History Creator / HiroMashima

** The Oración Seis are a team of six who stand among the stronger characters in whatever series they appear in. In ''Rave Master'' (where they're [[DubNameChange renamed]] the Oracion Six), they're the elite generals of Demon Card, the main antagonistic force of the series. In ''Fairy Tail'', they're one of the three strongest dark guilds in the kingdom. In ''EDENS ZERO'', they're six warriors who are each capable of destroying a planet on their own, though they aren't all necessarily evil.

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a {{Shonen}} manga artist most widely known as the creator of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Getting his start as the winner of an amateur manga competition in 1998, Mashima learned most of what he knows about drawing on his own through his first official serialization, ''Manga/RaveMaster'', once dropping out of a professional manga school because he felt he wasn't learning anything useful besides the basics.[[note]]Contrary to rumors, he was never an assistant or classmate to Creator/EiichiroOda.[[/note]] He went on to crank out quite the number of series and one-shots over the years, eventually becoming one of the most successful artists for ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine''.

** Tanchimo, the giant rabbit/emu hybrid creature--[[CallASmeerpARabbit er, "horse"]]--from ''Rave Master'', has a role in ''Edens Zero'' as an {{MMORPG}} character whose backstory matches Tanchimo's role as the Rave Warriors' steed, and whose name is made out to be a shortened form of "Turn-to-Timonium".

** Angel from ''Fairy Tail'' appears as an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe anime character]] in ''Edens Zero'' called "Angela".

Mashima's works are packed with inside jokes and references to his own manga for his long-time readers to chew on, including a cast of [[ReusedCharacterDesign identical-looking characters]] with different names and roles in the same vein as Creator/OsamuTezuka's Star System. Most of his one-shots are compiled in a two-part collection called ''Hiro Mashima's Playground'', which details his early career and some of the budding ideas for his later work. This collection was originally released in Japan in 2003, and eventually published in English in 2018.

** The Oración Seis are a team of six villains who stand among the stronger enemies in whatever series they appear in. In ''Rave Master'' (where they're [[DubNameChange renamed]] the Oracion Six), they're the elite generals of Demon Card, the main antagonistic force of the series. In ''Fairy Tail'', they're one of the three strongest dark guilds in the kingdom. In ''EDENS ZERO'', they're six warriors who are each capable of destroying a planet on their own.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: ZigZagged. Several of Mashima's works lean heavily into themes of prejudice against non-humans. In ''Rave Master'' and ''EDENS ZERO'', the heroes are all accepting of non-humans and [[AndroidsArePeopleToo androids]]; in ''Cocona'' and ''Monster Soul'', the heroes are part of the marginalized group. However, in any instance where a non-human group is AlwaysChaoticEvil, the heroes ''will'' break their ThouShaltNotKill rule.

** ''Manga/FairyTailZero'' (2014–2015): a {{Prequel}} to ''Fairy Tail''
** ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'' (2018–present, storyboards; art by Atsuo Ueda): an ImmediateSequel to ''Fairy Tail''

* ''Zephyr and Sol'' (2010)

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a {{Shonen}} manga artist most widely known as the creator of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Getting his start as the winner of an amateur manga competition in 1998, Mashima learned most of what he knows about drawing on his own through his first official serialization, ''Manga/RaveMaster'', once dropping out of a professional manga school because he felt he wasn't learning anything useful besides the basics.[[note]]Contrary to rumors, he never served as an assistant or classmate to Creator/EiichiroOda.[[/note]] He went on to crank out quite the number of series and one-shots over the years, eventually becoming one of the most successfuly artists for ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine''.

As an artist, Mashima's most notable traits are his lightning fast drawing speed and his extreme time management skills, making him one of the few in the industry to get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per day, even prior to his switch to digital drawing doubling his work speed. Because of this, he's managed to pull off stunts such as releasing multiple chapters at once for weeks at a time, and juggling up to two other short-term serializations at the same time as his usual work, all while finding the time to goof off playing video games for hours on end and ''still'' get his work done on time.

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a {{Shonen}} manga artist most widely known as the creator of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Getting his start as the winner of an amateur manga competition in 1998, Mashima learned most of what he knows about drawing on his own through his first official serialization, ''Manga/RaveMaster'', once dropping out of a professional manga school because he felt he wasn't learning anything useful besides the basics. He went on to crank out quite the number of series and one-shots over the years, eventually becoming one of the most lucrative artists for Magazine/ShonenMagazine.

* CreatorThumbprint: Every one of his works shares at least two or more of the following: ThePowerOfFriendship and TrueCompanions; heroes with [[TemporalThemeNaming names based on seasons]] and/or [[DisappearedDad missing fathers]] (including father figures); [[{{Expy}} expies]] of his own characters, either as [[ReusedCharacterDesign different characters]] or [[TheCameo cameos]]; bizarre-looking [[CartoonCreature creatures]] and [[{{Gonk}} people]] with equally bizarre personalities; [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragons]]; themes of [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman prejudice towards non-humans]]; an aversion to [[InterruptedSuicide suicide or self-sacrifice]]; and loads and loads of {{Fanservice}}.

