<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $478,118 (Japan) $1.3 million (worldwide) </Td> </Tr> <P> Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (劇場 版 フェアリー テイル - DRAGON CRY -, Gekijōban Fearī Teiru: Doragon Kurai) is a 2017 Japanese animated fantasy action film based on the shōnen manga and anime series Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima . It is directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa based on a screenplay by Shōji Yonemura, both of whom worked on the anime series . Mashima is involved as executive producer and storyboard artist . </P> <P> Set between Fairy Tail's penultimate and final story arcs, the film focuses on the members of the titular wizard guild infiltrating the Kingdom of Stella to recover a stolen staff of cataclysmic power . Tetsuya Kakihara, Aya Hirano, Rie Kugimiya, Yuichi Nakamura, Sayaka Ōhara, Satomi Satō, and Yui Horie all reprise their roles from the television series, with Makoto Furukawa, Aoi Yūki, and Jiro Saito co-starring as new characters designed by Mashima and Yūko Yamada . The film was released in Japan on May 6, 2017 . It received limited theatrical screenings worldwide, with Funimation releasing the film in North American theaters in both Japanese and localized English - dubbed formats from August 14 through August 19, 2017 . </P> <P> Zash Caine (ザッシュ ・ ケイン, Zasshu Kein), the Kingdom of Stella's minister of state and a practitioner of black magic, infiltrates the Kingdom of Fiore and steals the Dragon Cry, a mystical staff discovered in the dragon graveyard beneath the capital city . Fiore's royal family enlists Natsu Dragneel and his team from the Fairy Tail guild to recover the staff, detailing that it is imbued with magical power capable of annihilating the kingdom . The wizards follow Zash to Stella, whose ruler, King Animus (アニムス, Animusu), intends to use the staff for a ritual . Upon touching the staff, Natsu triggers an alarm and attracts Zash's attention . After a lengthy pursuit, Fairy Tail is defeated by Zash and the kingdom's elite Three Stars unit--Swan (スワン, Suwan), Doll (ドール, Dōru), and Gapri (ガプリ, Gapuri)--who place them under arrest and take the staff back . </P>

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