(Later I learned that It was basically another name of shorter novel, or novella). When Apple, my GR friend, recommended me this book, I have never heard about Japanese light novel format. so, when I realized the premise in this book is time looping mixed with military SF, I am sold. I love Groundhog Day movie, especially how the character grew from hopeless person into a great character that proficient using the time loops. The interaction between the main characters and the interaction of them with the secondary characters, everything is done masterfully with realism and depth. about her, and it's said that the chosen actress is a tall blonde woman, that it's how Emily Blunt will performed the character on the incoming movie. Something quite amusing when the characters are described is that Rita Vrataski is a petite woman with red hair, but due she is a hero of the army forces, it will be done a movie on U.S. The main characters are Keiji Kiriya and Rita Vrataski. Also, the author did a great work establishing his own sci-fi technology, how it works and how the pilots must use it. Also it's a festival of genres, while the military science-fiction is the main genre, you can find too elements of dystopia, mystery, politics and romance. It presents a great characters' development. To explain quick what you can expect here, it's like Groundhog Day meets Halo. I am a huge fan of manga, but I am truly glad of being able to read first the story on its original format. I just found out that it will be a manga adaptation of the story, most likely since the prose novel got a lot of hype due the incoming live action movie. So, finding that the author chose to present this story in a prose novel was something quite brave. And I must say that the topic and story of this novel could fit quite easily in a manga format presentation, since it's military sci-fi with cibernetic battle suits, involving time travel and an alien invasion. I say this, since on Japan, the Manga culture is quite spread and even there are mangas for all tastes, genders and ages. The novel itself is something odd in the Japanese literature culture, since it's a prose novel. I knew about this novel due that it's the basis for the incoming movie Edge of Tomorrow and I am truly glad that I was able to read the original Japanese novel before of watching the movie. Now, if only I could kill me a Mimic and experience first time reading this over and over again.īlog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest "I grip the trigger with stiff fingers: my arms shake as I send a rain of scorching steel down onto the enemy. Less romance-heavy and more character study meets epic action sequences. So much better than the movie Duh, right? Isn't that ALWAYS the case?. He morphs from an average Japanese soldier into a Full Metal Mother Fucker. Actually, he's almost boringly ordinary in the beginning of this. But then he kills a Mimic not quite like the others and inherits their strange ability to alter time, resetting it every time he dies. At least not in the beginning of this book. She's curious, a little gullible, and sweet.Īnd then she puts on an armor suit, heaves a broadsword, and rains down death and destruction from the mother fucking sky. Off the battlefield, she's just a regular, small town girl from the midwest. She doesn't run around pounding on her chest, aping masculine displays of dominance while declaring her badassery. I think my favorite thing about her is how understated she is. Rita is one of the most badass characters I've ever encountered. Maybe anyone who could see that much fighting and live to tell about it really was the Angel of Death." Army had chalked up half of all confirmed Mimic kills ever. Word had it she and her Special Forces squad from the U.S. A war junkie always chasing the action, no matter where it led her. The crazy chick with the broadsword, her armor painted red to draw the enemy straight to her. The members of his unit are dropping like flies. We meet Keiji, a green Japanese recruit, on the day of his first battle. This is the story of two ordinary people forced to do the extraordinary save the human race from an alien invasion. Keiji Kiriya is about to join their ranks. They call her a lot of names.Īngel of Death. "She could walk into any hell and come back unscathed."
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