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"Consolidated fund" or "consolidated revenue fund" is a term used in many countries with political systems derived from the Westminster system to describe the main bank account of the government. General taxation is taxation paid into the consolidated fund for general spending, as opposed to hypothecated taxes earmarked for specific purposes.
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1 The British Consolidated Fund
1.1 Establishment
1.2 Earlier funds
1.3 Ireland's consolidated fund
1.4 Payments into the fund
1.5 Payments out of the fund
1.5.1 Appropriation Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts
1.5.2 Standing services
1.6 Other modern funds
1.7 Control of the fund
1.7.1 Comptroller
1.7.2 Principal accountants
1.8 Devolved government
1.8.1 Scotland
1.8.2 Wales
1.8.3 Northern Ireland
2 Australia
2.1 Commonwealth (Federal) Government
2.1.1 Payments into the Consolidated Revenue Fund
2.1.2 Payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund
2.2 New South Wales
3 India
4 See also
5 External links
6 References
The British Consolidated Fund[edit]
Establishment[edit]
The British Consolidated Fund was so named as it consolidated together a number of existing accounts, detailed below, and facilitated proper parliamentary oversight of the spending of the executive; it was defined as "one fund into which shall flow every stream of public revenue and from which shall come the supply of every service".
The Treasury established this account, formerly known as The Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, at the Bank of England where it remains to this day, and the legal term "Consolidated Fund" refers to the amount of credit held in this particular account. Under the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866[1] most of the revenue from taxation, and all other money payable to the Exchequer, must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
Earlier funds[edit]
The General Fund was established in 1617, the Aggregate Fund in 1715, the South Sea Fund in 1717. These funds were established in relation to specific government borrowing authorised by Parliament, which had a defined type of revenue appropriated to put towards the interest and repayment. That particular revenue would be paid into the fund related to the loan. For example, the South Sea Fund was related to the debts of the South Sea Company. The Aggregate Fund was paid all the hereditary revenues of the English (and later British) Crown, such as profits from the Crown Estate and the Royal Mail. The hereditary revenues of Scotland were paid into the Consolidated Fund from 1788 onwards.
From 1716 onwards the surplus of the first three funds, after the interest and principal payments, flowed into a fourth fund, the sinking fund. This was intended to be applied to the repayment of the national debt but was instead mainly used for day-to-day necessities. It was eventually placed into the hands of the National Debt Commissioners, and was abandoned in the 1820s.
In 1752, before the Consolidated Fund was formed, the debts owed to the three existing funds had themselves been consolidated, and became irredeemable (the principal would only be repaid if the government chose to do so). They, therefore, became annuities, paying an annual rate of interest of 3%, and known as consolidated annuities, or consols.
Ireland's consolidated fund[edit]
The Consolidated Fund Services of Great Britain and Ireland were merged by the Consolidated Fund Act 1816 into the single Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom that exists to this day.
Payments into the fund[edit]
All tax revenue is paid into the fund unless Parliament has specifically provided otherwise by law.
Any money received by the government which is not taxation, and is not to be retained by the receiving department (for example, fines), is classed as a Consolidated Fund extra receipt (CFER). These are to be paid into the Consolidated Fund as soon as they are received.
Payments out of the fund[edit]
Appropriation Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts[edit]
Parliament gives statutory authority for the government to draw funds from the Consolidated Fund by Acts of Parliament known as Appropriation Acts and Consolidated Fund Acts. Funds are made available under the Acts only for a specified financial year, a concept known as annuality, although an individual Act can cover more than one financial year, listing separate amounts for each. Often a two-year period is covered by a Consolidated Fund Act, and roughly two or three are passed in each parliamentary year.
A Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill is brought in and passed at the end of the parliamentary year before the Summer recess. When passed, this is known as the Appropriation Act, and allocates the monies from the Consolidated Fund to the purposes set out in the main annual departmental expenditure estimates (the annual government department budgets, known as Estimates).
In the interim period between the start of the financial year and the passing of the Appropriation Act, a process known as Votes on Account is used to grant to departments up to 45% of the amounts they were allocated in the preceding financial year. These Votes on Account, and any necessary changes to departmental budgets (Supplementary Estimates) are passed as Consolidated Fund Acts, normally twice each year in November and February. Additional funds may be requested at any time, and will either require an additional Consolidated Fund Act, or will be included within other legislation.
The preamble of these supply acts is different from that of most other Acts of Parliament. It currently reads:
Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament:—
Until a few years ago, an older form of wording was used:
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
This follows the constitutional principle that the Crown (government) demands money, the House of Commons grants it, and the House of Lords assents to the grant. Since the Glorious Revolution of 1688 only once, in 1784, has the Commons refused to grant access to funds.
If money paid from the Consolidated Fund is not spent by the end of the financial year, it must be repaid to the fund. Grant-in-aid payments are however excluded from this rule.
Standing services[edit]
Certain expenditure is by law charged directly to the Consolidated Fund and is not subject to Parliament's annual budget process, ensuring a degree of independence of the government. Services funded in this way are known as Consolidated Fund Services and include judges' salaries, payments to the European Union, the Civil List payments, the salary of the Comptroller and Auditor General, and the expenses paid to returning officers at elections. In the case of the judges, this is to ensure the judicial independence introduced by the Act of Settlement 1701.
Other modern funds[edit]
The National Loans Fund is the government's main borrowing and lending account. It is closely linked to the Consolidated Fund, which maintains a daily balance of zero by means of a transfer to or from the National Loans Fund.
