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My wife decided to not travel to Japan due to an impending warning from a manga for July 2025. I have been making fun of her all month only to get this tsunami

My wife decided to not travel to Japan due to an impending warning from a manga for July 2025. I have been making fun of her all month only to get this tsunami warning now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Japan_megaquake_prophecy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2025_Japan_megaquake_prop.... > The 2021 reprint capitalizing off this revived popularity warned of a "real disaster" in July 2025, causing a minor case of mass hysteria in 2025 when summer trips to Japan from East Asia decreased markedly and several airlines even cancelled flights.

Waterluvian 1y ago
Sadly we won’t hear from the partners of everyone whose manga didn’t successfully predict a real disaster in a month.
- refactor_master 1y ago
  That's because the other mangas forgot to adjust by +/- some 1000 km for location, 25 days, 365 days, 1825 days, or some other arbitrary but possibly nicely divisible number, for when and where it strikes. You also have to conveniently forget the things that don't sell mangas such as annual typhoons, heatwaves, and of course thousands of premature deaths from man-made causes such as pollution and poor lifestyle. Otherwise, if predicting disasters was easy, everybody would be doing it. No, it takes special, paper-based skills such as mangas , tarot cards, weekly horoscopes, etc.
  - jrflowers 1y ago
    I’m pretty sure they sell mangas about deaths from man made causes. I’m not an expert but I am fairly certain about this
  - Barbing 1y ago
    Reminded of the available $1m award from James Randi’s org that was never claimed b/c no one could ever do anything supernatural under reasonable testing conditions. (Woo is surely possible but all those who can pull it off were gifted abilities that are deactivated by non-monetary incentives)
    - Barbing 1y ago
      [late correction: "non-monetary" -> "monetary"]
theogravity 1y ago
> The statement was revised later to specify the date "July 5, 2025" as that of an asteroid impact,[8] or even the end of the world.[9]
- jjangkke 1y ago
  Ryo Tatsuki clarified it wasn't her that said July 5th was when the big one will hit but that it was her publisher that pushed that date for marketing and sales. She along with the Thai clairvoyant and Brandon Biggs all say July is the month when the earthquakes and tsunamis begin. It is unwise to simply write this off, Ryo Tatsuki said she saw 4:18am in July 2025 which can only mean 14 hours from now we will know if that is it. It is July 30th 2:14pm, in 14 hours it will be July 31st 4:18am. After that a 20 hour period until the deadline.
  - throwai 1y ago
    This article states that that the book references the 5th day: https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/akane_t/2025/05/202575jaxa.php https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/akane_t/2025/05/202575jaxa.php Is it wrong? Did the book actually just call the time and month, not day?
  - philipwhiuk 1y ago
    > It is unwise to simply write this off No it isn't
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physicles 1y ago
Well, you can continue to make fun of her because, fortunately, this has turned out to be basically nothing (for Japan, anyway).
bamboozled 1y ago
the manga was about a mega quake in Japan, not a tsunami from Russia
- bravesoul2 1y ago
  Thats well within acceptable cleirvoyant margins of error.
  - pryce 1y ago
    a P value of 1.00?
jajko 1y ago
Is your wife generally fearful like that or this was a rare occurrence and she can actually have some introspection on that and has a fighting chance of coming on top of that? I know few folks like that, for them it comes from general lack of understanding of reality, society and human nature, a lot of superstition in various directions and similar traits. Suffice to say its very hard to live up to one's potential in life with such mindset, but such things could be conquered if there is enough resolve.

Waterluvian 1y ago

Sadly we won’t hear from the partners of everyone whose manga didn’t successfully predict a real disaster in a month.

refactor_master 1y ago
That's because the other mangas forgot to adjust by +/- some 1000 km for location, 25 days, 365 days, 1825 days, or some other arbitrary but possibly nicely divisible number, for when and where it strikes. You also have to conveniently forget the things that don't sell mangas such as annual typhoons, heatwaves, and of course thousands of premature deaths from man-made causes such as pollution and poor lifestyle. Otherwise, if predicting disasters was easy, everybody would be doing it. No, it takes special, paper-based skills such as mangas , tarot cards, weekly horoscopes, etc.
- jrflowers 1y ago
  I’m pretty sure they sell mangas about deaths from man made causes. I’m not an expert but I am fairly certain about this
- Barbing 1y ago
  Reminded of the available $1m award from James Randi’s org that was never claimed b/c no one could ever do anything supernatural under reasonable testing conditions. (Woo is surely possible but all those who can pull it off were gifted abilities that are deactivated by non-monetary incentives)
  - Barbing 1y ago
    [late correction: "non-monetary" -> "monetary"]

theogravity 1y ago

> The statement was revised later to specify the date "July 5, 2025" as that of an asteroid impact,[8] or even the end of the world.[9]

jjangkke 1y ago
Ryo Tatsuki clarified it wasn't her that said July 5th was when the big one will hit but that it was her publisher that pushed that date for marketing and sales. She along with the Thai clairvoyant and Brandon Biggs all say July is the month when the earthquakes and tsunamis begin. It is unwise to simply write this off, Ryo Tatsuki said she saw 4:18am in July 2025 which can only mean 14 hours from now we will know if that is it. It is July 30th 2:14pm, in 14 hours it will be July 31st 4:18am. After that a 20 hour period until the deadline.
- throwai 1y ago
  This article states that that the book references the 5th day: https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/akane_t/2025/05/202575jaxa.php https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/akane_t/2025/05/202575jaxa.php Is it wrong? Did the book actually just call the time and month, not day?
- philipwhiuk 1y ago
  > It is unwise to simply write this off No it isn't

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physicles 1y ago

Well, you can continue to make fun of her because, fortunately, this has turned out to be basically nothing (for Japan, anyway).

bamboozled 1y ago

the manga was about a mega quake in Japan, not a tsunami from Russia

bravesoul2 1y ago
Thats well within acceptable cleirvoyant margins of error.
- pryce 1y ago
  a P value of 1.00?

jajko 1y ago

Is your wife generally fearful like that or this was a rare occurrence and she can actually have some introspection on that and has a fighting chance of coming on top of that? I know few folks like that, for them it comes from general lack of understanding of reality, society and human nature, a lot of superstition in various directions and similar traits. Suffice to say its very hard to live up to one's potential in life with such mindset, but such things could be conquered if there is enough resolve.