the western army led by Zeref to defeat them by himself. After drawing Zeref out by defeating several hundred soldiers, Natsu overpowers him with his ultimate technique, Fire Dragon King Mode, a temporary reserve of magic power left behind by Igneel. Convinced that Natsu has found the means of killing him, Zeref thanks him and several others as he awaits his death. | |||
| 295 | 'Across 400 Years' Transcription: 'Yonhyaku-nen no Toki o Koe' (Japanese: 400年の時を超え) | February 10, 2019 | |
| Having survived Natsu's attack, Zeref reveals both his and Natsu's identities as Natsu's brother and E.N.D., respectively; he further reveals that Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Rogue, and Sting Eucliffe were sent over 400 years from the past through the Eclipse gate by Lucy's ancestor Anna and Layla as part of the dragons' plan to kill Acnologia. Zeref also warns that his own death will result in Natsu's death. After Happy persuades a skeptical Natsu to retreat, Zeref accepts his own immortality and fully commits himself to his invasion. Meanwhile, Fairy Tail's allies encounter several of the Spriggan 12, with Mermaid Heel and Lamia Scale fighting to free Hargeon from the members Wall, DiMaria Yesta, and Neinhart. In Magnolia, Marin infiltrates Fairy Tail and chokes Brandish for her cruelty towards him. While returning to the guild, Happy discovers that Natsu has fainted. | |||
| 296 | 'What I Want to Do' Transcription: 'Atashi no Shitai Koto' (Japanese: あたしのしたい事) | February 17, 2019 | |
| After being saved from Marin by Lucy and Cana, Brandish reveals herself as the daughter of Layla's servant Grammi, whom she presumes Layla killed over possession of Aquarius's key. When Brandish attempts to kill Lucy again to avenge Grammi, however, Lucy is rescued by Aquarius, who has gained a new key in an unknown location to replace her broken one, temporarily reuniting with Lucy. Aquarius takes the wizards to her memory of their mothers' past, where they watch Grammi inadvertently causing Layla to sacrifice herself to open Eclipse without Aquarius's key, resulting in Zoldio killing Grammi. Happy arrives with the catatonic Natsu, whom Porlyusica diagnoses with a malignant tumor caused by his overexertion of magic. Learning that the tumor cannot be removed, Brandish helps Natsu by shrinking it instead. As Aquarius returns to the celestial world, Lucy promises to find her key after the war. Meanwhile, Fairy Tail's allies struggle against the Spriggan 12, with God Serena single-handedly overpowering the Four Emperors. | |||
| 297 | 'Not Until the Battle Is Over' Transcription: 'Tatakai ga Owaru made wa' (Japanese: 戦いが終わるまでは) | February 24, 2019 | |
| The Four Emperors retaliate against God Serena, who reveals himself to be a dragon slayer with multiple elemental powers and defeats the four wizards. However, Acnologia appears and effortlessly kills God Serena in a hunt for dragon slayers, ignoring the other wizards. Meanwhile, Erza and her team – Gray, Juvia, Wendy, Carla, and Laxus – join Mermaid Heel and Lamia Scale's battle to liberate Hargeon. Wendy and Carla team up with Sherria to battle DiMaria, while Laxus duels Wall to avenge the Raijin Tribe, despite being contaminated with Tempester's health-threatening Devil Particles. Outmatched, Wall adopts a more serious personality and enters his Assault Mode at the same time that Laxus suffers a physical breakdown from his condition, quickly leaving Laxus unable to fight back. | |||
| 298 | 'In a Silent Time' Transcription: 'Shizuka naru Toki no Naka de' (Japanese: 静かなる時の中で) | March 3, 2019 | |
