All You Need Is Kill

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Synonyms: Edge of Tomorrow

Japanese: All You Need Is Kill

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 9, 2014 to May 29, 2014

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Themes: Military, Time Travel

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Jump

Authors: Obata, Takeshi (Art), Sakurazaka, Hiroshi (Story), Takeuchi, Ryousuke (Story)

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Ranked: #1502²

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Popularity: #88

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In these two, death is only the beginning. 

Initially average lead characters find themselves confronted with monsters and fight death-matches over and over AND OVER until they become killing machines without fear or doubt. Not even death itself is an escape since characters are revived in Gantz and death results in a never-ending time loop in All You Need Is KIIIIIIIILLLLLLL. 

There is no other similar characterisation that I have encountered. There are plenty of survival series out there, for sure, but none where characters grow mentally stronger by dying and gradually abandoning fear. Death being the starting point of both series, rather than an end that will never come to pass due to your typical main character plot protection in other series, makes for unique and gripping reads.  read more 

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Both manga are very gory and as the story progresses the main characters get more used to the bloodshed. 

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Main characters go through countless loops in which they have to fight against aliens who descended upon earth. Both have bad-ass, determined protagonist who does not hesitate to strike down enemies. 

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Both are set in game-like situations, one where you basically respawn and the other where you fight continuous boss battles yet with lives on the line.
Both bring up love interests with the male protagonist and a cute female.
Both are incredibly brutal and not for the light-hearted.
Both are very enjoyable, only 'All You Need Is Kill' is too short and 'Gantz' is too long >< 

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The main characters go through loops in which they have to fight against other-worldly beings who landed on earth. Both have amazing protagonists who don't hesitate to strike upon the enemies. 

In both series there is a heavy atmosphere of improvement in the protagonists eyes, on if they can not improve, it will ultimately be their downfall in life. 

A bit of a warning Gantz is much more bloody and gory than All You Need is Kill. And in my opinion much more story driven than action driven.  

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Your stuck in the same circumstances over and over again, facing up against an unstoppable force of powerful aliens, equipped with a power suit and your progressive knowledge of the battlefield, how will you win? How will you live to see to tomorrow? But how much trauma must you suffer first? So are you looking for a manga with about such a situation? Well I suggest you go read one of these. Gantz differs with a mysterious system tasking a group of individuals to work together to battle against a variety of alien monstrosities. While All You Need Is Kill dictates the life of a rookie soldier as he becomes trapped in a time loop, hence focusing on his struggles to find an escape and win the current war against aliens. So if your looking for a blood pumping sci-fi action manga about fighting against alien monsters I suggest you read one of these immediately. read more 

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In both of these series the protagonist resets time upon his death. It portrays the character as someone who is struggling and fighting alone, with no help from others. One way or the other this ability will be exploited so that the protagonists and those dear to them will be able to survive.  

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+ A time period of just over a day repeats inifinity and ends each time with someone dying before everything is reset with most people not realizing the repetition is happening
+ The character who remembers every repetition uses that to gain knowledge and skills as they try to find a way out of the repetition

- Hakomari is a novel series and has more than just the repeated schoolday while Kill is a manga that involves humans fighting against alien-like creatures for survival 

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Both are about a person immersed in a loop that repeats the day they died until they find a way to survive through it. 

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Shounen-version of this series basically in which the heroes can simulate situations with programmed robot/mech-like monsters called Trion Soldiers and utilize tactics while fighting them in the real scenario using cool weapons. 

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Both mangas have alot of differences, but in some time-travelling aspects of their sci-fi concepts they're pretty simmilar. 

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-time travel/time loop 
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Both the worlds in this two manga is so dark and the main characters went through a lot of suffering from the beginning to the end 

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Both stories involve killing as a way to exit a time loop 

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The protagonist finds himself in a time loop, one that is triggered by his death. He needs to overcome his fear and use the available means in the loop to get stronger and figure out a way to survive the loop and break out. 

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Both involve an MC stuck in a time loop, and both stories take place in a war-torn, apocalyptic setting, waging a seemingly futile battle against a species of alien invaders.  

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Both of these works have the same structure of constant time loop, in which the protagonist has to find a correct solution to given situation, which is increasingly more taxing to his mental state, especially as those around him are continuously meeting gruesome death over and over again. 

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Both are about humanity fighting against a superior race that are nearly impossible to kill. Both deal with creatures that threatenes humanity.Both MC have a special gift that helps them survive. Both Attack on titan and All you need is kill are dark and gory. 

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Both are  action packed and give off a very intense vibe. The character art looks similar and you can see some of the same expressions between the main characters when they have that evil smile across their face

All you need is Kill will be a strong manga if it continues on it's current path 

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+ A repeated situation full of killing and gore
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- Kill is about a large scale battle of humans vs. alien-like creatures while Higurashi is humans killing other humans and curses in a small village 

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In both stories, humanity is on the verge of being extinct by frightening yet spectacularly designed alien creatures, who seem to be way too powerful to defeat. Nonetheless the protagonists are literally forced to keep trying, (using futuristic high-tech gear or mecha-like suits/machinery, if you will) and experience a lot of physical and emotional pain in order to do so. Both are very sci-fi and come with nice twists. 

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These two series are some of the greatest syfy manga you will ever read. Art and story are great in both 

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