“Ordinary boy becomes immortal Original-taker after contracting with magical device, transforming into a girl attending elite SAI-taker school.”
SAI:Taker: Futari no Artemis
サイ:テイカー ―二人のアルテミス―
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Synopsis
Ordinary boy becomes immortal Original-taker after contracting with magical device, transforming into a girl attending elite SAI-taker school.
In the future, an energy source called "life" has become incredibly important. Certain people are able to synchronize with devices called SAI which gives them the ability to extract life and have super powers. These people are known as SAI-takers. Within the SAI-takers there is an even smaller group, Original-takers. Original-takers have a contract with a magical device, and they can manipulate life without the use of a SAI. These powerful people are also immortal, and they only die if they run out of life. The world admires SAI-takers, but Original-takers are careful to keep their identities secret. Kyouya Nanase is an ordinary teenage boy, who moved in with the girls Kyouka and Yuuma Igarashi after the death of his parents. Yuuma is a SAI-taker, but Kyouka is an Original-taker. One day, he goes with them to see a new model under testing of a magical device, based after Kyouka's. After a deadly terrorist attack, Kyouka desperately contracts Kyouya to the new device model to save his life. The device has some side effects, however, one of which is that it transforms Kyouya into a girl! Now Kyouya is secretly an Original-taker, and he must go to the elite SAI-taker school, as a girl, with Yuma. Will he be able to keep enough "life" to stay alive? Will he be able to navigate his life as a girl? What other side effects of this device lie in wait for him? (Source: MangaHelpers)
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Running avg · Apr 2016 → Oct 2017
- 5 “SAI: Taker is a classic tale of missed opportunity. But with Im Dal Young as its writer there is little ells to be expected from it. It started out very strong with an intrestring world and a very...”
- 5 “I feel like SAI: Taker could've been a good story to read. But it has a couple glaring issues that makes it obvious as to why it doesn't have the recognition it could've. 1. While the first chapter...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 12 × 3 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 36m approx
- Published Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M18409 catalog