| Wall prepares to obliterate the incapacitated Laxus, who tricks him into a dispelling a jutsu-shiki circle that he has secretly drawn around them during their battle, which eradicates Laxus's Devil Particles and allows him to conjure red lightning that destroys Wall. In Hargeon, Jellal Fernandez and Merudy arrive to lend their support against Alvarez, much to Kagura Mikazuchi's chagrin. DiMaria stops time with her Âge Seal magic to toy with Wendy, Sherria, and Carla, but the three are able to move under the power of Ultear Milkovich, who appears as a projection within the temporal rift as a side effect of her own Last Ages spell. Enraged, DiMaria uses her God Soul Takeover magic to assume the form of Chronos, the god of time. Carla is fatally wounded protecting Wendy from DiMaria, forcing Ultear to eject her from the rift to stall her death. Ultear offers to help Wendy and Sherria defeat DiMaria and save Carla by enhancing their magic with the power of Third Origin, which she warns will permanently cost them their ability to use magic again. | |||
| 299 | 'Natsu, Revived!!' Transcription: 'Fukkatsu no Natsu!!' (Japanese: 復活のナツ!!) | March 10, 2019 | |
| Wendy agrees to undergo Ultear's Third Origin spell to protect Sherria, but Sherria persuades Ultear to let her take Wendy's place, arguing that her own god slayer magic is better suited against DiMaria's God Soul, and that Fairy Tail still needs Wendy's healing magic. Sherria uses the last of her magic to defeat DiMaria, allowing Wendy to heal Carla. Meanwhile, assassin and Spriggan 12 member Jacob Lessio enters Fairy Tail's guildhall and transports its members to another dimension. Capable of seeing Mavis's normally invisible spirit, Jacob interrogates her over her body's location by magically torturing her. Lucy and Happy interrupt him, having been protected by Horologium from Jacob's transportation spell together with Natsu, who recovers from his coma to help his friends battle Jacob. Jacob resorts to turning Lucy's clothes invisible and forcing an unfazed Natsu to watch, which backfires when Jacob shuts his own eyes to avoid looking at her, allowing them to counterattack; witnessing this, Mavis discovers a method to defeat Zeref. | |||
| 300 | 'Historia of Corpses' Transcription: 'Shikabane no Hisutoria' (Japanese: 屍のヒストリア) | March 17, 2019 | |
| Furious over his humiliation by Natsu and Lucy, Jacob threatens to kill their guildmates within his pocket dimension until Lucy tells him that he has unknowingly captured Brandish and Marin as well. When Jacob releases the two, Lucy summons Gemini to copy Marin's magic and free her guildmates. After Natsu uses his Fire Dragon King Mode to defeat Jacob, Mavis instructs Cana to release her body from its stasis by using Fairy Glitter to destroy her illusory form. In northern Fiore, Gajeel's team discovers that Saber Tooth and Blue Pegasus have been defeated and crucified by the Alvarez army. In Hargeon, Erza, Jellal, and Kagura encounter a replica of the deceased Simon called a Historia, created by Neinhart to torment the trio. After sending Jellal and Kagura into the ocean, Neinhart creates Historias of powerful dead figures from Erza and her allies' pasts to fight them. Kagura contemplates leaving Jellal to die for killing Simon, but abandons her resentment and resuscitates him. | |||
| 301 | 'Mettle' Transcription: 'Kihaku' (Japanese: 気魄) | March 24, 2019 | |
| Fairy Tail and their allies struggle to defend Hargeon from the Historias of Ur, Zancrow, Keyes, Ezel, and Hades. Meanwhile, Erza is seriously injured while fighting the Historias of Ikaruga, Azuma, and Kyôka at once, but causes them to vanish by terrifying them with her furious glare before falling unconscious, leading Neinhart to suspect a relationship between her and Irene Belserion, one of the Spriggan 12. Jellal eventually defeats Neinhart after Kagura destroys Simon's Historia, while their allies defeat the other Historias and imprison Alvarez's forces. In Magnolia, Brandish warns Fairy Tail against fighting August and Irene, whom she describes as the strongest of the 12. Against Mest's objections, Lucy agrees to let Brandish negotiate a ceasefire with August. On the mountain of Zonia in northern Fiore, Irene transforms the snowy landscape into a lush flower field as a display of her power. Undetterred, Gajeel and his team prepare to battle her subordinates to avenge Saber Tooth and Blue Pegasus. | |||
| 302 | 'The Third Seal' Transcription: 'Dai San no In' (Japanese: 第三の印) | March 31, 2019 | |
