Weekly! All you need is Kill 16 & 17 (END): All you Need is Kill; Sky Blue

Keiji gets attacked by Rita. According to Rita, both of them have become antennas because their brains have received a signal that only mimics use. To escape the loop, one of them has to die and continue to save humanity. At the end, one survives and drinks the moldy coffee. That person will continue to save humanity with their skill and knowledge about mimics. All you need, is kill.

Announcement of the Tankobon's.

Mother of god, I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about the ending. Last night (06-10-2014) I saw the ending and it was awful. My heart was breaking and my chest tightened. I don't know why but I really got emotional that night. It has officially ended. Let me tell you more about it. Here's are the titles: オールユーニードイズキル (Ōruyūnīdoizukiru) and スカイブルー (Sukaiburū).

Previously on: All you need is Kill 15: Rita go on to the battlefield and save Sergeant Bartolome and the other troops. After pushing the mimics back, Rita signals Keiji to go on and execute their plan to kill the server and backup mimics. Keiji feels something urgent is coming...

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Weekly! All you need is Kill 12, 13, 14 & 15: Engage; Boy & Girl; Morning Coffee; Killing Machines

The unity of the two loopers, leaves Rita awestruck. She talks with Keiji and plans on their attack. Just when  he thinks he could escape the loop, he loops back. Keiji does everything over again but now they grow closer, not as comrades but more like lovers. The day begins, Keiji sees another side of Rita when she was preparing their morning coffee. The day starts off good until the mimics attack the military base. They suit up and go to the battlefield with the intent of ending Keiji's loop.

Weekly Young Jump 19, 21-22, 23 & 24

Issue 20 didn't feature the series.

Yes, I've been skipping. I've been inactive for the last few days but I haven't on my youtube. If you want to check out my youtube channel and what I've been up to, then please click here. By the way, the Japanese titles for these chapters are (in order): 12: エンゲージ (Engēji); 13: ボーイ＆ガール (Bōi & gāru); 14: モーニングコーヒー (Mōningukōhī); 15: キリングマシーンズ (Kiringumashīnzu)

Previously on: All you need is Kill 11: After escaping her loop, Rita kept killing mimics all over the world. She sees Private Kiriya and he tells her to meet somewhere alone. Keiji then confirms Rita's future question of "Is tea served free?" She begins to tear up knowing that she is not the sole respawner.

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Monthly! Attack on Titan 57: Kenny the Ripper

Before Commander Erwin gets captured by the military police, he meets Hanji and they both talk about what the government is planning to do with Eren. Hange succeeds the rank of Commander of the Survey Corps while Levi confronts his former teacher, Kenny the Ripper.

Bessatsu Shonen Magazine 06-2014

Previously on: Attack on Titan 56: Eren writes what he heard during Ymir’s conversation with Bertholdt and Reiner. He gives it to Hanji and she hurries to Commander Erwin. Meanwhile, Historia was to be the new queen after being saved by Survey Corps from the clutches of the First Military Guard. Unfortunately, the plan fails and Mr. Reebs gets his throat slit.

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Warning! This chapter has gore, blood and a massive FACE-OFF.

Weekly! All you need is Kill 10 & 11: Out (アウト [Auto]) & Answer (アンサー [Ansā])

Rita escapes out of her loop and meets Keiji for the first time (in her timeline). The story finally comes full circle and Rita cries in; presumably, joy of knowing someone who shares the same fate as hers.

 

Weekly Young Jump 17 & 18 2014
I'm not a perv! These are gravure models and this is the legit cover art for this magazine. 

Finishing the Rita background arc, this is getting a bit slow but it's getting closer to the end. I can just feel it! I'm kind of sad to see this series go really. What am I talking about?! It's not even ending yet! Well anyways, to make up for the lack of activity, here I am to give you two chapters at once. Get ready!

Extra jokes I made.