The Exchange Equalisation Account is the government fund holding the UK's reserves of foreign currencies, gold, and special drawing rights. It can be used to manage the value of the pound sterling on international markets.
The National Insurance Fund is an account which holds the contributions of the National Insurance Scheme.
The Contingencies Fund is an account which may be used for urgent expenditure in anticipation that the money will be approved by Parliament, or for small payments that were not included in the year's budget estimates.[2]
Control of the fund[edit]
Comptroller[edit]
The comptroller (who is also auditor general and head of the National Audit Office) controls both the Consolidated Fund and the National Loans Fund. The full official title of the role is Comptroller General of the Receipt and Issue of Her Majesty's Exchequer.
The Comptroller must authorise each requisition request received by the Bank of England from the Treasury, to assure that the request is compliant with the amounts and purposes authorised by Parliament in statute. If funds are mistakenly paid into the Consolidated Fund then both the Comptroller and the Treasury must agree to its return.
Principal accountants[edit]
Payments can only be made from the Consolidated Fund to one of the principal accountants defined by law. These are the Paymaster-General, the Commissioners of Revenue and Customs, the National Debt Commissioners, and the Chief Cashier at the Bank of England.
Devolved government[edit]
Each of the devolved government consolidated funds is held in the name of the Paymaster General at the Bank of England.[3]
Scotland[edit]
The Westminster Parliament provides a sum of money annually to provide a budget for the Scottish Government and fund the operation of the Scottish Parliament and the salaries for judges of Scottish courts. This money is transferred from the UK Consolidated Fund into an account known as the Scottish Consolidated Fund.
If the income tax varying powers of the Scottish Parliament were to be used (the rate can be changed by plus or minus three percent), the additional revenue raised would be paid by the HM Revenue and Customs directly to the Scottish Consolidated Fund. If the tax is reduced, then the amount paid from the UK Consolidated Fund in that year would be correspondingly reduced.
Wales[edit]
There is also a Welsh Consolidated Fund to provide a budget for the Welsh National Assembly.
In addition to the budget provided to the Welsh Government, the expenditures of the Welsh National Assembly, the Auditor General for Wales, and the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales are also paid directly from the Welsh Consolidated Fund.
Payments are normally made from the fund following the passing in the Assembly of a budget motion or supplementary budget motion, proposed by the Welsh ministers. There are limited exceptions for emergency situations, a failure of the Assembly to pass a budget; in addition some payments are automatically authorised by law, such as the salaries of National Assembly officials.
The Auditor General has to authorise all payments out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund to the Welsh ministers, having checked that the expenditure has been approved by the National Assembly.
Northern Ireland[edit]
The Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund has existed since 1921.
Australia[edit]
The use of consolidated funds in Australian government dates back to colonial times. Today the Australian federal and state governments all maintain their own consolidated funds, with authorisation for payments required from the relevant parliament.
Commonwealth (Federal) Government[edit]
The Australian Government's Consolidated fund is known as the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF).
Payments into the Consolidated Revenue Fund[edit]
Section 81 of the Constitution of Australia provides that:
All revenues or moneys raised or received by the Executive Government of the Commonwealth shall form one Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF), to be appropriated for the purposes of the Commonwealth in the manner and subject to the charges and liabilities imposed by this Constitution.
"Revenues or moneys raised or received" includes for instance taxes, fines, charges, levies, borrowings, loan repayments and money held in trust.
Section 81 gives no guidance as to how the revenues or monies that form the CRF are to be kept or accounted for, and in Australia, in apparent contrast to the British Consolidated Fund, there is no actual account into which the Commonwealth's revenues are deposited. Instead, the CRF is said to be "self‑executing" – that is, all money paid to the Commonwealth automatically forms part of the CRF, whether or not it has been credited to a fund or a bank account.
Payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund[edit]
Section 83 of the Australian Constitution provides that no money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the Commonwealth except under an appropriation made by law. The "Treasury of the Commonwealth" in Section 83 is held to be the same thing as the "Consolidated Revenue Fund" referred to in section 81, so taken together these two sections mean that there must be an appropriation for the purposes of the Commonwealth made by law before money may be drawn from the CRF. Just as all revenues and monies received form part of the CRF, all money drawn from the Treasury "self-executes" as drawings from the CRF.[4]
Section 83 was intended to both safeguard parliament’s control over government spending, and restrict that expenditure to purposes authorised by the constitution. Over the years the meaning of "for the purposes of the Commonwealth" has been broadened considerably. It has been the subject of several High Court battles, and remains in contention.[5]
New South Wales[edit]
Sections 39 and 40 of the Constitution of New South Wales require that all revenues, loans and other monies collected by the state are to be paid into a single consolidated fund. This was originally formed as the Consolidated Revenue Fund in 1855, and was merged with the state's General Loan Account to be named the Consolidated Fund from 1982.
India[edit]
The Indian government and each Indian state government maintain their own consolidated funds.
Article 266 of the Constitution of India requires revenues received by the Government of India to be paid to the Consolidated Fund of India. It also requires state revenues to be paid to a respective state consolidated fund.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India audits these funds and reports to the relevant legislatures on their management.
