User blog comment:Erza Scarlett108/My first blog/@comment-4829046-20140507025256

Welcome to the wiki. I'm known as FTGM but you can call me AD or come up with your own Nickname if you like. :D Hope you have a great time!

How they keep track of the characters? Well.... here is the thing, the anime has a lot of filler characters that aren't really in the manga but if you mean the official manga characters, then I also know pretty much all the names of characters of importance and it is quite easy too since very few have Japanese names and even the ones that do, have it in a simpler manner than most series. So yeah, imo it is quite easy to keep track of the characters in general, but when it comes to filler characters... well.... that may change. We tend to forget those even existed so....

Also the original Fairy Tail has only one maker so it is a rather obvious but if you mean the anime team, then who knows. They have various people working and some have work with other series too so they probably don't really keep track per se but that depends on the individual. Even on the wiki, not everyone can remember character names or details. I guess it also comes with how attached you are to the series.