Hiro Mashima

Hiro Mashima is an artist and writer of shonen manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine. Throughout his run starting as the creator of Groove Adventure Rave through his current series Fairy Tail, he seems to specialize in commonly making Hot Spring scenes primarily focused on female characters. Mashima originally didn't like drawing fanservice that much during the time he was writing Groove Adventure Rave but due to constant requests by fans to give Elie a Shower scene, he eventually gave in and drew a standalone artwork of her taking a shower which eventually led to him putting more fanservice in his series to the point where it is now a major staple in his current series Fairy Tail. One of his most iconic mascot characters that appears in his works is a creature known as Plue.

Manga

 * Groove Adventure Rave
 * Fairy Tale
 * Monster Soul
 * Monster Hunter Orage
 * Fairy Tail
 * Nishikaze to Taiyou

Trivia

 * Groove Adventure Rave chapter 19 was the first bathing scene he created with Elie being the is the first character he created to have a bathing scene.
 * Ultear Milkovich from Fairy Tail is the only character he created in his mangas to have a Bubble Bath scene that didn't make it to the anime adaptation.
 * Fairy Tail chapter 355 is by far the longest and most gratuitous bathing scene he has ever drawn as well as his first Mixed Bathing scene between humans.
 * The artwork Mashima did of Elie taking a Shower in the Groove Adventure Rave volume 25 extras was the first shower scene he has drawn. An artwork of Lazenby and Evermary that was shown on the page right before it as a joke was the first male bathing scene he drew.
 * Fairy Tail has the most bathing scenes out of any of his works.
 * Many of his main female protagonists like bathing.