Next → The seventh season of the series is directed by Shinji Ishihira and produced. Like the rest of the series, it follows the adventures of and of the fictional guild Fairy Tail. The season contains three. The first 27 episodes continue the 'Grand Magic Games' ( 大魔闘演武編, Dai Matō Enbu-hen) arc, which adapts material from the beginning of the 36th to the middle of the 40th volume of the Fairy Tail manga. Focusing on Natsu and the others who have been frozen in time for seven years on Sirius Island, the members continue to participate in the Grand Magic Games, an annual competition to decide the Kingdom of Fiore's strongest guild. However, they encounter a conspiracy involving a called Eclipse and the imminent destruction of the kingdom. The next 24 episodes form an original storyline called 'Eclipse Celestial Spirits' ( 日蝕星霊編, Nisshoku Seirei-hen), in which the twelve celestial spirits of the Zodiac rebel against their owners Lucy and Yukino after being transformed by Eclipse's.