Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

A privately financed airport built to rival Madrid-Barajas opened near Ciudad Real in December 2008, before closing within four years as one of Spain's most notorious infrastructure failures.

Maikaze's doujin OVA Touhou Niji Sousaku Doujin Anime: Musou Kakyou begins release, an unofficial fan adaptation of the Touhou Project game series following shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei investigating a rash of thefts in Gensokyo.

MADHOUSE's second Hajime no Ippo TV series begins airing, continuing amateur-turned-pro boxer Ippo Makunouchi's climb through Japan's boxing ranks.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 begins its TV run, continuing Takashi Natsume's efforts to return the spirit names bound in his late grandmother's Book of Friends, with his bodyguard youkai Nyanko-sensei in tow.

The two-episode OVA xxxHOLiC Shunmuki continues Production I.G's adaptation of CLAMP's manga, picking up directly after xxxHOLiC Kei and tying into the linked Tsubasa Chronicle OVA project.

Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicles premieres, a two-part OVA bundled with the Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC manga's limited editions, continuing Sakura and Syaoran's dimension-hopping search for her lost memories.

A set of bonus Hidamari Sketch x 365 shorts bundled across several Blu-ray/DVD volumes, following the residents of Yunohana Sou through everyday slice-of-life vignettes.

Tokyo Movie Shinsha airs Lupin the 3rd Vs Detective Conan, a crossover TV special pitting master thief Lupin III against teenage detective Conan Edogawa amid a royal succession crisis.

Bones' second, manga-faithful adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist begins airing, following brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric's search for the Philosopher's Stone after a forbidden alchemy ritual costs them their bodies.

Square Enix releases Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, a re-edited home-video version of the Advent Children film adding roughly 26 minutes of new and revised footage.

Gainax's Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars opens in Japanese theaters, the second of two compilation films recapping and continuing the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann TV series with new footage covering its back half.

A bonus OVA for the Spice and Wolf light novels arrives on home video, catching up with traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and the wolf goddess Holo as her illness and a budding rivalry with a fellow traveler draw the two closer together.

TMS Entertainment releases Detective Conan: The Stranger in 10 Years, an OVA imagining Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara growing up alongside their friends after never taking the antidote to APTX 4869.