See also[edit]
Contingencies fund
Own resources
External links[edit]
Appropriation Act 2006, an example of drawing from the Fund
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866". The UK Statute Law Database. Office of Public Sector Information. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
Jump up ^ "Contingencies Fund Act 1974". The UK Statute Law Database. Office of Public Sector Information. Retrieved 11 May 2010. [permanent dead link]
Jump up ^ Part 5 of the Government of Wales Act: Finance, National Assembly for Wales Members' Research Service, September 2006
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
Jump up ^ Twomey, A. (2014). Public Money: Federal-State Financial Relations and the Constitutional Limits on Spending Public Money. Constitutional Reform Unit, University of Sydney
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Basketball court
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The home court of the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association
In basketball, the basketball court is the playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor with baskets at either end. In professional or organized basketball, especially when played indoors, it is usually made out of a wood, often maple, and highly polished. Outdoor surfaces are generally made from standard paving materials such as concrete or asphalt.
Contents
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1 Dimensions
1.1 Diagrams
1.2 Table
2 Sections
2.1 Center circle
2.2 Three-point line
2.3 Perimeter
2.4 Low post area
2.5 Key
2.6 Other lines
2.7 FIBA changes
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
Dimensions[edit]
Basketball courts come in different sizes. In the National Basketball Association (NBA), the court is 94 by 50 feet (28.7 by 15.2 m). Under International Basketball Federation (FIBA) rules,[1] the court is minutely smaller, measuring exactly 28 by 15 metres (91.9 by 49.2 ft). In amateur basketball, court sizes vary widely. The baskets are always 10 feet (3.0 m) above the floor (except possibly in youth competition). Basketball courts have a three-point arc at both baskets. A basket made from behind this arc is worth three points; a basket made from within this line, or with a player's foot touching the line, is worth 2 points. The free-throw line, where one stands while taking a foul shot, is located within the three-point arc at 15 feet from the basket. A foul shot is worth 1 point, but if a shot is made from the foul line while in play it is still worth 2 points.[2]
Diagrams[edit]
Composite diagram of a basketball court with FIBA (top half only), NBA (both halves), and NCAA (men’s & women’s – bottom half only) markings
The backboard and basket
Table[edit]
Area
NBA
FIBA
WNBA
NCAA[3]
Imperial
Metric
Imperial
Metric
Imperial
Metric
Imperial
Metric
Court length 94 ft 28.65 m 91.86 ft 28 m Same as NBA
Court width 50 ft 15.24 m 49.21 ft 15 m Same as NBA
Rim height 10 ft 3.05m Same as NBA
Restricted arc radius 4 ft 1.22 m 4.10 ft 1.25 m Same as NBA 3 ft 0.91 m
Center circle diameter 12 ft 3.66 m 11.81 ft 3.6 m Same as NBA
3-point line distance from the basket 23.75 ft
22 ft in corner* 7.24 m
6.70 m in corner* 22.15 ft
21.65 ft in corner† 6.75 m
6.60 m in corner† Same as FIBA 20.75 ft 6.32 m
Key (shaded lane or
restricted area) width 16 ft 4.88 m 16.08 ft 4.9 m Same as NBA 12 ft 3.66 m
Free-throw line distance from point on the floor directly below the backboard 15 ft 4.57 m 15.09 ft 4.6 m Same as NBA
* The NBA three-point line is 3 ft (0.91 m) from the sideline in a zone starting at the baseline and ending when it crosses the 23.75 ft (7.24 m) arc. The 22 ft (6.70 m) measurement applies only at a point where a line parallel to the baseline intersects the long axis of the court and the center of the basket.
† The FIBA three-point line is 2.95 ft (0.90 m) from the sideline in a zone starting at the baseline and ending when it crosses the 22.1 ft (6.75 m) arc. The 21.65 ft (6.60 m) measurement applies only at a point where a line parallel to the baseline intersects the long axis of the court and the center of the basket.
Sections[edit]
Center circle[edit]
The only two players permitted to enter this area prior to the tipoff are the players contesting the jump ball (usually but not always centers). Both players jump when the referee throws the ball in the air, each attempting to tap the ball into the hands of a player of their own team.
Three-point line[edit]
The three-point line is the line that separates the two-point area from the three-point area; any shot converted beyond this line counts as three points. If the shooting player steps on the line, it is counted as two points. Any foul made in the act of shooting beyond the three-point line would give the player three free throws if the shot does not go in, and one if it does.
The distance to the three-point line from the center of the basket varies depending on the level or league, and has changed several times. These are the current distances, with the league or level using each distance:
19.75 ft (6.02 m): High School
20.75 ft (6.32 m): NCAA
21.65 ft (6.60 m) to 22.15 ft (6.75 m): WNBA and FIBA
22 ft (6.71 m) to 23.75 ft (7.24 m): NBA
The NBA adopted the three-point line at the start of the 1979–80 season. This is of variable distance, ranging from 22 feet (6.7 m) in the corners to 23.75 feet (7.24 m) behind the top of the key. During the 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons, the NBA attempted to address decreased scoring by shortening the overall distance of the line to a uniform 22 feet (6.7 m) around the basket. It was moved back to its original distance after the 1996–97 season. FIBA and the NCAA both adopted the three-point line in 1985.
In most high school associations in the United States, the distance is 19.75 feet. This was formerly the distance for college basketball as well. On May 26, 2007, the NCAA playing rules committee agreed to move the three-point line back one foot to 20.75 feet for the men. This rule went into effect for the 2008–2009 season. The three-point line for women (NCAA) moved back one foot to 20.75 feet at the start of the 2011–2012 season.
The international distance, used in most countries outside the United States and in FIBA and WNBA competition, is currently 6.6 m (21.65 ft) to 6.75 m (22.15 ft).
