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Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-04-22/funimation-adds-fairy-tail-live-action-treasure-hunter

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.

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This is awesome news! I have been waiting for Fairy Tail to get dubbed in America, and am glad Funimation got it. Hopefully we won't have to wait to long.

It also makes you wonder about the voice actors. Can't wait to see who they picked.

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Should I be worried for nothing? Only the first 48 episodes are being licensed. Hey I know it's a different thing, but can I say after what happened to the The Prince of Tennis (where the show was licensed for the first 50 episodes then dropped and the rest of the anime wasn't ever dubbed because it was popular in America even though it is hug in Japan), even though their two completely different types of anime it always makes me nervous when I hear something like this.

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