Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Newon's TV adaptation of Otsuji's manga flips the Cinderella setup: an illegitimate daughter braces for cruelty from her new family, only to find her stepmother and stepsisters dote on her.

After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

Studio Eek's animated adaptation of the Korean hit Tomb Raider King premieres on Japanese TV, following a betrayed raider who returns to the past to loot every relic tomb first.

Disney's live-action reimagining of the animated adventure sends Moana (Catherine Laga'aia) beyond the reef with the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) to restore prosperity to her island of Motunui.

Asahi Production's Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You begins airing, adapting the manga about overworked salaryman Sasaki's chance smoke-break encounters with the women working at his local supermarket.

Doga Kobo begins broadcasting Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Suuguu Chouso Torikae Den, a light-novel adaptation in which rival noblewomen Keigetsu and Reirin swap bodies through forbidden magic and must survive the political fallout together.

Based on the manga of the same name and animated by LidenFilms, the series reimagines a defeated Demon King, Ryuūsei Narukami, living out a second life as a reclusive shut-in — until Meteor Hanaori, the hero who once struck him down, resurfaces reincarnated as an ordinary high schooler. Trying to turn his life around, Ryuūsei takes a teaching job that happens to land him at her school, and old rivalry curdles into an unlikely spark between former enemies.

B&W's board authorised buying back up to $50 million of its common stock, starting after its second-quarter 10-Q, with no expiry date and subject to its lenders. The same day it called its last $61.4 million of 2026 notes for redemption.

The first Eurofighter Typhoon built for Germany's 20-jet Quadriga order, serial 34+02, flew for about an hour before returning safely to Airbus's Manching site.

Johnson & Johnson reported second-quarter sales of $25.3 billion, up 6.6%, and adjusted EPS of $2.90, and raised its 2026 outlook to about $101.1 billion in sales and $11.68 adjusted EPS at the midpoint.

TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.

Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.

Christopher Nolan's IMAX-shot adaptation of Homer's epic follows Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his perilous voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, facing the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and Circe along the way.

The Elusive Samurai returns for a second season, continuing CloverWorks' TV adaptation of Yusuke Suzuki's manga about the young shogun's heir Hojo Tokiyuki, who survives the fall of the Kamakura shogunate by mastering the art of running away.

Ten years after Paris approved Nouvelle AOM's full glass-facade transformation of the Tour Montparnasse, the tower's co-owners voted to abandon that plan in favour of a smaller, cheaper intervention.

Nvidia said its Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems are now shipping to cloud providers and system makers, with 288 GB of HBM4 per GPU and about five times Blackwell's inference performance.

The 39-storey, 180-metre tower beside Central Station reached its full height at a topping-out ceremony, making it the world's tallest hybrid timber and steel building. Co-owned by Atlassian and the property group Dexus, it anchors Sydney's Tech Central precinct and is expected to be completed in 2027.

Monday.com is cutting about 20% of its global workforce, around 620 jobs with some 350 at its Tel Aviv headquarters, as it reorganises around its AI Work Platform.

AMD launched its Helios rack-scale AI system, built on MI455X GPUs and Venice EPYC CPUs, with shipments to Microsoft starting in the second half of 2026 and a 2 GW Anthropic deployment from 2027.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, a step-change improvement for the Opus tier for long-running agents, with gains in coding and professional work.