Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Egyptian contractor Orascom finished cladding Pyongyang's pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel in glass in July 2011, ending a stop-start construction saga that began in 1987 — though the 330-metre tower has never opened to a single guest.

Gensou Mangekyou: The Memories of Phantasm, a fan-made original video anime based on the Touhou Project doujin game series, begins release.

Lerche releases Carnival Phantasm, a comedy OVA created for Type-Moon's tenth anniversary that parodies characters from Fate/stay night, Tsukihime, and Melty Blood in a shared, gag-filled continuity.

Sinovel completed installation of the SL5000, China's first independently developed 5-megawatt offshore wind turbine, as a single demonstration unit at the Donghai Bridge wind farm near Shanghai. Two of China's largest crane vessels assembled the 150-meter-tall machine through the region's typhoon season.

Brain's Base's Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light opens in Japanese theaters, a short supernatural romance following a girl named Hotaru and Gin, a forest spirit she can never touch, across their summers together.

Madhouse's second TV adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter begins airing, restarting the manga from its beginning with young Gon Freecss setting out to become a Hunter like his father.

ufotable's Fate/Zero begins airing, a prequel to Fate/stay night depicting the brutal Fourth Holy Grail War fought a decade earlier by mercenary Kiritsugu Emiya and his Servant, Saber.

The Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) begins broadcast, Asread's adaptation of Sakae Esuno's manga about loner Yukiteru Amano, who discovers his imaginary friend Deus Ex Machina is real when he's forced into a deadly battle royale against eleven other holders of future-predicting phone diaries.

Boeing handed over the first 747-8 Freighter to launch customer Cargolux at its Everett, Washington widebody plant, putting the largest version of the 747 into commercial cargo service.

Bunny Drop Specials premieres, four short bonus episodes bundled across the Bunny Drop TV series home video release that expand on single guardian Daikichi and young Rin's daily life together.

Shaft airs Hidamari Sketch x SP, a two-part special bringing back Yuno, Sae, Hiro, and Miyako alongside new students Nori and Nazuna for more slice-of-life art-school antics.

K-ON!: The Movie releases in Japanese theaters, sending the Light Music Club's graduating members on one last overseas trip to London before they part ways.

The two-episode OVA Major: World Series begins release, animating the World Series arc of Takuya Mitsuda's baseball manga that the television series had skipped, and closing out the Major anime franchise.

The fourth TV season of Natsume's Book of Friends begins airing, following Takashi Natsume as he continues returning yokai names recorded in his grandmother's Book of Friends while confronting more of his own past.

TNK's High School DxD premieres, an ecchi fantasy following high schooler Issei Hyodo after he is killed on his first date and reincarnated as a low-ranking devil serving under his upperclassman Rias Gremory.

The horror-mystery TV anime Another begins broadcast, following transfer student Kouichi Sakakibara as he uncovers the deadly curse haunting Yomiyama North Middle School's Class 3.

Steins;Gate: Egoistic Poriomania, an OVA bundled with the TV series' final Blu-ray/DVD volume, releases, following the Future Gadget Lab members some months after the anime's ending as they plan a trip to America.

Brain's Base begins releasing a string of OVA episodes for History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, bundled across several manga tankobon volumes and continuing the story of martial-arts trainee Kenichi Shirahama and the Ryozanpaku dojo.

Daily Lives of High School Boys Specials collects extra episodes of the deadpan high-school comedy that were left off the TV broadcast and released only on home video.

Xebec and AIC's Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 begins release, a remake OVA sending the battleship Yamato on a mission to save Earth from the invading Gamilas.

Fate/Zero Season 2 begins its TV run, closing out the Fourth Holy Grail War as its remaining Masters and Servants abandon their uneasy truce and fight to the finish.

Kyoto Animation's Hyouka begins broadcast, adapting Honobu Yonezawa's Classic Literature Club light novels as reluctant sleuth Houtarou Oreki is drawn into solving his high school club's small, long-buried mysteries.

Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren christened the 139,000-tonne MSC Divina in Marseille a week after her delivery. Built for $550 million at STX France's Saint-Nazaire shipyard, she became the third ship in MSC Cruises' Fantasia class.

Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower at the time and an earthquake-engineering showcase, opened to visitors in Sumida, Tokyo.

Liebherr presented its LTM 1750-9.1, an all-terrain mobile crane that can drive fully rigged on public roads with its 52-metre telescopic boom, to more than 2,000 customers at its Ehingen, Germany plant. The 750-tonne-capacity crane costs around 4 million euros.