Fairy Tail episode 3

Fairy Tail episode 3 is the first bathing scene in the Fairy Tail anime series and is the 11th overall bathing scene in the Fairy Tail franchise.

Summary
While Lucy Heartfilia is giving a narration about the town of Magnolia, it shifts to her having a her morning bath in the stone bathtub in her new house. While bathing, she is wearing a towel in the bath while Stretching her arms and curling her legs.

Post Scene Events
The next scene shows her out of the bath and wearing a white Towel and drying her hair with another white towel as she has an inner monologue explaining the rest of qualities of her new house. She then leaps into the living room still in her towel only to find Natsu Dragneel and Happy the cat invading her house getting her angry and frustrated.

Adaption Differences
This bath scene was the anime adaption of the bath scene in chapter 4 of the manga. The differences between the anime and manga version was that Lucy was wearing a towel in the bath, she was curling her legs, the presence of lots of steam and the camera angle was different.

Outside Appearances
The part of Lucy bathing was shown in the preview for this episode at the end of episode 2.

Staff

 * Hiro Mashima - Writer of the original scene in Fairy Tail ch. 4
 * Masashi Sogo - Writer of the anime version's differences
 * Aya Hirano - Japanese voice of Lucy Heartfilia
 * Cherami Leigh - English dub voice of Lucy Heartfilia

Release
The scene first aired in Japan on October 26th, 2009 on TV Tokyo. The scene was first put on DVD in Japane as part of the first volume of the Fairy Tail DVDs. The episode's first English release was part of Funimation's Fairy Tail Season 1 part 1 DVD set released on November 22nd, 2011.

Bathers

 * Lucy Heartfilia

Accessories

 * Towel (white)

Scenarios

 * Towel Bathing
 * Leg Curling
 * Arm Stretching

Trivia

 * In the series this bath scene is part of the "Daybreak arc".
 * This is Lucy Heartfilia's shortest bath scene in the anime adaption.