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Does Fairy Tail have one major plot line that is developed along the hundreds
of episodes it has, or does it simply have many "chunks" of unrelated
adventures (in blocks of a few episodes)?

For example, in One Piece there is one main "goal", and even though there are
several different arcs, there is a clear notion of "progress towards the goal"
happening with every arc. Naruto, Boku no Hero Academia and Black Clover also
have clear "goals", i.e. there is also a main plot, and the "progress in the
plot" is clear after every canon arc, etc.

I started watching Fairy Tail (only watched 15 episodes so far) and so far I
couldn't see any "main plot" or "main goal". It seems that they will simply
have different adventures, by picking certain quests/missions in the guild,
fulfilling the mission, coming back and repeating this loop. Surely they will
probably get stronger with time, but this is not the "progress" I'm looking
for. Is there a "main goal", "main plot" that gets slowly developed along the
hundreds of episodes? Or is it just a collection of loosely-tied adventures
(each taking a few episodes each)?

**NOTE: Don't say what the main plot is (if it exists) - hide it in a spoiler
tag. I just want to know if it exists - and if possible, what is the number of
the episode in which this plot becomes clear.**


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Does Fairy Tail have one main goal / plot, or is it just many separate stories?


If you are asking whether or not Fairy Tail is episodic, it is very much not.
Similar to other Shonen series, it is broken up into a number of story arcs,
with the first few being shorter in length and the later ones being much
longer.

If watching the anime, there are a lot of extra episodic filler segments
scattered between arcs, but those are technically not canon.

In terms of arcs themselves, around Episode 10 more substantial arcs appear
(story arcs of at least 10 episodes), starting with Galuna, Phantom Lord, and
the Tower of Heaven.

If there is a 'main plot', the first real introductory seeds (Dark Guids +
Zeref, etc) are sown in the Oración Seis arc (according to the wiki, starts
apx. Episode 52), but it's hard to pinpoint a 'main plot' until much later.
There are more lighthearted arcs mixed in between the more serious arcs but
generally speaking I'd consider things post-timeskip to be where things settle
in on a main plot (albeit in a roundabout manner).

From the Tartaros Arc (Ep. 234) onwards, it's pretty much the 'highest stakes'
portion of the series.


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