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Third Anniversary Giveaway Contest

Three years ago this week, Haikasoru launched with the publication of All You Need Is Kill and The Lord of the Sands of Time. Since then we’ve brought you the best in Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror, have experimented with hardcover releases and magical realism, brought you videogame tie-in novels for Ico and Metal Gear Solid and have even won a few awards. Heck, Good Luck, Yukikaze just received second place at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards over the weekend! And with our anthology The Future Is Japanese, we’ve started introducing original content!

To celebrate, we’re doing one of our famed giveaway essay contests! Just write a comment, in the comments section of this post, on the Haikasoru title you’ve enjoyed the most and why you liked it, and you may be among five lucky and talented winners will be able to select any Haikasoru title they want as their prize. (Make the little essay a good one; that’s how we judge the winners! This is not a random chance drawing!) We ship anywhere, and we read English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Greek, and Chinese. (And if you have all the Haikasoru titles already, I’ll flip you a copy of Genocidal Organ, which nobody has yet. We pick the winners on noon Friday, so get to typin’!

Speaking of “rant”, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL is not a comic!

Well, the All You Need Is KILL movie continues to putter along, with Emily Blunt joining the cast to play the Full Metal Bitch.

And again, many “news” outlets are calling All You Need Is KILL a comic book. As you all know, if you’re reading this blog, it is a novel. That is, a work of prose fiction, without illustrations. (There are a handful of illustrations in the Japanese original, as is typical of light novels.) One example can be found here at Screen Rant: Tom Cruise has two big sci-fi/action graphic novel adaptations to appear in…

And the author gets corrected in the comment section, but still doesn’t get it. Here is the exchange, captured as a screencap for posterity:

For those who cannot see images easily, the exchange reads:

All you need is kill is not a comicbook its a novel , a very good SCI-FI / Military Japanese novel .

And the response:

It is more a genuine graphic novel than a traditional manga/Japanese comic book, you are correct.

I went ahead and changed that bit accordingly.

Oh brother!

Fantasy casting for ALL YOU NEED IS KILL?

Note: We have nothing to do with the film version of All You Need Is KILL, and we hear the news when everyone else does—when it hits the Internet.

As many of you already know, All You Need Is Kill is in development at Warner Bros. A script is approved, a director is attached, and now the hunt is on for an actor to play Keiji:

Of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, fidelity to the source text isn’t exactly at a premium. Some months ago, Ryan Gosling was rumored to have received an offer! Well, at least he was young. Then, last week, it was this famous star who got the offer:

Yep, Brad Pitt. Clearly, the story of a young Japanese soldier in a grim future of alien war has been changed. Anyway, over the weekend, a new story broke. Now the film is to be called We Mortals Are, and this guy has been offered the lead role:

Well, at least Tom Cruise is brunette? Personally, I’m surprised that one of the few Asian-American superstars in Hollywood hasn’t been tapped for the role yet:


Woah.

Keanu Reeves could work? Maybe? Anyway, what do you think? Got any bright ideas for casting the film? This is just a conversation—we have nothing to do with the film—but play casting director and leave us a comment!

Personally, I have what I think is a great idea for the character of the Full Metal Bitch:

Everyone loves Alison Pill, am I right?

Ebook Celebration

We’re pleased to announce that All You Need Is KILL by Hiroshi Sakurazaka is now available as an ebook for Kindle and Apple’s ibookstore! How pleased are we? So pleased that we’ve lowered the price of Sakurazaka’s Slum Online’s ebook editions to $3.99 for the next couple of weeks, to get you extra disaffected youth in a high-tech world pleasure at a low low high-tech ebook price!

Kindle, $3.99

Apple Ibookstore, $3.99

By the way, if you like inexpensive ebooks, I’d strongly recommend buying them when they are on sale, as Slum Online is now, to demonstrate that increased sales at a lower price would still be good business sense, nudge nudge wink wink.


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