Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The second OVA arc of Saint Seiya's Hades storyline begins release, continuing the surviving Bronze and Gold Saints' descent into the underworld to confront Hades himself.

Production I.G releases Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG - Individual Eleven, a compilation film recutting the "Individual Eleven" story arc from the second Stand Alone Complex TV season.

MADHOUSE's Hellsing Ultimate OVA series premieres, a bloodier, manga-faithful retelling of Kouta Hirano's Hellsing in which the vampire mercenary Alucard and his British masters battle the Vatican's rival agents and the Nazi-remnant group Millennium.

M.S.C begins the Zenkoku Taikai-hen OVA series, continuing The Prince of Tennis as Seigaku's tennis team advances into the National Tournament to face rival schools old and new.

Sunrise's Gintama begins airing, an Edo-period comedy following freelancer Gintoki Sakata and his odd-jobs crew navigating a Japan under alien occupation, adapted from Hideaki Sorachi's manga.

The TV adaptation of Ai Yazawa's josei manga Nana begins airing, following two young women who share the name Nana as they chase romance and rock stardom after moving to Tokyo.

Bones' Ouran High School Host Club begins its television broadcast, adapting Bisco Hatori's manga about a scholarship student who joins her elite academy's all-male Host Club to work off a debt after accidentally breaking a priceless vase.

After 56 days of trial and six days of deliberation, a federal jury in Houston convicted Enron's two former chief executives. Kenneth Lay was found guilty on all six counts he faced; Jeffrey Skilling was convicted on conspiracy, securities fraud, false statements and insider trading counts, closing the criminal case over the largest US corporate collapse of its time.

GONZO's Welcome to the N-H-K begins airing, a dark comedy adapting Tatsuhiko Takimoto's novel about recluse Tatsuhiro Satou, convinced a shadowy conspiracy is behind his isolation, and the mysterious Misaki who tries to draw him back into society.

At 397 metres long and able to carry roughly 14,770 TEU, Emma Maersk was the largest container ship in the world when she entered service in 2006. Built by Odense Steel Shipyard, she led Maersk's E-class fleet with one of the largest diesel engines ever installed on a ship.

Production I.G's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society premieres, a feature-length special set two years after the TV series in which Section 9, now led by Togusa, investigates a hacker known as the Puppeteer.

Madhouse's Death Note begins broadcast, adapting Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's manga about high schooler Light Yagami, who gains the power to kill by writing a name in a supernatural notebook.

Sunrise's original mecha series Code Geass begins airing, in which exiled prince Lelouch Lamperouge gains a mind-control power and leads a rebellion against the Britannian Empire occupying Japan.

Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre premieres, a two-episode OVA bridging the original Rozen Maiden TV series and its sequel Träumend, centered on Suigintou's tragic backstory and her enduring hatred of her 'sister' doll Shinku.

Maria Watches Over Us 3rd Season OVA continues the Lillian Girls' Academy drama with a summer arc in which old acquaintances of Sachiko's threaten to spoil her and Yumi's holiday.

Ten years after winning a Danish government renewables contest, the island of Samsø matched its annual energy consumption with local wind and biomass production, becoming the first community-driven 100% renewable energy island. It remains a global reference case for island decarbonization.

Studio Pierrot's Naruto: Shippuden begins airing, continuing the story of an older Naruto Uzumaki as he works to save his friend Sasuke Uchiha and confronts the shinobi organization Akatsuki.

MV Faust can carry up to 8,000 cars across her multiple decks, making her one of the largest roll-on/roll-off vehicle carriers ever built. Launched by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in 2007, she has weathered rogue waves and icy seas while ferrying vehicles for Wallenius Wilhelmsen.

The rebuilt Wembley Stadium hosted its first match, an England vs Italy Under-21s friendly, after the demolition and reconstruction of the original 1923 stadium. The new 90,000-seat stadium had been delayed by disputes with contractor Multiplex.

Gainax's original mecha series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann begins airing, following underground-village boys Simon and Kamina after they unearth a mysterious mech and fight their way to the surface world.

A specially configured TGV trainset, Project V150, reached 574.8 km/h on the LGV Est line near Le Chemin, France, the fastest a conventional wheeled train has ever run.

A brief bonus scene tucked into Japan's 2007 tenth-anniversary Rurouni Kenshin DVD-BOX, animated by Studio Deen — the same studio behind the original 1996 TV series. Rather than expanding the story, it restages the manga's own ending beat as a short coda for the boxed-set release.

Shrek the Third is a 2007 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig and produced by DreamWorks Animation. Directed by Chris Miller and written by Jeffrey Price, Peter S.

M.S.C continues The Prince of Tennis's National Tournament arc with the Semifinal OVAs, pitting Seigaku against the Kansai champion Shitenhouji Middle School.

The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film directed by David Silverman and based on the animated television series The Simpsons created by Matt Groening. The film stars Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, and other recurring actors reprising their roles from the series, with Albert Brooks joining for the film.