{"id":18614,"date":"2026-05-19T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18614"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:04:27","slug":"all-you-need-is-kill-2025-kenichiro-akimoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18614","title":{"rendered":"All You Need Is Kill (2025, Kenichiro Akimoto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remake of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9813\">Edge of Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>.  The lines and colors are all neat, and especially Rita&#8217;s hair &#8211; her overall character design is better than Tom Cruise&#8217;s.  It&#8217;s anime, which means angsty teens are saving the world while wearing battle armor, but first Rita has to figure out why she&#8217;s caught in a time loop, getting killed by Jim Woodring creatures every day.  Halfway through she meets fellow looper Kenji (was <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13999\">Russian Doll<\/a><\/em> based on this?), who will eventually absorb the enemy alien and sacrifice himself.  Everything magically works out in the end, because this was a kids movie and I had no business watching it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/allkill1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/allkill2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/allkill3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/allkill4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remake of Edge of Tomorrow. The lines and colors are all neat, and especially Rita&#8217;s hair &#8211; her overall character design is better than Tom Cruise&#8217;s. It&#8217;s anime, which means angsty teens are saving the world while wearing battle armor, but first Rita has to figure out why she&#8217;s caught in a time loop, getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,712,96,36,179,2326],"class_list":["post-18614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-aliens","tag-animation","tag-japan","tag-remake","tag-time-loop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18624,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18614\/revisions\/18624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}