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ISBN 978-4-08-703319-9). [4] Sakurazaka was inspired by an online account written by a video game player, where comments on how restarting the game after the playable character's death allowed for trial and error improvement made the writer conceive a story where a hero wound up "being played over and over". Prior to writing, Sakurazaka consulted other time loop-based fiction such as the film Groundhog Day . [5]

Haikasoru released an English-language translation trade paperback of the novel All You Need Is Kill on July 21, 2009. Viz Media re-released the novel in North America under the title Edge of Tomorrow on April 29, 2014. [6]

Manga and graphic novel

A manga adaptation of All You Need Is Kill with illustrations by Takeshi Obata, storyboards by Ryōsuke Takeuchi, and character designs by Yoshitoshi Abe was serialized in Japanese in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump ; [7] [8] [9] and English in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2014. [10] [11] [12] The series was compiled into two tankōbon volumes on June 19, 2014.

An American graphic novel adaptation of the novel, written by Nick Mamatas and illustrated by Lee Ferguson, was released on Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint on May 5, 2014. [6]

Manga volumes

All You Need Is Kill
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Cover of the light novel released by Shueisha in December 2004
Genre
No.Japanese release dateJapanese ISBN
1 June 19, 2014 [13] 978-4-08-880125-4
2 June 19, 2014 [14] 978-4-08-880126-1

Live-action film

Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American science fiction action film based on the novel. The film, directed by Doug Liman and produced by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow, stars Tom Cruise as William Cage (the film's counterpart to Keiji Kiriya) and Emily Blunt as Rita Vrataski. The setting is changed to Western Europe, with the battle being a strike into Normandy that begins at Heathrow Airport. The ending is also significantly different from the original novel the film is based on. The film was released in theaters on May 30, 2014, in the United Kingdom, June 6, 2014, in North America, and July 4, 2014, in Japan. [15] [16]

Reception

All You Need Is Kill was nominated for the Best Japanese Long Work category at the 36th Seiun Awards in 2005. [17]

The manga was nominated for the "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" category at the 2015 Eisner Awards. [18]

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