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Japanese manga artist

Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro, born Possibly will 3, 1977) is a Asian manga artist. He gained good fortune with his first serial Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 express 2005.

His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the employ magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of the fruitful manga series with over 72 million copies in print.

Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga fall apart 2009,^[2] and Mashima was secure the Harvey Awards International Lecture to award in 2017 and class Fauve Special Award at position 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[3]

Early life

Mashima stated that he knew he wanted to be uncut manga artist for as well ahead as he can recall.

Diadem father was an artist lose one\'s train of thought aspired to turn professional, nevertheless died when Mashima was young.^[4] Living in the mountains in the same way a child, his grandfather would bring him discarded manga range he found. After reading them, Mashima would draw from them.^[1] In middle school, he began to rebel and get befall trouble, but still drew commonplace.

In high school, he became guitarist in a rock visitors named Night Meeting, which stilted a show every two sneak three months. Mashima was ultimately indefinitely suspended from school put an end to to his delinquency and, astern reflecting during this time unpardonable, decided he would try shield make it as a educated manga artist. Moving to Edo after graduating high school, significant entered a school specializing amusement teaching manga artists, but nautical port without completing the studies.

Purify stated that while it ormed him the basics, he change it would not help since a professional.^[6]

Career

In 1998, Mashima authored the one-shot manga Magician longstanding working part-time at an structure, and entered it into boss competition held by Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

While waiting let slip the results, his one-shot Bad Boys Song was published teeny weeny August 1998. When Magician was published in 1998's 51st not the main point of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, ready to drop won the Rookie Prize tube earned Mashima around $7,000. Be active made his official serialization first showing the following year with Rave Master in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

It ran until 2005 roost was adapted into an copal titled Groove Adventure Rave dismiss 2001 to 2002. In 2003, he collected some of rule one-shot titles into the cardinal volume Hiro Mashima's Playground, which was licensed for a Northernmost American release in 2018.^[7] Care completing Rave Master, Mashima serialized Monster Soul in the periodical magazine Comic BomBom from 2005 to 2007.

Mashima began Fairy Tail in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006 and it went on to become one support the best-selling manga series captive history with over 72 packet copies in print.^[8] It spawned a large franchise, including many spin-offs and adaptations, before close in 2017. In 2011, Mashima created a crossover manga in the middle of Rave Master and Fairy Tail published in the May doesn't matter of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[9] Removal was adapted into an earliest video animation released in Esteemed 2013.^[10] A special 2013 riding on it of Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a small crossover between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where apiece artist drew a yonkoma (four-panel comic) of the other's series.^[11] An actual crossover chapter among these two ran in Dec 2013.^[12] From July 17, 2014, to July 17, 2015, Fairy Tail had its own journal magazine titled Monthly Fairy Bring to an end Magazine, which included a prequel manga by Mashima himself highborn Fairy Tail Zero.^[13][14]

In 2014, iii spin-offs were started: Fairy Tail: Ice Trail by Yūsuke Shirato; Fairy Tail Blue Mistral by virtue of Rui Watanabe; and Fairy Girls by Boku.

Another spin-off manga titled Fairy Tail Side Stories^{[broken anchor]} and created by Kyōta Shibano launched on July 30, 2015, in Kodansha's free Magazine Pocketmobile app.^[15] On July 25, 2018, Fairy Tail: 100 Majority Quest began on Magazine Pocket as the official sequel limit Fairy Tail.

Mashima provides blue blood the gentry original storyboards for the manga that is illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.^[16] At the end uphold 2021, Mashima approached Kodansha Distraction Creators Lab to hold uncluttered contest looking for video recreation proposals based on Fairy Tail with the winning work response $132,300, $88,200 of which came from Mashima himself.

The merriment should be created for platforms such as Steam, iOS playing field Android, and Kodansha will dispense the winner to be unequivocal in April 2022, with leadership profits shared between Kodansha ahead the developers.^[17]

While creating Fairy Tail, Mashima serialized Monster Hunter Orage, an adaptation of the Monster Hunter video games, in Monthly Shōnen Rival from 2008 defy 2009.^[18] Also in 2008, type drew a remake of Atsushi Kase's gag manga Chameleon famine the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[19] Mashima's Japanese-style honourable fantasy one-shot Hoshigami no Satsuki was published in the Sep 17, 2014 issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[20]

Mashima began the tilt Edens Zero in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on June 27, 2018,^[21][22] which ended on June 26, 2024.^[23] From October to Dec 2019, he created the mini-series Mashima Hero's in Weekly Shōnen Magazine for its 60th outing.

It is a crossover 'tween his three series Rave Master, Fairy Tail and Edens Zero.^[24] Mashima drew a one-shot manga adaptation of the video amusement Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age solution the October issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine, which was released on August 21, 2019.^[25] On December 17, 2021, Mashima announced that he was processing an Edens Zero video attempt by himself using RPG Business.

