Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay opened on 29 June 2012, its Flower Dome conservatory later certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest glass greenhouse.

At a seminar at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments each report a new boson at around 125-126 GeV at five sigma, independently and from the same data-taking runs. It is the last unverified piece of the Standard Model.

A-1 Pictures' Sword Art Online begins broadcast, adapting Reki Kawahara's light novel series about players trapped inside a deadly virtual-reality MMORPG where death in the game means death in real life.

Wolf Children releases in Japanese theaters, Mamoru Hosoda's original film about a young mother raising two half-wolf children alone after their werewolf father's early death, animated by Madhouse alongside Hosoda's own Studio Chizu.

Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna, a newly animated television special retelling the Arlong Park arc and Nami’s backstory.

Sunrise's Gintama: Yorinuki Gintama-san on Theater 2D plays in select Japanese theaters, recutting the Shinsengumi Crisis and Kabukicho Four Devas TV arcs into a two-part movie presentation.

ADAC Luftrettung signs a framework order for 14 EC145 T2 (later renamed H145) and 3 EC135 P2e helicopters, built at what is now Airbus Helicopters' Donauwörth plant, the model whose build process this film documents.

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton submit a deep convolutional network to the ImageNet challenge as team SuperVision and win by a wide margin. The result turns GPU deep learning from a niche into an industry.

Gintama': Enchousen begins airing, a 13-episode continuation of Sunrise's samurai-comedy anime adapting Hideaki Sorachi's manga, following the Yorozuya through the "Kintoki impostor" and Yoshiwara arcs.