The Best Episodes of Fairy Tail Season 5
Every episode of Fairy Tail Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Fairy Tail Season 5!
Lucy is a 17-year-old girl, who wants to be a full-fledged mage. One day when visiting Harujion Town, she meets Natsu, a young man who gets sick easily by any type of transportation. But Natsu isn't just any ordinary kid, he's a member of one of the world's most infamous mage guilds: Fairy Tail.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Fairy Tail" season 5 is "King of the Dragons", rated 8.3/10 from 243 user votes. It was directed by Kazunobu Fuseki and written by Masashi Sogo. "King of the Dragons" aired on 4/5/2014 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Eclipse Project".
8.3/10 243 votes#1 - King of the Dragons
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/2014
Fairy Tail is back, picking up where it left off, in the middle of the Grand Magic Games! But during a short break, Gajeel leads Natsu and Wendy to the underground dragon burial ground. Wendy uses her magic to communicate with a dragon's soul, which leads to them getting a revelatory history lesson involving two of their greatest foes!
Director: Kazunobu Fuseki
Writer: Masashi Sogo
7.8/10 139 votes#2 - The Eclipse Project
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/2014
In the dragon graveyard, Arcadios explains to Fairy Tail what he needs from them to make Project Eclipse work. He takes them to the king's palace, Mercurius, and shows them Eclipse, the actual portal designed to take a party back in time to kill Zeref! But not everyone in the kingdom is on board with changing history...
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8.2/10 147 votes#3 - Fairy Tactician
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/2014
While everyone is focused on the last event at the Grand Magic Games, Team Natsu slips into the palace to try to spring the imprisoned Lucy. Meanwhile, Mavis, the progenitor of Fairy Tail, uses wartime strategy in a bid to lead her team to victory!
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7.9/10 133 votes#4 - Gray vs. Rufus
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2014
During the final event of the Grand Magic Games, Gray is tasked with beating Rufus, which is the key to Sabertooth's fall. But it seems to be a one-sided battle as Rufus uses his Memory Magic to make new magic, as well as causing Gray to forget his own!
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7.7/10 130 votes#5 - The Hungry Wolf Knights
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/2014
Sabertooth has a new master! And Fairy Tail may be on top of the Grand Magic Games, but below the palace, Natsu and the others are still trapped in Palace Hell. And then things get worse when the hunters become the hunted... by the Garou Knights!
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7.7/10 130 votes#6 - Fairy Tail vs. Executioners
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2014
Though their appearances may be foolish, the Garou Knights are the strongest executioners in the kingdom! And now, the members of Fairy Tail's "away team" are separated from each other and forced into one-on-one combat against the knights.
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7.5/10 130 votes#7 - Scorching Earth
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2014
When Lucy and Yukino get their Celestial Spirit keys back, they summon various old comrades to combat the goofy-looking but powerful Uosuke, master of natural disasters!
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7.7/10 132 votes#8 - Our Place
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 5/24/2014
It's the last round of the all-out battle between the members of the Fairy Tail rescue team and the Garou Knights! But if Natsu, Lucy, and the others triumph, will they become enemies of the state?!
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8.3/10 179 votes#9 - The Kingdom 'til Tomorrow
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 5/31/2014
The Lucy rescue team led by Natsu finally makes it out of Hell Palace after an epic battle with the Garou Knights... but they're stopped dead in their tracks by a single mysterious figure before them!
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8.1/10 187 votes#10 - Erza vs. Kagura
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 6/7/2014
Natsu's "away team" has successfully rescued Lucy and Yukino, but now they're puzzling over the mystery of the two Lucys! And back in Crocus, Erza's battle against Kagura truly begins, a battle steeped in vengeance more than sport!
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8.3/10 186 votes#11 - A Future Racing Toward Despair
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/2014
Erza's battle royale with Kagura finally ends in an unexpected way. Also, we learn of the untold connection between the two combatants. And will Natsu and his team ever escape from the palace with Lucy and future Lucy?!
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7.9/10 186 votes#12 - Frog
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 6/21/2014
Future Lucy warns of an impending attack by a swarm of over 10,000 dragons, but does she have a solution? And is she even telling the truth? Jellal, for one, doesn't think so!
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8.2/10 201 votes#13 - Roaring Thunder!
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 6/28/2014
The end of the Grand Magic Games is near, and only the strongest wizards remain in the final battle. But Gajeel has become a new form to battle an unknown shadowy evil! With her wounded leg, Erza can barely fight against the deadly Minerva! And Laxus is up against possibly the most powerful wizard of all: Jura of the Ten Wizard Saints!
