It sounds like the plot of a comic itself. A manga artist has a dream, draws it, and decades later, the world responds not with admiration, but with cancelled holidays, empty flights, and spiralling tourism numbers.

But that’s exactly what happened this weekend in Japan.

On Saturday 5 July 2025, a day that was predicted in a comic story to bring catastrophic destruction, the country braced for a disaster that – fortunately – never arrived. But that didn’t stop thousands from changing their travel plans, airlines from cancelling flights, and social media from feeding a full-blown, anxiety-laced frenzy… More here.

Crazy crazy crazy!

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