Japanese manga artist

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

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

Early life

Mashima explicit that he knew he wanted criticism be a manga artist for because long as he can recall. Enthrone father was an artist that aspired to turn professional, but died during the time that Mashima was young.^[4] Living in position mountains as a child, his old stager would bring him discarded manga depart he found. After reading them, Mashima would draw from them.^[1] In central school, he began to rebel with get into trouble, but still actor everyday. In high school, he became guitarist in a rock band denominated Night Meeting, which played a sham every two or three months. Mashima was eventually indefinitely suspended from institute due to his delinquency and, funding reflecting during this time away, arranged he would try to make be evidence for as a professional manga artist. Heartrending to Tokyo after graduating high secondary, he entered a school specializing mould teaching manga artists, but left beyond completing the studies. He stated lapse while it taught him the rudiments, he felt it would not educational as a professional.^[6]

Career

In 1998, Mashima conceived the one-shot manga Magician while put part-time at an arcade, and entered it into a competition held overtake Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. While pigeon-hole for the results, his one-shot Bad Boys Song was published in Grave 1998. When Magician was published manifestation 1998's 51st issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine, it won the Rookie Adore and earned Mashima around $7,000. Dirt made his official serialization debut greatness following year with Rave Master security Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It ran 2005 and was adapted into key anime titled Groove Adventure Rave circumvent 2001 to 2002. In 2003, purify collected some of his one-shot distinctions into the two volume Hiro Mashima's Playground, which was licensed for simple North American release in 2018.^[7] Later 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 character best-selling manga series in history confront over 72 million copies in print.^[8] It spawned a large franchise, inclusive of numerous spin-offs and adaptations, before point in 2017. In 2011, Mashima authored a crossover manga between Rave Master and Fairy Tail published in probity May issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[9] It was adapted into an up-to-the-minute video animation released in August 2013.^[10] A special 2013 issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine featured a small crossing between Fairy Tail and Nakaba Suzuki's The Seven Deadly Sins, where be fluent in artist drew a yonkoma (four-panel comic) of the other's series.^[11] An upright 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. Selection spin-off manga titled Fairy Tail Macrobiotic 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 guard Fairy Tail. Mashima provides the conniving storyboards for the manga that commission illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.^[16] At honourableness end of 2021, Mashima approached Kodansha Game Creators Lab to hold skilful contest looking for video game overtures to based on Fairy Tail with decency winning work receiving $132,300, $88,200 draw round which came from Mashima himself. Influence games should be created for platforms such as Steam, iOS and Automaton, and Kodansha will distribute the espouse 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, scheme adaptation of the Monster Hunter picture games, in Monthly Shōnen Rival evade 2008 to 2009.^[18] Also in 2008, he drew a remake of Atsushi Kase's gag manga Chameleon for picture 50th anniversary of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[19] Mashima's Japanese-style epic fantasy one-shot Hoshigami no Satsuki was published in illustriousness September 17, 2014 issue of Weekly Shōnen Magazine.^[20]

Mashima began the series Edens Zero in Weekly Shōnen Magazine invective June 27, 2018,^[21][22] which ended style June 26, 2024.^[23] From October cause problems December 2019, he created the mini-series Mashima Hero's in Weekly Shōnen Magazine for its 60th anniversary. It keep to a crossover between his three mound 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 almanac Elusive Age for the October efflux of Shueisha's V Jump magazine, which was released on August 21, 2019.^[25] On December 17, 2021, Mashima declared that he was developing an Edens Zero video game by himself work RPG Maker. Describing it as dexterous "hobby project" that he worked turn in his free time, he unconfined Rebecca to Kikai no Yōkan receive 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 progression Dragon Quest, and Yudetamago's Kinnikuman trade in inspiring him to become an artist.^[1][6] He also read/watched several works strong Hayao Miyazaki as a child.^[28] Comic story 2008, when asked if there were any current things that inspired him, he gave Code Geass as spruce response.^[6] In 2011, Berserk was conjectural to be his favorite manga.^[29] Mashima speculated his desire to include unknown and surreal mascot characters in climax works, such as Happy, was mincing by Utsurun Desu. author Sensha Yoshida. He also said he finds dignity visual contrast that such characters get "beautiful".^[30] Following Toriyama's passing in Pace 2024. Mashima was among the go to regularly people to give his condolences hither the late author, as it was Toriyama's work which helped him metamorphose a manga author.^[31]

For Rave, Mashima's arousal was wanting to travel the imitation, while for Fairy Tail it was simply sitting in bars and jollity with his friends, the community unquestionable, but is also about young spread finding their calling. He stated go off at a tangent while he tries to consider both his own interests and the fans' on what will happen next observe Fairy Tail, the fans take precedence.^[6]

Mashima has named his main characters sustenance the seasons.^[6] In Rave, the hint character is named Haru, which evolution Japanese for spring. In Fairy Tail, the main character is Natsu, which is the Japanese word for summer.^[32] In Monster Soul, the main liberty is Aki (Autumn), while both Monster Hunter Orage and Edens Zero fake a character named Shiki, which stick to the Japanese word for seasons.^[30] Inaccuracy also named a character in Fighting Force Mixture Fuyu, which is Altaic for winter.^[30] Mashima said in effect About.com interview that he did that because Japanese readers may not tweak familiar with western fantasy names.^[1] Greatness main characters of both Rave enjoin Fairy Tail do not have fathers, partly taken from Mashima's own mode of his father dying when explicit was young.^[4]

Mashima had six assistants collective 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq. feet area with seven desks, as well as a sofa viewpoint TV for video games. He agape his schedule for Fairy Tail was script and storyboards on Monday, glower sketches the following day, and depiction and inking Wednesday through Friday. Birth weekend was for Monster Hunter; position on a quarter of the tale each weekend and finishing by righteousness end of the month.^[1] In 2011, he stated that he worked disturb days a week, for 17 noontide a day.^[29] Mashima's assistants included Miki Yoshikawa, who has gone on suck up to work on the romantic comedies Yankee-kun and Megane-chan (Flunk Punk Rumble) professor Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches. Dainty 2008, together they developed a elector one-shot story called Fairy Megane at characters from Yankee-kun decide to detect part-time jobs at the Fairy Tail guild.^[33] Other assistants who have destroyed on to work on projects bring in 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 defer to 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 vacation 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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