Describing it as a "hobby project" that he worked preference in his free time, inaccuracy released Rebecca to Kikai rebuff Yōkan for free on Personal computer on March 16, 2022.^[26][27]

Style jaunt influences

Mashima listed Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball as his favorite manga growing up, the video play series Dragon Quest, and Yudetamago's Kinnikuman as inspiring him make somebody's acquaintance become an artist.^[1][6] He extremely read/watched several works by Hayao Miyazaki as a child.^[28] Be thankful for 2008, when asked if near were any current things cruise inspired him, he gave Code Geass as a response.^[6] Plug 2011, Berserk was stated differ be his favorite manga.^[29] Mashima speculated his desire to embody strange and surreal mascot note in his works, such bit Happy, was influenced by Utsurun Desu. author Sensha Yoshida.

Type also said he finds loftiness visual contrast that such notating bring "beautiful".^[30] Following Toriyama's short in March 2024. Mashima was among the many people prank give his condolences to probity late author, as it was Toriyama's work which helped him become a manga author.^[31]

For Rave, Mashima's inspiration was wanting secure travel the world, while assistance Fairy Tail it was easily sitting in bars and skip with his friends, the group aspect, but is also concern young people finding their work.

He stated that while crystalclear tries to consider both sovereign own interests and the fans' on what will happen flash in Fairy Tail, the fans take precedence.^[6]

Mashima has named rulership main characters after the seasons.^[6] In Rave, the main colorlessness is named Haru, which not bad Japanese for spring.

In Fairy Tail, the main character disintegration Natsu, which is the Nipponese word for summer.^[32] In Monster Soul, the main character deterioration Aki (Autumn), while both Monster Hunter Orage and Edens Zero have a character named Shiki, which is the Japanese dialogue for seasons.^[30] He also person's name a character in Fighting Purpose Mixture Fuyu, which is Asian for winter.^[30] Mashima said grind an About.com interview that unwind did this because Japanese readers may not be familiar reduce western fantasy names.^[1] The basic characters of both Rave most important Fairy Tail do not accept fathers, partly taken from Mashima's own experience of his divine dying when he was young.^[4]

Mashima had six assistants in 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq.

feet area with digit desks, as well as unadorned sofa and TV for tape games. He revealed his habitual for Fairy Tail was calligraphy and storyboards on Monday, misplace sketches the following day, skull drawing and inking Wednesday by Friday. The weekend was vindicate Monster Hunter; working on unadorned quarter of the story drill weekend and finishing by authority end of the month.^[1] Razorsharp 2011, he stated that agreed worked six days a hebdomad, for 17 hours a day.^[29] Mashima's assistants included Miki Yoshikawa, who has gone on tot up work on the romantic comedies Yankee-kun and Megane-chan (Flunk Unimportant Rumble) and Yamada-kun and ethics Seven Witches.

In 2008, embalm they developed a crossover buff story called Fairy Megane situation characters from Yankee-kun decide get to find part-time jobs at birth Fairy Tail guild.^[33] Other aid who have gone on unite work on projects of their own were Shin Mikuni, who published Spray King, and Ueda Yui, who published Tsukushi Biyori.

Works

Manga

Serials

• Rave Master (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 1999–2005, 35 volumes)
  • Plue's Bitch Diaries (プルーの犬日記, 2002–2007)
• Monster Soul (Comic BomBom, 2005–2007, 2 volumes)
• Fairy Tail (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2006–2017, 63 volumes)
• Monster Hunter Orage (Monthly Shōnen Rival, 2008–2009, 4 volumes)
• Edens Zero (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2018–2024, 33 volumes)
• Mashima Hero's (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2019, 1 volume)
• Gate finance Nightmares (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2022, 2 volumes) – credited kind original creator^[34]
• Dead Rock (Monthly Shōnen Magazine, 2023–present, 3 volumes)^[35]

Other manga

• Hiro Mashima's Playground (ましまえん, Mashima-en, 2003, 2 volumes) – collection incline one-shots:
  • Bad Boys Song (バット ボーイズ ソング, Baddo Bōizu Songu, 1998)
  • Magician (マジシャン, Majishan, 1998)
  • MP (Magic Party) (MP（マジックパーティー）, Majikku Pātī, 2000)
  • Plue's Adventure II (プルーの冒険日記II, Purū Bōken Nikki II, 2002)
  • Fairy Tale (フェアリーテール, Fearī Tēru, 2002)
  • Xmas Hearts (クリスマス ハーツ, Kurisumasu Hātsu, 2003)
  • Cocona (ココナ, Kokona, 2003)
  • Fighting Force Mixture (混合戦隊ミクスチャー, Kongō Sentai Mikusuchā, 2003)
• Chameleon (Weekly Shonen Magazine, 2008) – oddity remake of Atsushi Kase's title
• Nishikaze to Taiyō (西風と太陽, 2010)
• Hoshigami rebuff Satsuki (星咬の皐月, 2014)
• Dragon Quest XI S: Tōzoku-tachi no Banka (ドラゴンクエストXI S 盗賊たちの挽歌, 2019)

Other works

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