Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Madhouse's TV adaptation of One-Punch Man begins airing, following Saitama, a superhero so powerful that he defeats every opponent in a single punch, as boredom with the lack of challenge leaves him mentoring the cyborg Genos.

A short comedic Gintama special premieres at the Jump Festa 2015 anime fair, pairing a food-obsessed gag episode with an extended preview for the upcoming Silver Soul story arc.

A bonus OVA of Haikyuu!! screens at Jump Festa before its home video release, watching Hinata and Kageyama scramble to retake a failed exam without missing their team's training camp.

Bones releases a companion OVA to Noragami Aragoto, two bonus episodes bundled with limited-edition manga volumes that send Hiyori, Yato, and Yukine on a ski trip and an amusement-park outing between the main story's events.

WHITE FOX's Steins;Gate 0: 23β -Divide by Zero- premieres, an alternate version of the original series' 23rd episode bundled with the Steins;Gate Blu-ray box that sets the story on course for Steins;Gate 0.

MAD Architects finished its undulating Harbin Opera House, a two-theatre arts complex built to withstand the city's extreme winters.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. The sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983), it is the first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and chronologically the seventh film of the "Skywalker Saga".

Harry Macklowe's 432 Park Avenue, then the world's tallest residential tower, officially completed in Manhattan in December 2015 after four years of construction.

One-Punch Man OVA collects six original bonus episodes bundled with the TV series' BD/DVD volumes, written by series creator ONE and animated by Madhouse.

Sunrise releases Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, an original video series set during the One Year War, following rival Zeon and Federation ace pilots fighting through the wreck-strewn Thunderbolt Sector.

TYO Animations releases Aria the Avvenire, a two-part special continuing the Aria franchise's gentle slice-of-life story of gondolier apprentices on a terraformed, future Venice-like Mars.

A-1 Pictures releases Working!!!: Lord of the Takanashi, the special final episode of the workplace comedy's third season set at the Wagnaria family restaurant.

The fan-made Touhou Project OVA Hifuu Katsudou Kiroku: The Sealed Esoteric History begins release, following Secret Sealing Club members Maribel Hearn and Renko Usami as they investigate the hidden history of Gensokyo.

Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.

A-1 Pictures' ERASED (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) begins airing, a mystery-thriller about a struggling manga artist whose supernatural ability sends him back in time to stop a childhood friend's disappearance.

Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu releases in Japanese theaters, the first installment of Shaft's three-part adaptation of Nisio Isin's Monogatari prequel novel, in which high schooler Koyomi Araragi meets the vampire Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade and is reborn as her vampire kin.

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju begins its TV run, a period drama in which a newly released convict apprentices himself to a rakugo storytelling master, unfolding the master's own tangled past across postwar Japan.

Studio DEEN's KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! begins broadcast, a comic isekai following hapless gamer Kazuma Satou, who dies absurdly and is reincarnated into a fantasy world with the inept goddess Aqua to fight the Demon King.

At a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations announce GW150914, a signal from the merger of two black holes recorded by both LIGO detectors on 14 September 2015 - the first direct observation of gravitational waves.

A-1 Pictures' Doukyuusei -Classmates- opens in Japanese theaters, a quiet romance between honor student Sajou and band guitarist Kusakabe as they bond preparing for their school's chorus festival.

david production's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable begins airing, the fourth TV season adapting Hirohiko Araki's manga as Jotaro Kujo travels to Morioh to find his newly discovered relative Josuke Higashikata.

My Hero Academia begins broadcast, Bones' adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi's manga about Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without a superpower in a world where nearly everyone has one, who is chosen by the world's greatest hero to inherit his Quirk.

White Fox's Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- begins airing, an isekai series following Subaru Natsuki, who discovers he can rewind time to his death as he tries to protect a silver-haired girl in a new world.