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a {{Shonen}} manga artist most widely known as the creator of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Getting his start as the winner of an amateur manga competition in 1998, Mashima learned most of what he knows about drawing on his own through his first official serialization, ''Manga/RaveMaster'', once dropping out of a professional manga school because he felt he wasn't learning anything useful besides the basics. He went on to crank out quite the number of series and one-shots over the decades, eventually becoming one of the most successful artists for Magazine/ShonenMagazine.

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a {{Shonen}} manga artist most widely known as the creator of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Getting his start in an amateur manga competition in 1998, Mashima learned most of what he knows about drawing on his own through his first official serialization, ''Manga/RaveMaster'', once dropping out of a professional manga school because he felt he wasn't learning anything useful besides the basics. He went on to crank out quite the number of series and one-shots over the decades, eventually becoming one of the most successful artists for Magazine/ShonenMagazine.

** Tanchimo, the giant rabbit/emu hybrid creature--[[CallASmeerpARabbit er, "horse"]]--from ''Rave Master'', has a role in ''Edens Zero'' as an {{MMORPG}} character whose backstory matches Tanchimo's role as the Rave Warriors' steed, and whose name is made out to be a shortened form of "Turn-to-Timonium".

* RecurringElement: Mashima's works don't just recycle [[ReusedCharacterDesign character designs]], but also certain names and terms with a new spin:

** Plue[=/=]Nikora, [[CallASmeerpARabbit a trembling, ball-headed "dog" with a carrot-like nose]], is a recurring SeriesMascot who predates all of Mashima's works as a doodle he drew in school. [[AmbiguousGender He/she]] has appeared in more Mashima works than any other to date, with a multitude of different roles: in ''Magician'', Mashima's debut one-shot, Plue is a regular female dog whose bizarre appearance is the result of a super serum; in ''Rave Master'', he is a main character who guides [[TheHero Haru]] on his quest to find the Rave Stones; in ''Fairy Tail'', he's part of a breed of Celestial Spirit called Nikora who Lucy keeps a seldom-seen TeamPet; and in ''EDENS ZERO'', Nikora is a ServantRace of aliens seen in a single chapter.

** Happy, a talking blue cat, is one of the {{Series Mascot}}s of both ''Fairy Tail'' and ''EDENS ZERO''. However, both series give him completely different backgrounds: in the former, he's a magical winged cat from another dimension, while in the latter, he's an alien who was [[WeCanRebuildHim killed and reborn as an android]].

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: [[in-universe]] Mashima does this to varying degrees depending on the work:

* ApprovalOfGod: [[in-universe]] He is vocally supportive of any adaptation of his work, and has stated in [[https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/17873827/ one interview]] that he gave the cast of the ''Fairy Tail'' anime carte blanche to interpret their roles however they saw fit, which also influenced how he wrote the manga.

* BreakthroughHit: [[in-universe]] Mashima might have seen success with ''Rave Master'', his first manga series, but ''Fairy Tail'' is what gave him international attention.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: [[in-universe]]

* WriteWhoYouKnow: [[in-universe]] Mashima has modeled and named a number of characters in his works after his assistants. He also turned people he's met at conventions into characters, such as journalist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Thompson_(writer) Jason Thompson]] as ''Fairy Tail''[='=]s Jason, or [=YouTuber=] Nino Kerl as ''EDENS ZERO''[='=]s Nino.

* ApprovalOfGod: He is vocally supportive of any adaptation of his work, and has stated in [[https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/17873827/ one interview]] that he gave the cast of the ''Fairy Tail'' anime carte blanche to interpret their roles however they saw fit, which also influenced how he wrote the manga.

* BreakthroughHit: Mashima might have seen success with ''Rave Master'', his first manga series, but ''Fairy Tail'' is what gave him international attention.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: While he has not voiced what he feels is his favorite work, he has [[https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/17873827/ admitted]] that his most popular work, ''Fairy Tail'', went on for much longer than he felt it should have.

* WriteWhatYouKnow:

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Mashima has modeled and named a number of characters in his works after his assistants. He also turned people he's met at conventions into characters, such as journalist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Thompson_(writer) Jason Thompson]] as ''Fairy Tail''[='=]s Jason, or [=YouTuber=] Nino Kerl as ''EDENS ZERO''[='=]s Nino.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Mashima does this to varying degrees depending on the work:

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' (2006–2017)

Mashima's works are packed with inside jokes and references to his own manga for his long-time readers to chew on, including a cast of [[ReusedCharacterDesign identical-looking characters]] with different names and roles in the same vein as Creator/OsamuTezuka's Star System.

* ''Nishikaze no Taiyō'' (2010)

As an artist, Mashima's most notable traits are his lightning fast drawing speed and his extreme time management skills, making him one of the few in the industry to get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per day, even prior to his switch to digital drawing doubling his work speed. Because of this, he's managed to pull off stunts such as releasing multiple chapters at once for weeks at a time, and juggling up to two other short-term serializations at the same time as his usual work, all while finding the time to goof off playing video games for hours on end and ''still'' getting his work done on time.

