Xam'd: Lost Memories Anime Gets Manga

In a reverse kind of "manga gets anime" announcement, animation studio Bones (Eureka Seven, Fullmetal Alchemist... 2) revealed that their ongoing WTF-sci-fi anime series Xam'd: Lost Memories (Bounen no Xamdou) will be getting a manga adaptation. The manga - titled Bounen no Xam'd: Junreisha no Compass - will be published in Kadokawa Shoten's Ace Assault magazine, starting from this December 9.



The anime's distribution model is pretty WTF in itself, as well. Instead of regular TV broadcasting, Sony is pumping Xam'd through its PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 and PSP consoles. At the rate it is going, the final episode should be out in February 2009. As for what the hell it's all about, here's the official synopsis:

"Akiyuki, the main character of the animated series, lives on Sentan Island, a land that has preserved its status as a free and peaceful island in a world consumed by fighting between the Northern and Southern Governments. All of this changes when Akiyuki boards a bus along with a mysterious white-haired girl who transforms his arm with the lost memories and power of Xam’d.

As Xam’d, Akiyuki goes on a rampage and is saved when a foreign girl with red hair named “Nakiami calms him down, taking him back to her postal vessel.
Akiyuki now must gain control of his powers and use them against the Northern Government’s latest weapons, known as “Humanforms”. Travelling the world on a postal vessel, Akiyuki hopes to return home one day, but until then he befriends other passengers on the boat."