Perimeter[edit]
The perimeter is defined as the areas outside the free throw lane and inside the three-point line. Shots converted (successfully made) from this area are called "perimeter shots" or "medium-range shots." If a player's foot is on the three-point line, the shot is considered a perimeter shot.
Low post area[edit]
The low post is defined as the areas that are closest to the basket but outside of the free throw lane.[4] This area is fundamental to strategy in basketball. Skilled low post players can score many points per game without ever taking a jump shot.
Key[edit]
The key, free throw lane or shaded lane refers to the usually painted area beneath the basket; for the NBA it is 16 feet (4.9 m) wide, for the NCAA it is 12 feet (3.7 m) wide; for both instances it extends 15 feet (4.6 m) from the backboard. At the top of the rectangle is the free throw line, behind which players shoot uncontested shots when they're fouled. A circle is drawn around the free-throw line with a 6 feet (1.8 m) radius; this is used for jump ball instances, as is done at the center circle. Two 6-inch hash lines, 3 ft from the free throw lane line and 5 ft 8 in from the free throw line, show the lower defensive box linked to the restricted area.
For FIBA tournaments, since October 2010 the key has been a rectangle 4.9 m wide and 5.8 m long. Previously it was a trapezoid 3.7 meters (12 ft) wide at the free-throw line and 6 meters (19 feet and 6.25 inches) at the end line.
The key is primarily used to prevent players from staying beneath the basket of the opponents' team for long periods (maximum three seconds).
The restricted area arc is a semi-circular arc drawn around the area directly underneath the basket. With some exceptions, members of the defending team cannot draw charging fouls in this area. The restricted arc in all North American rule sets above high school level (NCAA men's and women's, NBA, and WNBA) has a radius 4 feet (1.22 m) from below the center of the basket. The NCAA restricted area arc was originally established for the 2011–12 men's and women's seasons at a 3-foot (0.91 m) radius from below the center of the basket, and was extended to match the (W)NBA radius for the 2015–16 season and beyond.
Other lines[edit]
On NBA floors, two hash marks are drawn at the end lines near the key to mark the area known as the lower defensive box. A defensive player is allowed to draw a charging foul within the restricted arc if the offensive player receives the ball and/or starts his drive within this area.[5]
Also, two lines are drawn on each of the sidelines, 28 feet from each of the endlines, which designates the extent of the coaching box and bench. This line marks the farthest extent a coach (aside from the sidelines) can stand. Directly behind this area is the team bench.
On the half-court line of NBA floors two lines extend outside the playing court, designating the place where substitutes wait before they can enter the playing court; directly behind this area are the various off-court officials such as the timekeeper and reserve referee.
FIBA changes[edit]
On April 26, 2008, FIBA announced several major rules changes involving the court markings. These changes took effect for major international competitions on October 1, 2010, after that year's World Championships for men and women, and became mandatory for other competitions on October 1, 2012 (although national federations could adopt the new markings before 2012). The changes were as follows.[6]
The shape of the key changed from a trapezoid to a rectangle as it is in the NBA, with NBA dimensions.
The three-point line moved back to 6.75 metres (22 ft 1.7 in) from 6.25 metres (20 ft 6.1 in), compared to 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) for the NBA at the top of the arc.
The FIBA adopted the NBA's restricted area arc with a marginally wider radius of 1.25 metres (4 ft 1.2 in).
See also[edit]
List of indoor arenas in the United States#Major college indoor arenas
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Official Basketball Rules 2006" (pdf). International Basketball Federation. 2006. Archived from the original on 6 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-14.
Jump up ^ Wissel, Hal (1994). Basketball: steps to success. United States: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc. pp. ix. ISBN 0-7360-5500-2.
Jump up ^ "NCAA Basketball Court Diagram" (pdf). NCAA. 2018. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
Jump up ^ Basketball Glossary Terms, Definition, Lane violation, Low post Archived April 30, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ http://www.nba.com/nba101/misunderstood_0708.html
Jump up ^ "The FIBA Central Board approves historic rule changes" (Press release). FIBA. 2008-04-26. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Basketball courts.
Free Basketball Court Layout Template
FIBA Central Board (2010-04-17). "Official Basketball Rules 2010: Basketball Equipment" (pdf). International Basketball Federation. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
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Fairy Tail
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Not to be confused with Fairy tale.
Fairy Tail
First volume of Fairy Tail that was released by Kodansha on December 15, 2006, in Japan, featuring Natsu Dragneel, Lucy Heartfilia, and Happy
フェアリーテイル
(Fearī Teiru)
Genre
Adventure, fantasy[1]
Manga
Written by
Hiro Mashima
Published by
Kodansha
English publisher
NA
Del Rey Manga (1 – 12)
Kodansha USA (13 – 63)
Demographic
Shōnen
Magazine
Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run
August 2, 2006 – July 26, 2017
Volumes
63 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
Shinji Ishihara
Produced by
Taihei Yamanishi
Tomonori Ochikoshi
Yoshikazu Beniya
Yōsuke Imai
Written by
Masashi Sogo
Music by
Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio
A-1 Pictures (#1–277)
Satelight (#1–175)
Bridge (#176–277)
Licensed by
AUS
Madman Entertainment
NA
Funimation
UK
Anime Limited
Original network
TXN (TV Tokyo), AT-X
English network
SEA
Animax Asia
US
Funimation Channel
Original run
October 12, 2009 – March 26, 2016[2]
Episodes
277 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
Directed by
Shinji Ishihara
Hiro Mashima
Written by
Masashi Sogo
Hiro Mashima
Music by
Yasuharu Takanashi
Studio
A-1 Pictures, Satelight, Bridge
Released
April 15, 2011 – December 18, 2016
Episodes
9 (List of episodes)
Manga
Fairy Tail Zero
Films
Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess (2012)
Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017)
Anime and Manga portal
Fairy Tail (Japanese: フェアリーテイル, Hepburn: Fearī Teiru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017, with the individual chapters collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha. The story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel, a teenage wizard[a][3] who is a member of the popular wizards' guild Fairy Tail, as he searches for the dragon Igneel.
