Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Wolf Children releases in Japanese theaters, Mamoru Hosoda's original film about a young mother raising two half-wolf children alone after their werewolf father's early death, animated by Madhouse alongside Hosoda's own Studio Chizu.

Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna, a newly animated television special retelling the Arlong Park arc and Nami’s backstory.

Sunrise's Gintama: Yorinuki Gintama-san on Theater 2D plays in select Japanese theaters, recutting the Shinsengumi Crisis and Kabukicho Four Devas TV arcs into a two-part movie presentation.

ADAC Luftrettung signs a framework order for 14 EC145 T2 (later renamed H145) and 3 EC135 P2e helicopters, built at what is now Airbus Helicopters' Donauwörth plant, the model whose build process this film documents.

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton submit a deep convolutional network to the ImageNet challenge as team SuperVision and win by a wide margin. The result turns GPU deep learning from a niche into an industry.

Gintama': Enchousen begins airing, a 13-episode continuation of Sunrise's samurai-comedy anime adapting Hideaki Sorachi's manga, following the Yorozuya through the "Kintoki impostor" and Yoshiwara arcs.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure begins broadcast, David Production's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's long-running manga, opening with Phantom Blood's rivalry between young aristocrat Jonathan Joestar and his adoptive brother Dio Brando over a cursed stone mask.

The first Puella Magi Madoka Magica compilation film, Beginnings, opens in Japanese theaters, condensing the early episodes of the TV series with new footage as the tetralogy of films begins.

Production I.G's Psycho-Pass begins airing, a cyberpunk thriller set in a future Japan where the Sibyl System judges citizens' criminal potential before any crime occurs.

Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 2: Eternal opens in Japanese theaters, recapping the back half of the TV series as Homura Akemi and the other magical girls confront the truth behind their contracts and the witch Walpurgisnacht.

Kokoro Connect: Michi Random premieres, a set of OVA episodes bundled with the Kokoro Connect light novels that catch up with Taichi, Iori, Himeko, Yoshifumi, and Yui as a new "emotion sickness" ability strikes the group.

DCNS handed over the Aquitaine, the lead ship of France's FREMM-class multi-mission frigates, to the French Navy. The 142-meter, 6,000-tonne frigate was built at DCNS's Lorient shipyard.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. It is based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J.

The $16BN Makkah Royal Clock Tower, holding the world's largest clock face and the highest occupied space on Earth at the time, was completed overlooking Islam's holiest site.

Nekomonogatari: Kuro premieres as the sixth and final part of the original Monogatari Series broadcast, adapting NisiOisin's Nekomonogatari Black light novel as Koyomi Araragi investigates why Tsubasa Hanekawa is hiding behind a bandage.

Tatsunoko Production releases a bonus SKET Dance OVA bundled with the manga's 29th volume, wrapping up plot threads from the TV anime's final episode through the Sket Dan club's usual mix of comedy and problem-solving.

Nigeria formally launched Eko Atlantic, a planned city being built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, at a ceremony attended by Bill Clinton.

A bonus OVA episode of Kuroko's Basketball, bundled with the manga's 22.5th volume, revisits the tense championship duel between Aomine and Kise.

The Devil is a Part-Timer! (Hataraku Maou-sama!) follows Devil King Sadao, stranded in modern Tokyo after his defeat to hero Emilia, as he takes a fast-food job to get by, animated by White Fox.

The television anime My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU begins airing, a Brain's Base adaptation of Wataru Watari's light novels following cynical loner Hachiman Hikigaya as he's drafted into his school's Service Club.

Wit Studio's Attack on Titan begins broadcast, adapting Hajime Isayama's manga about humanity's last refuge behind massive walls after the sudden return of titans, giant humanoids that devour people.

Steins;Gate The Movie – Load Region of Déjà Vu opens in Japanese theaters, a White Fox-produced sequel to the TV series in which Rintarou Okabe begins vanishing from the world as the side effects of his time travel catch up with him.

Meyer Werft delivered the Norwegian Breakaway, then the largest ship it had ever built, from its Papenburg shipyard to Norwegian Cruise Line after an 18-month build. Her maiden voyage was the transatlantic crossing to New York, where she was christened; seven-day Bermuda cruises out of New York followed from 12 May 2013.

Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya opens in Japanese theaters, a Sunrise-animated film that sends Gintoki five years into a bleak future to uncover the source of a deadly epidemic called the White Plague.

Monogatari Series Second Season, adapting five arcs of Nisio Isin's light novels, follows Koyomi Araragi and the women around him as new supernatural "oddities" surface after summer vacation ends.

Two bonus original-video episodes of Kamisama Hajimemashita release with the manga’s 16th collected volume, extending TMS Entertainment’s adaptation of Julietta Suzuki’s story of a runaway teen who inherits a shrine god’s duties.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend, a one-off special that re-animates the Going Merry ship's final voyages and the Straw Hat Crew's farewell to it.

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A four-part TV special retelling the original Pokémon Red and Green video games, following trainer Red and his Charmander toward the Pokémon League.

The television anime Kill la Kill begins airing, an original action comedy from Studio Trigger about Ryuuko Matoi's fight against the tyrannical student council of Honnouji Academy in search of her father's killer.

Madhouse and MAPPA's Hajime no Ippo: Rising begins broadcast, the third TV season adapting George Morikawa's boxing manga as Ippo defends his Japanese featherweight title against a new wave of challengers.

JR Kyushu debuted the Seven Stars in Kyushu, Japan’s first cruise train, offering multi-day luxury rail tours around the island with staff outnumbering the roughly 30 guests it carries. The service became one of the hardest sleeper-train tickets in the world to book.

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Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Rebellion- opens in Japanese theaters, the third film in the Madoka Magica franchise, following Homura Akemi as she navigates a new reality reshaped by Madoka Kaname's sacrifice.

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One of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded came ashore in Eastern Samar at peak strength, with PAGASA measuring ten-minute winds of 235 km/h. At least 6,300 died in the Visayas alone.

New MegaTowers that will dwarf your SimCity skyscrapers, futuristic vehicles, and service drones.

Aluminum frame, carbon fiber chassis, and topped off with a Gorilla Glass display.

T-Mobile will only be selling the 16 GB no 32 GB. $42 up front and $17 per month over 24 months. All told, that's $450 compared to the $350 Google is charging.

Sony's going all in with the PS4's exclsuive launch games. One of those games is another entry in the long-running first-person shooter series Killzone.

Activate a Nokia Lumia 2520 between November 22 and January 9. You'll be eligible for a $20 app voucher for the Windows Store.

One of the biggest events on the calendar for the industry and debuts will include the BMW 4 Series Convertible, new MINI, Mercedes S65 AMG and the eagerly-awaited Porsche Macan.

Shaft releases the Hidamari Sketch: Sae & Hiro Graduation OVA, following the art-school apartment building's residents as two of its members sit their final exams and prepare to graduate.

Frozen is a 2013 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's 1844 fairy tale "The Snow Queen". Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and written by Lee, it stars the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, and Santino Fontana.

The Attack on Titan OVA collection premieres, three bonus episodes bundled with the manga and Blu-ray releases that fill in side stories around the Survey Corps and the 104th Training Corps.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. The sequel to 2012's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the film is the second instalment in The Hobbit trilogy, acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Using time series aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 of 33 islands, along with historical insight from local knowledge, we have identified five vegetated reef islands that have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession.

Mushishi: Hihamukage airs as a special episode of Mushishi, sending wandering Mushi expert Ginko to a village trapped in permanent darkness by an eclipse-linked Mushi tied to a pair of twin sisters.