<P> After finishing his previous work, Rave Master, Hiro Mashima found the story sentimental and sad at the same time, so he wanted the storyline of Fairy Tail to have a "lot of fun (for everyone)". His inspiration for the series was simply sitting in bars and partying with his friends, the community aspect . Having always loved magicians and wizards, he imagined what it would be like if he and his friends were magicians . But it is also about young people finding their calling, such as a job . He stated that while he tries to consider both his own interests and the fans' on what will happen next in Fairy Tail, the fans' take precedence . </P> <P> Mashima described his weekly schedule for creating individual chapters of Fairy Tail in 2008 . Script and storyboards are written on Monday, rough sketches the following day, and drawing and inking are done Wednesday through Friday . At the time the weekends were for Monster Hunter Orage, a monthly series Mashima was writing at the same time as Fairy Tail . He usually thinks up new chapters while working on the current ones . Mashima had six assistants in 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq. feet area with seven desks, as well as a sofa and TV for video games . In 2011, he stated that he worked six days a week, for 17 hours a day . </P> <P> For the characters of the series, Mashima drew upon people he has known in his life . In establishing the father - son relationship between Natsu and Igneel, Mashima cited his father's death when he was a child as an influence . He based Natsu's motion sickness on one of his friends, who gets sick when taking taxis together . When naming the character, the author thought western fantasy names would be unfamiliar to Japanese audiences, so he went with the Japanese name for summer; Natsu . Mashima based the humorous aspects of the series on his daily life and jokes his assistants would make . </P> <P> Written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima Fairy Tail was serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017 . The 545 individual chapters were collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha between December 15, 2006 and December 26, 2017 . A special in Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a crossover with Flunk Punk Rumble, released in 2008 . The official fanbook, Fairy Tail+, was released on May 17, 2010 in Japan . Another crossover with Mashima's first series Rave was published in 2011 . A special issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, published on October 19, 2013, featured a small crossover between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where each artist drew a yonkoma (four - panel comic) of the other's series . An actual crossover chapter between these two ran in the magazines' combined 4 / 5 issue of 2014, which was released on December 25, 2013 . A two - volume series called Fairy Tail S, which collects short stories by Mashima that were originally published in various Japanese magazines through the years, was released on September 16, 2016 . </P>

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