Fairy Tail Vol. 52: Fairy Tail 52
- ISBN
- 9781632361158
- Publisher
- Kodansha
- English release
- Pages
- 200
Fairy Tail Volume 52 sends a rescue party after Makarov following the guild's revival. Erza gathers wizards for a secret mission into the empire where he disappeared. Kodansha identifies the emperor's Spriggan 12 as the force blocking their route. This is a consequential new opposition for continuing readers, while the preceding reunion books provide the group's recent circumstances. The note does not treat a rescue premise as evidence of Makarov's eventual recovery.
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Makarov's attempt to protect the guild has left the guild needing to find him. Kodansha describes his journey as protective in purpose but his disappearance as the practical problem Erza's group must solve. Good intentions have created an obligation that others now have to meet. The emperor's guards make that obligation institutional as well as personal: the rescue party is entering the sphere of an organized imperial force. The arrival angle concerns that opposing unit's role in the advertised mission, not an asserted first panel for each member. The publisher leaves the guild's hidden secret unnamed, and this note does too.
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