Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima is a Japanese manga artist. His one-shot Magician won the Rookie Prize in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1998. He made his serialization debut the next year with Rave Master, which ran until 2005 and was adapted into the anime Groove Adventure Rave.

His best-selling series, Fairy Tail, ran in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2006 to 2017 and has more than 72 million copies in print. It won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009. Edens Zero followed in the same magazine from June 2018 to June 2024. Dead Rock and Farmagia are among his later works.

Mashima received the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.