The manga has been adapted into an anime series produced by A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Inc., Satelight and Bridge which began broadcasting in Japan on October 12, 2009. Additionally, A-1 Pictures has developed seven original video animations and two animated feature films. The series ended its initial run on March 30, 2013. A second series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2014, and ended on March 26, 2016. A third series of the anime series is scheduled to air during Fall 2018.[4]
Fairy Tail was originally licensed for an English language release in North America by Del Rey Manga, which began releasing the individual volumes on March 25, 2008 and ended its licensing with the 12th volume release in September 2010. In December 2010, Kodansha USA took over North American release of the series. The Southeast Asian network Animax Asia aired an English-language version of the anime for seven seasons from 2010 to 2015. The anime has been licensed by Funimation for an English-language release in North America. As of February 2017, Fairy Tail has 60 million copies in print.[5]
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot
2 Production
3 Media
3.1 Manga
3.1.1 Spin-off manga
3.2 Anime
3.2.1 Sequels
3.2.2 Original video animation
3.3 Film
3.4 Video games
3.5 Audio
4 Reception
4.1 Manga
4.2 Anime
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
See also: List of Fairy Tail characters
Fairy Tail is set in Earth-land,[b] a fictional land where wizards[3] coalesce into guilds to apply their magical abilities for paid job requests. Novice wizard Lucy Heartfilia runs away from home to join Fairy Tail, a guild famous for its members' overly destructive antics. She is invited into the guild by Natsu Dragneel, a dragon slayer[c] wizard who travels the kingdom of Fiore[d] in search of his missing foster father, the dragon Igneel. Lucy forms a team with Natsu and his cat-like companion Happy, which is later joined by ice wizard Gray Fullbuster, armored wizard Erza Scarlet, and dragon slayer Wendy Marvell. The team embark on numerous guild missions together, which include subjugating criminals, illegal dark guilds, and ancient Etherious[e] demons created by the immortal dark wizard Zeref.
Following several adventures, Natsu and his companions encounter Zeref living in isolation on the guild's sacred ground of Sirius Island.[f][6] A battle over Zeref ensues between Fairy Tail and the dark guild Grimoire Heart, which attracts the attention of the evil black dragon Acnologia. The Fairy Tail wizards survive Acnologia's assault when the spirit of their guild's founder, Mavis Vermillion, casts the defensive Fairy Sphere[g] spell that places them into seven years of suspended animation.
Shortly after the missing wizards return, Fairy Tail participates in the Grand Magic Games,[h] a tournament held to determine the strongest guild in Fiore. In doing so, they prevent an unwitting government conspiracy to ravage the kingdom with dragons brought from the past through Eclipse, Zeref's time travel gate. After observing these events, Zeref decides to eradicate humanity for their continuing conflicts. Later, Fairy Tail wages war against Tartaros, a dark guild of Etherious that aim to unseal a book believed to contain E.N.D., Zeref's ultimate demon. Acnologia returns to annihilate both guilds, prompting Igneel – revealed to have sealed himself within Natsu – to emerge and battle Acnologia. However, Acnologia kills Igneel before a helpless Natsu, who departs on a year-long training journey to avenge Igneel.
Natsu returns to discover that Fairy Tail's master, Makarov Dreyar, has been staving off an invasion by the Alvarez Empire, which Zeref governs. Zeref and his forces assault Fiore, intending to acquire Mavis' physical body preserved beneath Fairy Tail's guildhall, which houses a wellspring of infinite magic power known as Fairy Heart.[i] During the battle, Zeref reveals Natsu's origins as his younger brother, as well as the true incarnation of E.N.D., whom Zeref resurrected as a demon with the intention of being killed by him. When Natsu fails to do so, Zeref extracts Fairy Heart from Mavis to relocate himself to a new timeline where he may prevent the atrocities he and Acnologia have caused, destroying the present timeline in the process. Natsu incapacitates Zeref, and Lucy rewrites the book of E.N.D. to make Natsu fully human. Mavis, who is revealed to be Zeref's estranged lover who shares his curse of immortality, is then able to lift their curse by reciprocating his love, allowing both to die.
Meanwhile, Fairy Tail and their allies attempt to imprison Acnologia within a space-time rift discovered by Lucy's ancestor, Anna Heartfilia. Acnologia is instead empowered by the rift's properties and escapes, while his disembodied soul traps all of the present dragon slayers in the rift to maintain his new, immeasurable power. Using the accumulative magic of the other dragon slayers, Natsu destroys Acnologia after Lucy and the other wizards immobilize the dragon's body within Fairy Sphere, freeing the dragon slayers from captivity. In the following year, Lucy publishes an award-winning novel based on her experiences at the guild; the award ceremony is attended by two strangers resembling Mavis and Zeref, who fall in love. Afterwards, Natsu and his team depart on a century-old guild mission,[7] continuing their ongoing adventures together.
