Hiro Mashima | |
|---|---|
真島 ヒロ | |
 Mashima in 2018 | |
| Born | May 3, 1977 Nagano, Japan |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Employer | Kodansha |
| Notable work | |
| Children | 1[1] |
| Awards | Kodansha 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]
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About interviewwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "33rd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards Announced". Anime News Network. May 12, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
- ^ "Fairy Tail Manga Creator Hiro Mashima Wins Angoulême's Special Award in France". Anime News Network. January 26, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018.