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"For one, the apocalyptic event that takes place in There's a bigger misconception that the World Health Organization (WHO) is advising Japan to postpone the Olympics. If you have been living under a rock, or you're just not that big into anime, the 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film Akirawas adapted from the popular manga series of the same name. The sign reads “147 Days Until The Games” and encourages citizens to lend their support to making the event a success. The manga and ensuing anime are set against the backdrop of the impending 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It reads "147 Days Until The Tokyo Olympics," with another line reading "With everyone's support, let's make this a success. How could Otomo have known? This is entirely false.At the current moment, WHO is collaborating with the Olympics team to advise them regarding the risk assessment and management advice.“To my understanding, no decision has or will be taken in the near term regarding the future of the Olympics,” Mike Ryan, head of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Ryan brought up that during the Zika and SARS outbreaks, the Olympics and Special Olympics events were not canceled, and instead successfully celebrated without much interference.“If you cast your mind back to those events, many of those events went ahead with appropriate risk management,” he said.So really, while the similarities are fun. Kotako explained:The Japanese word that appears in the text 伝染病 (densenbyou) can be translated as “epidemic.” (Here is another example.) In sequence (top to bottom), it read:“Akira” is a 1988 movie about an apocalyptic event taking place months before Tokyo 2020 Olympics, showing the WHO advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk.Months before the Olympics begin, coronavirus appears.The WHO is advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk.First of all, the image of the pink-haired girl is not from On 16 July 1988, a singularity destroys Tokyo.

The manga and ensuing anime are set against the backdrop of the impending 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It also appears that one panel in the manga refers to measures for combating a contagious disease.As pointed out on the popular Japanese gaming site Hachima Kikou, Rumors like the one cited above sometimes spread due to unfamiliarity with the source material, or speakers of one language relying on rumored translations of material like manga panels.

By 2019, Tokyo is rebuilt. Akira certainly did predict the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. "But someone has graffitied in white "Just cancel it. The internet was in a frenzy once again after finding out that the 1988 cult-classic First and foremost, before I go on any further y'all need to calm down.If you have been living under a rock, or you're just not that big into anime, the 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film A scene from the beginning of the film, set in 2019 Neo-Tokyo, depicts a signboard counting down the days until the Olympics begin.

But flash forward to the real 2020, and Japan is indeed dealing with the coronavirus crisis, with new cases of infection still being discovered and the first death caused by the disease inside Japan occurring last week.As the site noted, the 1980s and 1990s manga likely used the specter of a general pandemic in late 2019 to set a post-apocalyptic tone in “Akira” is a 1988 movie about an apocalyptic event taking place months before Tokyo 2020 Olympics, showing the WHO advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk.Months before the Olympics begin, coronavirus appears.The WHO is advising Japan to postpone the Olympics because of a pandemic risk.Retrofitting pop culture tidbits to be “predictive” remained a popular trend in memes, and like others of the sort, the “ Updated: 25 Aug 2020 2:20 pm. A scene from the beginning of the film, set in 2019 Neo-Tokyo, depicts a signboard counting down the days until the Olympics begin.

One of the best purchases I ever made was the Akira 35th Anniversary boxed set a few years back. Underneath, a message in graffiti reads, “Just cancel it!”With [February 28 2020] marking exactly 147 days until the opening ceremony on July 24, and talk of the possibility of cancelling the games over the spreading coronavirus, the topic “Just Cancel it!” is now trending at the top of Japanese Twitter.In the top right corner of the scene there’re several columns of Japanese text, which look to be a public posting on the streets of Neo-Tokyo. The WHO, however, hasn’t recommended the need for contingency plans for the Tokyo Olympics.The World Health Organization said [on February 14 2020] that it hasn’t advised the International Olympic Committee about whether it should change plans for the Games in Tokyo this summer because of the epidemic caused by a new coronavirus.Another element fueling the rumor about the purported threat of a pandemic in the plot of A scene from the movie “Akira,” set in 2019, shows a signboard counting down the days until the Olympics. Known as Neo-Tokyo, it is plagued by corruption, anti-government protests, terrorism, and gang violence and is on the verge of collapse.When Tokyo was chosen to host the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 2013 bidding process, several commentators claimed that Akira predicted the future event.Gaming site Kotaku pointed out fan interest in the parallel in The manga series Akira, created by Japanese Artist Katsuhiro Otomo, and first published in 1982, was set in the future: 2019. Claim: The 1988 animated film Akira predicted the 2020 Olympics would be in Tokyo, and that a pandemic (Coronavirus) would lead to its cancellation.