Production[edit]
After finishing his previous work, Rave Master, Hiro Mashima found the story sentimental and sad at the same time, so he wanted the storyline of Fairy Tail to have a "lot of fun [for everyone]". His inspiration for the series was simply sitting in bars and partying with his friends, the community aspect.[8] Having always loved magicians and wizards, he imagined what it would be like if he and his friends were magicians.[9] But it is also about young people finding their calling, such as a job.[8] He stated that while he tries to consider both his own interests and the fans' on what will happen next in Fairy Tail, the fans' take precedence.[8]
Mashima described his weekly schedule for creating individual chapters of Fairy Tail in 2008. Script and storyboards are written on Monday, rough sketches the following day, and drawing and inking are done Wednesday through Friday. At the time the weekends were for Monster Hunter Orage, a monthly series Mashima was writing at the same time as Fairy Tail. He usually thinks up new chapters while working on the current ones. Mashima had six assistants in 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq. feet area with seven desks, as well as a sofa and TV for video games.[9] In 2011, he stated that he worked six days a week, for 17 hours a day.[10]
For the characters of the series, Mashima drew upon people he has known in his life. In establishing the father-son relationship between Natsu and Igneel, Mashima cited his father's death when he was a child as an influence.[11] He based Natsu's motion sickness on one of his friends, who gets sick when taking taxis together. When naming the character, the author thought western fantasy names would be unfamiliar to Japanese audiences, so he went with the Japanese name for summer; Natsu.[9] Mashima based the humorous aspects of the series on his daily life and jokes his assistants would make.[11]
Media[edit]
Manga[edit]
See also: List of Fairy Tail volumes
Written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima Fairy Tail was serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2, 2006 to July 26, 2017. The 545 individual chapters were collected and published into 63 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha between December 15, 2006 and December 26, 2017. A special in Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a crossover with Flunk Punk Rumble, released in 2008. The official fanbook, Fairy Tail+, was released on May 17, 2010 in Japan. Another crossover with Mashima's first series Rave was published in 2011.[12] A special issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, published on October 19, 2013, featured a small crossover between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where each artist drew a yonkoma (four-panel comic) of the other's series.[13] An actual crossover chapter between these two ran in the magazines' combined 4/5 issue of 2014, which was released on December 25, 2013.[14] A two-volume series called Fairy Tail S, which collects short stories by Mashima that were originally published in various Japanese magazines through the years, was released on September 16, 2016.[15][16]
The series was licensed for an English-language release in North America by Del Rey Manga.[17] The company released the first volume of the series on March 25, 2008 and continued until the release of the 12th volume in September 2010. After Del Rey Manga shut down,[18] Kodansha USA acquired the license and began publishing Fairy Tail volumes in May 2011.[19] 61 English-language volumes have been published. Kodansha USA began publishing a larger omnibus version of the series in November 2015. Called Fairy Tail: Master's Edition, each installment corresponds to five regular-sized volumes.[20] They published the first volume of Fairy Tail S: Tales from Fairy Tail on October 24, 2017.[21]
Spin-off manga[edit]
Main article: List of Fairy Tail spin-off manga
Five spin-off manga series based on Fairy Tail have been released. The first two series—Fairy Tail Zero by Mashima and Fairy Tail: Ice Trail by Yūsuke Shirato—were released with the launch of a monthly magazine titled Monthly Fairy Tail Magazine on July 17, 2014,[22] and ended in the magazine's final issue published on July 17, 2015.[23] A third series, Fairy Tail Blue Mistral by Rui Watanabe, ran in Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Nakayoshi from August 2, 2014 to December 1, 2015,[24] while another, Fairy Girls by Boku, was released in Kodansha's Magazine Special from November 20, 2014 to August 20, 2015.[25] Kyōta Shibano created a three-part meta-series titled Fairy Tail Gaiden, which was launched in Kodansha's free weekly Magazine Pocket mobile app.[26] The series began in 2015 with Twin Dragons of Saber Tooth from July 30 to November 4,[27] continued with Rhodonite from November 18, 2015 to March 30, 2016,[28] and concluded with Flash of Great Lightning in 2016 from May 4 to September 14.[29] On April 5, 2018, Mashima stated that he had "decided to create a spin-off comic and another spin-off manga for the sequel to Fairy Tail." [30]
Fairy Tail Zero, Ice Trail, Blue Mistral, Fairy Girls, and the first two installments of Gaiden are all licensed for English release by Kodansha USA.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
Anime[edit]
See also: List of Fairy Tail episodes
The Funimation staff and voice cast of the anime at the 2011 New York Comic Con, from left to right: Todd Haberkorn (Natsu), Cherami Leigh (Lucy), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Erza), Newton Pittman (Gray) and Tyler Walker (ADR director).
