7 Billion Needles

Tadano Nobuaki’s 7 Billion Needles starts off right, with an extremely introverted girl walking by the sea and noticing what at first looks like a shooting star, but which then turns towards her and incinerates her. Awesome. She gets better, though, and also gets drafted into helping to hunt down an extraterrestrial menace which threatens all life on Earth. Clearly, Tadano’s story, based on Hal Clement’s Needle, jumps right into the action.