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Who is the main character of Fairy Tail? Would it be Natsu or Lucy? Natsu is
like the hero of the whole anime, but I think the main story revolves around
Lucy, how she met Natsu and how she joined Fairy Tail etc. I read the
description of Fairy Tail and it says:

> Lucy is a 16-year-old girl, who wants to be a full-fledged mage. One day
> when visiting Harujion Town, she meets Natsu, a young man who gets sick
> easily by any type of transportation. But Natsu isn't just any ordinary kid,
> he's a member of one of the world's most infamous mage guilds: Fairy Tail.

Preferably if we could draw an in a canon answer (e.g. interviews with the
authors etc.), who would be the main character of Fairy Tail? Natsu or Lucy?


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Who is the main character of Fairy Tail?


## Introduction in first chapter

Usually the main purpose of a manga is explained in the first chapter, being
the introduction to the complete story. In that sense both Natsu and Lucy
would be the main protagonists. Both Natsu, Lucy (and Happy) are introduced in
the first chapter. Natsu, who is searching for Igneel, while Lucy wants to
join Fairytail and become a great Celestial mage.

## Introduction of Natsu (and Happy)

[![enter image description
here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMUdCm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMUdC.png)

## Introduction of Lucy

[![enter image description
here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ncLTnm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ncLTn.png)

## Both Natsu and Lucy mention their goal in the story

[![enter image description
here!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QPkl1m.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QPkl1.png)

## Title

On the other hand, the title usually points towards the main story too, like
with _One Piece_ , where Luffy is searching for the One Piece. In that sense
Lucy should be more considered as being the main character as her story
actually revolves around Fairytail, since she doesn't just want to be just any
mage, she wants to be a `FairyTail` mage. Natsu just happens to be in
Fairytail, but his story doesn't really revolve around his guild. He just
wants to find his father.

## Wikipedia

The Wikipedia page on Fairy Tail agrees on this, saying:

> Fairy Tail follows the adventures of Lucy Heartfilia, a teenage wizard (魔導士
> madōshi?),[1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fMUdCm.png) who joins the titular
> wizards' guild and teams up with fellow guild member Natsu Dragneel as he
> searches for the dragon Igneel.

Natsu is an important person to the story, and he is also introduced first of
all, even before Lucy, but going by this Wikipedia quote I would say Lucy
would be the main (and only?) protagonist.


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There are 5 main protagonists: **_Natsu, Happy, Gray, Erza and Lucy._**

I feel the story revolves around them more than just one of them. They are all
important to the plot of Fairy Tail, as if one were removed, the story
probably wouldn't be as intriguing as it is now. So I say that there is no
main character, but a bunch of main characters altogether.


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Lucy would be the main protagonist, seeing as the story is mainly revolves
around her. Though Natsu is the main male protagonist and Lucy the main female
protagonist - sorta like _Rave Master_ (or simply _Rave_ ), another work by
Hiro Mashima, with Haru as the main protagonist/main male protagonist and Elie
as the main female protagonist.


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It would seem Lucy is the main character, as [Peter Raeves
said](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/9776/who-is-the-main-
character-of-fairy-tail/11177#11177), both Natsu and Lucy are mentioned in the
first chapter (and episode).

In the more recent chapters

> when Fairy Tail split up, the story came back to focus on Lucy and on what
> she was doing, then slowly adding Natsu, then Juvia and then Gray.


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In my opinion Natsu is the main character, because at the root he is the one
that everyone in fairy tail relies on. It can be clearly seen that all
important fights include Natsu at the core. Even though Erza, Laxus and Gray
and all others are powerful, still Natsu is the one that always fights hardest
and finishes the battle.

In the episode where everyone is on Tenrou island, Zeref's magic was unable to
kill Natsu because of his scarf. Also Zeref said that Natsu was still not
ready to kill him and Zeref and demons from his book are the evil mages.

So IMHO Natsu is the Protagonist


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