70-oku no Hari

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Synonyms: Hikikomori Headphone Girl, Needle

Japanese: 70億の針

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 4

Chapters: 24

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 5, 2008 to Feb 5, 2010

Genre: Sci-Fi

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Comic Flapper

Authors: Tadano, Nobuaki (Story & Art)

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Ranked #12043Popularity #4182Members 4,868

MangaComic FlapperTadano, Nobuaki (Story & Art)

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Accepting only the comfort of her headphones, high school student Hikaru Takabe spends her time isolated from her classmates. However, her life takes a new turn when she meets a powerful intergalactic being named Horizon. As a result of the surreal incident leading to their encounter, Horizon must stay within Hikaru's body, much to her chagrin.

Now armed with Horizon's powers of spatial manipulation, Hikaru is dragged into the mission that brought it to Earth: to destroy Maelstrom, a lifeform whose instinctive purpose is to kill every living being on whatever planet it finds itself on. For Hikaru, this not only involves partaking in an evolutionary game of cat and mouse, but also taking the first steps out of her shell.

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Volume 4: Hikikomori Headphone Girl (pilot)

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70 Oku no Hari was inspired by the 1950 science-fiction novel Needle by Hal Clement.

The series was published in English as 7 Billion Needles by Vertical Inc. from September 28, 2010 to April 26, 2011, in Polish as 7 miliardów igieł by Japonica Polonica Fantastica in 2013 as part of Mega Manga series and in Spain as 7 mil millones de agujas by Milky Way Ediciones in 2016.

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Jul 8, 2015

Shioxus

Not Recommended

If you've read any of my reviews, you know that I put a lot of stock into story concepts. The concept of immortality, reincarnation, lucid dreams, and basically any concepts that I, as a reader, find interesting. The concept this time is evolution, and boy did they mess this one up.

We'll start with characters, because they were almost as disappointing as the story itself. All in all we have three main characters, and a handful of side characters. Some characters develop(not all), but they do so very artificially. We don't see the development slowly happening over time, or through actions. Instead, the characters that develop ...

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Nov 21, 2022

YaBoyKen

Not Recommended

Overall it feels like I was seeing a highlight reel of a much larger work than this actually is. It insists upon itself with no foundation built. What it feels like is somewhere very early on part-way through making volume 3 the mangaka got a call that went something like "hey by the way you're only getting 4 volumes lol" and decided to stop and tack on the ending they actually had planned for like at least 2 or maybe 3 or 4 more volumes down the line. the sense of scale is just ballooned at a rate disproportionate for even such a fantastical story.

I ... thought it was average to being for the most part, with the fairly pleasing art and my weakness to the dynamic held between finite and (at least seemingly) in-finite beings and the interesting ways it can be fleshed out. I don't think it did anything very interesting with that in the end though. I share the frustrations about basically everything after the Moderator in the last two volumes showed up. I think the steady "monster of the week" feel I felt the action of the first two chapter was building up to, while not anything special or spectacular, was at least pleasant to read. But everything after that specific moment in time in Vol 3 is just turned way up to 11 and everything happens at knee-jerk pacing. Even and especially character development. All the way up until the end of the 2nd volume we get the impression that the main character will change but perhaps very gradually, given that she doesn't say anything before leaving the island, betraying some un-dealt-with issues still at play emotionally. After this she apparently just has all these things solved to a point where she can focus on another person's issues. And the way the plot is resolved, with Horizon and Maelstrom just sucking everything into a ball and fucking off, they treat as this flash of inspiration that comes to them. When, at least to me, that seems like it would be plan A for these apparently higher-plane existences. Moderators evolution language is annoying. You don't have to try taking on real terms to fantastical things in a fictional story. Just have it be something fantastical, we all know its fiction, you can do these things. If you're really caught up on the things that may have inspired it, then its fine to bring them up as a metaphor for whats happening, with characters making the same connections to these phenomenon that you did. But evolution is literally something everyone, and I mean everyone, learns about in public high school. It isn't some esoteric high-minded science concept that only 120+ IQ ivy league grads will know intimately enough to have it break their suspension of disbelief.

Anyways the author won't see this and likely doesn't speak or read English so whatever.

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Jul 11, 2023

FairyGoddess

Not Recommended

Beyond the captivating art style, 7 Billion Needles falls disappointingly short.

To put it plainly, the story is an ambitious yet ultimately nonsensical piece of work. While the premise may appear fascinating at first glance, it quickly devolves into a trainwreck of plot conveniences scattered throughout. The narrative becomes suffocated with philosophical musings that feel contrived and excessive.

Equally disappointing are the characters themselves. Hikaru, the protagonist, is astonishingly dull and uninteresting. It bewilders me how I managed to endure four volumes of this mediocrity. The story suffers from poor writing, leaving everything feeling unrealistic and artificial. The characters lack depth and believability, failing to establish ...

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