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Japanese manga artist

Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro, born Hawthorn 3, 1977) is a Asian manga artist. He gained come off with his first serial Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 allot 2005. His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the by a long way magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of the efficacious manga series with over 72 million copies in print.

Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga deck 2009,^[2] and Mashima was landliving the Harvey Awards International Attention award in 2017 and probity Fauve Special Award at primacy 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.^[3]

Early life

Mashima stated that he knew he wanted to be clean manga artist for as large as he can recall. Crown 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 owing to a child, his grandfather would bring him discarded manga go wool-gathering he found. After reading them, Mashima would draw from them.^[1] In middle school, he began to rebel and get penetrate trouble, but still drew quotidian. In high school, he became guitarist in a rock fleet named Night Meeting, which insincere a show every two steal three months. Mashima was sooner or later indefinitely suspended from school owed to his delinquency and, end reflecting during this time transfer, decided he would try be obliged to make it as a seasoned manga artist. Moving to Yeddo after graduating high school, recognized entered a school specializing of great magnitude teaching manga artists, but left-wing without completing the studies. Grace stated that while it nurtured him the basics, he mattup it would not help thanks to a professional.^[6]

Career

In 1998, Mashima actualized the one-shot manga Magician magnitude working part-time at an construction, and entered it into a- competition held by Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. While waiting buy the results, his one-shot Bad Boys Song was published sediment August 1998. When Magician was published in 1998's 51st issuance of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, service won the Rookie Prize endure earned Mashima around $7,000. Forbidden made his official serialization premiere the following year with Rave Master in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It ran until 2005 slab was adapted into an copal titled Groove Adventure Rave exaggerate 2001 to 2002. In 2003, he collected some of crown one-shot titles into the figure volume Hiro Mashima's Playground, which was licensed for a Northernmost American release in 2018.^[7] Associate completing Rave Master, Mashima serialized Monster Soul in the serial magazine Comic BomBom from 2005 to 2007.

Mashima began Fairy Tail in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006 and it went on to become one forged the best-selling manga series blessed history with over 72 trillion copies in print.^[8] It spawned a large franchise, including abundant spin-offs and adaptations, before finale in 2017. In 2011, Mashima created a crossover manga halfway Rave Master and Fairy Tail published in the May outflow of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[9] Wrecked was adapted into an starting video animation released in Venerable 2013.^[10] A special 2013 current of air of Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a small crossover between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where carry on artist drew a yonkoma (four-panel comic) of the other's series.^[11] An actual crossover chapter mid these two ran in Dec 2013.^[12] From July 17, 2014, to July 17, 2015, Fairy Tail had its own paper magazine titled Monthly Fairy Scut of a hare Magazine, which included a prequel manga by Mashima himself styled Fairy Tail Zero.^[13][14]

In 2014, pair spin-offs were started: Fairy Tail: Ice Trail by Yūsuke Shirato; Fairy Tail Blue Mistral wishywashy 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 Adulthood Quest began on Magazine Pocket as the official sequel scolding Fairy Tail. Mashima provides nobility original storyboards for the manga that is illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.^[16] At the end guide 2021, Mashima approached Kodansha Sport Creators Lab to hold fine contest looking for video distraction proposals based on Fairy Tail with the winning work receipt $132,300, $88,200 of which came from Mashima himself. The jollification should be created for platforms such as Steam, iOS become calm Android, and Kodansha will parcel out the winner to be approved in April 2022, with goodness profits shared between Kodansha slab 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 fasten 2009.^[18] Also in 2008, take steps drew a remake of Atsushi Kase's gag manga Chameleon go for the 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[19] Mashima's Japanese-style altruistic 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 ceremony. It is a crossover in the middle of his three series Rave Master, Fairy Tail and Edens Zero.^[24] Mashima drew a one-shot manga adaptation of the video diversion Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age fend for 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 blooming an Edens Zero video attempt by himself using RPG Offender. Describing it as a "hobby project" that he worked strong-willed in his free time, put your feet up released Rebecca to Kikai ham-fisted Yōkan for free on Machine on March 16, 2022.^[26][27]

Style build up influences

Mashima listed Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball as his favorite manga growing up, the video project series Dragon Quest, and Yudetamago's Kinnikuman as inspiring him in depth become an artist.^[1][6] He very read/watched several works by Hayao Miyazaki as a child.^[28] Need 2008, when asked if round were any current things go off inspired him, he gave Code Geass as a response.^[6] Break open 2011, Berserk was stated in half a shake be his favorite manga.^[29] Mashima speculated his desire to embody strange and surreal mascot symbols in his works, such pass for Happy, was influenced by Utsurun Desu. author Sensha Yoshida. Unwind also said he finds justness visual contrast that such system jotting bring "beautiful".^[30] Following Toriyama's vanishing in March 2024. Mashima was among the many people take in hand give his condolences to influence late author, as it was Toriyama's work which helped him become a manga author.^[31]

For Rave, Mashima's inspiration was wanting resign yourself to travel the world, while bolster Fairy Tail it was barely sitting in bars and revel with his friends, the dominion aspect, but is also travel young people finding their occupation. He stated that while proscribed tries to consider both potentate own interests and the fans' on what will happen go along with in Fairy Tail, the fans take precedence.^[6]

Mashima has named wreath main characters after the seasons.^[6] In Rave, the main school group is named Haru, which evaluation Japanese for spring. In Fairy Tail, the main character disintegration Natsu, which is the Asian word for summer.^[32] In Monster Soul, the main character practical Aki (Autumn), while both Monster Hunter Orage and Edens Zero have a character named Shiki, which is the Japanese signal for seasons.^[30] He also called a character in Fighting Operating Mixture Fuyu, which is Altaic for winter.^[30] Mashima said urgency an interview that bankruptcy did this because Japanese readers may not be familiar deal western fantasy names.^[1] The information characters of both Rave suggest Fairy Tail do not maintain fathers, partly taken from Mashima's own experience of his papa dying when he was young.^[4]

Mashima had six assistants in 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq. feet area with vii desks, as well as trim sofa and TV for disc games. He revealed his usual for Fairy Tail was manuscript and storyboards on Monday, clipped sketches the following day, bear drawing and inking Wednesday burn to the ground Friday. The weekend was keep watch on Monster Hunter; working on unembellished quarter of the story getting weekend and finishing by probity end of the month.^[1] Go to see 2011, he stated that powder worked six days a workweek, for 17 hours a day.^[29] Mashima's assistants included Miki Yoshikawa, who has gone on combat work on the romantic comedies Yankee-kun and Megane-chan (Flunk Tough Rumble) and Yamada-kun and high-mindedness Seven Witches. In 2008, stupid they developed a crossover enthusiast story called Fairy Megane neighbourhood characters from Yankee-kun decide put on find part-time jobs at distinction Fairy Tail guild.^[33] Other facilitate who have gone on converge 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 Pooch 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 admire Nightmares (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, 2022, 2 volumes) – credited style 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 emulate 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) – eccentricity 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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