Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Sword of the Stranger opens in Japanese theaters, an original samurai-era action film from Bones about a nameless ronin who takes on the job of protecting a young boy from Ming assassins.

The television anime Clannad begins airing, a Kyoto Animation adaptation of Key's visual novel about delinquent high schooler Tomoya Okazaki and the people he meets, including gentle upperclassman Nagisa Furukawa.

Production I.G's Tsubasa: Tokyo Revelations begins release, an OVA continuing the Tsubasa Chronicle saga as Syaoran and his companions arrive in a war-torn Tokyo in search of Sakura's stolen memories.

Macross F: Close Encounter - Deculture Edition, an extended recut of Macross Frontier's first episode, releases in Japan.

Adif's Madrid–Barcelona high-speed line opened in full on 20 February 2008, cutting the 621km journey to about 2 hours 30 minutes and becoming the backbone of the AVE network that engineering crews are now upgrading for 350km/h running.

Baccano! Bangai-hen premieres, three DVD-exclusive episodes rounding out Brain's Base's adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels with extra material for the 1930s Prohibition-era cast.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, Sunrise's second-season continuation of the mecha-political thriller, begins airing as exiled prince Lelouch vi Britannia resumes his hidden war against the Britannian Empire.

Soul Eater begins broadcast, Bones' adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo's manga set at the Death Weapon Meister Academy, where weapon-and-meister pairs collect souls to forge new Death Scythes while defending Death City from monsters.

M.S.C releases Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen Final, the concluding OVA arc of the Prince of Tennis National Tournament storyline, as Seigaku faces the tournament's strongest team, Rikkaidai.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 high fantasy film, directed by Andrew Adamson, and written by Adamson, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is based on the 1951 novel Prince Caspian, the second in the children's book series by C.

Hal Film Maker releases Aria the Origination: That Little Secret Place..., a bonus special adapting a bridging chapter of the Aria manga and set between episodes five and six of the Aria the Origination TV series.

Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.

Kyoto Animation releases Clannad: Another World, Tomoyo Chapter, a single-episode OVA retelling the anime's finale from an alternate timeline centered on Tomoya and Tomoyo's relationship.

InuYasha: Kuroi Tessaiga debuts, a 30-minute InuYasha special screened at Rumiko Takahashi manga exhibitions across Japan before it was later folded, slightly re-edited, into an episode of InuYasha: The Final Act.

Studio Rikka begins streaming Time of Eve, a near-future ONA in which high-schooler Rikuo discovers a hidden cafe where humans and the androids he was taught to treat as tools are met as equals.

The Detroit Metal City OVA begins release, a Studio 4°C-animated comedy adapting Kiminori Wakasugi’s manga about a mild-mannered pop musician forced to front an extreme death-metal act.

The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Paradigm, the fifth film in ufotable's adaptation of Kinoko Nasu's novel series, opens in Japanese theaters, following Shiki Ryougi as she shelters a runaway boy convinced he has murdered his own mother.

The Shanghai World Financial Center opened in 2008 after developers were forced to redesign its circular summit opening into a trapezoid when the public read it as a Japanese flag.

The Loro Parque Company opened Siam Park in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, a Thai-themed water park that would go on to be ranked the world's best by TripAdvisor.

Kyoto Animation releases a standalone Lucky☆Star OVA, six unconnected bonus vignettes starring Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and the rest of the cast, including an MMORPG story arc and a surreal dream sequence.

The television anime Toradora! begins airing, a J.C.STAFF-produced romantic comedy adapting Yuyuko Takemiya's light novels about an unlikely alliance between mild-mannered Ryuuji Takasu and the diminutive, fierce Taiga Aisaka.

Kyoto Animation's sequel series Clannad: After Story begins airing, following Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa into adulthood after the events of the first Clannad season.

Shaft releases Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, a follow-up OVA continuing Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei with more stories about the terminally pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki and the eccentric students of Class 2-H.

A paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, signed Satoshi Nakamoto, is posted to a cryptography mailing list. It describes a chain of proof-of-work timestamps that lets strangers transact without a trusted third party.

GONZO releases the first episode of a two-part Seto no Hanayome OVA, new stand-alone shorts reuniting the cast as San and Luna's overprotective fathers keep testing Nagasumi's nerve during their third year of school.