Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima
Hiro Mashima at the San Diego Comic-Con, July 2008
Born	Mashima Hiro 真島 ヒロ May 3, 1977 (1977-05-03) (age 34) Nagano, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Rave Master and Fairy Tail
Influenced by	Akira Toriyama, Hayao Miyazaki[1]

Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro^?, born May 3, 1977) is a Japanese manga artist. He is most known for his fantasy manga Groove Adventure Rave, published by Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine, from 1999 to 2005. The series was later adapted into an anime. However, the anime adaption was cancelled before it could complete the series.

In 2003, he collected some of his one-shot titles in two volumes: Mashima-en- Vol.1 & 2. Those stories include, among others, Cocona, "Xmas Hearts" and "Fairy Tail", a sort of prototype for his latest work.

In 2006, he began his current ongoing series, another fantasy manga called Fairy Tail, serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine which has been adapted into an anime and has aired on TV Tokyo since October 2009. He also published the one-shot manga Monster Soul during the same year.

Hiro Mashima was a notable guest at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con. He was influenced by Akira Toriyama and Hayao Miyazaki^[1] He has one daughter.^[2]

Works

• Groove Adventure Rave (1998–2005, published as Rave Master in North America)
• Plue's Dog Diaries (2002–2007)
• Mashima-en Vol.1 & 2 (2003)
  • Vol 1:
  • Magician
  • Fairy Tail
  • Cocona (2003)
  • Plue's Adventures Pt. II
  • Vol 2:
  • Bad Boys Song
  • Magic Party
  • Xmas Hearts
  • Fighting Group Mixture
• Monster Soul (2005–2007)
• Fairy Tail (2006–ongoing)
• Monster Hunter Orage (2008–2009)
• Chameleon (2008, one-shot based on a manga by Atsushi Kase, made for Kodansha's 50th Anniversary)
• Nishikaze to Taiyou (2010)
• Sangokushi Taisen (card illustration)
• Respect Gundam (contribution)

Trivia

• The main characters in his magazine serializations are named after seasons:
  • Rave Master/Groove Adventure Rave (Haru=Spring)
  • Fairy Tail (Natsu=Summer)
  • Monster Soul (Aki=Autumn)
  • Monster Hunter Orage (Shiki=Four Seasons)

Former assistants

• Miki Yoshikawa (Yankee-kun and Megane-chan)
• Shin Mikuni (Spray King)
• Hiro Mashima has never served as an assistant to any artist.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ Del Rey Manga

External links

• Hiro Mashima at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Artist Profile at Shonen Magazine

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Name	Mashima, Hiro
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Date of birth	July 19, 1977
Place of birth	Nagano, Japan
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