"All You Need Is Kill" News and Discussion

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"All You Need Is Kill: Edge Of Tomorrow Goes Anime"​

"Even though it had middling box-office returns, Edge Of Tomorrow is seen as one of the brighter spots in Tom Cruise’s career, and this is in big part due to the story — an inventive take on the time loop concept based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill.

Author Hiroshi Sakurazaka wrote the story in 2004, turned it into a manga, and then Hollywood turned it into a feature. Edge Of Tomorrow took a lot of liberties with its adaption, so if you’ve ever wanted to experience the original story…well, the manga’s right there, but there will also soon be a more direct adaption of it in the form of an anime film from Warner Bros Japan.

Nope, there hasn’t been an anime version of All You Need Is Kill yet — the Western live-action take on it came first! It rarely shakes out that way, but it did this time. Edge Of Tomorrow was released in 2014 and was retitled Live Die Repeat for its DVD release, and every release since has flip-flopped between those two titles, sometimes using both on the same package. But now you can forget about that. All you need is the original name. All You Need Is Kill."

Read the full article here.

And here's the teaser trailer:

 

[Frontier]

Japan re-adapting their own literature .

 

[Yojimbo]

6/11: GKIDS will screen All You Need Is Kill in theaters.

6/12: Info on 3 cast members.

 

[Frontier]

Can never get enough Kana Hanazwa !

 

[Yojimbo]

8/29: Will be screened at New York Comic Con on October 10.

9/17: Will be screened at Animation is Film festival in Los Angeles between October 17-19.

10/14: New poster and trailer released.

 

[wonderfly]

From the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"All You Need Is Kill — And This Anime Trailer"​

"Hiroshi Sakurazaka first published All You Need Is Kill in 2004. It is about two astronaut soldiers battling on an alien planet who discover, after getting doused with exotic juices, that they cannot die — they simply wake up at the start of their day if they are killed. If the premise sounds familiar, that’s because Hollywood took notice of the manga and turned it into the Tom Cruise movie Edge Of Tomorrow (or Live Die Repeat, or whatever).

Believe it or not, that’s been the only adaption of Sakurazaka’s story…until now. Warner Bros Japan has been working on a feature-length anime adaption of All You Need Is Kill, and this time it will use its original title. It will also stay far closer to Sakurazaka’s plot than the Western adaption did — with one exception.

This adaption shifts protagonists. The original story was told from the perspective of Keiji Kiriya, the male character, but this time the main POV will be from Rita Vrataski, the female character. The press synopsis says “All You Need Is Kill will explore Rita’s inner journey as a warrior and dive into her struggles with loneliness and personal growth.”"

Read the full article here.

 

[Frontier]

The character designs are...interesting, to say the least .

 

[Yojimbo]

12/8/25: English sub trailer posted.



1/8/26: "Rita Battles the Monsters" clip posted.



1/12: "Invasion" clip posted.

 

[wonderfly]

The News Team's slai has a new review up on the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:

"Review: “All You Need Is Kill”: Violent But Satisfying"​

"All You Need Is Kill is the second movie adaptation of the light novel of the same title by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, the first of which was the live action Edge of Tomorrow which I have not seen. This animated adaptation is produced by Studio 4°C and directed by Kenichiro Akimoto. It’s distributed by GKids here in the States.

It is a strange dystopian movie which begins with our main character, Rita, driving to the middle of nowhere before hanging outside on the side of the road one night standing outside her truck. Nothing unusual until the whole sky fills with lines followed by a massive explosion of some sort with red roots sprouting from a portal in the sky. The world has changed. A year later, we see the results of that event: a large alien plant, nicknamed Darol, whose height reaches to the top of the atmosphere now inhabits Japan with roots spreading across the entire planet. Rita is now part of a organization that go daily to ground zero where Darol landed and cleans up his debris.

It seems just like another ordinary day for Rita, post-Darol, until suddenly, Darol’s buds awaken and start bursting into carnivorous plants that look like the creatures from Stranger Things. Hundreds of them lay waste to everything in their path including Rita and her group. That would seem to be the end of our saga, but as soon as Rita is killed, she reawakens to the morning of the day she dies! Yup, Rita’s stuck in a time loop!"

Read the full review here.

 

[Yojimbo]

Blu-ray ships on July 7.