Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky premieres, a light-novel adaptation from studio Makaria about a withdrawn university freshman who befriends a blind classmate determined to see fireworks.

Sapporo Breweries agreed to pay Carlsberg $643 million for 25% of a new joint venture holding Carlsberg's businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, with perpetual exclusive rights to Sapporo Premium Beer there and a UK licence for Carlsberg.

Microsoft eliminated around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its workforce, mostly in Xbox and its commercial business; Xbox cut 1,600 that day on the way to about 3,200 through fiscal 2027 and let four studios go to new management.

Vuori unveiled Breathe, a perforated, lightweight line for high-intensity gym training led by the Kore Breathe Short, with Chicago Bears tight end Colston Loveland in its "Breathe Through It" campaign.

Structural steel columns buckled at 235 East 42nd Street, the former Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan being converted into roughly 1,600 apartments, forcing an evacuation and emergency stabilisation.

A Ninth Circuit panel heard California and seven conservation groups argue that PHMSA unlawfully claimed federal control of Sable Offshore's onshore Las Flores pipelines and approved their restart; the case turns on whether oil processed at Las Flores Canyon is still in interstate transportation.

Zero-G and Saber Works begin broadcasting Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3, sending college diver Iori Kitahara and his boozy diving-club friends overseas to help run a new dive shop in Palau.

France's second vine-pull scheme opened for payment claims on 7 July 2026, paying a flat €4,000 per hectare of vines grubbed up for good after 27,926 hectares were put forward as wine consumption, especially of reds, keeps falling; claims close on 1 March 2027.

NATO's 36th summit, in Türkiye's presidential complex, reported European and Canadian core defence investment up by more than $139 billion in 2025, announced more than $50 billion of new procurement and pledged EUR 70 billion in military aid for Ukraine in 2026.

Clevatess Season 2 begins airing, continuing the fantasy TV anime's manga adaptation as the postwar search for General Drel's hidden secrets draws in Klen and the students of Boelate's divine academy.

The second season of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman follows Beryl Gardenant settling into his new roles as a special instructor for the Royal Order of Knights and guardian to an orphaned child. That relative calm does not last: the season sends him back to the magic institute, his hometown, the kingdom’s border and a foreign land as new threats surface. Produced by Passione, it continues the light novel adaptation's blend of understated swordplay and fantasy world-building.