25 Facts About Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima gained success with his first serial Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine from 1999 to 2005.

Hiro Mashima's 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 shonen manga in 2009, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angouleme International Comics Festival.

Hiro Mashima stated that he knew he wanted to be a manga artist for as long as he can recall.

Hiro Mashima's father was an artist that aspired to turn professional, but died when Mashima was young.

Hiro Mashima was eventually indefinitely suspended from school due to his delinquency and, after reflecting during this time away, decided he would try to make it as a professional manga artist.

Hiro Mashima stated that while it taught him the basics, he felt it would not help as a professional.

In 1998, Hiro Mashima created the one-shot manga Magician while working part-time at an arcade, and entered it into a competition held by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine.

Hiro Mashima made his official serialization debut the following year with Rave Master in Weekly Shonen Magazine.

Hiro Mashima began Fairy Tail in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2006 and it went on to become one of the best-selling manga series in history with over 72 million copies in print.

In 2011, Hiro Mashima created a crossover manga between Rave Master and Fairy Tail published in the May issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine.

From July 17,2014, to July 17,2015, Fairy Tail had its own monthly magazine titled Monthly Fairy Tail Magazine, which included a prequel manga by Hiro Mashima himself titled Fairy Tail Zero.

Hiro Mashima provides the original storyboards for the manga that is illustrated by Atsuo Ueda.

Hiro Mashima began the series Edens Zero in Weekly Shonen Magazine on June 27,2018, which ended on June 26,2024.

Hiro Mashima drew a one-shot manga adaptation of the video game Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age for the October issue of Shueisha's V Jump magazine, which was released on August 21,2019.

On December 17,2021, Hiro Mashima announced that he was developing an Edens Zero video game by himself using RPG Maker.

Hiro Mashima listed Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball as his favorite manga growing up, the video game series Dragon Quest, and Yudetamago's Kinnikuman as inspiring him to become an artist.

Hiro Mashima speculated his desire to include strange and surreal mascot characters in his works, such as Happy, was influenced by Utsurun Desu author Sensha Yoshida.

Hiro Mashima said he finds the visual contrast that such characters bring "beautiful".

For Rave, Hiro Mashima's inspiration was wanting to travel the world, while for Fairy Tail it was simply sitting in bars and partying with his friends, the community aspect, but is about young people finding their calling.

Hiro Mashima stated that while he tries to consider both his own interests and the fans' on what will happen next in Fairy Tail, the fans take precedence.

Hiro Mashima named a character in Fighting Force Mixture Fuyu, which is Japanese for winter.

Hiro Mashima had six assistants in 2008 that worked in an 8,000 sq.

Hiro Mashima revealed his schedule for Fairy Tail was script and storyboards on Monday, rough sketches the following day, and drawing and inking Wednesday through Friday.

Hiro Mashima's assistants included Miki Yoshikawa, who has gone on to work on the romantic comedies Yankee-kun and Megane-chan and Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches.