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Wendy bonding with the Raijinshuu! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)⋆˚࿔

Already have another update on the upcoming mini-serialization! The title has been announced!

🎉 Fairy Tail Re: Fantasia!

So I can only assume the Laxus-centered story will be revisiting the Harvest Festival?

After the BoFT… there never really got to do another Harvest Festival or Fantasia Parade… I wonder if this will bring back guilt and regret for Laxus and the Raijinshuu?? Cause, y’know… last time they tried hurt everyone and take over the guild.

It’s been so long since then and they’ve all grown as characters… but this will probably be a sore spot for all of them. Though, especially Laxus, if I had to guess.

Gah! I swear the Raijinshuu better play a big part in this!!! This could be so great for their characters and a full development from the original Battle of Fairy Tail years ago!! I’m so excited!

So, I have some exciting news ~!

⚡️ The upcoming Fairy Tail mini-serialization will be centered around LAXUS! ⚡️

This is according to Hiro Mashima himself at the Amiens Comics Festival in France 🇫🇷 !

Q: To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Fairy Tail, a mini-series will be published in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Can you tell us more about it? HM: My editors are present in the room, so I’m not quite sure what I’m allowed to say… (laughter). The next mini-series will be centered on Laxus. The story is going to be stunning, I hope you’ll like it.

Source: A Transcription of Hiro Mashima's Interview from TEAM MANGA on Twitter [6/5/26]

And I assume this means Laxus is the "surprising character" that Hiro Mashima mentioned back in April:

"There will also be a short, concentrated serialization. It’s a story focusing on a surprising character, but Natsu and the others will still be causing plenty of chaos."

I've also seen it translated as: "a story focusing on some unexpected characters," which only adds to my delusional hope that the Raijinshuu will actually get to play a bigger role for this story, but it’s probably just a mistranslation.

I’m going to ramble a bit here, but I still really really hope it will be about Laxus AND the Raijinshuu. I know Mashima said it was centered around Laxus, but I can’t imagine the Raijinshuu not being involved in some way. (It feels wrong to even consider them not being included in a Laxus story, but you never know with how they’ve been treated lately 😖.)

Honestly... It's the only reason I'm scared to get my hopes up. I'm still super excited about it, don't get me wrong! But I've also been disappointed way too many times with how they've been handled throughout the series and just how often they seem to be forgotten about. And I know I’m not the only one.

But… I really want to see Bickslow, Freed, and Evergreen again. I want to see them actually play a role in the story instead of being single-panel background gags. They don’t need to be the main focus, but I look forward to the possibility of them getting any kind of attention after all this time. And I’d love to see Hiro Mashima draw them again!

It is a mini-series, so I guess their role in the story also depends on how many chapters Mashima plans on writing. If it's around the same length as the Mashima HERO'S manga, which is 10 chapters, I think they have a good chance to be included!

And for those curious, the synopsis for the short-serializations is: "The summer festival will stir up new trouble for Natsu and his friends!!" It sounds really interesting, which makes me even more excited and curious for how Laxus (and hopefully the Raijinshuu 🤞) will be involved and what direction the story will go! It's supposed to start releasing sometime around Late July/August, which is only a few months away! So we’ll just have to wait and see~!

As always, I'll keep this blog updated if any more information is released and when the serialization comes out! So stay tuned ~ ❤︎⁠

Laxus and Gray:

They’re both really similar in a lot of ways, and I think it’d be interesting to see how their magic would be used together

Bickslow and Natsu:

Honestly I just want this one for fun. They’d make it everyone else’s problem

Mirajane and Lucy:

They have a really sweet dynamic, I think it’d be cool to see them side by side in a battle scenario

Gajeel and Gray:

this has been on my mind ever since they interacted in Tartaros right after Gray got his devil slayer magic

Levy and Fried:

We see them interacting a bit on Tenrou, and we know their magic works incredibly well together

Natsu and Jellal:

I know we get a fair amount of Natsu and Jellal, but I think it’d be interesting for who they are as people

Yukino and Mirajane:

We got to see them during the Dragon King Festival and their dynamic is really personal to me. A younger sister who lost her older sister, and an older sister who lost her younger sister. They’re really sweet and I want to see more

Alzak and Bisca:

For being the first two in the guild to get married and have a baby, we don’t really get to see much of them. Which is a shame, they’re absolutely delightful

Cana and Guildarts:

Canas whole motivation for becoming an S-Class wizard was so she’d feel accomplished enough to tell Guildarts that he’s her father. Then it’s a running gag that Cana wants no relationship with him? Seems antithetical. The moments we do have with them are very sweet

Zeref and Natsu

CONTEXT- Laxus and reader have been best friends since childhood, share the same love for music, and are possibly the same person just a different gender. 😴 (yes, he’s helplessly in love with her)

~Laxus, who when he finds a new song that he likes thinks of her almost instantly. Later that day she would be sitting in his room on his bed with him with his headphones on listening to the song.

~She and Laxus who sometimes sit in the corner of the guild judging all of the other rowdy teenagers.

~reader, who one night walked into Laxus’s room with neon teal streaks dyed into her hair, in her hand? The bottle of hair dye, she tried to convince him to let her dye the tips of his hair with the left overs. He did NOT let it happen.

~The two would listen to music together, obviously. But some nights they would get…VERY into it. Laxus would lift her leg, holding her as if she were an air guitar, strumming and moving his fingers as if she really was his guitar. banging his head as she sang her heart out to the rock song playing. A soft side he would never let anyone else see. (God forbid.)

~Laxus and reader who would sing (YELL) in each-others faces.