Previously on: All you need is Kill 9: Half a year has passed since Rita signed up for the UDF. She was a vengeful wreck but soon she found herself comforted by random ramblings of her commanding officer. Rita kills an odd looking mimic and finds herself 30 hours in the past, before she eliminated that odd mimic. She tests her hypothesis, she was in a loop. It turns out that the mimics are studying her movements and are keeping a high defense status. How can Rita escape this never ending loop?!

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Monthly! Real Account 2: No Answer! (ノーアンサー Nōansā)

Have you ever been duped by a profile photo while browsing your SNS of choice? The first real game in this virtual world of Real Account has started! The game is called "No Answer!" It tests the player's confidence in their looks. A panel of judges are given the task to "judge" the players' looks. The player wears an apron with either an X, a triangle or an O; with X meaning Ugly, triangle meaning "average or okay" and O meaning Good-looking. The judges will input their answer and if the majority agrees with your answer, you move to the next round. However, if majority answers the contrast of yours, then you are killed. Who wants to play?

Bessatsu Shounen Magazine 03 2014

Previously on: Real Account 1: Kashiwagi Ataru, a high schooler who is unsociable has a SNS account that lists a thousand friends. Taking Rea-Aka seriously, he becomes one of the participants in a death game. His consciousness is sucked in to the virtual world where; when people die, they die for real. The slaughter has begun, does Ataru have what it takes to save himself and the other person who saved him from certain death?

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Warning! This series contains gore, blood and mature themes!

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!

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

Monthly! Attack on Titan 55: Itami (痛み)

The much awaited explanation for the planned coup d'etat by the Survey Corps. A flashback from Erwin's past and the reason for his distrust in the current government. Torture session for Sanes-san and the reveal of the True Royal Family.

Bessatsu Shonen Magazine 04-2014

Previously on: Attack on Titan 54: Eren/Historia clone shows up again in Historia's dream. Rescue mission executed, Levi takes down a taller guy than him. A deal between the Survey Corps and Reebs company was established. The Central Military police guys are having a S&M party with Hanji and Levi. Erwin and Pixis negotiating about overthrowing the government!

So true.

Oh yeah, the chapter title Itami (痛み) means Pain (well, it's actually body ache).

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Warning! This chapter contains gore, graphic violence, blood and adult themes; torture.

Monthly! Attack on Titan: Before the Fall 4

This chapter doesn't tell much but it was a decent one. Kyokurou gets released from his captivity by believers. He rescues Charle and they walk away to freedom. That's basically it.

Not sure if this is the correct issue for this month's chapter.

Previously on: Attack on Titan: Before the Fall: A group of wall worshippers led by a pregnant leader were eaten by a 15 meter class titan. When the titan vanished, it left the undigested corpses of the wall worshippers. The pregnant leader; now dead, gave birth to Kyokurou; the Titan child. Sold for auction, the Mr. Innocencio bought him as a present for his son as a punching bag to get ready to be a soldier. Charle, confronted Kyokurou in an attempt to kill the titan child but her humanity stopped her. They later become friends and Kyokurou was taught how to read, write and speak their language. They planned to flee the Innocencio household when things started to steer sideways.

Currently watching Steins;Gate. If you watched it, you know what kind of soda it is.

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Warning! This series contains gore, graphic violence and blood.

Weekly! All you need is Kill 7

Holy mother... This just got better! That last line from Rita just blew me away.

*Updated Magazine Cover

How bold!

Previously on: All you need Kill 6: Big busted lunch lady Rachel hits on Keiji to "heal" the punch he gained from the last chapter. He fights countless more battles until his 158th respawn...

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Warning! This contains alien gore!

Monthly! Real Account 1

This is one of the new series that came out this week and one of the series that I will pick up. It's about our current situation with SN (Social Networking) websites. Well, for me, it was like more than 5 years ago with Friendster. Yeah, I know! Anyway, fake friends are wide spread and this just shows you how many REAL friends (people who really care about you, family, friends, lovers and other people) that care about you. Yeah, be sad now.

I have searched the googles and I haven't found a magazine cover for this series. Sorry!

