Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Tsukimonogatari premieres, the third part of the Monogatari Series Second Season continuation, a Shaft-animated adaptation following Koyomi Araragi as a strange bodily change draws him back into the supernatural fallout of his past cases.

Tokyo Ghoul √A is Studio Pierrot’s 12-episode second season, directed by Shūhei Morita, picking up with Ken Kaneki after he defeats Yamori and joins the ghoul faction Aogiri Tree as CCG investigators close in. Rather than adapting the manga's second half directly, the season blends its events with new material credited to original creator Sui Ishida — a divergence that drew significant criticism from manga readers for skipping and altering major plot points, and is often cited as part of why the franchise later got the more source-faithful Tokyo Ghoul:re anime.

Madhouse's Death Parade begins broadcast, a psychological drama in which pairs of the recently deceased arrive at the bar Quindecim, where bartender Decim forces them into life-or-death games that judge the fate of their souls.

Lerche's Assassination Classroom begins broadcast, following the students of class 3-E as they train to assassinate their new teacher, an unstoppable tentacled creature who has destroyed the moon and threatens Earth next, all while he genuinely mentors them.

A YuruYuri OVA sends the Amusement Club camping in the mountains for a weekend of tents, tests of courage, and hot springs before summer break ends.

Wit Studio and Studio DEEN release a run of Hoozuki no Reitetsu OVAs bundled with the manga's limited-edition volumes, continuing the comic misadventures of Hell's sharp-tongued chief clerk Hoozuki.

Sunrise's Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin OVA begins release, adapting Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga retelling of the years before the One Year War through Char Aznable and the Zabi family's rise to power.

Qualcomm announced that it completed the purchase of Wilocity and will soon deliver "a family of tri-band platforms that combine Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.ís Wi-Fi and WiGig solutions to significantly increase performance and enable cutting-edge wireless applications. The initial tri-band platform is a reference design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which is the worldís first mobile platform designed to support WiGig." The Snapdragon 810 is expected to ship in the first half of 2015.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus OVA for Free! -Eternal Summer-, an unaired episode bundled with the seventh Blu-ray/DVD volume revisiting the Iwatobi Swim Club cast in a lighter, comedic story.

Facebook employees moved into MPK 20, a Frank Gehry-designed office building topped by a nine-acre rooftop park, expanding the company's Menlo Park headquarters.

J.C.Staff's Food Wars! begins airing, adapting Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's cooking-competition manga about Souma Yukihira's rise through the elite, cutthroat Totsuki Culinary Academy.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? begins broadcast, a J.C.STAFF adaptation of Fujino Omori's light novels following novice adventurer Bell Cranel as he levels up through the monster-filled dungeon beneath the city of Orario.

Bandai Namco Pictures's third Gintama TV season, Gintama°, begins broadcast, continuing the Yorozuya team's mix of gag comedy and serialized samurai-and-aliens storylines.

Grisaia no Meikyuu: Caprice no Mayu 0 is a prologue OVA for the Grisaia visual novel sequel, digging into protagonist Yuuji Kazami's past as he weighs a promotion within CIRS.

Kuroko no Basket 3rd Season NG-shuu, a set of animated blooper reels bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of the basketball anime's third season, begins release.

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

Artland's MUSHI-SHI Special: Bell Droplets opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the final Mushishi manga arc as Ginko meets a young mountain lord, Kaya, torn between her duty over the Mushi and the human family she left behind.

Durarara!! X2: My Heart is in the Pattern of a Hot Pot, a bonus theatrical special tied to the Durarara!!x2 Shou season, screens in Japan.

P.A. Works begins broadcasting Charlotte, an original TV anime from Key writer Jun Maeda about teenagers who briefly gain supernatural powers during puberty.

Overlord begins broadcast, a dark fantasy isekai adapting Kugane Maruyama's light novels about Momonga, a lone player trapped as his skeletal wizard avatar when the VRMMO Yggdrasil's servers shut down around him.

Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast releases in Japanese theaters, an original story about an orphaned boy in Shibuya who is taken in and trained by a gruff warrior beast in a hidden world.

The Len Lye Centre, clad in curved stainless-steel columns, opened in New Plymouth as New Zealand's first museum dedicated to a single artist.

Shipbuilder Kleven Verft floated out the Edda Freya at its Ulsteinvik yard, a hybrid-powered subsea construction vessel later chartered to DeepOcean for pipeline and platform repair work like the mission the documentary follows.

TMS Entertainment releases the first of four Kamisama Kiss OVA episodes bundled with the manga, adapting the series' "past arc" showing how the fox spirit Tomoe first came to serve as a shrine familiar.

Two additional TV specials of YuruYuri air, following the Amusement Club making the most of the last days of summer vacation before the new term begins.