Fairy Tail Vol. 39: Fairy Tail 39

ISBN
9781612624167
Publisher
Kodansha
English release
Pages
224

Fairy Tail Volume 39 moves from the tournament toward the threatened dragon invasion. Kodansha presents the Eclipse Cannon as the available defense, with the dragon slayers facing a test unlike an arena match. Read the preceding Games conclusion first for the immediate transition. This standard paperback continues an unfolding emergency; the publisher's questions about what waits behind the door are not evidence that the proposed defense works as intended.

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A weapon described as humanity's hope still depends on knowledge of what it will do. Kodansha's premise makes the Eclipse Cannon the proposed answer to the invasion while leaving the door's consequences uncertain. That uncertainty is more useful than simply praising the scale of the threat: acting decisively and acting on a correct understanding are separate achievements. The dragon slayers' name likewise announces a purpose rather than certifying an outcome. The note draws those limits from the advertised situation without supplying the number of dragons that actually emerge, the mechanism of the device or the eventual resolution.

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Collected in Box Set 4: Vols. 34–43.