Hiro Mashima is a renowned Japanese manga artist celebrated for creating the widely acclaimed manga series Fairy Tail. Born on May 3, 1977, in Nagano, Japan, Mashima first gained prominence with his debut serial, Rave Master, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005.

His most successful work to date, Fairy Tail, also serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, ran from 2006 to 2017 and has sold over 72 million copies, making it one of the best-selling manga series. The series received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009 and has been adapted into an anime. In recognition of his contributions to the manga industry, Mashima received the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

In 2018, he launched a new manga series titled Edens Zero, which has been published in volumes and is set to receive an anime adaptation by J.C.Staff in April 2021. Besides his major works, Mashima has also published spin-offs and other manga, enriching the world of his creations and the manga community at large.