Fairy Tail: Season 1
2009 · 48 episodes · ★ 8.5
What Season 1 of Fairy Tail
Natsu Dragneel roams the kingdom of Fiore with Happy, his talking cat, in search of Igneel, the dragon who raised him. Both belong to Fairy Tail, a guild that takes on paid jobs, such as hunting monsters or recovering lost items. When Natsu rescues Lucy Heartfilia from an impostor, the young woman, who dreams of joining the guild, joins the group and shows her mastery of celestial spirit magic. Together they face dark guilds such as Eisenwald, which wants to use the Lullaby flute to kill anyone who hears it, and rivals such as Phantom Lord, who attack Fairy Tail. The boundless personalities of the guild members drive every mission.
Season 1 Episodes
1x01 The Fairy Tail
Lucy wants nothing more than to join Fairy Tail, the most rambunctious wizard’s guild in Fiore. When a phony lures her onto his ship with the promise of getting into the guild of her dreams, her newest friends arrive to bail her out!
Directing: Yukihiro Matsushita · Writing: Masashi Sogo · Starring: Eri Kitamura
1x02 Fire Dragon, Monkey, and Bull
Lucy’s dream comes true when Natsu and Happy take her to their headquarters in Magnolia to meet the rowdy members of Fairy Tail. For her first job, Lucy braves Mt. Hakobe with her new friends to find a missing wizard.
Directing: Kiichi Suzuno · Writing: Atsuhiro Tomioka · Starring: Hiroki Yasumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Eri Kitamura, Daisuke Kishio
1x03 Infiltrate the Everlue Mansion
Natsu picks up a job that could pay big money, but he needs a certain type of girl to complete his plan—and Lucy fits the description perfectly!
1x04 Dear Kaby
Natsu, Lucy and Happy will have to do more than just read between the lines to defeat the twisted Duke Everlue and his monstrous maid, Virgo.
1x05 The Wizard in Armor
Erza asks Gray and Natsu to form a team with her to stop a corrupt guild from using a dark magic that has the power to sap the lives of everyone in Fiore!
1x06 Fairies in the Wind
Erza’s team chases Erigor and his villainous guild to Oshibana station. Can Fairy Tail’s strongest team snuff the death flute before the Lullaby spell hits the airwaves, or will they find themselves in a whirlwind of trouble?
1x07 Flame and Wind
The wizards are sitting ducks behind Erigor’s impenetrable wind wall until Happy hatches a plan with a little service from the stars!
1x08 The Strongest Team
Natsu finally knocks the wind out of Erigor’s sails in a scorcher of a battle—but Fairy Tail’s strongest team still has a war to fight when the death flute’s dark magic plays an evil scale of epic proportions.
Directing: Kyohei Ishiguro
1x09 Natsu Devours a Village
While traveling home with grumbling bellies, the team stumbles upon a deserted village with lots of yummy grub lying around, but Erza’s gut tells her something’s up. While she investigates, the boys chow on a forest full of odd fungus.
1x10 Natsu vs. Erza
Now that they’ve made it back to Fairy Tail headquarters, it’s time for Erza to answer Natsu’s challenge! Before things really get heated, the Guild Council stops by to arrest Erza, but Natsu’s not about to let her get away that easily!
Directing: Yukihiro Matsushita
1x11 The Cursed Island
Natsu, Happy and Lucy tread some seriously troubled waters when they break guild rules to take an S-class job request and end up shipwrecked on the cursed Galuna Island!
1x12 Moon Drip
When the team stumbles upon the infamous demon Deliora frozen in magic ice, cold memories—and a familiar face—are resurrected from Gray’s dark past.
1x13 Natsu vs. Yuka the Wave User
Natsu races Lyon’s pawns back to the village with a defeated Gray in tow, making it just in time to fend off a bucket-load of poisonous goo delivered by a giant flying rodent!
1x14 Just Do Whatever!!
Lucy boils up a plan to defeat a doll master wizard who’s on a mighty power-trip and one or both of them will be all washed up! Another Fairy Tail wizard arrives to pull the plug on the mission just as Natsu launches his attack on the island ruins!
1x15 Eternal Magic
Ul sacrificed her own body to end Deliora’s reign with the Iced Shell technique. Gray cuts a path to the ruins to put the freeze on Lyon—who plans to release the indomitable monster just to see if he can best their mentor!
1x16 The Final Showdown on Galuna Island
Face to face with his childhood rival, Gray is willing to do anything—even use Iced Shell—to stop Lyon from melting the ice to free Deliora!
