‘All You Need Is Kill’ Is Getting A New And Rather Trippy Looking Anime

This new 'All You Need is Kill' anime will be animated by Studio 4°C. The novel All You Need is Kill is getting a new anime adaptation from Studio 4°C, and the art style looks suitably trippy with it. If you are not familiar with the science fiction novel All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka , you will likely know of its Hollywood adaptation from 2014 called Edge of Tomorrow , starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

The premise involves an alien invasion of Earth, and one of our soldiers is seemingly stuck in a time loop, trying to find a way to win the war. In addition to the Hollywood movie, we also received an excellent manga adaptation that I reviewed a few years back . While the Hollywood movie strayed quite a ways off from the original novel in terms of the story, the manga was far more faithful.



The manga also did a much better job of handling the power armor that the protagonists wear to fight the aliens, rather than the weird, almost home-made-looking powered suits we saw in the movie. The interesting thing about this new anime, though, is that this will be a different interpretation again, telling the story from a new viewpoint, and this is where the new art style comes in. While Studio 4°C is handling the actual anime production, Warner Bros.

Japan is funding this new anime. The latter is noteworthy, as Warner Bros. also financed the mind-bendingly excellent Scavenger’s Reign .

This new take on All You Need is Kill really gives off those otherworldly Scavenger’s Reign vibes, and I am entirely on board with that. However, I do wish that we would eventually get a more faithful adaptation of the novel’s plot in anime or live-action form at some point. The manga did a great job of handling the story, especially its highly kinetic action sequences, and while this new anime does look to have impactful action, I wish the story wasn’t an all-new interpretation again.

For now, though, a new All You Need is Kill anime adaptation is on the way, and it looks like it could be interesting, regardless of what narrative direction it decides to go in. Follow me on X , Facebook and YouTube . I also manage Mecha Damashii and am currently featured in the Giant Robots exhibition currently touring Japan.

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