Fairy Tail/Episode 276

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Title
Official English Title	Challenger
Kanji Title	挑戦者
Rōmaji Title	Chōsen-sha
Information
Release date	March 19th, 2016
Media	Anime
Studio or Magazine	A-1 Pictures Bridge
Content
Scene Type	Shower & Bath
Sex of Bathers	Female
Length	6 seconds 29 seconds 3 seconds
Timestamp or Pages	03:13 - 03:19 14:18 - 14:47 15:55 - 15:58
Segment	Episode

Fairy Tail episode 276 (sometimes referred to as Fairy Tail (2014) episode 101) is the 30th bathing scene in the Fairy Tail anime series.

Summary

The episode 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 after some morning stretches and then wearing a pink Towel to eat breakfast, brush her teeth and then drops it when she picked her clothes to wear.

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 with Green Bathwater in the Flat 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. 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 white 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. The next morning Lucy takes another morning shower which is just Recycled Footage of her shower at the beginning of the episode and wears a white towel after coming out and picking her outfit.

Bathers

• Lucy Heartfilia

Appearing Tropes

• Arm Stretching
• Angst Bathing
• Bath
• Bath Cleavage
• Bathtub Alteration
• Changing Room
• Clawfoot Bathtub
• Convenient Censoring
• Flat Bathtub
• Getting Out
• Green Bathwater
• Hair Down Bath
• High Towel Wearing
• Leg Curling
• Leg Stretching
• Morning Bathing
• Night Bathing
• Pink Towel
• Recycled Footage
• Shower
• Shower Curtain
• Shower Head
• Slipper Bathtub
• Stripping
• Towel Dropping
• Towel Drying Hair
• White Towel

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Staff

• Hiro Mashima - Writer

Release

This episode was first released on March 19th, 2016.

Manga Differences

Main article: Fairy Tail/Chapter 418

Manga version of this scene

This scene was adapted from chapter 418 of the manga. In the original manga version, all scenes of Lucy wearing a towel were not shown after finishing her shower at the beginning. Lucy's Slipper Bathtub was a double sided in the manga rather than single sided like in the anime. Through a possible animation goof in the next episode, the slipper bathtub was changed to a Flat Bathtub rather than a Clawfoot Bathtub like in the manga. When Lucy is shown getting out of the tub, the manga is a little zoomed out more showing 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. Lucy's second shower scene which used Recycled Footage is exclusive to the anime.

Trivia

• This is the first time a Slipper Bathtub appeared in the Fairy Tail anime.
• This is the first bathing scene in the series to Recycle Footage.
• This episode has the most bathing scenes out any episode in the Fairy Tail TV anime with three bathing scenes. Episode 291 may rival it by counting the opening theme. The 4th OVA is the only Fairy Tail episode to have more bathing scenes which has 4.

External Links

• Fairy Tail Wiki