Hiro Mashima (born May 3, 1977) is a {{Shonen}} manga artist most widely known as the creator of ''Manga/FairyTail''. Getting his start in an amateur manga competition in 1998, Mashima learned most of what he knows about drawing on his own through his first official serialization, ''Manga/RaveMaster'', once dropping out of a professional manga school because he felt he wasn't learning anything useful besides the basics.[[note]]Contrary to rumors, he did ''not'' serve as an assistant or classmate to Creator/EiichiroOda.[[/note]] He went on to crank out quite the number of series and one-shots over the decades, eventually becoming one of the most successful artists for Magazine/ShonenMagazine.

As an artist, Mashima's most notable traits are his lightning fast drawing speed and his extreme time management skills, making him one of the few in the industry to get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per day,[[note]]The average manga artist would be lucky just to get six hours.[[/note]] even prior to his switch to digital drawing doubling his work speed. Because of this, he's managed to pull off stunts such as releasing multiple chapters at once for weeks at a time, and juggling up to two other short-term serializations at the same time as his usual work, all while finding the time to goof off playing video games for hours on end and ''still'' getting his work done on time.

Mashima's works are packed with inside jokes and references to his own manga for his long-time readers to pick up on, including a budding cast of identical-looking characters with different names and roles in the same vein as Creator/OsamuTezuka's Star System. Apart from that, Mashima's most notable traits are his lightning fast drawing speed and his extreme time management skills, making him one of the few in the industry to get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per day,[[note]]The average manga artist would be lucky just to get six hours.[[/note]] even prior to the switch to digital drawing. He's also an avid gamer, and has been reported by his own assistants to goof off playing for hours and ''still'' get all his work finished before them. Because of this, he's managed to pull off stunts such as releasing multiple chapters a week for three weeks straight, and juggling up to two other short-term serializations at the same time as his usual work, all without taking any breaks apart from the holidays.

He has a [[https://twitter.com/hiro_mashima Twitter account]], which he regularly updates with artwork and sketches every now and then.

* WorkHardPlayHard: One of his most notable feats as a mangaka is his ability to balance out work and play, helped greatly by his incredible drawing speed. As a result, not only has he managed to get seven hours of sleep regularly without taking a single break, there are occasions when he actually cranks out multiple chapters at once for weeks at a time, all while getting inspiration from whatever games, movies, or TV shows he puts on (usually when he's supposed to be working, and even then, he ''still'' gets his work done on time).

Mashima's most notable traits are his lightning fast drawing speed and his extreme time management skills, making him one of the few in the industry to get a minimum of seven hours of sleep per day,[[note]]The average manga artist would be lucky just to get six hours.[[/note]] even prior to the switch to digital drawing. He's also an avid gamer, and has been reported by his own assistants to goof off playing for hours and ''still'' get all his work finished before them. Because of this, he's managed to pull off stunts such as releasing multiple chapters a week for three weeks straight, and juggling up to two other short-term serializations at the same time as his usual work, all without taking any breaks apart from the holidays.

** ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest (2018–present, storyboards; art by Atsuo Ueda): an ImmediateSequel to ''Fairy Tail''

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* CreatorsPet: Mashima is generally fond for the more bizarre gag characters in his portfolio, namely the Butt Jiggle Gang from ''Rave Master'', so much so that they appeared in a {{Filler}} arc of ''Fairy Tail''[='=]s anime adaptation per his request, and had a prominent role in ''HERO[='=]S''.

* GodNeverSaidThat:
** In a [[https://ramenparados.com/xviii-salon-manga-bcn-entrevista-hiro/ Spanish interview]], Mashima was mistranslated saying that he planned for [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu and Lucy]] to become an OfficialCouple and have a daughter named "Nashi", a {{Portmanteau}} of Natsu and ''Rushii'' (Lucy). In the actual interview itself, he was responding to a ''hypothetical question'' about what he'd call their child, saying he never gave the idea any thought, with the name "Nashi" (meaning "nothing") being a tongue-in-cheek way of saying he had no actual name in mind.
** Mashima's initial estimation of ''Fairy Tail'' lasting 10 volumes was wrongly interpreted as an actual plan, which later led readers to believe that the Phantom Lord arc--which ended around that volume--was the intended ending for the manga when he said in Volume 6 that he imagined it would happen later in the manga. What this misses is his admission that he jumped into the arc much ''earlier'' than anticipated, ironically to help readers understand that [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants he had no road map for the story or length whatsoever]].

* PetPeeveTrope: He has voiced his confusion and annoyance towards the DracoInLeatherPants trope, particularly when readers gravitate towards his villains who [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds had it rough]] or are [[EvilIsSexy just plain good-looking]] to the point of [[RootingForTheEmpire wishing the heroes wouldn't beat them]]. As a sort of countermeasure following ''Fairy Tail'', which was loaded with such reactions, he has striven to make the villains of ''EDENS ZERO'' as [[CompleteMonster vile as humanly possible]] so readers would [[CatharsisFactor root for someone to take them down]].