Bounen no Xamdou

Sentan Island lives in fragile peace, distant from the war between the Northern Government and the Southern Continent Free Zone. Akiyuki Takehara spends his days there between school and his mother, trying to maintain a bond with his doctor father despite his parents’ separation. Then a mysterious attack destroys his school bus and a strange light enters his arm.

The injury transforms his body into a being called a Xam’d, and only a mysterious white-haired girl prevents him from losing himself completely. Akiyuki leaves the island aboard the postal ship Zanbani and begins learning to control what he has become as the distant war expands around him. His search for a way home leads into secrets connecting Xam’d, humanity, and the weapons driving the conflict, forcing him to decide how much of himself can change while still remaining human.