Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima is a Japanese manga artist who broke through with Rave Master in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His next series, Fairy Tail, ran from 2006 to 2017 and passed 72 million copies in print. It won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009. He followed it with Edens Zero.