Hiro Mashima (Jap: 真島ヒロ) is a Japanese manga artist.
He gained success with his first serial Rave, 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. Mashima began the currently ongoing Edens Zero in 2018.
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.
4/5 After the brutal finale to the last arc we roll right into a 3 year time jump. Our team is now training to become more powerful and doing their best to stop Ziggy’s robot uprises at every turn. We also see some run ins with the Galactic Army and the return of Captain Connor which is just a little weird. Also Rebecca’s Cat Leaper power is now making alternate universes not just new timelines.
Read 11/20/2025
Our more mature team on the cover of volume 20 including Connor and Overdrive Rebecca.
I am not a big fan of them making Rebecca's power a bit more complicated and I am not sure how I feel about the mystery that is surrounding Connor as it just feels like it is not really leading anyway. But the time skip was ok and their were some really touching moments and we get some really well done build up to the next arc.
It is a sad start after the end of the previous volume, but it moves quickly onto a new arc, one of which there is a time skip. I like a time skip. Did this series need one? At first, I was very sceptical, but after finishing this volume, it actually fits very nicely and continues the story very well.
Belakangan aku sudah mulai bosan dengan komik Hiro Mashima ini, tapi sudah terlanjur dan merasa kagok untuk berhenti. Well, someday mungkin kuhentikan saja kali ya. Menuh-menuhin space di perpus saja.
Shiki’s character development is really good, I particularly enjoyed it. This volume is the calm before the storm and I really liked the little moments between Rebecca and Shiki!