Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Studio Shuka's Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond opens in Japanese theaters, sending Takashi Natsume and Nyanko-sensei into a new story tied to an old friend's yokai-tinged memories.

8-bit's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime begins broadcast, an isekai adventure following salaryman Satoru Mikami, killed in Tokyo and reborn as a slime in a fantasy world, as he builds a nation of monsters around him.

CloverWorks' Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai begins airing, a romantic drama in which high schooler Sakuta Azusagawa encounters a famous actress rendered invisible to others by a phenomenon known as puberty syndrome.

The fifth TV season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure begins airing, following Giorno Giovanna as he joins the Italian gang Passione hoping to reshape it from within.

Bonus chibi-parody shorts bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of Attack on Titan Season 3 begin release, continuing the comedic "Chimi Kyara Gekijou" side-story format used on earlier seasons' home-video specials.

The 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opened to traffic on 24 October 2018, linking the three Pearl River Delta cities with cable-stayed bridges, artificial islands and an undersea tunnel.

The winner of Eater San Diego's 2017 Restaurant of the Year opened a second outpost in a 2,000-square-foot space at Mira Mesa Shopping Center. It was owner Takashi Endo's 14th ramen shop, and it arrived about four months after the mid-2018 launch Eater had reported.

IHG opened the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, an 18-storey hotel built into the walls of a disused quarry with two underwater floors set against a lit aquarium.

The Apple Watch Series 4 expected this fall will feature a new design and a display that's 15 percent larger, according to the latest reports. Kuo expects the two new Apple Watch models will measure 1.57 inches (39.9mm) and 1.78 inches (45.2mm), compared to the current 38mm and 42mm Apple Watch sizes.

Douluo Dalu 2nd Season, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Tang Jia San Shao's novel, begins release, following young spirit master Tang San's ongoing rise through the world of Douluo Continent.

Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2018 American animated superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rothman, it is the first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise.

J.C.Staff airs The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Kanketsu-hen, a one-episode special adapting the final chapters of Shuuichi Asou's manga and closing out psychic high-schooler Kusuo Saiki's story.

Lamborghini unveiled the Huracán Evo, a 640-horsepower V10 supercar built by hand at its Sant'Agata Bolognese factory in Italy.

Studio Bones' Mob Psycho 100 II begins broadcast, continuing the story of psychic middle-schooler Shigeo 'Mob' Kageyama as the group Claw returns to threaten him.

Kinema Citrus's The Rising of the Shield Hero begins broadcast, adapting Aneko Yusagi's light novel about Naofumi Iwatani, summoned to a parallel world as its weakest hero and betrayed early, who rises anyway with only his shield.

CloverWorks' TV adaptation of The Promised Neverland begins airing, following Emma, Norman, and Ray, the brightest orphans at Grace Field House, after they discover the dark truth behind the idyllic orphanage that raised them.

A-1 Pictures' Kaguya-sama: Love is War begins airing, a romantic comedy pitting student council president Miyuki Shirogane against vice president Kaguya Shinomiya in a battle of pride neither will break first to confess their feelings.

Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly, ufotable's second Heaven's Feel film, opens in Japanese theaters, following Shirou Emiya's resolve to protect Sakura Matou as the Holy Grail War turns darker.

Sri Lanka finishes reclaiming 269 hectares of land from the Indian Ocean off Colombo, laying the ground for the Chinese-backed Port City Colombo financial district.

Kinema Citrus's Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight opens in Japanese theaters, a compilation film recapping the back half of the TV series as Riko and Reg press deeper into the Abyss while the truth behind her mother's disappearance comes into focus.

The consortium building Venice's MOSE flood-defence system put the last of its 78 mobile barrier gates into place across the lagoon's three inlets, nearly sixteen years after groundbreaking, though the system as a whole was still years from completion. Heavy-lift specialist Fagioli spent years floating and positioning the multi-tonne steel gates; individual gates were first raised in October 2013, and the first full test of all 78 followed on 10 July 2020.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a 2019 American animated fantasy film written and directed by Dean DeBlois, based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and the final installment of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

Indonesia opened the 140.9km Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar toll road in Lampung, the flagship first section of the Trans Sumatera Toll Road network built by state contractor Hutama Karya.

Thomas Heatherwick's climbable honeycomb staircase, The Vessel, opens to the public as the centrepiece of Manhattan's new Hudson Yards district.