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In anticipation of the anime premiere of Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail manga, TV Tokyo's official Fairy Tail website has posted 88 seconds of special footage. [Click the "movie" link]

Fairy Tail follows the adventures of young sorceress Lucy Heartfilia who longs to join the famed magical guild; Fairy Tail. In her quest she meets Natsu Dragneel a Fairy Tail Guild member in search of the dragon Igneel, who disappeared mysteriously many years before.

The anime will premiere in Japan next Monday, and Crunchyroll will stream each episode for 30 days to its subscribed Anime Members. The following is the main voice cast:

Natsu: Tetsuya Kakihara
Lucy: Aya Hirano
Happy: Rie Kugimiya
Gray: Yuuichi Nakamura
Erza: Sayaka Ohara

Fairy Tail a manga by Hiro Mashima has been given the green light to be produced into an anime for this fall. The 31st issue of Kodansha's weekly Shonen Magazine will announce the anime adaptation next Wednesday. The anime will be produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight.

The manga follows the story of a teenager girl named Lucy Heartfillia who wants to join the world's most notorious mage guild, Fairy Tail. It's during a daring rescue that she meets her, soon to be, friend Natsu "Salamander" Dragneel. Natsu is a quirky member of Fairy Tail and a teenaged practitioner of the ancient Dragon Slayer magic. After being accepted into Fairy Tail Lucy and Natsu (and other members) go on various quests.

The seventh volume of Fairy Tail will be published by Del Rey in North America next month. Mashima, the creater of this series, also created the Monster Hunter Orage manga and Rave manga. The Rave manga was published by Tokyopop in North America under the name Rave Master.

Source: Anime News Network