Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima
真島 ヒロ
Mashima in 2018
Born (1977-05-03) May 3, 1977 (age 47)
Nagano, Japan
OccupationManga artist
Years active1998–present
EmployerKodansha
Notable work
Children1[1]
AwardsKodansha Manga Award (2009)

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

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

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference About interview was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "33rd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards Announced". Anime News Network. May 12, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  3. ^ "Fairy Tail Manga Creator Hiro Mashima Wins Angoulême's Special Award in France". Anime News Network. January 26, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018.