A 1999 comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has been fuelling these rumours. In a new edition released in 2021, she claimed the next big earthquake would strike on 5 July this year.
It’s called “The Future I Saw”, with diary entries and is “based on a dream”. One of the covers had a big disaster happening in 2011. That’s the year Fukushima was hit with a tsunami.
A lot of superstition has arisen around it, causing tourism to drop off recently. And flights from Hong Kong to Japan have been massively reduced, and one airline even halted their flights there as of a week ago.
The reprints included the text “The real disaster will strike in July 2025” from another of Tatsuki’s dreams, with Tatsuki claiming that said event would be a massive fissure opening in the Philippine Sea, causing a tsunami “three times as tall as those from the Tohoku earthquake” that would destroy Japan. The statement was revised later to specify the date “July 5, 2025” as that of an asteroid impact, or even the end of the world.
The publisher also stated that the while Tatsuki had noted that the dream itself was around “4:18 AM, July 5, 2021”, the premonition of disaster in her dream only mentioned “July 2025”
This island is south of Japan, in the Philippine Sea. Sounds like the specific July 5 date was added later.
One more day 🤞
I always find these predictions just so silly and it’s always someone in position that would benefit that see them not a kid in Bangladesh which statistically would be more likely.
My favorite part is how people in the public eye who present end-of-days predictions always have some weird excuse after the fact. As was beautifully parodied in Parks and Rec.
In this case there have been impersonators, and the original author has no connection to a lot of the newer stuff. She is not trying to cash in or play things up, which is a wonderful contrast to a lot of people who claim to be doomsday predictors.
It’s probably all coincidence, but I don’t blame people for making travel plans around them if it’s not a huge inconvenience to do so. Why tempt fate?
Honestly, when I read stories like these I have started to root for a swift and sudden end to the world. It has begun to appear more palatable than the slow unraveling of society and boiling alive while thirsty.
No thanks. Many places around the world haven’t gone to shit. I don’t remember the last time I saw extreme weather or event. Climate is chill, politics are calm and balanced, economy always could be better but on grand scheme of things I can’t complain, people mind their own business and … life is just good and enjoyable
EDIT: i feel like the people downvoting (disliking) someone for not wanting the life to end for everyone just because of your own opinions or shitty life are unhinged. Get your shit together. That is essentially the mind-process of (actual) terrorists
