The official website for Hiro Mashima's television anime series and its sequel manga Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest by Hiro Mashima and Atsuo Ueda revealed four new cast members on Wednesday.
Mugihito as Elefseria Image via Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest anime website
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Yuichiro Umehara as Mercphobia Image via Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest anime website
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Yōko Hikasa as Karameel Image via Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest anime website
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Sayumi Suzushiro as Touka Image via Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest anime website
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The anime will premiere in July.
Tetsuya Kakihara, Aya Hirano, Rie Kugimiya, Yūichi Nakamura, Sayaka Ōhara, Satomi Satou and Yui Horie will all reprise their roles as Naruto Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, Happy, Gray Fullbuster, Erza Scarlet, Wendy and Charle,
Fairy Tail director Shinji Ishihara will be the main director for the new anime, while Toshinori Watanabe (Edens Zero, Mix: Meisei Story, Tokyo Ghoul:re) will direct the new anime at JC Staff Atsuhiro Tomioka, who has wrote the scripts for many episodes of the previous Fairy Tail anime, and is overseeing the anime's scripts. Yurika Sako (Edens Zero) is designing the characters. Shōji Hata will return from the previous series as sound director, while Yasuharu Takanashi also returns to music.
Kodansha USA published the manga in English and describes the story:
Natsu, Lucy, Happy, Erza and the entire Fairy Tail guild are back! And they decided to carry out the “100 Year Mission” – a job no one has dared to undertake since the association's founding more than a century ago. A mysterious town, a puzzling spirit, a terrifying new enemy… and a whole new continent to explore. When with true friends, the adventures never stop!
Ueda (Dr. Prisoner, Hajime Shachō Monogatari) launched an official sequel to Mashima's original Fairy Tail manga on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga app in July 2018. Mashima is providing the original script for the series. manga and Ueda is drawing the series. Kodansha published the 17th compilation volume on April 9.
Mashima's original Fairy Tail manga has inspired three previous television anime (including the “final season” in 2018), two anime films, several original video anime projects, and spin-off manga. Kodansha USA publishes the original manga and some spin-offs in North America.
Source: Anime Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest website, Comic Natalie