A Japanese Manga Artist’s 2025 Disaster Prophecy Gains Traction After Powerful 8.8 Magnitude Tremor. As Waves Hit Japan, Netizens Wonder If The ‘New Baba Vanga’s’ Timeline Was Just Weeks Off
July 30, 2025: A strong 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday caused tsunami waves to reach portions of Japan. This has brought back into the public eye a scary warning from a Japanese manga. A lot of people are now looking back at the warnings given by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki, who was called the “New Baba Vanga” who supposedly predicted a tragedy in July 2025.
Is the 2025 disaster prediction by Japanese manga prophet Ryo Tatsuki coming true? The Kamchatka quake starts new rumors
As news of the strong earthquake and tsunami warnings circulated, people rapidly turned their attention to Tatsuki’s manga, Watashi ga Mita Mirai (The Future I Saw), which came out in 1999. Fans said the book precisely foretold key events that had already happened, like the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the deaths of Princess Diana and Freddie Mercury, and even the COVID-19 outbreak.
Earlier this year, a specific warning for July 2025 in Tatsuki’s manga caused a lot of talk, with many people guessing that something important would happen around July 5. After that date came and went without any problems, the excitement mostly tapered away. But the recent powerful earthquake off Kamchatka and the tsunami alerts that followed, even if they were tiny in Japan, have brought the topic back up. A lot of people are now questioning if Tatsuki’s prediction was just a few weeks off.
One person on social media said, “Massive 3 Feet Tsunami Alert for the entire Coast of Japan following a Powerful Magnitude of 8.8 Earthquake in the Coast of Russia, Japanese Manga Predictor Ryo Tatsuki, The Future I Saw, who foretold the 2011 Quake did it again! Japan, be safe.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake, which was said to be the strongest in the area since 1952, hit about 125 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia’s Far East. At first, the US Geological Survey said it was an 8.0-magnitude quake, but then they changed it to 8.8. It happened at a depth of about 19.3 km.
After the quake, tsunami waves up to 4 meters (10–13 feet) high were seen along some portions of Russia’s Kamchatka coast. After that, Japan’s Meteorological Agency warned that waves up to 3 meters (10 feet) high could impact the country’s Pacific coast. NHK, a Japanese news station, said that waves as high as 30 centimeters (one foot) have already battered the main northern island of Hokkaido.
Japan only saw modest tsunami waves and little obvious damage from this occurrence, but the government quickly set up a task force to gather information and respond to emergencies. This shows that people are still worried about earthquakes in the area.