Episode 49

The Day of Fated Meeting
Japanese Title	運命の出会いの日
Rōmaji Title	Unmei no Deai no Hi
FUNimation Title	The Day of the Fateful Encounter
Information
Japan Air Date	October 11, 2010
Adapted from	Chapter 104 Chapter 129 (to page 9) The Day of the Fateful Encounter
Episode	49
Arc	The Battle of Fairy Tail arc
Opening Song	Egao No Mahou
Ending Song	HOLY SHINE
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The Day of Fated Meeting is the 49th episode of Fairy Tail anime.

Everything has settled again in Magnolia the week after the Harvest Festival and the Fantasia. Lucy, who has never had a boyfriend, experiences a fateful encounter and a possible chance for romance. However, it turns out she would choose her friends over a date and that her fateful encounter is with a mysterious blue-haired girl who has been wandering about...

Summary

The Dragon Slayer Lacrima

A week after the Fantasia Parade, everyone is still shocked about Laxus' excommunication, with Natsu having quite a radical reaction: screaming at Makarov. Erza rightfully points out that Makarov didn't have choice, but Natsu refuses to stop. When Happy mentions that Laxus is a Dragon Slayer, Makarov explains to everyone that he is not a Dragon Slayer, instead, he was implanted with a Dragon Slayer Lacrima when he was young, because he was frail. After this, Makarov packs his items to take his leave, even though everyone is against it. However, Fried convinces him to stay.

	Lucy has never had a boyfriend

The Thunder God Tribe’s attitude has changed too. The three are friendlier to the guild. Meanwhile, Erza has been staying alone, thinking about the situation with Mystogan. She asks the Master for information, which unfortunately he doesn’t have. But that still leaves Lucy with a problem of her own: Erza is the winner of the Miss Fairy Tail Contest, so the money goes to her. She gets into a conversation with Cana, who learns and tells the whole guild that Lucy has never gone out with a guy before. Not all is bad though; Cana has seen in her cards that at that day, she would have a “fateful encounter”. What that means, exactly, she doesn’t know.

Lucy's dream wedding

Later, she learns from Mirajane, that a reporter from the Weekly Sorcerer Magazine will come to the guild. Lucy, in her imaginations, thinks that the reporter will fall in love with her and then marry her, and even pay for the interview. A bit further, Happy tells Natsu she is broke, and Natsu concludes that it because she ate something bad. Gray then comes and reminds him of the fact that she has to pay the rent. Lucy, in the meantime, goes home and summons Cancer to give her a new hairstyle, but is not happy with it, so she runs to buy a styling magazine. At the book store, she meets a guy who turns out to be a traveling writer, who asks her to show him around. Lucy at first declines his offer because she thinks he is her fateful encounter and then leaves. Behind her, a mysterious girl appears.

The reporter

She returns to the guild, and remembers she needed to buy the book, as well as return home. The reporter, Jason, then comes in, and interviews basically everyone besides Lucy. She is annoyed by this, and also deduces that he is not her type. Wanting the attention, she even changes into a bunny costume, but Gajeel, with his shooby doo bopping, kicks her off the stage. He then fights with Natsu, and the reporter, who seems excited, is caught into their fighting.

The team prevails

Lucy leaves the guild, encountering the young writer from before: she agrees to take him on a tour of the city. The two apparently click, and in the evening, Lucy turns down an offer from Happy and Natsu for a job because she has a date with him. This apparently depresses them. Mirajane tells Lucy that they wanted her to come along because they thought that the job was perfect for her. Lucy seems sad. The guy waits for Lucy at the restaurant, and Natsu and Happy are on the train. She is shown walking, minutes before her date, into an unknown direction. Then it is revealed that Lucy got on the train with Natsu and Happy, much to their surprise. The guy is then met by Cana who seems to have a strong impact on him. Later, the girl from before is shown walking about the train as Cana's words of a fateful encounter echo in the air.

Characters in Order of Appearance

1. Natsu Dragneel
2. Makarov Dreyar
3. Gray Fullbuster
4. Cana Alberona
5. Elfman Strauss
6. Jet
7. Macao Conbolt
8. Max Alors
9. Nab Lasaro
10. Erza Scarlet
11. Droy
12. Alzack Connell
13. Happy
14. Warren Rocko
15. Lucy Heartfilia
16. Wakaba Mine
17. Fried Justine
18. Evergreen
19. Reedus Jonah
20. Bickslow
21. Mirajane Strauss
22. Jellal Fernandes (flashback)
23. Mystogan (flashback)
24. Vijeeter Ecor
25. Gajeel Redfox
26. Cancer
27. Writer
28. Wendy Marvell
29. Jason
30. Juvia Lockser
31. Laki Olietta

Battles & Events

• None

Magic, Spells, and Abilities used

Magic used

• Fortune Telling (占い Uranai)
• Spatial Magic (空間魔法 Kūkan Mahō)
  • Celestial Spirit Magic (星霊魔法 Seirei Mahō)
    • Summoned the Giant Crab, Cancer
• Dragon Slayer Magic (滅竜魔法 Metsuryū Mahō)
  • Iron Dragon Slayer Magic (鉄の滅竜魔法 Tetsu no Metsuryū Mahō)
  • Fire Dragon Slayer Magic (炎の滅竜魔法 Honō no Metsuryū Mahō)
• Aera (翼(エーラ) Ēra)

Spells used

• Iron Dragon's Club (鉄竜棍 Tetsuryūkon)
• Fire Dragon's Iron Fist (火竜の鉄拳 Karyū no Tekken)

Abilities used

• Hand-to-Hand Combat
• Flight

Items used

• Celestial Spirit Gate Keys
  • Gate of the Giant Crab Key
• Twin Scissors

Manga & Anime Differences

• The scenes with Gajeel gagging and chaining Mirajane was omitted in the anime.
• The scene with Erza getting a new design for her Heart Kreuz Armor was omitted in the anime.
• Lucy hearing about Sorcerer Magazine's reporter differs slightly in both media:
  • Manga: Lucy already knows that the reporter will be coming to Fairy Tail.
  • Anime: Lucy hears it from Mirajane.
• Lucy's "fated encounter" imagination was not present in the manga.
• Jason's interview with Elfman is extended slightly in the manga.
• Jason interviews more Fairy Tail members in the anime, such as the Thunder God Tribe, Laki Olietta, Macao Conbolt and Wakaba Mine.
• The scene of Juvia talking to Gajeel is not present in the manga.
• Lucy does not dance while Gajeel does his shooby-doo singing in the anime.
• Gajeel and Natsu do not fight in the manga, whilst in the anime they do.
• A ragged man looking at the latest Sorcerer Magazine was added in the anime.
• Wendy was not mentioned in the manga.
• In the manga version of The Day of the Fateful Encounter, it turns out that it has been exactly one year since Lucy joined Fairy Tail and her fateful encounter was the day she met Natsu and Happy. In the anime, her fateful encounter was a mysterious girl.

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