All You Need is Kill , the anime film adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka's light novel, received two pieces of news today. The first is the two lead cast members who will be voicing Rita and Keiji. The second is that the film has been selected for the Midnight Specials at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025, giving it its premiere at the event on June 9. All You Need Is Kill Two Lead Voice Actors Rita Keiji Voicing the female lead Rita for the anime film is Japanese actress Ai Mikami in her first voice acting role. Mikami recently played Yukina in the live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series and was the lead in the Undead Lovers film. The male lead Keiji is voiced by Natsuki Hanae, who is well-known for voicing Tanjiro Kamedo in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Okarun in DAN DA DAN . RELATED: Award-Winning All You Need Is Kill Light Novel Gets Anime Film The original All You Need Is Kill light novel was released in December 2004 in Japan and July 2009 in English from Viz Media. In 2014, the novel was adapted into manga by Moriarty the Patriot ’s Ryosuke Takeuchi and Death Note ’s Takeshi Obata. In the same year, a Hollywood live-action adaptation was released under the name Edge of Tomorrow, and it starred Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The anime film is directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (unit director on Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko ) at STUDIO 4°C. As of this writing, there is no wide release date. Viz Media describes the original novel as such: When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally–the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death? Source: Press Release