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8.2/10 199 votes#14 - Gloria
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 7/5/2014
The Grand Magic Games are ending at last! But who will be the last wizard standing? And which guild will be crowned the strongest in Fiore?
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8.3/10 199 votes#15 - The One Who Closes the Gate
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 7/12/2014
Lucy wasn't the only time traveler from the future. There's one more... and it's the person who possessed Rogue in his match with Gajeel. But is his motive the same as Lucy's or something more sinister?
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8.2/10 191 votes#16 - Natsu vs. Rogue
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 7/19/2014
Natsu takes on the future Rogue by himself so Lucy can get away, but the future version is a lot more powerful than the present one and possibly evil! Meanwhile, Princess Hisui slowly opens the gigantic Eclipse portal to harness its incredible amount of magic power against the invading swarm of 10,000 dragons. Except... the dragons they've been warned about from future Lucy and future Rogue are nowhere to be found...
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8.2/10 189 votes#17 - For Me, Too
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 7/26/2014
The true menace of the opened Eclipse portal becomes clear as one dragon after another lumbers through, intent on murdering everyone. Only a Celestial Spirit wizard can close the portal, but will Lucy be able to do it before all 10,000 dragons enter the world from 400 years in the past?!
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8.3/10 188 votes#18 - Seven Dragons
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 8/2/2014
Seven dragons have invaded Crocus from the ancient past and are tearing up the city. It seems the only thing that can defeat a dragon is a Dragon Slayer, but there are only six in town (including Natsu, Rogue, Sting, etc.), so Doranbolt goes on a mission to enlist the aid of a certain nefarious Slayer...
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8.0/10 144 votes#19 - Zirconis' Magic
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 8/9/2014
Seven dragons came through the Eclipse portal before it was closed... but now one of them drops dozens of eggs that hatch immediately! Plus: Sabertooth turns a new leaf! Cobra fights on the side of good?! And Zirconis uses magic to make clothes disappear, which proves to be particularly embarrassing for Lucy!
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8.1/10 185 votes#20 - People and People, Dragons and Dragons, People and Dragons
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 8/16/2014
The battle rages on between dragons and Dragon Slayers with the future at stake! Natsu carries out his audacious plan against a powerful Fire Dragon... a dragon that happens to have a connection with Igneel, Natsu's adoptive father!
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8.5/10 203 votes#21 - Sin and Sacrifice
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 8/23/2014
Jellal and Erza are saved from Millianna's wrath when Ultear comes to their aid, explaining to the woman that she is the evil behind the Tower of Heaven incident. With the Mages of Fiore struggling against the attacking Dragons and hatchlings and neither Natsu nor Future Rogue gaining an advantage in their fight, many people begin to feel doubtful about surviving the war. Concurrently, Gray falls to one of Motherglare's minions protecting Juvia, and Ultear decides she no longer deserves to live after the darkness she has brought to those around her.
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8.5/10 199 votes#22 - Time of Life
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 8/30/2014
As several wizards across Crocus are cornered and killed by the dragons, Ultear recalls her forbidden Last Ages spell, which is capable of reversing time at the cost of the user's life. After deciding to atone for for her lifelong misdeeds, she casts the spell in an attempt to avoid the dragons' arrival in the present. Afterward, she discovers that only one minute has been reversed and collapses. As a result of her spell, however, the wizards are able to foresee and prevent their own deaths, including Gray's. Lucy reunites with her friends at Eclipse and reveals that, according to her future self's notebook, they can return Future Rogue and the dragons to their respective time periods by destroying Eclipse once and for all.
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8.5/10 206 votes#23 - Fields of Gold
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 9/6/2014
The only way to stop the rogue Rogue from the future and the seven dragons from the past is to destroy the gigantic time portal that they came through... except it's made out of Magnanium alloy, which is highly resistant to magic! Then, the future Lucy is dead, but long live future Lucy?! What lies in wait when her body dematerializes from the present?
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7.9/10 179 votes#24 - The Grand Banquet
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 9/13/2014
The king is holding a ball at the palace to honor the wizards of Fiore for their valor during the Grand Magic Games and their great efforts to protect the kingdom from Future Rogue and the seven dragons. Everyone is having a good time except for the nagging feeling that something is wrong when Natsu doesn't show up. Later, Princess Hisui is forced to take responsibility for her part in the peril that beset the kingdom.
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8.1/10 187 votes#25 - Droplets of Time
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 9/20/2014
As Jellal and Merdy search the ruins for Ultear, they run into Doranbolt, who tells them of a serious spell he cast in order to protect the royal family. Meanwhile, the members of Fairy Tail are on their way home when Gray spots an elderly woman who seems heartbreakingly familiar...
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