A manga was released in Japan on July 1, 1999. However, the book hardly attracted any attention until March 11, 2011, when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan. Readers of the then 12-year-old manga, The Future I See, noticed the 2011 disaster was similar to what was predicted in the book. Since then, it has been discovered that Ryo Tatsuki, the author of this manga, had recorded 15 precognitive dreams, with 13 coming to fruition.
Who is Ryo Tatsuki?
Ryo Tatsuki was born in Kanagawa, Japan, on December 2, 1954, and currently lives in Yokohama. As a child, she was very fond of drawing and singing, just like any other child. So there was nothing remarkable about her. But at nine, she saw an “old man” in her dreams, who Ryo Tatsuki describes as very kind and friendly, with white hair. He would tell her many things, but precisely what they were, she didn’t elaborate at the time.
In 1975, Ryo Tatsuki, who had just started her career, used her passion for illustrating several mangas. Then, on November 24, 1976, her life dramatically turned. In that year, she had her first precognitive dream. In the dream, Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the band Queen, suddenly passed away. Since Ryo Tatsuki had never had any prophecy-related dreams before this, she didn’t take it to heart. However, she had a habit of keeping a diary, where she recorded her dream as a drawing.
Fifteen years later, on November 24, 1991, Freddie Mercury died. Ryo Tatsuki was surprised to hear that the news was not only the same as in her dream, but also that the words used in the news report were the same. She then realized the date of her dream 15 years prior that was recorded in her diary was the exact date of his death.
Ryo Tatsuki mentioned that although Mercury’s death shocked her, she kept convincing herself that it was just a coincidence at the time.
An irrefutable coincidence
In the world of science and technology, the idea of precognitive dreams can be viewed as preposterous. However, Ryo Tatsuki’s dreams have continued to come true.
For example, on August 31, 1992, Ryo Tatsuki dreamt that she was in a European palace with a long corridor, and at the end of the gallery hung a painting of a blonde woman holding a baby with Diana written on it. Five years later, on the same day as her dream, August 31, Princess Diana died in a tragic accident.
Ryo Tatsuki’s dreams seem to become reality after 5, 10, or 15 years. However, this is not absolute. For example, in some precognitive dreams, Ryo Tatsuki can see the exact year of the event.
On January 2, 1995, she had another dream about the old man. The old man took her to a “cracked earth” in the dream. Immediately after she woke up, Ryo Tatsuki wrote that Kobe, Japan, would be “cracked” in 15 days or 15 years. Then 15 days later, on January 17, 1995, the devesting Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred in Kobe.
It is worth noting that right after the manga The Future I See was released, Ryo Tatsuki decided to quit the manga industry and not publish any more books. It wasn’t until later that Ryo Tatsuki felt the need to publish another book to remind the world of what was about to happen.
The complete version
At the beginning of October 2021, Ryo Tatsuki published The Complete Version of What I See in the Future. In short, this book is an “enhanced” version of the first edition.
Both editions of the manga show a young girl with her hand covering her left eye. In Bulgarian legend, the local people believe that the left eye represents the “past” and the right eye represents the “future.” Therefore, it is speculated that the author drew her right eye to represent the “future image” she saw. However, the girl is no longer in tears on the new edition, and there is even a “lucky line” on her hand. This seems to imply that the complete version will have a brighter future.
Mt. Fuji eruption
On August 20, 1991, Ryo Tatsuki found herself on Mount Fuji in a dream. At that moment, Mt. Fuji emitted thick white smoke, and shortly after, it began to erupt. After waking up from the dream, Ryo Tatsuki immediately drew the images she saw in her diary and gave a prediction that the dream would occur in 15 years. This was predicted to be on August 20, 2006, or August 20, 2021. However, these two years passed without an eruption.
In the new version of the manga, Ryo Tatsuki also added two other dreams about Mount Fuji, which she dreamt of on May 27, 2002, and June 11, 2005. In both cases, she dreamt of a more peaceful image of Mount Fuji. Does this mean that even if Mount Fuji erupts one day, the disaster it brings may not be serious? Otherwise, how would this explain the two consecutive dreams on Mt Fuji? Unfortunately, Ryo Tatsuki did not elaborate.
