Fairy Tail Vol. 23: Fairy Tail 23
- ISBN
- 9781612620602
- Publisher
- Kodansha
- English release
- Pages
- 208
Fairy Tail Volume 23 brings the Edolas conflict to its final confrontation. Kodansha explicitly advertises the world's final fate, with the king making his stand in Droma Anim. That makes this a useful closing boundary for an existing reader collecting the Edolas stretch. The dragon slayers' struggle begins from the preceding rescue books, however, so the advertised conclusion is a reason to finish the sequence here rather than begin with this single.
Spoilers — why this volume matters. Tap to reveal.
The king's machine is described as resistant to the very resource the dragon slayers need to use against it. Kodansha's premise therefore makes their usual category of competence look insufficient before the confrontation is resolved. The interesting issue is what a specialist can do when the situation is designed to negate that specialty; the summary does not supply the answer, and this note does not invent one. Its stronger buying claim is structural. The publisher presents this as the final fate of Edolas, which supports treating the paperback as a closing installment without promising that every character's longer story ends with it.
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