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Japanese manga artist

Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro, born May 3, 1977) 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, became one of the best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print.

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

Early life

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

His father was an artist that aspired to turn professional, but died when Mashima was young.^[4] Living in the mountains as a child, his grandfather would bring him discarded manga that he found. After rea