It's like Sword Art Online in a way because their consciousness gets taken out of their body and into a virtual world while dying inside the virtual world kills you in reality. It has that same hook that SAO had, a virtual world taken for granted, creating a fake persona, dying in the virtual means death in real life. So why not?

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Warning! This series contains intense gore and graphic violence!

Weekly! All you need is Kill 6

Keiji rejecting a possible date from the very hot babe that is, Rachel the lunch lady! Back in ch. 5, we are greeted by Sergeant Bartolome's corpse and the reason is that the Sergeant was trying to save Keiji. Keiji's mistake made him depressed and have that face. Back to the battlefield, after 158th respawn, he finally manages to wield a battleaxe properly with only one hand. Beast mode Kiriya go!

*Updated Magazine Cover

Previously on: All you need is Kill 5: Sergeant Bartolome is seen dead and after some time, Kiriya inevitably follows. We get to see Keiji's schedule and it doesn't change except for this day. His depressed expression on his face made him a target for a tough guy as Rachel complained about it. He was forced to engage in combat yet he only dodges the tough guy's punches. Ultimately, he ends up with a black eye and a praise from Rita about his dodges.

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Weekly! All you need is Kill 5

You have a giant battleaxe that requires the wielder to practice it non-stop, and you have a soldier who wants to use it BUT doesn't have a lot of time. It's true that he can do it everyday as he respawns, but doing things in a routine in the exact same way is tiring. Here's to hoping that there is something out of the ordinary happens.

I wish there was a way to buy magazines from Japan cheaply. I mean, you can buy a magazine for 4-5 bucks from Japan, but then comes the biggest pain in the neck, SHIPPING! $20+ for shipping alone and that's like the slowest service. I don't live near a Kinokuniya bookstore so I can't really buy weekly magazines though I would LOVE to have at least just one issue. I have a ton of manga already and what my collection needs is a magazine. Seriously. Anyway, here's the actual content. Sorry for my whining...

Previously on: All you need is Kill 4: Shasta Raylle build Keiji a battleaxe--the same one that Rita has--in exchange for an external hard drive with god-knows-what is inside. That's the only important thing worth noting.

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Weekly! All you need is Kill 4

My prayers have been answered! MORE OF LIETENANT SHASTA RAYLLE!!! Nerds will always be nerds, give her something with a ton of data in exchange for her building a GIANT BATTLEAXE! This is a short chapter so I'm going to keep it real short.

(I'm not posting these random magazine covers with semi-nude girls. These are the actual cover for Weekly Young Jump where All you need is Kill is published.)

I'm kinda late on this but it's better late than never! College is not my best friend when I'm trying to keep a manga review blog.

Previously on: All you need is Kill 3: He begins training with Sergeant Bartolome and has since been killed 12 times. He has been experimenting with different weapons but his weapon of choice has become the piledriver. However, the piledriver needs ammo and can only have 20 per weapon. Desperate to survive, Keiji infiltrates the base's R&D department to ask Shasta Raylle to make him a battleaxe like Rita's.

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Monthly! Attack on Titan 54

Eren/Historia clone shows up again, this time, in Historia's dream. Rescue mission executed, Levi takes down a taller guy than him. Pervert who touched Armin thinks he's a homosexual after knowing that he was a trap. A deal between the Survey Corps and Reebs company was established. The Central Military police guys are having a S&M party with Hanji and Levi. Erwin and Pixis negotiating about overthrowing the government! That's a ton of information thrown out there!

We actually progress in the story now! I don't know if I'm just dumb or what (probably just dumb) but I didn't see the "coup d'etat" coming. I was looking at a "Mess with the Survey Corp and we'll unleash Titan Eren" plan from Erwin but it they took the hard way and just waged war with the King.

Previously on: Attack on Titan 53: Eren tried to do "Hardening" but failed. Eren had a vision of a lady who looks like a mix of him and Historia, he forgot about it immediately as if it were a memory that does not want to be remembered. Erwin and Nile talk about who the mastermind for the attempted kidnappings for Eren and Historia is/are. Lastly, attempts to capture Eren and Historia have failed due to Survey Corps' tactics and strategies. They used their enemies' attempt to capture both to infiltrate their headquarters. Jean and Armin were disguised as Eren and Historia to be baits for the enemy. We end with the Survey Corps getting ready to rescue Armin and Jean.

