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All you need is kill is a manga from 2014 based on a novel from 2004. The story of the original novel was also made into a film called "Edge of tomorrow" in 2014 as well. The story is about Keiji who once he dies, is brought back to life 30 hours before his death at the hands of an alien monster called a mimic. It is his duty to try and discover why he keeps getting resurrected and to stop the war.

The art is by Takeshi Obata, responsible for the character art of Death Note. While overall it looks fantastic, there are time's I ... thought the anatomy of Ritas head looked a bit odd but that Is just me being pretentious. The artwork works, and is mostly really good throughout the manga.

The main character of this story are Keiji, a young recruit of the united defense force and Rita. a Veteran who has survived many battles with the mimics. There is quite a bit of depth to the characters, we slowly see why Rita is the way she is and Keiji slowly starts to become like Rita throughout the manga. Rita has a tragic backstory I won't get in to, but you do feel for her character.


The manga was great, the mimics were my favourite part because each time they appeared I knew it meant we would be treated to some form of gore. The manga isn't overly gorey in my opinion, but it is something to think about if you aren't into that sort of thing

I enjoyed the manga for the interesting and original story, I thought the character development was great. I do wish it was longer than just two volumes and I would love if we eventually got another story based in this mangas universe.

I've made a video to go along with this review,in the video however I talk about the film adaption and how it does justice to the manga
check it out : https://youtu.be/XiH-3dyF9iQ

Yume Onna is written by Hideo Yamamoto, who is most well known for his Ichi the Killer manga. The art is by Hiroya Oku, creator of the Gantz series.

The story revolves around our main character Lime, who after reading an article about lucid dreaming decides that she to try it. The story focuses on dreams as the main topic ,and because of this we are treated to surrealistic imagery and situations (think giant naked people and whales floating through the air).

The characters are very one dimensional, with not enough time to really develop them. If this had more chapters focusing on the character's, ... to try and develop them and give them more substance the score could be much better.

The art by Oku is fine, by no means is it his greatest work, It is however... not awful, I personally think it looks quite nice. Specifically some shots from the dream state Lime is in.

Overall I think the current score of 6.47 is fair. By no means is this an awful manga, it's decent. It is however, not memorable. It is very short and you will complete it in under 20 minutes. This premise for a manga is very promising, but in Yume Onna it is not reaching its full potential.

I did a short talk about the manga if you want to hear more about it that I may have left out in this review :
https://youtu.be/regw68DdmDM