COMIC ARTIST

Hiro Mashima

1977 - Today

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiro Mashima is the 123rd most popular comic artist (down from 106th in 2019), the 1,472nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,185th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Hiro Mashima ranks 123 out of 226. Before him are Nobuhiro Watsuki, Les Clark, Masakazu Katsura, Gotlib, Larry Lieber, and David Lloyd. After him are Ken Sugimori, François Bourgeon, Rose O'Neill, Kiyohiko Azuma, Ken Akamatsu, and Rudolph Dirks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Hiro Mashima ranks 141. Before him are David Albelda, Daichi Fukushima, Titus O'Neil, Mikaël Silvestre, Kia Stevens, and Colin Hanks. After him are Antonio Mateu Lahoz, Kal Penn, David Dastmalchian, Jelena Rozga, Makoto Ikeda, and Sarah Biasini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiro Mashima ranks 1,472 out of 6,245. Before him are Toru Ojima (1976), Kiyonori Kikutake (1928), Satoshi Tezuka (1958), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), and Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903). After him are Kōichi Yamadera (1961), Taiki Tsuruno (1990), Kazunori Yamauchi (1967), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), and Takeshi Honda (1981).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Hiro Mashima ranks 44. Before him are Masamune Shirow (1961), Ōten Shimokawa (1892), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Keiko Takemiya (1950), Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), and Masakazu Katsura (1962). After him are Ken Sugimori (1966), Kiyohiko Azuma (1968), Ken Akamatsu (1968), Tsutomu Nihei (1971), Kouta Hirano (1973), and Yukito Kishiro (1967).

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