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In one of the routes of the city there is a poster of the 2020 Summer Olympics that would take place in Japan. At the 2013 Olympic selection ceremony, Tokyo won the bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be postponed until 2021. In addition to this prediction, the city where the anime bears a lot of resemblance to today's big cities in America and China.

The anime focuses on a girl who becomes obsessed with the internet and begins to modify her computer to travel through it. This anime very much predicted what the internet is like today: full of anonymous people (sometimes with very bad intentions), trolls, hackers, and constant government surveillance. As well as the obsession of people with the internet and technology that causes their abandonment to the real world.

In the Ghost in the Shell universe there is a constant information war. And as a single hacker can create a huge crisis for the society. In the real world, the governments of the great powers hack each other to obtain information.

In the first episodes, the plot focuses on Eva, a virtual J-Pop idol who is the obsession of society. In 2000 she was developing Vocaloid technology, but it wasn't released until 2004. In 2009 Hatsune Miku was the first virtual idol to hold a live concert.

The anime based on a manga from 1999, is about a group of astronauts whose job is to collect space debris, which is harmful to Earth. Many projects are currently under development to collect space debris orbiting the planet. Among these, the Swiss company ClearSpace and the European Space Agency stand out, who plan to start the first mission to collect space debris by 2025.

The anime depicts a society where people exchange their limbs for mechanical parts called Texhnolyze. Metallic and robotic prostheses are currently being developed. The most prominent case occurred in 2021 in Italy, where the Italian Institute of Technology and the INAIL Prosthesis Center created a 90% functional prosthesis.

The protagonist has a robot dog named Friender, which can become a jet, a submarine or a tank.

A robot company called "Boston Dynamics" has been developing "robot dogs" for the US military since 2005. Although it has not been used so far because it has not passed many tests.

Augmented Reality is an overlay of computer generated "enhancements" used in the real world. Mobile applications use Augmented Reality for their games like Pokémon Go. As seen in the anime where kids can capture and tame virtual creatures.

The anime takes place in a half-real and half-virtual city, the people use "AR mirrors" to see the virtual world. These mirrors are a kind of "Google Glass", which are mirrors that are superimposed on computer-generated enhancements in the real world. Google Glass appeared in 2013, while Dennō Coil in 2007.

Another overlooked prediction is the prediction where a person is killed by a self-driving car. There have been many deaths from self-driving cars in real life, but the closest thing happened in 2018 where a woman was hit by a self-driving car.

Both the creators of Oculus Rift, as well as IBM Japan, have declared the series as a great influence to pursue technology or it has been featured in technology-related demos. Also, he predicted the popularity of virtual reality games today.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 was an original anime co-produced by Bones and Kinema Citrus. Both studies investigated the effects of earthquakes and interviewed past survivors about their experiences. The series was created based on predictions that Tokyo has a 70% chance of being hit by an 8.0 earthquake.

The earthquake that hit Fukushima during the year 2011 was 9.0 and caused catastrophic damage to a nuclear power plant.

In the future, cars are driven by an artificial intelligence system. However, when these cars start to spin out of control, the government employs éX-Drivers (people who drive mechanical cars) to save the day.

Although this technology is still in development, Google has been actively producing a self-driving car that uses software and sensors to detect pedestrians and other obstacles.

Appleseed features mini-mecha called Landmates. The pilot wears it as bulky armor, and mimics the pilot's movements.

In 2012, Suidobashi Industries began selling personal mecha units called "Kuratas." The price of a personal Kuratas is $1.35 million USD.

In the series, the military train using virtual reality glasses, similar to those of the oculus rift where they simulate missions. In real life, as of 2018 in the United States, some military training has been carried out using virtual reality.

The anime also featured autonomous shooter robots. While in reality autonomous military robots are being developed.

The anime is about a young man who enters a parallel reality called the financial district. There he can accumulate large amounts of money by winning, but his future will be altered if he lose. As the story progresses, the financial district affects the real world. The series is inspired by the economic crisis of 2007-08.

Although it is closely related to future economic crises, its most accurate prediction is NFTs and cryptocurrencies. Currently, many young people enter virtual spaces where they sell and earn NFT through video games to exchange them for cryptocurrencies. In addition, they make transactions that will serve them in the real world. It can also be related to the current popularity of trading where many people have lost money.

In the series, the crew of a boat is dedicated to collecting plastic remains to turn them into oil. Currently there is already a chemical process with which plastic waste can be transformed into oil and its derivatives.

The antagonists also possess experimental laser cannons. In the real world, the United States together with Israel developed the Tactical High Energy Laser it was first used in 1999.

In one of the episodes a businessman uses an iris recognition as a password.

In 1994 John Daugman patented the basics of iris recognition and its underlying machine vision algorithms for image processing. Currently many countries use this system to identify people.

One of the protagonists uses motorized Inline skates that later run out of battery.

In real life, as of 2018, some electric Inline skates that began as a Kickstarter project have become popular.

In one episode, the protagonists face a trafficker of a substance that can increase people's muscles until they are deformed.

In the mid-1990s, Chris Clark created Shynthol, an addictive oil that pumps up muscles for bodybuilding purposes. Also its excessive use can deform the body.

The anime focuses on a young transvestite who spends her time harassing her friend. The prefix anime as currently transvestites and transsexuals can go to schools dressed and treated with the gender with which they identifies.