COMIC ARTIST

Hiro Mashima

1977 - Today

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Hiro Mashima (真島 ヒロ, Mashima Hiro, born May 3, 1977) is a Japanese manga artist. He gained success with his first serial Rave Master, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hiro Mashima has received more than 1,286,579 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Hiro Mashima is the 106th most popular comic artist (down from 93rd in 2019), the 1,185th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,025th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hiro Mashimas by language

Over the past year Hiro Mashima has had the most page views in the with 134,325 views, followed by Japanese (130,311), and French (33,165). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (175.08%), Basque (74.69%), and Vietnamese (49.53%)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Hiro Mashima ranks 106 out of 226. Before him are Masamune Shirow, Tsukasa Hojo, Yumiko Igarashi, Floyd Gottfredson, Greg, and Jacques Martin. After him are E. O. Plauen, Yōichi Takahashi, Gotlib, Claire Bretécher, David Lloyd, and Nobuhiro Watsuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Hiro Mashima ranks 87. Before him are Ravshan Irmatov, Virginie Efira, Namie Amuro, Kim Hee-sun, Giorgos Karagounis, and Hun Manet. After him are Janne Ahonen, Erika Lust, Won Bin, Takuma Sato, Aria Giovanni, and Simone Perrotta.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiro Mashima ranks 1,185 out of 6,245. Before him are Stephen Fumio Hamao (1930), Hideo Nakata (1961), Seiki Ichihara (1950), Tura Satana (1938), Ikuo Takahara (1957), and Masayoshi Ito (1913). After him are Megumi Yokota (1964), Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Mazie Hirono (1947), Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), and Sumio Iijima (1939).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Hiro Mashima ranks 38. Before him are Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Sanpei Shirato (1932), Hajime Isayama (1986), Masamune Shirow (1961), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), and Yumiko Igarashi (1950). After him are Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), Keiko Takemiya (1950), Masakazu Katsura (1962), Tite Kubo (1977), and Ken Akamatsu (1968).

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