Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The three-part OVA The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Those Awaiting a Star begins release, a Wit Studio-animated prequel following protagonist Chise Hatori’s life before she meets the magus Elias Ainsworth.

Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu releases in Japanese theaters, the middle installment of Shaft's three-part adaptation of Nisio Isin's Monogatari prequel novel, continuing newly-turned vampire Koyomi Araragi's fight to reclaim Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade's stolen limbs.

Makoto Shinkai's Your Name. opens in Japan, a body-swap romance between a Tokyo boy and a countryside girl who begin waking up in each other's lives.

Bangkok's pixel-wrapped MahaNakhon skyscraper, designed by Ole Scheeren of OMA for developer PACE Development, held its public grand opening as Thailand's tallest building.

Dubai Opera, a 2,000-seat performing arts venue shaped like a dhow, opened in the city's Opera District with a Plácido Domingo gala.

Kyoto Animation's A Silent Voice opens in Japan, adapted from Yoshitoki Oima's manga about a former bully who seeks to make amends with a deaf classmate he once tormented.

The Port of Antwerp's new headquarters, a faceted glass extension perched atop a derelict 1920s fire station, opened as Zaha Hadid's last building completed after her death.

Silver Link releases a bonus Non Non Biyori: Repeat episode bundled with the manga's tenth volume, returning to Tokyo transplant Hotaru Ichijou's slice-of-life days in the rural village of Asahigaoka.

The German Aerospace Center's HY4, the world's first four-seat aircraft powered solely by a hydrogen fuel cell, made its first flight from Stuttgart Airport on September 29, 2016. The Future of Flight features it as a real prototype for zero-emission aviation.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 5 begins broadcast, the fifth televised season of Studio Shuka's adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's supernatural slice-of-life manga.

HAIKYU!! 3rd Season continues the volleyball anime as Karasuno High faces powerhouse Shiratorizawa Academy and its ace Wakatoshi Ushijima in the Spring tournament.

A solar-cooled permanent wing opened beside Sweden's seasonal ICEHOTEL, letting guests sleep on ice even through the Arctic's 100 days of continuous summer daylight.

Japan's tonkotsu chain opens its first restaurant in the United States, on Johnson Avenue in Bushwick, with the counter divided into one-person "flavour concentration booths". You order by marking a paper form and eat behind a partition without speaking to anyone.

Shaft begins releasing the Kubikiri Cycle OVA, adapting NisiOisiN's mystery light novel about a locked-room murder among a gathering of geniuses on a remote island.

The single-episode My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO! OVA releases, bundled with a PS Vita tie-in game and following Hachiman Hikigaya and Iroha Isshiki as they scout ideal date spots around Chiba.

In This Corner of the World premieres in Japanese theaters, MAPPA's crowdfunded adaptation of Fumiyo Kono's manga following a young bride's life in wartime Hiroshima and Kure through the final years of World War II.

Karpowership dispatched the floating power plant Yasin Bey from Istanbul on a four-week voyage to Ambon, Indonesia, where the 125 MW vessel would moor offshore to supply the island’s grid.

TMS Entertainment's Detective Conan: Episode "ONE" airs as a 20th-anniversary television special retelling how high-school detective Shinichi Kudo was transformed into the child sleuth Conan Edogawa.

ExxonMobil Canada's Hebron project reached a major construction milestone when the platform's topsides were joined to its concrete gravity base structure at the Bull Arm fabrication site in Newfoundland. Italian heavy-lift specialist Fagioli had earlier installed the topsides' largest modules, including a 45,000-tonne utilities process module shipped from South Korea.

Lufthansa took delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 from Airbus's Toulouse delivery centre, the initial aircraft of a 25-jet order that became the backbone of its new Munich long-haul hub. The A350 entered scheduled service two months later, flying Munich to Delhi.

TMS Entertainment's Kamisama Hajimemashita: Kamisama, Shiawase ni Naru releases as a bundled OVA closing out the Kamisama Kiss franchise, following land god Nanami Momozono and fox familiar Tomoe as they navigate his wish to live as a human ahead of her high school graduation.

Permits adults who are not participating in the state's medical cannabis program to legally grow (up to six plants, including all of the harvest from those plants) and to possess personal use quantities of cannabis (up to one ounce of flower and/or up to 3.5 grams of concentrates) while also licensing commercial cannabis production and retail sales. (Home cultivation is not permitted if one's residence is within 25 miles of an operating marijuana retailer.) Commercial marijuana production is subject to a 15 percent excise tax, much of which is earmarked to the State Distributive School Account.

New York opened the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway, a century-delayed project that became the world's most expensive subway on a per-mile basis.

Shaft closes out the Kizumonogatari trilogy with Reiketsu, following Koyomi Araragi as he takes back vampire Kiss-Shot's stolen limbs only to learn the cold truth of what becoming her savior will cost him.

Studio Deen's second season of Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju begins broadcast, continuing the adaptation of Haruko Kumota's manga about rival rakugo storytellers across the Showa era.