

The author also commented that Natsu is his favorite character.
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Mashima regarded Natsu's development throughout the story as great and stated that the series could easily progress because of it. The author mentioned that Natsu had been designed to give the best of himself when it comes to everything. He is normally portrayed as wearing black-colored clothing, which Mashima chose in favor of his original choice of red to improve the contrast between the character's fire abilities and clothes. Natsu's concept evolved in a one-shot short story titled Fairy Tale, where he is depicted as a spirit with horns. Mashima cited his own personality as a junior high school student as the inspiration for Natsu's personality, and his father's death as an influence for the relationship between Natsu and Igneel. Mashima implemented Natsu's motion sickness into the final version of the character, believing that this and his pink hair make the character unique. He was conceptualized as a fire-using member of a courier guild who would suffer from motion sickness, a character trait the author based on one of his friends. Natsu Dragneel was one of the first characters Hiro Mashima created during the development of Fairy Tail.

As a result, when writing Fairy Tail, Mashima made the new lead Natsu to be calmer than Haru. Natsu has placed high in popularity polls, and many different pieces of merchandise related to him, such as action figures, have been released.ĭuring the making of the series Rave Master, manga author Hiro Mashima considered the protagonist Haru Glory as the "angsty hard-working type". His motion sickness has also been well-received as a humorous element within the story. Reviewers have largely praised Natsu's character, praising his action-packed combat scenes and upbeat demeanor throughout the series. Natsu is Mashima's favorite character, and he claimed that he based him on his own characteristics. He is voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara in Japanese, while Todd Haberkorn voices him in the English dub. He appears in most Fairy Tail media, including both feature films, all original video animations ( OVAs), light novels, and video games. Natsu's predominant role in the series is to reunite with Igneel, who has been missing for seven years by the story's outset. Being a Dragon Slayer, Natsu possesses the same abilities as his foster father, the dragon Igneel, namely the ability to consume and envelop himself in fire. First making his debut in Fairy Tail chapter #1, "The Fairy's Tail", originally published in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Magazine on August 2, 2006, Natsu is depicted throughout the story as a member of the eponymous wizards' guild, who are notorious in the fictional kingdom of Fiore for their numerous accounts of causing unintentional property damage with their magic. Natsu "Salamander" Dragneel ( Japanese: ナツ・ドラグニル, Hepburn: Natsu Doraguniru) is a fictional character and protagonist of the Fairy Tail manga series created by Hiro Mashima.
