Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Tomoyasu Murata Company releases a bundled Haikyu!! OVA, ten short stop-motion episodes packaged with the manga's 42nd volume and featuring the Karasuno team recreated as puppets.

The God of War Dominates begins streaming, a long-running Chinese donghua from Ruo Hong Culture following martial-arts genius Qin Chen after he is reborn three centuries later in the remote province of Tian Wu.

Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.

In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process. In the following January we heard from the firm's CEO about the progress of these plans, with a target launch date set for H1 2020. Now a recent report suggests that TSMC is confident of reaching its previously publicised goals, as it has started to allocate between 300 and 400 R&D staff to work on developing its 3nm process.

The Chinese donghua All Saints Street begins streaming, an ONA about a young demon named Nini secretly living among vampire, werewolf, and angel roommates while hiding an ancient evil sealed within him.

Studio Signpost picks up the TV adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara's historical war manga Kingdom, following 1,000-man commander Xin as Qin's unification campaign pushes into the neighboring warring states.

TMS Entertainment's Fruits Basket Season 2 begins airing, continuing the studio's remake of Natsuki Takaya's manga as Tohru Honda grows closer to the cursed Souma family and edges nearer to the truth behind their zodiac curse.

The second TV season of Kaguya-sama: Love is War begins airing, continuing student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice president Kaguya Shinomiya's battle of wits to avoid being the first to confess their feelings.

BAM completed a new £40 million, 74-metre steel wharf at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station so the new polar vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough could dock and resupply the base.

China's housing ministry issued a nationwide notice halting construction of any new building taller than 500 metres and tightly restricting towers over 250 metres.

5G promises greater speed, higher capacity, and low latency to our essential high-tech smart connected devices. Intel wants to make the transition to 5G smooth and seamless and with this in mind has designed a powerful end-to-end 5G solution. The Intel XMM 8000 series is Intel's first family of commercial 5G multi-mode modems, operating in both sub-6GHz and millimetre wave global spectrum bands. Intel hopes to gather a mass of design wins for the XMM 8000 in PC, phones, and even vehicles.

Crews began blasting a 23-metre-deep pit in front of Canada's Centre Block to make way for a new underground Welcome Centre and earthquake base isolation system.

The Las Vegas Raiders open Allegiant Stadium, a 65,000-seat, climate-controlled venue with a retractable end-zone wall built in three years and nine months on the Las Vegas Strip.

B.CMAY Pictures releases The Master of Diabolism Q, a chibi spin-off donghua revisiting lighter, warmer moments from Wei Wuxian's life across the original Mo Dao Zu Shi story.

Less than two years after the Morandi Bridge collapse killed 43 people, Genoa reopened the crossing as the Renzo Piano-designed Genoa San Giorgio Bridge.

B.CMAY PICTURES streams Yi Nian Yongheng, a Chinese donghua adapting Er Gen's xianxia web novel A Will Eternal, following Bai Xiaochun's fear-of-death-driven rise through the cultivation world.

The third and final Heaven's Feel film releases in Japan, closing out ufotable's trilogy adapting the Sakura route of Fate/stay night as Shirou Emiya and Rin Tohsaka fight to end the Holy Grail War and save Sakura Matou.

Belgian engineering firm Coek Engineering built the world's largest gold-processing autoclave, a 1,100-tonne titanium-lined pressure vessel, and shipped it 25,000 km from Antwerp to Polymetal's Amursk POX-2 plant in Russia's Far East. The vessel was installed on schedule in August 2020.

British Land completed a stripped-back rebuild of an aging 1980s Broadgate office block into 100 Liverpool Street, a low-carbon commercial tower beside Liverpool Street station.

A joint venture between BarthHaas and hop cooperative HVG, the Hopfenveredlung St. Johann plant in Bavaria's Hallertau region processes a quarter of the world's hop harvest into pellets and extract. The €65 million facility went into operation in September 2020, three years after the industry began consolidating hop finishing into ever-larger sites.

The most expensive stadium ever built opened as the new home of the LA Rams and Chargers, with its first NFL game days later.

One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.

Gamesa Electric commissioned two 18.75MW generators at the Calheta III plant, more than tripling the hydroelectric capacity fed by Madeira's centuries-old levada channels. The upgrade backs the island's push to raise its share of renewable electricity.

Kyoto Animation closes out the Violet Evergarden TV series with a theatrical feature, following the former child soldier turned letter-writing Auto Memory Doll as she reckons with grief and an unresolved promise from her past.

CSSC's Hudong-Zhonghua yard in Shanghai delivered the CMA CGM Jacques Saadé, the first of nine 23,000-TEU ships and the world's first ultra-large container vessel powered mainly by liquefied natural gas. At 400 meters long, it became CMA CGM's new flagship.