1x17 Burst
Natsu puts the heat on the masked wizard and crumbles his plans to use Deliora for himself. The mystery of the village’s curse is yet to be solved—Erza prepares to take down the purple moon looming over the island!
1x18 Reach the Sky Above
In full gear, Erza—with the help of Natsu’s firepower—launches her lance at the sky to shatter the spell and restore the villagers’ true forms—and their memories!
1x19 Changeling
Natsu absent-mindedly reads a spell that switches the minds and magic of everyone nearby! If they don’t figure out how to reverse the spell, they’ll be the most pathetic team of Fairy Tail—forever!
1x20 Natsu and the Dragon Egg
Six years ago, Natsu stumbled upon an egg with strange markings all over it. He fought tooth and nail to hatch the egg so he could raise his own dragon, but along the way he got a little help from his friends, a lesson on love and a very happy surprise!
1x21 The Phantom Lord
A metal-headed member of the Phantom Lord guild wrecks the Fairy Tail headquarters, but Makarov turns the other cheek. It’s another story when someone attacks his own wizard children—he takes the whole guild to war!
1x22 Lucy Heartfilia
The powers of the Dragon Slayers clash when Natsu goes head to head with Gajeel! The destruction is interrupted when a guild master takes a critical blow and word that Lucy has been kidnapped sends Natsu over the edge!
1x23 15 Minutes
While a healing mage watches over Makarov, Fairy Tail regroups to plan their next move. But when Jose returns with a giant cannon capable of blasting the entire guild to bits, their time to act ticks away!
Directing: Kyohei Ishiguro
1x24 To Keep From Seeing Those Tears
Natsu’s own fiery fists are used against him in a face-off with a fellow fire wizard blocking his path to destroy Jupiter! Meanwhile, a very creepy member of Phantom Lord’s Element 4 puts Elfman in a bind that only the might of a beast can break!
1x25 A Flower Blooms in the Rain
Elfman unleashes the dangerous full body beast mode to pummel Sol. Two of the Element 4 remain, and they must be taken down to stop the Abyss Break spell. Natsu wages war against the wind wizard and the drippy Juvia melts over Gray.
1x26 Wings of Flame
Natsu struggles against the strongest of the Element 4—but a surprise blow from an armor-switching warrior knocks the wind right out of Aria! Meanwhile, Lucy is back in the sinister Jose’s grips after a heavy-handed jerk overpowers her protectors.
1x27 The Two Dragon Slayers
A seriously scary Natsu tests his mettle against the iron-scaled Gajeel—but he loses steam when there isn’t anything around to fuel his firepower! Back on land, the shades are pummeling the guild to the ground!
Directing: Tetsuya Watanabe
1x28 Fairy Law
Thanks to a celestial smarty, Natsu gets fired up enough to finish off the cocky Gajeel. As Jose is moments from crushing Erza, extreme powers collide when Fairy Tail’s fearsome leader makes a blinding return to burn out Phantom Lord.
1x29 My Resolve
After a heated chat, Natsu and Gajeel share a dragon-related revelation. The triumphant wizards of Fairy Tail get right to work on a new guild headquarters. When Lucy’s friends pay her apartment a visit, she’s nowhere to be found!
1x30 Next Generation
Makarov can’t consider retirement while he’s always answering for Fairy Tail’s destructive reputation. The strongest team takes the stage with a theatrical production that should keep them out of trouble—but bad habits are tough to break!
1x31 A Star Removed from the Sky
Loke’s smooth with the ladies—but Lucy seems to be his kryptonite. Irked by his odd behavior around her, Lucy looks into his past with another Celestial Wizard and learns his startling secret!
1x32 Celestial Spirit King
Loke shares his unsettling story with Lucy. Refusing to let her friend fade away forever, Lucy challenges the authority of the almighty ruler of the skies himself!
Directing: Kyohei Ishiguro
1x33 The Tower of Heaven
The team takes a moment to kick back at a luxurious resort, but the vacation is cut short when a crew of dangerous rogues catches the wizards with their guards down and swipe Erza and Happy!
1x34 Jellal
Natsu and the crew track the kidnappers to the looming Tower of Heaven where a demented figure from Erza’s past plans to activate a devastating forbidden magic with her as the living sacrifice!
1x35 Voice of Darkness
Erza’s flashback continues. Her magical prowess awakened in the revolt against the slaves’ oppressors, but she failed to save Jellal. Now she has no choice but to fight her former friend to stop him from releasing horrors upon the world.
1x36 Heaven's Game
Natsu is temporarily declawed when he gets stuck in some stubborn headgear, but he uses his dome to defeat a kitty-loving baddy. It’s all a game to Jellal, who brings in three twisted wizards from the Assassin’s Guild.
