All You Need Is Kill

All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
VIZ Media LLC, 425p, Graphic Novel, Science Fiction

All You Need Is Kill is the source material for the Tom Cruise / Emily Blunt, Science Fiction, Action movie Edge of Tomorrow (or Live. Die. Repeat). The story follows Keiji Kiriya who is just one of many recruits hoping to help mankind push back an alien scourge that the army calls Mimics. They have mechanized Exo-suites akin to Iron Man (without the flying) that allow them to fight the Mimics on a more level playing field. Without spoiling the story, Keiji's dies in his first ever battle, but instead of being dead dead, he wakes up the morning of the day before the battle. Forced to relive that day over and over again, Keiji trains himself to be an amazing fighter while working to discover two things: 1) How can he get out of the time loop, and 2) Why Rita Vrataski, the US Special Forces poster child of what a soldier should be, seems to know how the time loop works.

For fans of the movie based on the book, reading the source material is an interesting exercise to see how movies have to adapt their source material.

SMM