A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Entertainment, and Satelight produced an anime adaptation of the manga. The anime, also titled Fairy Tail and directed by Shinji Ishihira, premiered on TV Tokyo on October 12, 2009.[37] The series ended its run on March 30, 2013,[1] with reruns beginning to air on April 4, 2013 under the title Fairy Tail Best!.[38] The series started back again on April 5, 2014 and ended on March 26, 2016. Forty-one DVD volumes containing four episodes each have been released.[39] The Southeast Asian network Animax Asia aired the series locally in English.[40][41] On January 18, 2011, British anime distributor Manga Entertainment announced on Twitter that the company would release the anime series in bilingual format at the end of the year.[42] On April 21, 2011, they had confirmed that the first volume with 12 episodes would be released in February 2012;[43] however, they later announced that the first volume would be released on March 5, 2012.[44] In 2011, North American anime distributor Funimation Entertainment announced that they had acquired the first season of the ongoing series.[45] The series made its North American television debut on November 22, 2011 on the Funimation Channel.[46] The anime is also licensed by Madman Entertainment, who streamed and simulcasted the series on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand Melanesian Region (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu), Polynesian Region (Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu).[47]
Sequels[edit]
On March 4, 2013, Mashima announced on his Twitter account that the anime would not end yet,[38] and confirmed on July 11 that a sequel series was greenlit.[48] The sequel series was officially confirmed in Weekly Shonen Magazine on December 28, 2013 with a special edition chapter.[49][50] The sequel is produced by A-1 Pictures and Bridge, featuring character designs by Shinji Takeuchi; the original series' voice actors also returned to the project along with director Shinji Ishihira and writer Masashi Sogo.[49] The official website for the sequel was launched on January 7, 2014.[51] The series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5, 2014, and was being simulcast by Funimation Entertainment.[52][53] The second series concluded its run on March 26, 2016.[2] On March 22, 2016, Mashima announced via Twitter that another Fairy Tail series is in the works.[54] On July 20, 2017, Mashima confirmed on Twitter that the final season of Fairy Tail will air in 2018.[55] The final season of Fairy Tail will air in Fall 2018.[4][56] A-1 Pictures and Bridge have been confirmed to be producing and animating the final season.[57]
Original video animation[edit]
Nine original video animations (OVAs) of Fairy Tail have been produced and released on DVD by A-1 Pictures and Satelight, each bundled with a limited edition tankōbon volume of the manga. The first OVA, "Welcome to Fairy Hills!!",[j] is an adaptation of the manga omake of the same name, and was released with Volume 26 on April 15, 2011. The second, "Fairy Academy: Yankee-kun and Yankee-chan",[k] is also an adaptation of the omake of the same name, and was released together with Volume 27 on June 17, 2011.[58] The third, "Memory Days",[l] was released together with Volume 31 on February 17, 2012,[59] and features an original story written by series creator Hiro Mashima.[60] The fourth, "Fairies' Training Camp", is based on chapter 261 of the manga, and was released with Volume 35 on November 16, 2012. The fifth, "Exciting Ryuzetsu Land",[m] is based on chapter 298 of the manga and was released with Volume 38 of the manga on June 17, 2013. A sixth OVA, titled "Fairy Tail x Rave",[n] is an adaptation of the omake of the same name and was released on August 16, 2013, with Volume 39 of the manga.[61] The final season of Fairy Tail will air in Fall 2018.
Film[edit]
An anime film adaptation of Fairy Tail, titled Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess, was released on August 18, 2012.[62] It was directed by Masaya Fujimori, and its screenplay was written by anime staff writer Masashi Sogo. Series creator Hiro Mashima was involved as the film's story planner and designer for guest characters appearing in the film.[63] To promote the film, Mashima drew a 30-page prologue manga "The First Morning"[o], which was bundled with advance tickets for the film.[64] The DVD was bundled with a special edition release of Volume 36 of the manga on February 13, 2013, and included an animated adaptation of "Hajimari no Asa" as a bonus extra.[65] The film was aired on Animax Asia on March 23, 2013.[66] Funimation has licensed North American distribution rights to the film.[67] The English dub premiered at Nan Desu Kan on September 13, 2013, and was released on Blu-ray/DVD on December 10, 2013.[68]
A second anime film was announced on May 15, 2015.[69] On December 31, 2016, the official title of film was revealed as Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, which was released on May 6, 2017 in Japan.[5]
Video games[edit]
An action video game for the PlayStation Portable, titled Fairy Tail: Portable Guild,[p] was unveiled at the 2009 Tokyo Game Show.[70][71] The game was developed by Konami and was released on June 3, 2010. Two sequels to Portable Guild have also been released for the PlayStation Portable—the first, subtitled Portable Guild 2, was released on March 10, 2011; the second, Fairy Tail: Zeref Awakens,[q] was released on March 22, 2012. Two fighting games, Fairy Tail: Fight! Wizard Battle[r] and Fairy Tail: Attack! Kardia Cathedral,[s] were released for the Nintendo DS on July 22, 2010 and April 21, 2011, respectively.[72] The characters Natsu and Lucy also appeared in the crossover video game Sunday VS Magazine: Shūketsu! Chōjō Daikessen as playable characters.[73] In 2016, a browser game developed by GameSamba titled Fairy Tail: Hero's Journey was announced to be open for closed beta testing.[74]
Audio[edit]
The first volume of the album cover of Fairy Tail Original Soundtrack.
