All You Need Is Kill

I love the original novel and the manga adaptation, and enjoy the live action movie (Edge Of Tomorrow/Live Die Repeat), so I have been wanting and waiting for an anime adaptation for a very long time. And this just is not it. This is All You Need In Kill in name only. Edge Of Tomorrow was more accurate to the novel. The only things they kept from the novel was the title, the bare minimum general premise, and the main character's names. Everything else was different and changed, and I don't think the changes were very good. As an anime movie doing it's own thing,I found it ok at best. The characte designs are incredibly weird and offputting, but the colors and animation look really cool. The characterizations are thin and generic though. As an adaptation of All You Need Is Kill, it's horrible. There is some blood, but nowhere near the gore or violence in the novel or manga. There's no swearing, no military jargon (no military setting at all). It completely changes Rita's and Keiji's personalities. There's no grittiness, or grimness. And the ending, while still somewhat emotional, is completely botched - ruining both the twist, and the depressing impact. For what it's worth, my wife and brother who saw it with me both really liked it, but neither of them have read the novel nor the manga. It's especially disappointing because we most likely never will get an accurate anime adaptation now. And I've wanted one for so long. TLDR: It's ok if you haven't read the original, but a frustrating disappointment if you are a fan of the original.

I know this movie is very different from the source material, and that can be a big turn off for people, But despite that, i think this movie is incredible dude. Adaptations of the original Light Novel have been tricky before (such as with Edge of Tomorrow and even the Manga adaptation) so while a valid critique, I do not think that takes away from what this movie does right. It definitely kicks off differently right off the bat compared to the original book by having Rita be the main character instead of Keiji, as well as having both characters seemingly being scientists studying thealiens instead of soliders fighting them on the battlefield. It is very different to the original source material, which isn't inherently a bad thing, only if the change isn't substantial enough to justify the change, but here I think its totally fine. Instead of being entirely different the plot is mostly swapped between Keiji and Rita, which prevents the movie from being a copy of what came before and standing on its own legs. Aside from the character differences, the main difference between this film and other versions of 'All You Need is Kill' is clearly the art direction, This movie is incredible colorful compared to the other films, in Edge of Tomorrow, the color palette is filled with washed out Greys and Blues, here its filled with vibrant Blues, Pinks, and Purples which helps to make certain actions like the time loop animations and the Mimics to feel more vibrant and alien compared to the natural Earth which is filled with regular Greens and Browns, it makes the mimics feel more alien which is a nice touch. This also helps make some of the violence feel more gory and impactful despite the little consequence of death, which is good since in other versions, death has little consequence until the ending when they realize they're only a few loops away from being assimilated. So in summary, this movie, like the 2 other adaptations of the original Light Novel (Manga/Edge of Tomorrow) does change things from how it originally played it out. While major fans of the book might complain that there's another adaptation that changes on the book, the fact that the book still stands by itself still makes it stand out in its own right, just like this film. While definitely not perfect, Rita and Keiji are the only real characters in the film with minor scenes with other ones sprinkled in between, Its yet another Studio 4C hit that I think everyone should check out!! I'll be sure to get it on Blu-Ray when it comes out Score: 9/10

I read the All You Need Is Kill manga and watched the Hollywood adaptation, Edge of Tomorrow, a few years ago. Both were genuinely good and left a strong impression on me. This anime film, however, is completely horrible. Instead of preserving the harsh, grounded tone of a soldier trapped in an endless war, it turns the entire world into artistic self-indulgence. The character designs are shockingly misaligned with the spirit of the story, stripping away the grit and replacing it with exaggerated, overly stylized visuals. It doesn’t feel like a meaningful reinterpretation. It feels like a visual experiment obsessed with its own aesthetic — style overwhelms substance,presentation replaces tension, and in the end it looks more like art porn than a serious war story. What makes it worse is that the source material already works. The potential was right there. Instead of building on it, this adaptation reduces it to hollow visual indulgence. If you're interested in All You Need Is Kill, read the manga or watch Edge of Tomorrow. This anime version simply doesn’t do justice to the story.

Time loop action story that doesn't bother doing anything more beyond its own gimmick. I can't even call this popcorn entertainment since the time loop schtick gets old fast, and unfortunately, it doesn't have anything else of of interest going for it in terms of plot, themes, or characters. Even Groundhog Day at least had Bill Murray's character arc. The action isn't particularly great either. And of course, there's the character design. Yes, the art regarding the characters (and everything else for that matter) is consistent, but that doesn't make them any less awful looking. Sound design is good, so yay for that I guess. At the endof the day, Edge of Tomorrow remains a better adaptation, which is ironic seeing as, despite being based off of the same material, All You Need is Kill is technically the more faithful of the two. A rare case when Hollywood outdoes Japan.

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