Title: 私が見た未来 (The Future I Saw)
Author: たつき諒 (Tatsuki Ryō)
Original release: 1999
Complete Edition: 2021
Famous prophecy:
- Predicted a great disaster would happen in March 2011
- After the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami, the manga went viral for this exact prediction
Current buzz:
- In the 2021 完全版, Tatsuki warns of another major event in July 2025
- The red obi (belt) on your copy literally says: 「本当の“大災難”は2025年7月にやってくる」
→ “The real catastrophe will come in July 2025.”
🌀 1. It was just a side project… at first.
Tatsuki Ryō (たつき諒) was a mangaka of scary short stories. Watashi ga Mita Mirai was originally published in 1999 as part of a horror anthology series called ほんとにあった怖い話 (True Scary Stories That Really Happened).
At the time, it wasn’t a big hit — just another strange, niche manga.
🔮 2. It predicted the 2011 tsunami — with shocking accuracy.
In the 1999 edition, one panel shows a woman crying and holding her forehead, with the huge handwritten phrase:
「大災害は2011年3月に起こる！！」
“A great disaster will occur in March 2011!!”
→ Exactly 12 years later, on March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hit, killing over 15,000 people and causing the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Fans later rediscovered this page and called it the “manga prophecy”. Secondhand copies started selling for over ¥100,000 (around $1,000 USD).
😳 3. The author claimed it came from her dreams. Literally.
Tatsuki Ryō wrote that many of the stories — including the disaster prediction — came from lucid dreams she had between 1980–1995.
In her dreams, she claimed to have seen:
- Floods
- Volcano eruptions
- Spiritual symbols
- Warnings with specific dates
- And glimpses of an apocalyptic event far in the future
She said she kept a “夢日記 (dream diary)” for years — and that 私が見た未来 was partly based on that.
🔥 4. The 完全版 (2021 reprint) sold out immediately — again.
In 2021, a revised edition called 『私が見た未来 完全版』 was published, containing:
- The original manga
- Never-before-seen pages
- Her full dream records
- And a new prediction: 「2025年7月に、本当の“大災難”が来る。」
→ “The real disaster will arrive in July 2025.”
It sold out within days, reprinted multiple times, and trended on Japanese Twitter.
🧭 5. Tatsuki disappeared… then returned.
After the original 1999 publication, Tatsuki vanished from the manga world.
She stopped drawing entirely, disappeared from public appearances, and gave no interviews for over a decade.
She later revealed she had a health scare, and after the 2011 tsunami came true, she was too afraid to continue.
She returned in 2020 to revise the book and share more — because she said:
“If I stay silent, someone might suffer alone.”
🧠 6. Experts and skeptics can’t explain it.
- Some claim she was lucky.
- Others say it’s a deep intuition, or even collective unconscious.
- Spiritualists in Japan genuinely treat the book as a modern oracle.
- Others treat it like an urban legend: real or not, it feels real.
📈 7. Influence in pop culture:
- Inspired YouTube theories, TikToks, and even music videos in Japan
- Referenced on Japanese paranormal shows and mystery podcasts
- Some believe the 2025 prophecy is linked to Mount Fuji eruption, spiritual awakening, or global tech collapse
💥 Bonus eerie quote from the 完全版:
「夢の中の“未来の私”が言ったの。『まだ終わってない。本当の始まりは、2025年からよ』って。」
“The future version of me said: ‘It’s not over. The real beginning is from 2025.’”
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