Wakaba Mine

Wakaba Mine (ワカバ・ミネ, Wakaba Mine) is a veteran Mage of the Fairy Tail guild. He is a long-time friend of Macao Conbolt, acting as his adviser during Macao's tenor as the guild's Fourth Guild Master.

Appearance
Wakaba is a man of average height distinguished by his brown hair, which is kept in a pompadour-like style that protrudes frontwards from the top of his head in a large, curly and fluffy tuft. He is almost always seen with his eyes either closed or semi-open; they seem to have light-colored pupils, as shown when Wakaba opens one of them to display his surprise. His physique is peculiar in the fact that, despite Wakaba having quite a large belly, his abdominal and pectorals above it are well-defined. His Guild mark is yellow in color, and located on his left breast. He also seems to have mildly hairy legs. After the seven-year time skip, Wakaba loses his signature pompadour to what appears to be a receding hairline, gaining a straighter-looking appearance and being slicked upwards in a spiked shape. He also gains wrinkles on his face, and has grown a thick, pointed beard on his chin.

His outfits usually consists of a loose, light green shirt decorated by many motifs of stylized dark-colored flowers with five petals, a pair of pants cut down below Wakaba’s knees and held up by a light belt adorned by many black stars partially hidden by his shirt, and sandals held up by striped bands. He wears another, darker pair of short pants and simple dark shoes during his first appearance. In his youth, he donned more serious attires, which includes a leather jacket of sorts and a pair of sunglasses, together with simple pants and shoes.

After the disappearance of Makarov and many prominent guild members, Wakaba switches to a simpler, less flamboyant outfit, consisting of a light-colored jacket with dark fur trimmings on its edges and dark cuffs. He wears this jacket over a simple shirt, with another black undershirt visible from its open collar. He has light pants matching his jacket, with large hemlines and a thin line going down each leg’s side, and simple dark shoes.

Personality
Wakaba is a perverted old man who cares deeply for his friends and guildmates. He dislikes marriage and sexually harasses Laki Olietta and Kinana constantly. However, Wakaba seems to be more obsessed with Mirajane Strauss, asking her on dates and staring at her perversely several times.

History
Wakaba has been in the Fairy Tail guild since before Cana (who had been in Fairy Tail longer than others of her age group), and developed a strong friendship with the other older guild members such as Reedus Jonah and his rival Macao Conbolt.

Macao arc
Wakaba is first seen flirting with Mirajane using his Smoke Magic and asks her to go on a date with him, but ends up dismayed when Mirajane reminds him that he is married by transforming into his wife. Shortly thereafter, Natsu returns from a mission together with Happy and a new recruit, Lucy, and starts a brawl which Wakaba participates in. After Makarov dissolves the fight and calms everyone down, Wakaba surveys their latest guildmate Lucy in admiration, questioning Natsu where he found her.

Lullaby arc
Wakaba casually hangs around in the guild with his fellow guildmates when Erza returns from a mission, prompting him to become nervous in her presence. The female Mage immediately begins to scold several members over various issues, including Wakaba, who just littered the floor with cigarette butts. When Erza and the others return after subduing Eisenwald and the Lullaby, Erza and Natsu fight each other as a fulfillment to Erza's promise to Natsu before the mission. Most of the members of the guild are present to watch the fight, including Wakaba. However, the fight is interrupted when a messenger from the Magic Council arrives and arrests Erza for the damages caused by the earlier battle with Eisenwald.

Phantom Lord arc
While the guild was completely vacant, Gajeel Redfox, a Mage from the Phantom Lord Guild, arrived at the building to then attack and destroy it. He later attacks the members of Team Shadow Gear, Levy McGarden, Jet and Droy. These two unprovoked attacks would cause Master Makarov to declare war and charge towards the rival guild, bringing with him most of his Mages, including Wakaba.

Fighting Festival arc
As the contest for the strongest member of Fairy Tail commences, Wakaba fights against Macao. Later on, Warren contacts both Macao and Wakaba to help the other guild members take down The Hall of Thunder, with Wakaba managing to destroy only one lightning Lacrima. After the trouble was over, he is later seen alongside Macao during the preparations for the Fantasia Parade.

Edolas arc
Wakaba is shown at the guild after Wendy's arrival, shocked at the revelation that she is a Dragon Slayer. He is then sucked in by the Anima to Edolas along with most of Fairy Tail. After the events in Edolas, Mystogan saves the guild when he teleports it back to Earthland using the Reverse Anima.

Tenrou Island arc
Carla demonstrates her power of premonition by having visions of the Macao and Wakaba's conversation. Moments later, Wakaba and Macao talk about the youth of the guilds, saying that they're like how they were in the past, and how they enjoy seeing some eye-candies in the guild.

