Manabu Yashiro Turns an Armored Wheelchair Into One of Modern Manga’s Most Brutal Visions
Manabu Yashiro is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator best known as the author of “Tank Chair” (戦車椅子), currently serialized in the monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, with volume 9 already published.
Yashiro’s core series, Tank Chair, follows a protagonist named Nagi Taira piloting an armored, weaponized wheelchair through a chaotic, industrial world. Critics have drawn direct comparisons to Q Hayashida’s “Dorohedoro” for its rejection of clean digital linework in favor of raw texture, but where Dorohedoro’s grime feels like rusted decay, Yashiro’s art is described as sharper and denser, built from heavy blacks and precise cross-hatching that convey “mechanical brutality” — wet, fast, and violent rather than ancient and crusted. His character and vehicle designs favor mechanized, weaponized forms set against high-speed, cyberpunk-tinged industrial ruins, giving his action sequences a fluid, high-octane intensity.
Beyond his own manga, Yashiro has become widely known online for prolific fan art reinterpreting Western pop culture through his distinctive style — illustrations of DC characters like Supergirl, Hawkgirl, Mister Terrific, and Krypto tied to the 2025 Superman film, Marvel’s Magik, and classic video game characters like Air Man from Mega Man 2. He’s also stated his personal fandoms include Godzilla, kaiju, yokai, Mega Man, and the Resident Evil series, all of which regularly surface as subjects in his fan illustrations.
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