To The Last Page

Presumably not by chance, Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel follows similar themes to Issui Ogawa’s The Lord of the Sands of Time , also published among the first wave of Japanese sci-fi novels under Viz’s new Haikasoru fiction imprint, but in reality the two books are very different in approach. Again the theme is one of using time-travel in order to combat the overwhelming invasion force that threatens to wipe out the entire planet, but in the case of All You Need Is Kill , the time-travel is on a smaller, more personal scale, but the outcome could equally be of global importance. Here, one fresh Japanese recruit in the United Defence Force, Keiji Kiriya, is caught-up in a Groundhog Day style loop, seemingly doomed to fight and repeatedly die in a major battle with the Mimics that, like a computer game, is continually reset until he can build up the necessary fighting experience and find a way - if there is a way - to overcome the merciless onslaught of the strange mechanical amphibian crea...