Weekly! All you need is Kill 8 & 9: ███████ * & Reset (リセット Risetto)

We get to know more of ███████'s life. Yes! Her real name isn't Rita! She was a country girl living in Pittsfield, Illinois, U.S.A. She lives with her parents in their farm. One night, three mimics attack the town and kills a third of the total population of her town. To avenge her family, she stole the identity card of someone she knew briefly to increase her age, to immediately join the UDF.

The battlefield, she wield an assault rifle capable of killing mimics easily. Her commanding officer saves her from peril and calms her down by spouting random things. A strange giant mimic descends from the sky and she was caught in the loop after shooting at it. She is now caught in the loop and mimics seem to study the weaponry humans have. She swears to live through and fulfill her vendetta.

Weekly Young Jump 15 & 16 2014

Previously on: All you need is Kill 7: Keiji takens on the center stage as he kills each mimic brutally with his mastered weapon; THE GIANT BATTLEAXE OF DOOM (exaggeration intended)! Also, he's not the only one who RESPAWNS every time!

Spoiler Alert! If you are gonna read this post, please read the actual manga first!

Warning! These chapters contain gore and blood. It may or may not have Rita's naked body.

Summary:
Ch. 8: Pittsfield, Illinois, in a small town where the total population equals 4,000. A country girl named, ███████ is an average girl who hates celery and green peppers. She comes along with his father; his task to buy seeds. The store's radio announces that the area in which the mimics conquered is growing.

She's cute... 

The same night, a snow storm appeared; almost as if to muffle the noise of something big happening. ███████ wakes up to the sound of something hitting something hard. She sees a body impaled by a number of sharp projectiles. Another thud, ███████'s father comes busting through her room's door. They run to hide when she sees a fire swallowing the town. Her father locked her inside the basement along with her mother who has been hit, presumably by debris.

Mom's been hit!

Mimics appear, but just when they were nearing the basement entrance, ███████'s father runs one over with his truck. Mimic withstood a head-on collision with the truck. Another mimic attacks the truck, the man manages to escape.

Now, he is faced with two mimics, he makes them aim for him. Both mimics shoot at the same time and he dodges, the mimics' hitting each other. He is grazed with no way to fight another mimic, he stands still. Heroically dying to save his daughter and his wife.

NAISU TAIMINGU!

Daylight, the UDF comes too late. ███████'s mother, dead. The aftermath counts ~1,500 fatalities and a town in ruins. Everything happened in just 3 hours, with only 3 mimics. Left with only vengeance against the mimics, she steals someone else's passport to join the UDF. She is now on her last personal mission, to exterminate mimics.

Batman

Ch. 9: We are presented with the information that every area that mimics have conquered, turn into wastelands and toxic. The narrator compares this to human evolution. As we have been destroying nature to create a place we can call home.

Toxic Farts

Half a year after ███████ (Rita Vritaski) signed up for the UDF, she is deployed in the battlefield. Wielding only an assault rifle, Rita can kill mimics with a few hits. Just when Rita was about to explode with anger, her commanding officer speaks about the origin of vampires. It calmed Rita by distraction.

D-bag: Arthur Hendrix

Her commanding officer leaves when suddenly an unusual looking mimic descends from the sky. Rita shoots it and next thing that happens is that she's back in the shower room. She realizes that she went back 30 hours before deployment.

Fan-service triggered!

Rita collects her thoughts and hypothesizes that the odd mimic was the cause of her loop. She shoots it again in her 2nd respawn and finds out that she is right. After multiple respawns, she notices that the number of mimics, the placement of mimics and their armor are all changing. People who she fought with back in earlier respawns are getting killed early.

Fan-service Triggered 2!

She researches data about mimics and comes to the conclusion that her rifle is useless now. She needs a weapon that doesn't consume ammo. She visits Shasta Raylle and asks her for weapon however, they are still in the development of a "pile driver" (the one that Keiji uses before changing into a battleaxe). Rita gains her signature, giant battleaxe. She swears that she will succeed and break out of the loop and will never die until she fulfills it.

Nip Slips are bad.

Likes: The beginning of Rita's loop. The explanation made by Rita makes so much sense. It's clear now that the mimics are the ones who create these loops (Izanami style) for their data collecting. They gather data based on every respawn Rita does. They grew thicker armor, they're invincible from bullets, they follow a strategy and win with numbers. With Keiji's respawn, we only know that he can respawn and he doesn't know what caused it or what is it's purpose. Rita sounds smarter with Ch. 9 as she began to understand early on that she is in an infinite loop. Keiji does not believe his eyes until several respawn later.

You're not obligated to...

Dislikes: It's not a dislike but more like, I did not find Rita's past to be entertaining. Sure, now we know she's trying to be like a certain superhero but other than that, we did no need that chapter. Or maybe less pages? You know, you can just say she's an average girl who likes cute things and end it there.

You're way cuter... Moe-chan..

Quirks: The awkward respawn point. Keiji's respawn point and time are appropriate and good. Rita's though, not so much. She just comes to during her shower, which is awkward and every time she respawns, the first thing she feels is the water. And she's naked too.

Predictions: Once again, my prediction didn't count a "flashback" chapter so I will not try to come up with a new prediction since it has yet to happen.

Rita's sentence will get Keiji killed before he can answer. He would be stunned by the fact that he has a fellow respawnee. Keiji is gonna pursue Rita every time now and will ask more about her experience in the battlefield.

To much self-esteem?

So, we learn more of Rita and her drive. She's molded into this cold person because of the respawn she has gone through just like Keiji. She's smarter and more agile. We also learn that the mimics only became that invincible because of Rita's looping. If it was some other soldier, perhaps the mimics wouldn't have progressed much with their data collecting and would still be vulnerable to guns.

When your town is burning, run.

*The chapter title for chapter 8 is "███████." Yes! It is intentionally blocked out because she doesn't want to share her whole past with us readers. Since Rita used another person's identity, she became the identity. Confused? I can't explain it better. But yeah, it is blocked out. Let's pretend that her real name is "Moe" okay?