| Natsu, Lucy, and Happy accompany Brandish to meet August, with Mest following them out of suspicion. Brandish pleads with August to reconsider the war, causing August to accuse her of treason. In Zonia, Saber Tooth and Blue Pegasus rejoin the battle after being rescued by Gajeel's team, with the Oración Seis arriving to support them. Gajeel personally battles Bloodman, a member of the Spriggan 12 whose body is composed of Devil Particles, which Gajeel is immune to because of his own iron body. Concerned for Gajeel when he professes a desire to die, Levy joins the battle to save him while wearing a mask to filter out the particles. As Bloodman reveals his ability to use the same powers as Tartaros's Nine Demon Gates, Levy admits that her mask is useless and succumbs to the particles absorbed into her skin. | |||
| 303 | 'Together, Always' Transcription: 'Zutto Futari de' (Japanese: ずっと二人で) | April 7, 2019 | |
| Gajeel inhales Bloodman's Devil Particles to save Levy, absorbing traces of iron and assuming a new form that allows him to defeat Bloodman. Mortally injured, Bloodman turns himself into a portal to the underworld to kill Gajeel, who confesses his love to Levy before disappearing. Meanwhile, Mest brainwashes Brandish into attempting to kill August shortly after they reach an agreement to spare Fairy Tail, which prompts August to conjure a column of fire that blasts the Fairy Tail wizards away. At the guildhall, Cana destroys Mavis's spirit and releases her body, which regains consciousness. Intending to hasten the war's outcome, Irene duels Acnologia in Zonia before using her Universe One enchantment, reconstructing Fiore. | |||
| 304 | 'Fairy Tail Zero' Transcription: 'Fearī Teiru Zero' (Japanese: フェアリーテイル ZERO) | April 14, 2019 | |
| Zeref is transported to Fairy Tail's guildhall with Mavis as a result of Universe One, which also sends Acnologia far away from the kingdom and scatters all other ally and enemy forces across the compressed landscape. This coincidentally saves Gajeel, who discovers Mavis's recreated illusion of Zera. The pair telepathically contact Fairy Tail's members to guide them to the guildhall; Yukino Agria, Lector, and Frosch accompany Elfman Strauss and encounter Sorano, whom Yukino recognizes as her long-lost sister. Meanwhile, Mirajane Strauss battles two of Irene's soldiers, Juliet Sun and Heine Lunasea, whose strength forces her to assume her most powerful Satan Soul form, Mirajane Alegria, which depletes her magic. Juliet and Heine revert to their original forms as inanimate swords upon their defeat, leaving Mirajane shocked as Irene approaches her from behind. | |||
| 305 | 'White Dragneel' Transcription: 'Shiroki Doraguniru' (Japanese: 白きドラグニル) | April 21, 2019 | |
| Irene captures and tortures Mirajane until August orders her to regroup with the rest of the Spriggan 12, piercing Mirajane's heart with a beam of magic; Lisanna Strauss later finds Mirajane alive with her wound shrunken by Brandish. Meanwhile, Sorano pretends to be unfamiliar with Yukino out of guilt for her past crimes, but promises to reunite with her once she has atoned. Elsewhere, DiMaria is found by Larcade Dragneel, one of the 12 and Zeref's 'secret weapon' against Acnologia. At the hill where Fairy Tail's guildhall is now located, Invel mentally enslaves Mavis with an ice collar that hinders her intellect. Zeref shows her Alvarez's entire military force that has assembled around the guild, including Historias of God Serena, Wall, and Bloodman. Natsu and his friends arrive and fight through Alvarez's army, but are impeded by God Serena's Historia, whose magic is negated by a returning Gildarts Clive. | |||
| 306 | 'The Winter Wizard' Transcription: 'Fuyu no Madōshi' (Japanese: 冬の魔導士) | April 28, 2019 | |
