All You Need Is Kill

· Sold by VIZ Media LLC
3.9
36 reviews
eBook
95
Pages
Bubble Zoom
Eligible

About this eBook

When the alien Mimics invade, soldier Keiji Kiriya is killed, easily, on the battlefield. But he wakes up the previous morning as if nothing happened and must fight the battle again...and again...and again. Teamed up with the mysterious female fighter known as the Full Metal Bitch, Keiji must figure out how to stop the cycle—and what role his new and deadly ally plays in the fight to save Earth.

Author Nick Mamatas (Bullettime, Love Is the Law) and artist Lee Ferguson (Miranda Mercury, Green Arrow/Black Canary) give Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s mind-bending alien invasion tale a bold new look in the official comic adaptation of the original novel.

Now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise!

-- VIZ Media

Ratings and reviews

3.9
36 reviews
A Google user
15 June 2014
This graphic novel isn't bad. Just didn't capture the emotion or gravity you get from the book. Lastly the illustrations are not what I imagined from reading the book either. Jackets look like flimsy pieces of armor in this. Do yourself a favor and get the book instead. It's a light novel and less than 200 pages. You could read it in a day.
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Cesar Genders
16 August 2014
A fun quick read. Excellent graphics, the story could be a little more expanded. Overall highly recommend
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A Google user
14 May 2014
If you have the choice to read the book or the comic, read the book. This is a poor adaptation of a great story.
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About the author

Hiroshi Sakurazaka was born in Tokyo in 1970. After a career in information technology, he published his first novel, Modern Magic Made Simple (Yoku wakaru gendai mahou), in 2003 with Super Dash Bunko, a popular young adult light novel imprint. There are now seven volumes in the series, and it was adapted as a manga in 2008 and as a television anime series in 2009. Sakurazaka published All You Need Is Kill with Super Dash Bunko in 2004 and with it earned his first Seiun Award nomination for best of the year honors in Japanese science fiction. His 2004 short story "Saitama Chainsaw Massacre" won the 16th SF Magazine Reader's Award. In 2009, All You Need Is Kill was the launch title for Haikasoru, a unique imprint dedicated to publishing the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy for English-speaking audiences. New York Times best-selling author John Scalzi declared All You Need Is Kill to be a novel that "reads fast, kicks ass, and keeps on coming," and it has proven to be one of Haikasoru's most popular titles. Sakurazaka's other novels include Characters (cowritten with Hiroki Azuma) and Slum Online, which was published in English by Haikasoru in 2010. In 2010, Sakurazaka started an experimental digital magazine, AiR, with Junji Hotta. He remains one of Japan's most energetic writers of both light novels and adult science fiction.

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