Takeshi Obata of Death Note fame does his take on 'All You Need is Kill', which spawned the Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt Hollywood movie 'The Edge of Tomorrow' a.k.a. 'Live, Die, Repeat'. On this episode James and Steve talk about the characters, themes and more! Skip synopsis @ 9:14
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086: All You Need is Kill vol .1
Original Story by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Art by Takeshi Obata
With Storyboards by Ryosuke Takeuchi
And additional illustrations by Yoshitoshi Abe
Translation by Tetsuichiro Miyaki
Lettering and touch up art by Evan Walldinger
The story begins with Keiji Kiriya, a soldier whom wakes from a dream upon experiencing his own death in battle, the dream ends with a young female soldier staying by Keiji as he dies and asking him something that only he would know the answer to, on waking Keiji finds out that his battle is to begin tomorrow, and it will be his first whilst participating in a war against alien invaders; monstrous beings called Mimics.
As Keiji goes to retake the Boso Peninsula from the Mimics, he is joined by US special forces, which include Rita Vratski. A young woman of remarkable combat skill. Keiji is familiar with this woman, not because he dreamt about her but because he is experiencing a time loop, where upon his death triggers back to the day before the battle. As Keiji becomes conscious of this situation he goes through a gamut of emotions, from cowardice to suicide, it all results in him repeating the same day. Keiji has no choice but to fight and survive so that he can see it to the day after. He learns that his actions have a butterfly effect depending on what he does after each reset. And so, he vows to use as much time loops as he can in order to improve his combat skills. He does this by having Shasta Rayle craft him a weapon similar to Rita's Battle-axe and by training with Bartolome Ferrell. He is so resolute in his actions that he avoids the temptation of a date with the beautiful cook Rachel. But this is not the only woman whose attention he captures. On the battlefield Rita asks Keiji one simple question. "How many loops is this for you?"
….and the answer to that is 158!
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