After the current earthquakes in Japan, Shinkai Suzume no Tojimari anime movie has managed to spark comparisons to the long-running American animated sequence The Simpsons, which has gained cult standing for its supposed means to foretell future occasions.
Within the movie, Suzume, the titular character, begins her journey from the island of Kyushu earlier than visiting Ehime Prefecture whereas chasing a mischievous Daijin together with Souta, who had been become a chair. Surprisingly, the magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Japan on April 17, 2024positioned these two cities in the identical order of Suzume’s journey.
The unusual coincidence was dropped at mild by a Twitter person who seen a hanging connection between the seismic exercise and the movie’s principal character’s journey. By inserting two epicentral maps of earthquakes subsequent to screenshots from the film, the person indicated how the earthquakes occurred in the identical order as the primary character’s go to to the 2 cities.
“For the reason that first terrestrial broadcast of ‘Suzume No Tojimari’, earthquakes have occurred within the order through which the sparrows went round,” the Twitter person commented.
The footage shared depicted the eerily synchronized sequence of seismic occasions, main many followers to take a position concerning the coincidence and a potential connection between the movie and the earthquakes. Nevertheless, the person rapidly clarified that the intention was to not trigger alarm or discomfort amongst followers, however merely to spotlight an intriguing coincidence.
“I like Suzume and thought this was a giant coincidence so I simply posted it with no different intention. I apologize to anybody who was offended. It is a actually good film although, so I hope you may test it out.“
Kyushu is an space in Japan that’s liable to earthquakes, whereas Ehime prefecture can’t be thought-about very secure both. So it’s maybe not stunning that these cities had been affected by the earthquake itself; quite, it was the order through which they had been affected.
9 folks suffered minor accidents, whereas the earthquakes precipitated injury to water pipes. Some areas witnessed landslides within the aftermath of the catastrophe, however a tsunami has been dominated out.
Some speculated whether or not the following metropolis talked about within the Suzume’s journey within the movie, Kobe, can be subsequent.
The anime movie was launched in theaters throughout Japan on November 11, 2022.
The movie premiered internationally in competitors on the 73rd Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant on February 23, 2023, marking the primary time an anime movie participated within the competition since Spirited Away in 2002.
The movie debuted at primary on the Japanese field workplace and grossed ¥1.88 billion ($13.49 million) from its preliminary IMAX screening and thru its first three days. It surpassed Weathering with You to change into the largest three-day opening for a Shinkai movie. In Japan, it’s the fourth highest-grossing movie of 2022, the ninth highest-grossing anime movie of all time, and the fifteenth general highest-grossing movie of all time.
Suzume has grossed greater than $323.3 million worldwide, together with ¥14.86 billion in Japan.
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