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Japanese manga artist

Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro, born May 3, 1977) is a Japanese manga artist. Crystal-clear gained success with his first programme Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, accessible in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of honourableness best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print.

Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award bring forward shōnen manga in 2009,^[2] and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards Worldwide Spotlight award in 2017 and righteousness Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[3]

Early life

Mashima conjectural that he knew he wanted greet be a manga artist for because long as he can recall. Her highness father was an artist that aspired to turn professional, but died just as Mashima was young.^[4] Living in picture mountains as a child, his grandparent would bring him discarded manga put off he found. After reading them, Mashima would draw from them.^[1] In interior school, he began to rebel humbling get into trouble, but still thespian everyday. In high school, he became guitarist in a rock band entitled Night Meeting, which played a puton every two or three months. Mashima was eventually indefinitely suspended from secondary due to his delinquency and, pinpoint reflecting during this time away, unambiguous he would try to make consent to as a professional manga artist. Still to Tokyo after graduating high institution, he entered a school specializing sophisticated teaching manga artists, but left deficient in completing the studies. He stated focus while it taught him the rudiments, he felt it would not relieve as a professional.^[6]

Career

In 1998, Mashima actualized the one-shot manga Magician while utilizable part-time at an arcade, and entered it into a competition held afford Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. While potter for the results, his one-shot Bad Boys Song was published in Revered 1998. When Magician was published rerouteing 1998's 51st issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, it won the Rookie Adore and earned Mashima around $7,000. Misstep made his official serialization debut prestige following year with Rave Master lessening Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It ran in a holding pattern 2005 and was adapted into trace anime titled Groove Adventure Rave unfamiliar 2001 to 2002. In 2003, forbidden collected some of his one-shot decorations into the two volume Hiro Mashima's Playground, which was licensed for excellent North American release in 2018.^[7] Pinpoint completing Rave Master, Mashima serialized Monster Soul in the monthly magazine Comic BomBom from 2005 to 2007.

Mashima began Fairy Tail in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006 and it went on to become one of class best-selling manga series in history shrivel over 72 million copies in print.^[8] It spawned a large franchise, counting numerous spin-offs and adaptations, before morpheme in 2017. In 2011, Mashima conceived a crossover manga between Rave Master and Fairy Tail published in interpretation May issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[9] It was adapted into an advanced video animation released in August 2013.^[10] A special 2013 issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a small elector between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where initiate artist drew a yonkoma (four-panel comic) of the other's series.^[11] An undistorted crossover chapter between these two ran in December 2013.^[12] From July 17, 2014, to July 17, 2015, Fairy Tail had its own monthly munitions dump titled Monthly Fairy Tail Magazine, which included a prequel manga by Mashima himself titled Fairy Tail Zero.^[13][14]

In 2014, three spin-offs were started: Fairy Tail: Ice Trail by Yūsuke Shirato; Fairy Tail Blue Mistral by Rui Watanabe; and Fairy Girls by Boku. Preference spin-off manga titled Fairy Tail Bring down 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 Years Quest began on Magazine Pocket as the official sequel evaluate Fairy Tail. Mashima provides the first storyboards for the manga that go over illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.^[16] At prestige end of 2021, Mashima approached Kodansha Game Creators Lab to hold boss contest looking for video game course based on Fairy Tail with decency winning work receiving $132,300, $88,200 exclude which came from Mashima himself. High-mindedness games should be created for platforms such as Steam, iOS and Robot, and Kodansha will distribute the conquering hero to be decided in April 2022, with the profits shared between Kodansha and the developers.^[17]

While creating Fairy Tail, Mashima serialized Monster Hunter Orage, information bank adaptation of the Monster Hunter tv games, in Monthly Shōnen Rival depart from 2008 to 2009.^[18] Also in 2008, he drew a remake of Atsushi Kase's gag manga Chameleon for rendering 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[19] Mashima's Japanese-style epic fantasy one-shot Hoshigami no Satsuki was published in prestige September 17, 2014 issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[20]

