A manga called The Future I Saw has had a number of frighteningly accurate predictions about disasters in the world since its original publishing in 1999. A 2021 re-print added a reference to a disaster on July 5, 2025, and the superstition led airlines to cancel flights because so few people wanted to fly on that day.
Mangaka Ryo Tatsuki calls the manga her “dream journal”, with prophecies coming to her while she’s asleep. She recorded those dreams and put them into the form a manga to create a story with them.
And, while this wouldn’t be noteworthy on its own, she’s predicted a number of things in the past like Freddie Mercury’s death, Japan’s 2011 Earthquakes, and a variety of other things.
Out of superstition, many chose not to travel on that day, resulting in airlines having to cancel flights. It’s at the point where travel agencies have had to issue warnings debunking the superstitions, claiming they’re just that and that travel is completely safe.
90s manga’s prediction results in minor case of mass hysteria
According to reports from Asia News Network, this one prediction has caused travel anxieties that have lasted months. People flying into the country in May were trying to do so before tragedy struck, treating the manga’s prediction as an inevitable outcome.
And, outside of the prediction from this one author, seismologists have predicted that there’s a high chance that a quake on the Nankai Trough fault line. This has a chance of being a so called “mega quake”, with those still reeling from the 2011 disaster being fearful of what another massive quake could cause.
Travel from Hong Kong has been dipping since April, with Japanese officials claiming that “baseless social media rumors are hurting tourism”. This came to a head on June 5, with several Japanese airlines having to cancel flights according to reports. So few people wanted to fly that they had to cut down their schedule.
“Prophecies about earthquake timing have no scientific basis. If a quake happens in July, it would be pure coincidence,” said a professor at the University of Tokyo specializing in disaster research. “Believing rumors is unwise, but it is crucial to prepare on the assumption that an earthquake can strike anywhere at any time.”
July 5th has come and gone at this point, so it’s clear that the exact prediction in the manga hasn’t come to pass. However, travelers who believe in Tatsuki’s prophecies are still cautious of visiting the country.
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