Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A third season of the isekai comedy Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- was announced straight off the second season's finale, promising more of Makoto Misumi's wasteland kingdom-building.

A Quiet Place: Day One is a 2024 American apocalyptic horror film, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, based on a story he conceived with John Krasinski. It is the third installment in the A Quiet Place film series, and a prequel spinoff of the first film.

Studio Durian's Look Back opens in Japanese theaters, adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot manga about two aspiring young manga artists, Fujino and Kyomoto, whose creative partnership and rivalry shapes both their lives.

Ufotable's closing chapter of Demon Slayer was locked in when the Hashira Training finale revealed the Infinity Castle arc would be told as a theatrical trilogy, of which this is the third and final film.

Ufotable's Infinity Castle theatrical trilogy, including the still-undated second film, is announced right after the Hashira Training season finale of Demon Slayer.

B.CMAY PICTURES' Yi Nian Yongheng 3rd Season begins streaming, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Er Gen's xianxia web novel A Will Eternal as protagonist Bai Xiaochun climbs further through the cultivation world's ranks.

Shaft streams Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, continuing the story of the girls Koyomi Araragi once saved after his own story concluded.

Crunchyroll's industry panel at Anime Expo 2024 announced a TV anime of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, the Korean apocalypse web novel and webtoon hit, co-produced by Crunchyroll and Aniplex.

Europe's new heavy-lift launcher Ariane 6, built by ArianeGroup, flew for the first time from the Guiana Space Centre. The inaugural flight met its main objectives despite an anomaly in an upper-stage auxiliary unit late in the mission.

OpenAI introduces GPT-4o mini, its most capable and cost-efficient small model, surpassing GPT-3.5 Turbo on academic benchmarks.

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 begins release, an OVA continuation of the long-running Yamato franchise picking up from the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205 films as the crew presses further into the war with extradimensional forces.

Lingwu Continent is an iQIYI-streamed Chinese fantasy donghua from Soyep about a fallen prodigy who regains his power as a rare dual cultivator of spirit and martial arts.

The Chinese donghua Slay the Gods begins streaming, a Shenman Entertainment production in which a blind teenage night watchman battles mythic invaders threatening his world.

Production I.G streams Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3, picking up right after Sawako and Kazehaya become a couple as their families and friends' own romances keep unfolding around them.

The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua comedy-fantasy Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) streams online, continuing its manga-adapted story of mismatched humans and mythical beasts.

A second season of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, the isekai comedy about a healer drilled into a battlefield medic, was announced on stage at Otakon 2024.

The second season of Rising Impact begins streaming, following golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy's Japan team as they compete against gifted young golfers from UK and US schools in the Camelot Cup.

On August 11, 2024, the Martin JRM Mars flying boat "Hawaii Mars" made its final flight, escorted by Snowbirds jets, ending 78 years of service as the world’s largest water bomber.

OpenAI ships a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that users preferred in experiments, while saying it is not a new frontier-class model.

NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.

Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

The Clippers' new $2BN Intuit Dome arena opened in Inglewood on August 15, 2024, giving the team its first standalone home after decades sharing a venue with the Lakers.