1x37 Armor of the Heart
With one sick riff, a noisy metalhead transforms Juvia into his own freaky slave and turns her against Lucy! Elsewhere in the castle, Natsu is gobbled up by a bird-brained rocketeer!
Directing: Kyohei Ishiguro
1x38 Destiny
Erza slices through a samurai showdown with the sharpest of the Assassin’s Guild wizards and heads straight for Jellal—can she defeat him before the Council fires the destructive Etherion beam?
1x39 Give Our Prayers to the Sacred Light
As Jellal’s plan falls into place, Erza is suddenly seconds from losing her body to resurrect Zeref! All hope seems lost unless her fire-breathing friend has enough flame in him to save her.
1x40 Titania Falls
Natsu works on wrecking the tower, much to the possessed wizard’s aggravation—who gets a taste of the Dragon Slayer’s true power. As the aftershock of the Etherion blast threatens to take everyone out, Erza decides to take one for the team.
1x41 Home
Friendship prevails, Erza says farewell to old pals, and the strongest team of Fairy Tail return home to a bevy of surprises. Not only is the guild hall bigger and better than before—a couple new members have joined the ranks!
1x42 Battle of Fairy Tail
Magnolia’s Harvest Festival has begun and the town gathers to gawk at the Miss Fairy Tail beauty pageant. The guild gets a shock when all the contestants turn stone cold as a menacing member returns and starts a new contest of his own!
Directing: Kyohei Ishiguro
1x43 Defeat Your Friends to Save Your Friends
Makarov and Natsu are sitting ducks while the rest of the wizards battle each other to exhaustion. Laxus taunts the guild master with blackmail, but there’s still a dim light of hope—some of the strongest wizards still remain.
1x44 Thunder Palace
After Erza takes on Evergreen, Laxus sends the guild a high-voltage threat! While the wizards search the city for the wired-up bully, Lucy and Happy are ambushed by creepy dolls!
1x45 Advent of Satan
Just when it seems she’s out of luck, Lucy’s most defiant—and amorous—celestial spirit saves her from death by dollies. Elsewhere in the city, the guild’s sweetest member makes a wicked transformation in a struggle to stop Freed.
1x46 Clash at Kardia Cathedral!
The Raijin Tribe is defeated, but time ticks away for Fairy Tail to stop the Thunder Palace from frying the whole city. While Natsu puts the heat on Laxus, Erza prepares to dismantle the massive threat over Magnolia.
1x47 Triple Dragons
After a telepathic pep talk, the Fairy Tail wizards put their quarrels aside to help Erza take the Thunder Palace down. With part of his plan foiled and another Dragon Slayer entering the fray, Laxus charges up for a thunderous attack.
Directing: Kyohei Ishiguro
1x48 Fantasia Season Finale
The wrath of Laxus takes a shocking turn and a resilient fire-breather takes one last stand to stop the war. Despite the damage, the Fairy Tail wizards muster up the strength to put on a dazzling show for the Fantasia parade!
Season 1 Cast
Rie KugimiyaHappy (voice)48 episodes
Yuichi NakamuraGray Fullbuster (voice)48 episodes
Katsuyuki KonishiLaxus Dreyar (voice)48 episodes
Shinpachi TsujiMakarov Dreyar (voice)48 episodes
Takahiro SakuraiStingYu (voice)48 episodes
Kenichi SuzumuraRogue Cheney (voice)48 episodes
Tsubasa YonagaRufus Lore (voice)48 episodes
Satomi KoorogiFrosch (voice)48 episodes
Fuyuka OnoEve Tearm (voice)48 episodes
Daisuke NamikawaMystogan (voice)48 episodes
Yutaka AoyamaJura Neekis (voice)48 episodesAll Seasons
Season 22010 · 48 ep. · ★ 8.7
Season 32011 · 54 ep. · ★ 8.7
Season 42012 · 25 ep. · ★ 9.1
Season 52014 · 51 ep. · ★ 8.5
Season 62015 · 39 ep. · ★ 8.7
Season 72016 · 12 ep. · ★ 8.7
Season 82018 · 51 ep. · ★ 8.1Where to Watch Season 1 of Fairy Tail
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Fairy Tail season 1 have?
Fairy Tail season 1 has 48 episodes.
When did Fairy Tail season 1 premiere?
Aired October 12, 2009.
Where to watch Fairy Tail season 1?
By subscription, on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel (the offer may vary by country).
What is the best episode of Season 1?
According to the TMDB audience score, episode 1x15, "Eternal Magic", with a 8.6.