Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima is a Japanese manga artist born in Nagano Prefecture. He made his name with Rave Master, serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine from 1999 to 2005, and followed it with Fairy Tail (2006 to 2017), his best-selling series with more than 72 million copies in print. Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shonen in 2009. He later created Edens Zero and Monster Soul, and received the Harvey Awards International Spotlight in 2017 and a Fauve Special Award at Angouleme in 2018.