All You Need Is Kill

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Anything that moves is an enemy. So don't move, just die!; There's one thing worse than dying. It's coming back to do it again and again...; Beware the Bitch of War!; Defeat in death. Victory in rebirth.

When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death

When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death

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Hiroshi Sakurazaka was born in Tokyo in 1970. After a career in informationtechnology, he published his first novel,Modern Magic Made Simple(Yoku wakaru gendai mahou), in 2003 with Super Dash Bunko, a popular young adult light novel imprint. There are now seven volumes in the series, and it was adapted as a manga in 2008 and as a television anime series in 2009. Sakurazaka publishedAll You Need Is Killwith Super Dash Bunko in 2004 and with itearned his first Seiun Award nomination for best of the year honors in Japanese science fiction.His2004 short story "Saitama Chainsaw Massacre" won the 16thSF MagazineReader's Award.

In 2009,All You Need Is Killwas the launch title for Haikasoru, a unique imprint dedicated to publishing the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy for English-speaking audiences.New York Timesbest-selling author John Scalzi declaredAll You Need Is Killto be a novel that "reads fast, kicks ass, and keeps on coming," and it has proven to be one of Haikasoru's most popular titles. Sakurazaka's other novels includeCharacters(cowritten withHiroki Azuma) andSlum Online, which was published in English by Haikasoru in 2010.

In 2010, Sakurazaka started an experimental digital magazine,AiR,with Junji Hotta. He remains one of Japan's most energetic writers of both light novels and adult science fiction.