Written and illustrated by Kyouta Shibano, Fairy Tail Gaiden is a weekly spin-off manga first serialized in the Magazine Pocket smartphone app on July 30, 2015, which is where the series has continued its serialization since then. The individual chapters are being collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, with the first one being released on January 15, 2016. The series amassed a total of 51 chapters (originally 52 during it's serialization, before being re-numbered for the volume release) and 3 omake chapters during its run.