Hiro Mashima

About Hiro Mashima

This Japanese artist is most known for his Fairy Tail and Rave manga series, but he also produced the Monster Hunter Orage and Monster Soul manga series. The Kodansha Manga Award was bestowed upon him in 2009.

Hiro Mashima 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, has become 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, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Notable work	Rave Master, Fairy Tail, Edens Zero, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest
Employer	Kodansha
Born	May 3, 1977, Nagano, Japan
Occupation	Manga artist
Children	1
Years active	1998–present
Native name	真島 ヒロ

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Trivia

He named several of his main manga characters, including Haru (spring) and Natsu (summer), after seasons.

Hiro Mashima before fame

In 1998, he published his first manga, Magician. The next year, his iconic Rave series premiered in Weekly Shnen Magazine.

Achievement of Hiro Mashima

He named several of his prominent manga characters after seasons, such as Haru (spring) and Natsu (summer).

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$20 Million

Hiro Mashima family life

He was born in Nagano, Japan, to a father who was a self-taught artist. His father died while he was young, and he was mostly nurtured by his grandfather. He is the father of a daughter.

Associations of Hiro Mashima

He admired and was influenced by Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga as a child.

Hiro Mashima Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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