| Gildarts discovers that God Serena's Historia is weaker than his real counterpart and easily defeats him, while the Strauss siblings, Rogue, and Minerva Orland battle Ajeel, Jacob, and the other Historias. While extracting Fairy Heart from Mavis, Irene is informed by Neinhart that Erza is alive, and orders him to kill her. Meanwhile, Invel uses his wintery magic to freeze Gray's friends and overpower Gray's Ice Make, but Gray gains an advantage with his demon slayer magic. Natsu unfreezes himself and the others before he, Lucy, and Happy are abducted by Brandish. Knowing that Natsu is E.N.D., Invel brainwashes Gray and Juvia into fighting each other to the death, intending to corrupt Gray through his demon slayer magic and compel him to kill Natsu. However, Juvia is unwilling to harm Gray and resolves to commit suicide. | |||
| 307 | 'Gray and Juvia' Transcription: 'Gurei to Jubia' (Japanese: グレイとジュビア) | May 5, 2019 | |
| As Gray and Juvia battle each other against their wills, Juvia resists Invel's control enough to stab herself with a blade of water, only for Gray to impale himself with an ice sword simultaneously. However, Juvia uses her water magic to transfuse her blood into Gray, saving his life as a result. A grief-stricken Gray defeats Invel, unaware as Wendy and Carla have already healed Juvia. When Gray retains his judgment and refuses Invel's request to kill Natsu, Invel reveals Natsu's identity as E.N.D. to him in another attempt to trigger Gray's corruption. Meanwhile, Brandish tries imploring Natsu, Lucy, and Happy to abandon the battle to save them from the rest of Alvarez's forces, but is shocked when Natsu easily defeats a magically enhanced Neinhart. | |||
| 308 | 'The Mightiest Demon of the Book of Zeref' Transcription: 'Zerefu Sho Saikyō no Akuma' (Japanese: ゼレフ書最強の悪魔) | May 12, 2019 | |
| Determining Natsu to be a threat, Brandish re-enlarges his tumor and declares her loyalty to Alvarez. Lucy reluctantly fights Brandish to save Natsu, but DiMaria intervenes. Deducing that Brandish is only pretending to fight Lucy seriously, DiMaria severely injures Brandish and kidnaps Natsu and Lucy. At the guild, Mavis is freed from Invel's control and escapes with the help of Mest; she also shares a brief reunion with Zera, who disappears again. Meanwhile, Lucy faints when DiMaria attempts to blind her; upon awakening, Lucy discovers that Natsu has brutally defeated DiMaria. Brandish returns after being treated by Porlyusica, who reveals that Natsu's tumor is actually the trigger to E.N.D.'s awakening. Having assumed a more demonic form, Natsu wanders the battlefield in search of Zeref, but is impeded by Gray. | |||
| 309 | 'Broken Bonds' Transcription: 'Kowareta Kizuna o' (Japanese: 壊れた絆を) | May 19, 2019 | |
| The demonic Natsu and corrupted Gray fight each other irrationally, both overcome with anger over Lucy and Juvia's apparent deaths. Meanwhile, after Mavis returns to bolster Fairy Tail's morale, Irene transforms Alvarez's soldiers into berserk warriors that overwhelm the guild's members. Makarov uses Fairy Law to defeat the army, despite Mavis's warnings that the spell is deadly to its caster when used against so many targets. Although Makarov's sacrifice decimates most of the army, it leaves Zeref and the remaining members of the Spriggan 12 unharmed. While mourning Makarov's death, Erza notices Natsu and Gray's battle and tearfully intervenes, shocking them. | |||
| 310 | 'Pleasure and Pain' Transcription: 'Kairaku to Kutsū' (Japanese: 快楽と苦痛) | May 26, 2019 | |
| Erza resolves the fight between Natsu and Gray, who return to normal and reunite with Lucy and Juvia before passing out. When Irene attacks the group, Erza and Wendy battle her to allow their friends' escape. Meanwhile, Larcade, who identifies himself as Zeref's son and Natsu's resentful nephew, casts a spell that arouses several people across the battlefield with a nearly fatal overload of pleasure. Kagura saves Yukino from Larcade and resists his spell by biting her own tongue, but Larcade quickly defeats her. After single-handedly defeating Crime Sorcière, August speculates that the only one who can stop Zeref's son is Mavis, the child's mother. | |||
| 311 | 'Natsu's Mind' Transcription: 'Natsu no Kokoro' (Japanese: ナツノココロ) | June 2, 2019 | |