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Weekly! All you need is Kill 3

Oh, we're listing rules now? This is becoming more and more of what I expected out of Takeshi Obata! Death Note everybody! Keiji has died a ton of times now, he has killed a lot of mimics but he's looking for something better to help him. We're focused more on Keiji's weapons rather than his training.

Young Jump Issue #9 2014

Previously on: All you need is Kill 2: Rita is revealed as a heartless opportunist. Moments in each respawn can vary depending on Keiji's actions. He tries to learn the art of war from Sergeant Bartolome since he's a survivor.

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Weekly! All you need is Kill 2

Rita's true power is revealed! She follows the rules of survival of the fittest and that's why she's still living after battling with mimics all over the world! Keiji, after accepting his fate, is now training to be the strongest or at least in the level of Rita.

(BTW, I downloaded a ton of Weekly Young Jump magazine scans just to find out that All you need is Kill is printed in this one. I just saw the photo of Kiriya and I knew it. So dumb of me.)

Previously on: All you need is Kill 1: Keiji Kiriya wakes up from a bad dream about his death. Next day, he is deployed at the battlefield and he dies along with his comrades. Keiji Kiriya, wakes up from a bad dream about his death along with his comrades. Next day, he tries to escape the base only to get ambushed by aliens called mimics. Keiji Kiriya wakes up from a bad dream about his death as he tried to escape. He borrows his bunkmate; Jin's pistol and kills himself. Keiji Kiriya wakes up from a bad dream about his suicide. He learns that he only gets to repeat the same day over and over. His only escape is to survive out of everyday.

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Monthly! Attack on Titan 53

Eren's titan form is actually controllable, he was a drag queen in the past. Captain Erwin is trying to get information from Nile (who is a Military Guard officer) using rather unorthodox means, fear. The recent recruits of the Survey Corps are targeted by the central military. Lastly, Ar... I mean... Historia and Eren were kidnapped. Let's talk about it!

Previously on: Attack on Titan 52: They plan to plug Wall Maria's hole using Eren's hardening ability (totally innocent sentence, you perv.) Levy's group has just learned about Pastor Nick's passing. He was tortured and forced to speak of what he knows about Eren's whereabouts. The Central Military Police has responded first at the scene but they were suspicious enough that Hanji caught on their crime. Historia then reveals her past and how she got her name Krista Lenz.

Review: Lament of the Lamb Volume 1

A vampire story with a love story at the side. You've got it wrong if you think this is about twilight. If vampires were real, Kei Toume's version would be the ones. Her art and story telling just give me the chills without it being a true horror manga. It's like one of those tragedy stories of the medieval times where suicide and murder are a means to convey extreme feelings. I present you, Lament of the Lamb.

"Mingled among the sheep, there is a wolf. And by his own lonely fangs, he is bent..."

The expressions of the characters on the front cover is what you will have after you read this. The sadness you get from reading something emotional, something dreary. You'll have to read it to understand what I'm talking about.

Review: MPD-Psycho Volume 2

Disappointed. I feel down. I was hyped up and let down.

I was so hyped up because volume 1 just left me wanting for epic gore fest but this one lack that. They got me hooked on this addictive substance and now I'm having withdrawals because this "new version" of this substance was lacking that extra high.

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Story so far: Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective has developed Dissociative Identity Disorder. He houses different personalities, from a psychopath to a stuttering idiot. He's currently hired by a private investigation firm and is now solving grotesque crimes.

Weekly! All you need is Kill 1

From the artist of Death Note and Bakuman; Takeshi Obata, comes a new sci-fi series based on the the novel of the same name. I'm here to tell you about this new series and watch how it goes from here!

Viz Media

I can say that the body suit/armor is Halo-ish in design especially the helmet. You'll get to see it.

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