Fairy Tail/Chapter 418

← Fairy Tail/Chapter 417	→ Fairy Tail/Chapter 419

Title
Official English Title	Challenger
Kanji Title	挑戦者
Rōmaji Title	Chōsen-sha
Information
Release date	February 4th, 2015
Media	Manga
Studio or Magazine	Weekly Shonen Magazine
Content
Scene Type	Shower & Bath
Sex of Bathers	Female
Length
Timestamp or Pages
Segment	Chapter

Fairy Tail chapter 418 is the 34th bathing scene in the Fairy Tail manga series.

Summary

The chapter starts taking place a year later and Lucy Heartfilia is seen to currently be staying in the city of Crocus and wakes up and starts taking a Shower and Singing after brushing her teeth. Later on night when she gets back after her job covering the Grand Magic Games for the Weekly Sorcerer Magazine, she is seen Stripping her clothes off and then taking a Bath in the Clawfoot Slipper Bathtub in her room. While in the bath, Lucy is seen Leg Curling and depressed about how she hasn't seen any of her former guild comrades for a year as she sinks her head deeper into the water and starts Blowing Bubbles. She then starts throwing a fit and splashing around in the tub, kicking her legs and throwing her arms up and and down. Her neighbor in the next room over tells Lucy that they can hear her and to keep it down. Lucy is then seen getting out of the Bathtub and drying herself off then while wearing a Towel, walks over to a wall covered with photos newspaper clippings of all the news and information she has found about where all the guild members have gone.

Bathers

• Lucy Heartfilia

Appearing Tropes

• Angst Bathing
• Arm Stretching
• Bath
• Bath Cleavage
• Bathtub Alteration
• Changing Room
• Clawfoot Bathtub
• Convenient Censoring
• Double Slipper Bathtub
• Getting Out
• Green Bathwater
• Hair Down Bath
• High Towel Wearing
• Leg Curling
• Leg Stretching
• Morning Bathing
• Night Bathing
• Overflowing
• Shower
• Shower Curtain
• Shower Head
• Singing
• Slipper Bathtub
• Stripping
• Towel Drying Hair
• Towel Rack
• Underwater Bubble Blowing
• White Towel

Gallery

Staff

• Hiro Mashima - Writer and artist.

Release

This chapter was first released on February 4th in Weekly Shonen Magazine.

Anime Differences

Main article: Fairy Tail/Episode 276

Manga version of this scene

This scene was adapted into the 276th episode of the Fairy Tail anime series. The anime added scenes of Lucy Heartfilia wearing a towel after finishing her shower at the beginning. Lucy's bathroom has an extra Shower Curtain in the anime one which is green and on the other side of her heart pattern one and her Shower Head is actually shown. Lucy's Slipper Bathtub is only single sided in the anime rather than being double sided like in the manga. The slipper bathtub which is a Clawfoot Bathtub in the manga is changed to a Flat Bathtub due to an animation error in the following episode which shows the tub's full view. The bathwater Lucy is bathing in is revealed to be green. When Lucy is shown getting out of the tub, the manga is a zoomed in not showing the Convenient Censoring of her hair covering her breasts and her arm holding onto the rim covers her crotch. There is a full body shot of Lucy naked walking into the changing room and has a towel drying her hair while the anime just shows her head. The anime gives Lucy another Shower scene the next morning which just uses Recycled Footage of the shower from the beginning of the episode.

Trivia

• This is the first time a character in the franchise has been shown using Slipper Bathtub.
• While Lucy Heartfilia has used Clawfoot Bathtub's in the past, this is the first time she has taken a Bath in one on screen. She bathed in one off screen between chapters 265 and 266 and in it's adaptation in episode 155 but on screen she has only been shown taking Showers in them which were in chapter 282 and in the movie Fairy Tail: The Phoenix Priestess.

External Links

• Fairy Tail Wiki