X791 arc
Seven years after the destruction of Tenrou Island, the guild is reduced into a small tavern with only a few members remaining, one of which is Wakaba, who was promoted as the fourth master, Macao's advisor. Although Macao is officially the guild master, Wakaba refuses to address him as such, causing the two to argue. However, the two stops their argument when they heard Droy shouting that Levy will never come back. Suddenly, a group of men from the rival guild, Twilight Ogre, enters the guild and begins to demand for payment for the debt that the fairies owe them but Macao informs them that they were unable to collect enough money to make the payment. The group then leaves after trashing the guild and promise to return next month for the rent.

After the group left, everyone in the guild notices Reedus' sketch book, littered on the floor. The sketch book contains Reedus' sketch of the guild members back when the guild was strong and complete. Seeing the sketches, everyone in the guild begins to grief and reminisce what has happened since the disappearance of their comrades. Suddenly, the guild hears a sound and everyone heads outside only to see Blue Pegasus's Christina. The Trimens then gets off the Magic Bomber and informs the guild that they have detected something in the Eternano waters and that Tenrou Island still exists.

Wakaba stays behind when Fairy Tail members go to search for Tenrou Island with their new information. Teebo and his crew enters the guild again stating their master won't accept that Fairy Tail still has yet to pay them. Romeo is almost attacked by Teebo, but the missing members of Fairy Tail return right then and defeat Teebo and his crew in an instant. After they explain the first Fairy Tail Master, Mavis Vermilion had saved them with Fairy Sphere, Wakaba and the rest of the guild cry in joy of their return.

During the celebration of the Fairy Tail members return, Wakaba is there when Makarov allows Macao to keep his position as Master for a while. Wakaba and Makarov then tease Macao about this behind his back.

Some time later, Makarov, Mirajane, and Erza go to Twilight Ogre to negotiate their payments. They end up fighting as Macao and Wakaba watch from outside, not surprised that they're using violence to solve the issue. They then see Happy and Natsu with depressed looks on their faces walking down the street, which confuses the two men.

Key of the Starry Sky arc
Note: Events in this arc occur only in the anime and do not constitute canon material. Upon hearing Natsu and Lucy talking about a dance ball at Count Balsamico's mansion, Wakaba mentions that the ball is a prestigious event held once every seven years, and that only Mages are allowed to attend. When the guild begin to practice dancing, Wakaba notices that Macao has asked Mirajane to dance, and angrily interrupts them to try and steal Mirajane away to dance with him instead.

After Lucy accidentally turns herself invisible and heads to the guild for help, he and other guild members start to have a fight with each other. When the others try to paint Lucy visible, Wakaba states he used to take classes as a child, and would therefore be good at it, however he fails. After Gray's attempt of fixing Lucy using his Magic, the ice then melts and the others state it's creepy. Wakaba, along with the others, watches Freed try and fail to fix Lucy using his runes. When Lucy begins to disappear permanently, he and the others start to forget about her, until Natsu and Happy remember her. Happy then slams into Lucy, flinging the ointment bottle all over everyone, causing them all to go invisible except Lucy. Macao asks Wakaba if he got any information. He assures him that he got an aquaintance to search it. Just as he was saying that, Laki comes in with a report in her hands. Wakaba apologizes for asking her to bring it. When Laki reads it out loud, Wakaba questions why it is in past tense. When he gets his answer, he dismisses it. When Lucy asks if she could send another guild a request, he exclaims that he has never heard of that. He watches along with the rest of the guild as the key levitates and letters start appearing on it.

Grand Magic Games arc
Wakaba is present when Makarov announces Gildarts as the next master, but instead Makarov realizes Gildarts has declined the role, but not before reinstating Laxus as a guild member, and making Makarov the master again. After this, Romeo brings up a way for Fairy Tail to become the number one guild in Fiore again by them participating in the Grand Magic Games. Wakaba is opposed to this as with the other members, but once Makarov hears the prize is 30,000,000, he makes the guild participate.

When the day of the games come Wakaba, along with the rest of the guild members cheer for Team Fairy Tail A in the stands. They are all surprisingly greeted by Mavis Vermilion who has also come to watch the games and cheer for her guild. When Fairy Tail's second team, Team Fairy Tail B, enters Fairy Tail cheers again, though Mavis notices the man disguised as Mystogan is Jellal Fernandes, but accepts Makarov's decision to let him participate.

Magic and Abilities


Smoke Magic: Wakaba is able to manipulate and control pink-colored smoke from his pipe and use it in combat.


 * Smoke Crush: Wakaba shoots smoke from his pipe with enough force to knock away several enemy Mages around him. (Anime only)


 * Smoke Fake: Wakaba creates multiple copies of himself made of smoke. (Anime only)

Major Battles

 * Fairy Tail vs. Jose's Shades
 * Macao Conbolt vs. Wakaba Mine
 * Elfman Strauss, Macao Conbolt & Wakaba Mine vs. Daphne's Lizardmen

OVA: Memory Days
Wakaba appears in the third OVA, Memory Days. Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza and Happy are sent into the year X778 by the book Memory Days. In this year, Macao and Wakaba can be seen in the guild, with Macao promising to confess to Enno while Wakaba tries to discourage him.