

Revised Japanese version included the same short.There have been plenty of stories about characters inside video games in recent years. Slum Online ( スラムオンライン, Suramu onrain) (2005) Revised: Slum Online EX ( スラムオンラインEX, Suramu onrain EX ) (2014) (English version contains a short story Bonus Round ( エキストラ・ラウンド, "Ekisutora Raundo" ) (2010).All You Need Is Kill (2004 ISBN 978-4-08-630219-7) English translation: All You Need Is Kill (2009 ISBN 978-1-4215-2761-1), retitled mass-market paperback edition: Edge of Tomorrow (2014).English translation of this short story was included in the anthology Hanzai Japan ( Haikasoru, 2015).

2004: S-F Magazine Readers Award Best Short Story for "The Saitama Chain Saw Massacre" ( Saitama Chainsaw Shōjo, さいたまチェーンソー少女).

In June 2014, the movie premiered with the title Edge of Tomorrow. In October 2011, Tom Cruise began talks for the project to be directed by Doug Liman. Originally Brad Pitt was approached to play the lead, but he had conflicts with other films for which Warner wanted him. Based upon the story, the screenplay was written by Dante Harper and Joby Harold with a working title We Mortals Are. Sakurazaka's novel All You Need Is Kill was optioned by Warner Bros. He has collaborated with cultural critic Hiroki Azuma on the works Geet State ( ギートステイト) and Characters ( キャラクターズ) and has written a critique of Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel Dancing Vanity. He is knowledgeable about computer culture, can program in Perl, is able to use specialized text editors such as Meadow, and can typeset in TeX. Sakurazaka has an interest in computers and video games. His 2004 novel All You Need Is Kill received high praise from other authors in Japan and has been published in English by Viz Media. In 2004 he was presented the S-F Magazine Readers Award's best short story award for "The Saitama Chain Saw Massacre". This work has subsequently been expanded into a series of light novels and has been made into an anime. He made his literary debut in 2002 at the second Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award with Mahō tsukai no netto ( 魔法使いのネット), which was later published in December 2003 under the name Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō. Sakurazaka originally began in a career in IT. He is best known for his novel All You Need Is Kill, which formed the basis of the film Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka ( 桜坂 洋, Sakurazaka Hiroshi, born 1970) is a Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy light novels.
