[Shirou Emiya]

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Originally Posted by Anime News Network

The North American anime distributor FUNimation announced at its Sakura-Con panel on Friday that it licensed the first 48 episodes of the Fairy Tail fantasy adventure television anime series.

The Fairy Tail television anime series adapts Hiro Mashima's manga of the same name. In the story, a teenaged girl named Lucy Heartfilia aims to join the world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. During a daring rescue, Lucy encounters Natsu "Salamander" Dragneel, a quirky Fairy Tail member and a teenaged practitioner of the ancient Dragon Slayer magic. Lucy is eventually welcomed into the Fairy Tail guild as she, Natsu, and other members go on various quests together.

FUNimation has already begun dubbing this anime, and it will release the first 48 episodes on DVD and Blu-ray Disc later this year. Tyler Walker is directing the English dub with Todd Haberkorn as Natsu. The anime studios A-1 Pictures and Satelight have been producing the anime for TV Tokyo, and CrunchyRoll has been streaming the anime outside Japan since the anime premiered in October of 2009. Del Rey published the 12th volume of the manga in North America last September, and Kodansha will take over the manga as of the 13th volume next month.

Update: More background information added.

This is amazing news, but I'm going to try to contain my excitement until actual exact release dates are announced.

[likenew]

I thought funimation were the ones who always butchered anime? I love Fairy Tale, so I hope they don't.

[Shirou Emiya]

Originally Posted by likenew

I thought funimation were the ones who always butchered anime? I love Fairy Tale, so I hope they don't.

FUNimation has not cut, edited, or censored an anime on DVD/BD for years.

[Azu]

Originally Posted by likenew

I thought funimation were the ones who always butchered anime? I love Fairy Tale, so I hope they don't.

Funimation does not equal 4Kids.

[Darkchao45]

Originally Posted by likenew

I thought funimation were the ones who always butchered anime? I love Fairy Tale, so I hope they don't.

If you mean VA than yeah, most are crap dubs...

[KaiLaharl]

ya Funimation does a decent job of dubbing so im looking forward to it. finally i can add it to my collection

[nokou]

sure just look at funimations one piece and then ask... who always butchered anime?

I always hope funimation gets thier hands on the good anime because..

1... It will not be cut, edited, or censored in any way at what so ever
2... It will be perfectly dubbed and subbed

a good example of a ruined dubbed anime is adv's ghost storys...
with its pathetic jokes and gay teacher voices...
example : oh look i went back to the past with my delorian..
wtf is this to do with the anime

[byakuya17]

I'd love me some ADV return. Best there ever was, best there ever will be. Funimation Isn't bad though. Hopefully they'll do a good job, like they did with Fruits Basket. Though that's a long time ago and those va's doesn't fit for FT.

[demx]

*Cries in a corner because Luci Christian will probably be a main character in this series*

[luffysan]

I just hope the subs aren't huge and ugly, and that they're actually for what's being said in the Japanese audio, not whatever the English script changed. I hate that.

I don't even bother watching dubs anyway, so I don't care how bad they are. In my experience, dubs are at best so-so but nowhere near as good as the original, and at worst totally unwatchable, except for a good lol.