Miss: In the manga, the story's told from Keiji Kiriya's perspective about mankind's war with the Mimics. Here it's the old Plot Exposition News cliché.
Miss: As much as the film's version of the Jackets looks cool, they're chew toys compare the manga version which are fully armored powersuits.
Hit: To the studio's credit at least they didn't cast Tom Curse to portray Keiji Kiriya who's Japanese. But instead made a new character for the movie.
Miss: But then again I have to asked why couldn't they just cast a Japanese actor to play Keiji Kiriya?
Real Talk: And no I'm not accepted that stupid "not every character in anime/manga are Japanese" excuse. Let me go right ahead and curve stomp on that argument. Unless you're referring to an anime and/or manga that takes place in an non-Japanese setting with non-Japanese characters then that argument is retarded.
Real Talk: And if you're not so sure which anime/manga fits the description then here's a little list for you.
Berserk
Full Metal Alchemist
Project Blue Earth SOS
Tiger & Bunny
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star
One Piece
Trigun
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 1, 2, 3 and 5
Miss: This is most likely some plot contrivance because why else Cage is just drafted to the frontlines with next to no training nor prior battle records. I don't know how it works in military but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't just deployed an non-combat officer to combat. Unless they enjoy losing or something.
Miss: The majority of All You Need Is Kill takes place in Japan where the Mimics are currently invading. Why the studio change it to most of Europe fuck if I know.
Hit: Ladies and gentleman Mr. Bill Paxton, god rest his soul.
Miss: *Kimmel wears no clothes under his Jacket, getting a clear view of his ass.* I did not need to see that. Also that would make you a huge target not wearing any other protection besides the Jacket.
Miss: Keiji in the manga got in some training before shipped off to fight the Mimics. Cage has giving no training nor knowledge on how to operate a Jacket. Because that's not gonna get someone killed at all. I feel like this movie's bum-rushing to the battle without proper set up at all.
Hit: Emily Blunt with a buster sword, yup that's bad ass enough for me.
Miss: But I have to be that asshole when I say that this hunk of metal ain't shit compared to the manga counterpart. Which is a giant fuck off battle-axe that'll even make Guts from Berserk blush.
Miss: As bad ass Rita Vrataski is, it's really irresponsible for her to be in combat without a helmet.
Miss: Since I'm talking about Rita, she's an American from Illinois in the manga. And fuck me if I know why the studio changed her nationality in the movie.
Miss: They wanted Cage at the frontlines yet couldn't be bothered to give him proper training. Or in this case helping him to switch off the Jacket's weapons safety. Accountability, what's that?
Miss: When the time loop first started in the manga, Keiji thought it was a dream at first. Until he died then awakes the previous. Eventually he learns about the time loop; using it to train, improve and even acquired new weapon to kill Mimics. Basically trying different scenarios to find a way out of the time loop. The movie on the other hand becomes a running gag after first time loop, just wasting runtime with Cage getting killed over and over again.
Miss: In the manga only Keiji and Rita know about the time loops and how the Mimics believe. While in the movie some rando doctor knows about it along with Cage and Rita.
Miss: Also in the manga there was a top secret research team studying the Mimic time loops. Yet in the movie no organization knows about the time loops
Real Talk: Rita explains to Cage how she was able control the time loops until she lost via blood transfusion. I'll come back to this later just keep this in mind.
Miss: More death loop running gags, at least Keiji and Rita respectively got better at not dying so quickly with every time loop. This is just more runtime wasted on padding instead actually plot progression.
Hit: OK seeing Cage and Rita kicking ass is pretty awesome.
Miss: And here's where the bullshit starts piling up. So the movie established that there's a "Omega" Mimic that controls all the Mimics and by killing it kills all the Mimic. Furthermore if an "Alpha" Mimic is killed the Omega resets the day. In the manga there's no such creature that controls all Mimics and method of time looping is wholly different.
Miss: Cage and Rita got their time looping ability from an Alpha Mimic's blood after killing it. In the manga on the other hand a special type of Mimic which acts as a network server with the rest of the Mimics. Once that Mimic is killed it sends a tachyon signal to the past, triggering the time loop. Keiji and Rita got their ability from killing a Mimic Server. However, it's revealed near the end that the Mimic signal has affected Keiji's and Rita's brains to the point of receiving this signal that cause them to time loop. And in order to end the time loop completely one of them has to die. Now this whole "kill the main thing, you kill the rest of the things" plan sounds like the most bullshit of plot convenience just to throw in happy ending for Cage and Rita.
Miss: Also that whole losing the time loop power via blood transfusing is bullshit as well.
Miss: *Cage managed to kill the Omega which cause it to bleed for Cage to time loop one last time.* Now how did Cage just got looped back in time with the Omega Mimic dead? Wouldn't that mean the Omega could time looped back as well if that's the case? The writers of the film really had to throw logic out the window for that unearned happy ending.
BONUS ROUND
Miss: In the manga Keiji's platoon sergeant, Bartolome Ferrell is a bit of a beef cake of Brazilian and Japanese decent. In the movie he's played by a white guy.
Miss: Rita's mechanic in the manga is a Native American name Shasta Raylle. Whereas in the movie they replaced her with some British guy.
Miss: Rita in manga was from a small town in Illinois who survived a Mimic attack but her parents weren't so lucky. Afterwards she steals a passport from a refugee, Rita Vrataski in order apply for the UDF under a false identity due to being too young. While it's revealed that Rita Vrataski is not her real name, the manga also keeps Rita's real name unknown to the reader. Of course none of this important detail is nowhere to be found in the film. Which makes the film version Rita suffering from the "bad ass female character with zero development/characterization" syndrome.
Real Talk: And it really doesn't help Emily Blunt with such a hollowed out character she had to portray.
Miss: The movie doesn't display the mental/emotional strain on Cage and Rita with the multiple time loops they went through like the manga.
Real Talk: Sure I've been pretty bias against this film but even if I haven't read the manga I'd be calling bullshit with Edge of Tomorrow.
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