Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Shrek Forever After is a 2010 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 Mike Mitchell, and written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, it is the sequel to Shrek the Third (2007) and the fourth installment in the Shrek franchise.

Norwegian Cruise Line took delivery of the 153,000-ton Norwegian Epic from the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, at the time the largest ship ever built there.

Madhouse's Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail begins release, a five-episode OVA bringing the vengeful former terrorist-turned-maid Roberta back to the lawless port city of Roanapur.

Directed by Tetsurō Araki at Madhouse, Highschool of the Dead adapts Daisuke Satō and Shōji Satō’s manga about a high school suddenly overrun by a zombie outbreak, following a small group of students and a school nurse who fight and flee their way across a collapsing city. The 12-episode series leans hard into gratuitous horror and fan service alongside its survival-action plot, drawing reviews that praised its committed genre execution but knocked its thin characterization; its explicit content later got it named among dozens of titles China banned in 2015.

China's Ministry of Commerce slashed its second-half 2010 rare earth export quotas by 72%, tightening its grip on the roughly 97% of global rare earth supply it mined at the time. The move, framed as an environmental crackdown on unregulated mining, sent rare earth prices soaring within days.

Brain's Base releases two bonus Durarara!! DVD specials, one bridging episodes 12 and 13 around an Ikebukuro UFO sighting and another following the finale as Shizuo's brother's TV special turns dangerous.

Siemens revealed its Vectron locomotive family, presenting prototypes to the public at the InnoTrans rail trade fair in Berlin. Vectron electric and hybrid freight locomotives are built at Siemens' Munich-Allach factory and now haul freight for operators including DB Cargo.

Wilh. Wilhelmsen launched the 265-meter Tønsberg at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagasaki shipyard, the largest roll-on/roll-off vessel ever built at the time. The ship carries luxury cars, SUVs, and outsized construction equipment across the world's oceans.

The Stena Britannica, one of the world’s largest RoPax ferries, entered service on the Harwich–Hook of Holland route after final sea trials and certification.

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu Specials adds two bonus episodes to the Hidamari Sketch franchise, first announced at Comiket 78.

Aldar Properties opened Ferrari World on Yas Island, a Ferrari-branded park enclosed by a 200,000-square-meter roof shaped like the brand's GT badge, making it the world's largest indoor theme park.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 fantasy adventure film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and Michael Petroni, based on the 1952 novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published and fifth chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. The sequel to The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (20

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Special is bundled with the limited-edition home-video release of the earlier Benizakura-hen theatrical film, a bonus short tied to the same story.

SynergySP's Major: Message releases as a one-shot OVA epilogue to the Major baseball franchise, following pitcher-turned-fielder Goro Honda as he fights to return to professional baseball while rebuilding his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica begins broadcast, a subversive magical-girl series following Madoka Kaname toward a fateful wish-granting contract with the cat-like Kyubey after she watches her classmate Homura Akemi fight a witch.

TMS Entertainment begins releasing Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas 2, the second OVA season continuing the prequel story of the Lost Canvas manga set generations before the original Saint Seiya.

Doraemon: Shin Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan - Habatake Tenshi-tachi, a remake of the franchise's own 1986 film, releases in Japanese theaters, sending Nobita and friends up against an invading Robot Army after Nobita builds a mysterious fallen robot of his own.

Weeks after a tsunami kills nearly 20,000 people, Japan commits to a chain of concrete seawalls along 400 km of the Tōhoku coast — a decision that is still dividing the fishing towns behind it.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus K-ON!! episode bundled with the series' ninth Blu-ray/DVD volume, following the Light Music Club as they apply for passports ahead of a planned overseas trip.

Studio DEEN releases two bonus Sekaiichi Hatsukoi OVA episodes, filling in the backstory of editors Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano's high-school breakup and a later, awkward family visit for fellow couple Hatori and Chiaki.

An OVA adapting the climactic chapters of Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Gaiden manga, the prequel to her Saiyuki series set among the deities of Heaven before Son Goku's fall.

Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede delivered the Oleg Strashnov, a 183-metre DP3 crane vessel able to lift 5,000 tonnes, to Seaway Heavy Lifting on 1 April 2011. The ship went on to become one of the most powerful monohull crane vessels used in offshore construction.

Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

Sunrise's second Gintama TV season, Gintama', begins broadcast, picking up after a year-long time skip that scrambles the personalities of Edo's residents, including Yorozuya members Gintoki and Kagura.

White Fox's adaptation of the visual novel Steins;Gate begins airing, following self-proclaimed "mad scientist" Rintarou Okabe after his microwave-turned-time-machine starts sending text messages into the past.