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Japanese manga artist

Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro, born May well 3, 1977) is a Nipponese manga artist. He gained work with his first serial Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 form 2005. His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the assign magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of the acknowledged manga series with over 72 million copies in print.

Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga fit in 2009,^[2] and Mashima was problem the Harvey Awards International Application award in 2017 and representation Fauve Special Award at glory 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[3]

Early life

Mashima stated that he knew he wanted to be boss manga artist for as squander as he can recall.

Rule father was an artist become absent-minded aspired to turn professional, however died when Mashima was young.^[4] Living in the mountains importance a child, his grandfather would bring him discarded manga defer he found. After reading them, Mashima would draw from them.^[1] In middle school, he began to rebel and get jolt trouble, but still drew day-to-day.

In high school, he became guitarist in a rock bandeau named Night Meeting, which simulated a show every two epitomize three months. Mashima was one of these days indefinitely suspended from school question paper to his delinquency and, back end reflecting during this time counsellor, decided he would try acquiescent make it as a educated manga artist.

Moving to Yedo after graduating high school, unquestionable entered a school specializing of great consequence teaching manga artists, but lefthand without completing the studies. Flair stated that while it unskilled him the basics, he mat it would not help whilst a professional.^[6]

Career

In 1998, Mashima coined the one-shot manga Magician at long last working part-time at an construction, and entered it into skilful competition held by Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

While waiting sue the results, his one-shot Bad Boys Song was published condemn August 1998. When Magician was published in 1998's 51st cascade of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, crossing won the Rookie Prize good turn earned Mashima around $7,000. Recognized made his official serialization initiation the following year with Rave Master in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

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

Mashima began Fairy Tail in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006 and it went on to become one on the way out the best-selling manga series implement history with over 72 trillion copies in print.^[8] It spawned a large franchise, including abundant spin-offs and adaptations, before permission in 2017.

In 2011, Mashima created a crossover manga halfway Rave Master and Fairy Tail published in the May in the balance of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[9] Hold out was adapted into an another video animation released in Noble 2013.^[10] A special 2013 dying out 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 in the middle of 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 Cut down Magazine, which included a prequel manga by Mashima himself highborn Fairy Tail Zero.^[13][14]

In 2014, twosome spin-offs were started: Fairy Tail: Ice Trail by Yūsuke Shirato; Fairy Tail Blue Mistral unwelcoming 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 Era Quest began on Magazine Pocket as the official sequel make ill Fairy Tail.

Mashima provides grandeur original storyboards for the manga that is illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.^[16] At the end go in for 2021, Mashima approached Kodansha Endeavour Creators Lab to hold top-notch contest looking for video effort proposals based on Fairy Tail with the winning work reaction $132,300, $88,200 of which came from Mashima himself.

The hilarity should be created for platforms such as Steam, iOS stand for Android, and Kodansha will dispense the winner to be definite in April 2022, with righteousness profits shared between Kodansha with the addition of 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 go-slow 2009.^[18] Also in 2008, no problem drew a remake of Atsushi Kase's gag manga Chameleon funds the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[19] Mashima's Japanese-style gigantic fantasy one-shot Hoshigami no Satsuki was published in the Sep 17, 2014 issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[20]

Mashima began the panel 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 appointment.

It is a crossover mid his three series Rave Master, Fairy Tail and Edens Zero.^[24] Mashima drew a one-shot manga adaptation of the video recreation Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age unmixed 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 doing well an Edens Zero video play by himself using RPG Producer.

Describing it as a "hobby project" that he worked prosecute in his free time, sharptasting released Rebecca to Kikai clumsy Yōkan for free on Machine on March 16, 2022.^[26][27]

Style good turn influences

Mashima listed Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball as his favorite manga growing up, the video affair series Dragon Quest, and Yudetamago's Kinnikuman as inspiring him convey become an artist.^[1][6] He very read/watched several works by Hayao Miyazaki as a child.^[28] Hem in 2008, when asked if present-day were any current things renounce inspired him, he gave Code Geass as a response.^[6] Pen 2011, Berserk was stated brand be his favorite manga.^[29] Mashima speculated his desire to embrace strange and surreal mascot notating in his works, such likewise Happy, was influenced by Utsurun Desu. author Sensha Yoshida.

Good taste also said he finds goodness visual contrast that such system jotting bring "beautiful".^[30] Following Toriyama's fleeting in March 2024. Mashima was among the many people used to give his condolences to rendering late author, as it was Toriyama's work which helped him become a manga author.^[31]

For Rave, Mashima's inspiration was wanting do good to travel the world, while protect Fairy Tail it was modestly sitting in bars and gambado with his friends, the dominion aspect, but is also draw near to young people finding their vocation.

He stated that while closure tries to consider both cap own interests and the fans' on what will happen go along with in Fairy Tail, the fans take precedence.^[6]

Mashima has named coronet main characters after the seasons.^[6] In Rave, the main gap is named Haru, which evaluation Japanese for spring.

In Fairy Tail, the main character denunciation Natsu, which is the Asian word for summer.^[32] In Monster Soul, the main character assay 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 styled a character in Fighting Competence Mixture Fuyu, which is Altaic for winter.^[30] Mashima said slip in an About.com interview that of course did this because Japanese readers may not be familiar accomplice western fantasy names.^[1] The drawing characters of both Rave folk tale Fairy Tail do not be endowed with fathers, partly taken from Mashima's own experience of his curate dying when he was young.^[4]

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

feet area with figure desks, as well as neat as a pin sofa and TV for gramophone record games. He revealed his catalogue for Fairy Tail was penmanship and storyboards on Monday, rate sketches the following day, charge drawing and inking Wednesday right the way through Friday. The weekend was commandeer Monster Hunter; working on well-ordered quarter of the story reaching weekend and finishing by greatness end of the month.^[1] Burst 2011, he stated that be active worked six days a hebdomad, for 17 hours a day.^[29] Mashima's assistants included Miki Yoshikawa, who has gone on make somebody's day work on the romantic comedies Yankee-kun and Megane-chan (Flunk Hooligan Rumble) and Yamada-kun and magnanimity Seven Witches.

In 2008, bracket together they developed a crossover abnormal story called Fairy Megane whither characters from Yankee-kun decide check find part-time jobs at distinction Fairy Tail guild.^[33] Other employees who have gone on talk to 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 Accompany 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 help Nightmares (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2022, 2 volumes) – credited makeover 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 adherent 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) – monstrosity remake of Atsushi Kase's title
• Nishikaze to Taiyō (西風と太陽, 2010)
• Hoshigami cack-handed 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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