Tank Chair Vol. 02

Tank Chair Vol. 02

An assassin in the world’s deadliest wheelchair and his devoted sister carve an ultra-violent path to recovery across a slick, dystopic landscape in this action manga that fans of Chainsaw Man, Battle Angel Alita, and Dorohedoro will kill to read!

“Fail me again…and you will be graduated.”

Nagi and Shizuka have managed to avoid a grisly death at the hands of two assassins–siblings from Nagi’s past life enrolled at the mysterious ACADEMY. To make safe their escape from this terrifying duo, Shizuka moves them across Guicheng Island, from one safe house to another. But Nagi’s whereabouts have reached the ears of the leader of the Academy, an iron-fisted administrator known only as Sensei, who dispatches a prodigy at the art of murder to track Nagi down once and for all: the rampaging rookie, Uzu!

Biographical Notes:

Manabu Yashiro debuted in 2011 with the oneshot Murahagane. Tank Chair started serialization in Monthly Shonen Sirius in 2021.

Title Notes:

• BONKERS DYSTOPIAN WORLDBUILDING: A world full of talking apes and people morphing into octopuses with a school full of kidnapped kids training to become assassins, realized with slick, dynamic art, will remind readers of gonzo action manga like Chainsaw Man, Dorohedoro, and Battle Angel Alita.
• REHABILITATION+ANNIHILATION: Anyone who has gone through physical therapy as a patient or as a loved one knows how frustratingly difficult it can be to struggle to regain ones’ original abilities, and in this case, the protagonists will do anything including possible death in order to regain some semblance of normalcy.
• GROWING DIGITAL FOLLOWING: The manga started serialization in 2021, but has been built buzz in a digital-first English release, shared by Japanese and overseas fans as one of the best manga to come out in recent years.

More details on Manabu Yashiro:

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