As July 5, 2025, approaches, people all over Asia (and the internet) are getting nervous because of a dreadful prediction made by Ryo Tatsuki, a manga artist from Japan who’s now called the “New Baba Vanga.” This artist’s vision of something bad happening on that day has been floating around the internet a lot. You can see it affecting how people feel about traveling to Japan, which is usually a tourism hotspot these days, and what the media is talking about, too.
The updated version of her 1999 manga, The Future I Saw, has a part about a terrible event that might hit Japan in July 2025. It could happen under the sea, causing waves much bigger and scarier than the ones from the 2011 Tohoku disaster.
Japanese manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, called the “New Baba Vanga”, predicted a massive disaster will strike Japan on July 5, sparking panic across Asia.
Her 1999 manga, which reportedly foresaw COVID-19, has resurfaced, warning of a seabed rupture and tsunami more devastating than… pic.twitter.com/NjNf8nzxKM
— The CSR Journal (@thecsrjournal) June 17, 2025
The panic isn’t limited to Japan.
Japan’s travel bookings have taken a nosedive recently, thanks to Tatsuki’s alarming forecast and the Chinese embassy’s warnings about potential natural disasters. Plus, The Guardian reported that Bloomberg Intelligence examined data from ForwardKeys, which tracks airline bookings. They found that the typical number of bookings from Hong Kong has been cut in half compared to last year. But bookings for late June and early July have fallen through the floor, dropping a staggering 83% from last year.
Meanwhile, Tatsuki, who goes by the pen name “Tatsukiryō,” has long claimed she is not a prophet. She remains silent, but her track record speaks loudly.
Manga Artist Ryo Tatsuki Dreamed of the Future
Ryo Tatsuki isn’t your average doomsday prophet. She’s not a religious figure with visions or a mysterious person posting videos online. She’s a soft-spoken manga artist. Back in 1999, she kept a journal that ended up being surprisingly spot-on with some significant events.
This isn’t just any journal; she wrote down dreams with dates and described the disasters she saw in them.
One of these dreams matched what happened with the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011. She had dreams about it for a month! And she had another entry that people say looks a lot like the COVID-19 situation we went through. It talked about a virus that affects the lungs, everyone wearing masks, and empty streets because of mass panic.
Popular manga’s ‘catastrophe warning’ for Japan triggers mass travel cancellations https://t.co/fd1zMJpCep pic.twitter.com/bu9TUeqtME
— The Independent (@Independent) June 23, 2025
Her most recent viral prediction for July 5, 2025, involved a disaster caused by seismic activity between Japan and the Philippines. She mentioned that tsunamis could be three times the size of the ones in 2011.
The picture she drew of the oceans looking like they’re boiling has made many of us curious if she saw something like an underwater volcano going off, too. Analysts say the area she talked about, which is shaped like a diamond and includes Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Northern Mariana Islands, actually matches current seismically active zones.
Panic, Prophecy, or Pattern Recognition?
While some dismiss her work as coincidental fiction, others argue it’s too precise to ignore. Her reputation for predictive accuracy has been growing slowly and quietly. She foretold Princess Diana’s death, the passing of Freddie Mercury, and natural disasters well before they occurred. Though Tatsuki avoids media and insists she’s “not a prophet,” her book’s resurgence has led people to comb through its pages for the following warning.
A YouTube video from The Interconnected Zone has got over 75,000 people tuning in. It’s about Ryo’s predictions for 2025, and you can watch the video right here to try and make sense of her eerie foretellings:
Even governments are paying attention.
In April, China’s embassy in Tokyo actually issued a public warning. They told people living there to be extra careful because of recent seismic upticks. This backs up the worry about Tatsuki’s prediction. But Japan’s own Meteorological Agency, the JMA, is not playing along with the date game. Instead, they’re proud of the top-notch emergency systems in place.
Regardless of whether July 5 brings disaster or a sigh of relief, Tatsuki’s rise as a cult figure in the prophecy world seems sealed. In a digital age where virality equals credibility, the soft-spoken manga artist may be our most unlikely harbinger yet.
