Hiro Mashima

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Hiro Mashima ( Japanese 真 島 ヒ ロ , Mashima Hiro ; born May 3, 1977 in Nagano , Nagano Prefecture ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

Hiro Mashima lived in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture as a child. He spent much of his childhood in the great outdoors, where he started drawing animals and plants. He felt the desire to become a mangaka after his grandfather brought him old, discarded manga magazines and he began to draw the characters. Mangas became Mashima's passion for a boy who lives in a rather remote mountain landscape with hardly any entertainment. His favorite manga was Dragon Ball . This wish was reinforced by Mashima's father. He was also very fond of painting and often went to the great outdoors to paint. When Hiro Mashima observed him one day that his father was painting the sky yellow instead of blue against reality, he explained his philosophy to him, which consists of the fact that a picture is not only something you see, but also represents freedom. This philosophy impressed Hiro Mashima very much and continues to shape his style to this day, years after his father's death.

In middle school, Hiro Mashima went astray. His behavior was marked by hooliganism and petty crimes. But he remained true to his passion for drawing. At the same time Mashima began to be interested in films, which he says was a cornerstone of his work as a mangaka. Mashima's passion for drawing was known in his school and even went so far that he drew an erotic manga for a friend, which caused him a lot of trouble with the teachers.

While in high school, Mashima began playing guitar in the rock band Nightmeeting . Because his grades were getting worse and his behavior was noticeable, his school at the time had suspended him from school. From here Mashima thought about it and decided to go to Tokyo to become a professional mangaka. With the help of his friends and benevolent teachers, he even managed to get his Abitur.

After passing high school, Mashima moved from Nagano to Tokyo and enrolled at a school for manga artists. But he couldn't come to terms with the school and the students, so he left them quickly. Since he was very impressed by Tokyo as a provincial, he threw himself into the city's nightlife for a while. But when he realized that all his friends had jobs and that his relationship with his girlfriend at the time was breaking up, Mashima finally remembered his dream and finished his manga with Bad Boys Song , which he sent to the manga publisher Kōdansha .

Career

He published his first manga as a professional draftsman in 1998, at the age of 21, with the short story Bad Boys Song in the manga magazine Magazine Flesh . For his second published work, Magician , he won the Kōdansha publishing house's young talent award in 1998 .

The breakthrough came with the first series, RAVE , on which he worked for Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005 and which sold over 18 million copies. It has been translated into several languages ​​and implemented as an anime television series. For the comic Bom Bom magazine, Mashima created a spin-off to RAVE from 2002 to 2007 under the title Plue no Inu Nikki (translated “Plue's dog diary”) .

From 2006 to 2017 his manga series Fairy Tail was published in Shōnen Magazine on a weekly basis, with which he builds on the success of RAVE . At the same time, the Shōnen Rival appears on a monthly basis, the series drawn by him called Monster Hunter Orage , which is based on the games of the Monster Hunter series.

Prizes and awards

Drawing style

His works can be assigned to the Shōnen genre. Mashima's drawing style is often compared to the Eiichirō Odas ( One Piece ), which went so far that finally, especially outside of Japan, the rumor arose that he had once been Oda's assistant. Mashima, however, never had a job as an assistant to another mangaka, but was in demand and established as a mangaka from a young age. The similar style of drawing can be explained much more in the shared enthusiasm for the works of Akira Toriyama .

Works

Current series

  • Edens Zero (since 2018)
  • Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest (since 2018)

Completed

  • RAVE (レ イ ヴ, from 1998 to 2005 weekly in Shōnen Magazine )
  • Plue no Inu Nikki (プ ル ー の 犬 日記 , from 2003 to 2007)
  • Mashima-en (ま し ま え ん , 2003, collection of one shots)
  • Monster Soul ( モ ン ス タ ー ソ ウ ル , from 2006 to 2007 in Comic Bom Bom magazine )
  • Monster Hunter Orage ( モ ン ス タ ー ハ ン タ ー オ ラ ー ジ ュ , Monsutā hantā orāju ; from 2008 to 2009 in the Shōnen Rival)
  • Fairy Tail (フ ェ ア リ ー テ イ ル , Fearī teiru ; from 2006 to 2017 in Shōnen Magazine )

One shots

  • Bad Boys Song , 1998
  • Magician , 1998
  • Starbiter Satsuki , 2014
  • Nishikaze to Taiyō , 2015

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview on Anime News Network
  2. ↑ http://item.rakuten.co.jp/zenkanmanga/10000390/
  3. ↑ Del Rey Manga Blog → Blog Archive → Hiro Mashima and the Great Eiichiro Oda Mystery. April 8, 2008, archived from the original on July 15, 2010 ; Retrieved on August 26, 2014 (Del Ray is the publisher of the manga Fairy Tail for the US and Canada).

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personal data
SURNAME Mashima, Hiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 真 島 ヒ ロ (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagano , Nagano Prefecture