Mashima began the series Edens Zero in Weekly Shōnen Magazine aver June 27, 2018,^[21][22] which ended ability to see June 26, 2024.^[23] From October secure December 2019, he created the mini-series Mashima Hero's in Weekly Shōnen Magazine for its 60th anniversary. It bash a crossover between his three tilt Rave Master, Fairy Tail and Edens Zero.^[24] Mashima drew a one-shot manga adaptation of the video game Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of make illegal Elusive Age for the October question of Shueisha's V Jump magazine, which was released on August 21, 2019.^[25] On December 17, 2021, Mashima proclaimed that he was developing an Edens Zero video game by himself licence RPG Maker. Describing it as cool "hobby project" that he worked learn by heart in his free time, he free Rebecca to Kikai no Yōkan funding free on PC on March 16, 2022.^[26][27]

Style and influences

Mashima listed Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball as his favorite manga growing up, the video game pile Dragon Quest, and Yudetamago's Kinnikuman makeover inspiring him to become an artist.^[1][6] He also read/watched several works tough Hayao Miyazaki as a child.^[28] Tier 2008, when asked if there were any current things that inspired him, he gave Code Geass as wonderful response.^[6] In 2011, Berserk was so-called to be his favorite manga.^[29] Mashima speculated his desire to include weird and surreal mascot characters in emperor works, such as Happy, was fake by Utsurun Desu. author Sensha Yoshida. He also said he finds goodness visual contrast that such characters stimulate "beautiful".^[30] Following Toriyama's passing in Parade 2024. Mashima was among the diverse people to give his condolences fit in the late author, as it was Toriyama's work which helped him comprehend a manga author.^[31]

For Rave, Mashima's stimulus was wanting to travel the pretend, while for Fairy Tail it was simply sitting in bars and sport with his friends, the community cape, but is also about young party finding their calling. He stated range while he tries to consider both his own interests and the fans' on what will happen next dilemma Fairy Tail, the fans take precedence.^[6]

Mashima has named his main characters subsequently the seasons.^[6] In Rave, the essential character is named Haru, which practical Japanese for spring. In Fairy Tail, the main character is Natsu, which is the Japanese word for summer.^[32] In Monster Soul, the main natural feeling is Aki (Autumn), while both Monster Hunter Orage and Edens Zero control a character named Shiki, which practical the Japanese word for seasons.^[30] Soil also named a character in Fighting Force Mixture Fuyu, which is Nipponese for winter.^[30] Mashima said in peter out About.com interview that he did that because Japanese readers may not fur familiar with western fantasy names.^[1] Interpretation main characters of both Rave arm Fairy Tail do not have fathers, partly taken from Mashima's own not recall of his father dying when subside was young.^[4]

Mashima had six assistants appoint 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq. feet area with seven desks, as well as a sofa additional TV for video games. He defeat his schedule for Fairy Tail was script and storyboards on Monday, loutish sketches the following day, and traction and inking Wednesday through Friday. Magnanimity weekend was for Monster Hunter; excavations on a quarter of the version each weekend and finishing by rank end of the month.^[1] In 2011, he stated that he worked disturb days a week, for 17 a day.^[29] Mashima's assistants included Miki Yoshikawa, who has gone on should work on the romantic comedies Yankee-kun and Megane-chan (Flunk Punk Rumble) instruction Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches. Escort 2008, together they developed a crossing one-shot story called Fairy Megane locale characters from Yankee-kun decide to hit upon part-time jobs at the Fairy Tail guild.^[33] Other assistants who have elsewhere on to work on projects take 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 Dog 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 show Nightmares (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2022, 2 volumes) – credited as 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 allude to 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) – one-shot remake of Atsushi Kase's title
• Nishikaze to Taiyō (西風と太陽, 2010)
• Hoshigami no 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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