The music for the anime was composed and arranged by Yasuharu Takanashi. Four original soundtrack CDs have been released, containing music from the anime: the first soundtrack volume was released on January 6, 2010,[75] the second volume on July 7, 2010,[76] the third soundtrack volume on July 6, 2011,[77] and the fourth soundtrack volume on March 20, 2013.[78] Character song singles were also produced; the first single, featuring Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Yuichi Nakamura (Gray) was released on February 17,[79] while the second single, featuring Aya Hirano (Lucy) and Rie Kugimiya (Happy), was released on March 3, 2010.[80] Another character song album, entitled "Eternal Fellows," was released on April 27, 2011. Two of the songs from the album, performed by anime cast members Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Aya Hirano (Lucy), were used for both OVAs as the opening and ending themes, respectively. Other songs on the volume are performed by Yuichi Nakamura (Gray), Sayaka Ohara (Erza), Satomi Satō (Wendy), Wataru Hatano (Gajeel), and a duet by Rie Kugimiya (Happy) and Yui Horie (Carla).[81]
An internet radio program began airing on HiBiKi Radio Station on February 11, 2012, featuring anime voice actors Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu) and Mai Nakahara (Juvia) as announcers.[82]
Reception[edit]
Manga[edit]
As of February 2017, the Fairy Tail manga had 60 million collected volumes in circulation.[5] According to Oricon, Fairy Tail was the eighth best-selling manga series in Japan for 2009,[83] fourth best in 2010 and 2011,[84][85] fifth best of 2012,[86] dropped to ninth in 2013,[87] to 17th in 2014,[88] and was 15th in 2015.[89] The fifth volume of Fairy Tail was ranked seventh in a list of the top ten manga, and the series once again placed seventh after the release of the sixth volume.[90] About.com's Deb Aoki listed Fairy Tail as the Best New Shōnen Manga of 2008.[91] It also won the 2009 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.[92] At the 2009 Industry Awards for the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, the organizers of Anime Expo, Fairy Tail was named Best Comedy Manga.[93] Volume 9 of the series was nominated in the Youth Selection category at the 2010 Angoulême International Comics Festival.[94]
Reviewing the first volume, Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network felt Fairy Tail followed standard shōnen action manga tropes, writing "the mix of goofy humor, face-crushing action, and teary-eyed sap is so calculated as to be mechanical."[95] Carlo Santos, also of Anime News Network, agreed in his review of volume three; having positive views towards the art, particularly the action scenes, but citing a lack of story and character development.[96] By volume 12 Santos suggested that Mashima's true talent lies in "taking the most standard, predictable aspects of the genre and somehow still weaving it into a fun, fist-pumping adventure."[97]
Kimlinger, his colleague Rebecca Silverman, and A.E. Sparrow of IGN all felt Mashima's artwork had strong similarities to Eiichiro Oda's in One Piece.[98] While Sparrow used the comparison as a compliment and said it had enough unique qualities of its own, Kimlinger went so far as to say it makes it difficult to appreciate Mashima's "undeniable technical skill."[95][99]
Anime[edit]
The anime has also received a positive response from critics and viewers alike. In Southeast Asia, Fairy Tail won Animax Asia's "Anime of the Year" award in 2010.[100] In 2012, the anime series won the "Meilleur Anime Japonais" (best Japanese anime) award and the best French dubbing award at the 19th Anime & Manga Grand Prix in Paris, France.[101]
In reviewing the first Funimation Entertainment DVD volumes, Carlo Santos of Anime News Network praised the visuals, characters, and English voice acting, as well as the supporting characters for its comedic approach. However, Santos criticized both the anime's background music and CGI animation.[102] In his review of the second volume, Santos also praised the development of "a more substantial storyline," but also criticized the inconsistent animation and original material not present in the manga.[103] In his review of the third volume, Santos praised the improvements of the story and animation, and said that the volume "finally shows the [anime] series living up to its potential."[104] In his reviews of the fourth and sixth volumes, however, Santos praised the storyline's formulaic pattern, though saying that "unexpected wrinkles in the story [...] keep the action from getting too stale," but calling the outcomes "predictable".[105][106][106]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ madōshi (魔導士)
Jump up ^ Āsu Rando (アースランド)
Jump up ^ doragon sureiyā (滅竜魔導士 (ドラゴンスレイヤー))
Jump up ^ Fiōre Ōkoku (フィオーレ王国)
Jump up ^ Ēteriasu (エーテリアス)
Jump up ^ Tenrō-jima (天狼島)
Jump up ^ Fearī Sufia (妖精の球 (フェアリースフィア))
Jump up ^ Daimatōenbu (大魔闘演武)
Jump up ^ Fearī Hāto (妖精の心臓 (フェアリーハート))
Jump up ^ Yōkoso Fearī Hiruzu (ようこそフェアリーヒルズ!!)
Jump up ^ Yōsei Gakuen: Yankī-kun to Yankī-chan (妖精学園 ヤンキー君とヤンキーちゃん)
Jump up ^ Memorī Deizu (メモリーデイズ)
Jump up ^ Dokidoki Ryuzetsu Rando (ドキドキ・リュウゼツランド)
Jump up ^ Fearī Teiru x Reivu (フェアリーテイル x レイヴ)
Jump up ^ Hajimari no Asa (はじまりの朝)
Jump up ^ Fearī Teiru: Pōtaburu Girudo (フェアリーテイル ポータブルギルド)
Jump up ^ Fearī Teiru: Zerefu Kakusei (フェアリーテイル ゼレフ覚醒)
Jump up ^ Fearī Teiru: Gekitō! Madōshi Kessen (フェアリーテイル 激闘! 魔道士決戦)
Jump up ^ Fearī Teiru: Gekitotsu! Karudia Daiseidō (フェアリーテイル 激突! カルディア大聖堂)
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External links[edit]
Official manga website of Kodansha (in Japanese)
Official anime website of TV Tokyo (in Japanese)
Official anime sequel website (in Japanese)
Hodgkins, Crystalyn. "Interview: Hiro Mashima". Anime News Network. November 8, 2011.
Fairy Tail (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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