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Directed by | Masaya Fujimori |
Screenplay by | Masashi Sogo |
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Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima |
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Music by | Yasuharu Takanashi |
Cinematography | Yosuke Akimoto |
Edited by | Akinori Mishima |
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Distributed by | Shochiku |
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86 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $911,467 |
Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess (Japanese: 劇場版 フェアリーテイル 鳳凰の巫女 Hepburn: Gekijōban Fearī Teiru: Hōō no Miko?) is a 2012 Japanese animated fantasy action film based on the shōnen manga and anime series Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima. It was directed by Masaya Fujimori, and its screenplay was written by anime staff writer Masashi Sogo, while Mashima was involved as the film's story planner and character designer.Tetsuya Kakihara, Aya Hirano, Rie Kugimiya, Yuichi Nakamura, Sayaka Ōhara, Satomi Satō, and Yui Horie reprise their character roles from the anime series. The film also features Aya Endō as the titular priestess Éclair, and Mika Kanai as her birdlike companion Momon. The film was released in Japan on August 18, 2012, and on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on December 10, 2013.
Éclair, a priestess from Fire Village, escapes a raid from an invading army with one of her village's two mystical Phoenix Stone halves, but is rendered unconscious. Several years later, Lucy Heartfilia finds Éclair and her birdlike companion Momon collapsed on the streets of Magnolia while returning home from a mission. Lucy brings the two to Fairy Tail's guildhall to recover and introduces them to her friends Natsu Dragneel, Happy, Gray Fullbuster, Erza Scarlet, Wendy Marvell, and Carla. Hearing a premonition from Carla, Éclair heads to the monster-filled Boundary Forest, and accepts Lucy and her friends' offer to accompany her.