A new tsunami prophecy
Ryo Tatsuki traveled to India in 1999, where she had a new dream where the Sea of Japan was initially calm, but soon erupted with bubbles like boiling water. She thought it might have been an undersea volcano, but she soon woke up. However, as she only saw bubbles in the dream, she did not include the experience in the first edition of her book.
On July 5, 2021, Ryo Tatsuki dreamt the same dream she had 22 years prior. In that dream, the sea was still bubbling. On the right side of the sea, two giant dragons were approaching the center of the bubbles. As time went on, more and more bubbles sprang up, the sea level rose, and then a massive tsunami rushed toward the land in all directions and flooded more than a third of Japan.
Note that the 2011 earthquake triggered a 10-meter-high tsunami. If Ryo Tatsuki’s dream were to occur, the height of the tsunami would be 30 meters, which is terrifying to imagine. Moreover, just after the tsunami hit the land, she saw a piece of land rising from the sea. The new land would connect Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
This dream was significant, and she knew she had to sketch it out. The sketch can be divided into three parts. The first part is about the Earth’s crust shaking under the sea, where the bubbles emerge, with two giant dragons next to it. The second part is Ryo Tatsuki’s description of the tsunami rushing toward the land that will engulf a third of Japan. However, the most disturbing part is that Ryo Tatsuki also writes in bold Japanese letters, “Please Urgently Evacuate.”
Ryo Tatsuki predicted the date of this disaster as July 5, 2025, and was pretty confident that it would occur in the morning.
While this dream may sound ridiculous, Japan has recently had several minor earthquakes, so this idea cannot be entirely discounted. In addition, in 2013, an undersea volcano erupted near Nishinoshima Island in Japan, forming a new island. Furthermore, Nishinoshima Island has also increased in size in recent years due to volcanic activity.
What causes underwater volcanos to erupt, and where are they most common?
In any volcanic eruption, magma (molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface) rises from the depths of the Earth to the surface of the land or the seafloor. The magma contains dissolved gases, which form bubbles as the pressure on the magma is reduced during its ascent. An explosive eruption occurs on land when these dissolved gases are released suddenly. But underwater, the magma still faces the crushing pressure of tons and tons of ocean water once it reaches the seafloor.
The Ring of Fire also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Most of Earth’s volcanoes and earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The locations mentioned by Ryo Tatsuki — Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines — are along the Ring of Fire, which has the best chance of forming islands.
The mysterious bubbles
On August 16, 2021, an underwater volcano erupted near Japan’s Ogasawara Islands. A new island was discovered just three days after the eruption. This island was formed under similar conditions as the bubbles in Ryo Tatsuki’s dream.
In 2015, an underwater volcanic eruption was observed in the Soloman Islands. Initially, the sea surface exhibited minor explosions, but the intervals became shorter and shorter until a major blast occurred. According to volcanologists, this is the process by which volcanic islands are formed. Thus Ryo Tatsuki’s dream of a tsunami that was once thought to be the 2011 earthquake may be a prediction for 2025.
Ryo Tatsuki noted that in 1996 she had a dream within a dream in which a loud noise awakened her as if someone was running away. When she awoke, she looked at her watch and saw that it was five o’clock, but she couldn’t tell if it was five in the morning or the afternoon; however, it was very dark outside.
She continued: “I walked toward the door and found that all the buildings in the street had been destroyed. I kept walking until I finally came to the side of a bridge, where it had sunk into the sea. The buildings along the shore were also submerged in seawater, indicating that a tsunami had just occurred here.”
Many concluded that this dream was describing the 2011 earthquake; however, in the new version of the book, Ryo Tatsuki noted that this dream was not linked to 2011 as the scene she saw in her dream was even more terrifying than the 2011 tsunami. She also wore short sleeves, a different outfit from the 2011 event.
Many people believe this may be a premonition of what’s to come in 2025; to be precise, July 5, 2025, at five o’clock in the morning. At the end of this havoc, she described an incredible and vibrant world. This is why the girl no longer weeps in her new manga version.
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