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So I noticed that the new season of [fairy-tail](/questions/tagged/fairy-tail
"show questions tagged 'fairy-tail'") came out as Fairy Tail (2014), and
wondered why they decided to name it like this.

I know a similar name has been used for the remake of [hunter-x-
hunter](/questions/tagged/hunter-x-hunter "show questions tagged 'hunter-x-
hunter'") and I have been told they named it (2011) here as it is a remake in
higher quality. But I dont see any quality changes, and neither is it a remake
of the original Fairy Tail. But rather a continuation on the story told.

So why was the new Fairy Tail Season called Fairy Tail (2014) ?


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Why is the new series called 2014?


Since it is conventional for English-language anime-listing sites (e.g. MAL)
to treat a break in airing as marking the end of one series and the start of
another, you need some way to differentiate between the series that ended
before the break and the one that started after.

In the case of something like _Naruto_ , the second part had a different title
("Shippuuden"), which makes the task of naming the new season easy (i.e. just
call it what it is). Since _Fairy Tail_ was called "Fairy Tail" both before
and after the break in airing, you need some way to distinguish between the
two series on the anime-listing sites. Using the year in which the series
started airing is as good a way as any.

I should emphasize that this is purely an artefact of the way that sites like
MAL name series. As far as the people producing _Fairy Tail_ are concerned,
the episodes that started airing this month are part of the same series as the
episodes that aired from 2009-2013. If, for example, you consult [the
timetable for TV Tokyo](http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/index/timetable/), which
airs _Fairy Tail_ , you will see that this week's episode is listed as:

> ＦＡＩＲＹ ＴＡＩＬ ～フェアリーテイル～「妖精軍師」

This is the same title that was used for the show before the break in airing
(the last bit is the episode title "Yousei Gunshi", something like "Fairy
Tactician").


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