Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

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.

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.

Paris unveiled La Canopée, a sweeping glass-and-steel roof capping the decade-long, roughly 800 million euro renovation of the Forum des Halles shopping and transit hub. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the inauguration of the structure designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti.

Bungo Stray Dogs begins broadcast, Bones' adaptation of Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa's manga about homeless teenager Atsushi Nakajima, who is recruited by the ability-wielding Armed Detective Agency after a mysterious tiger is found stalking him.

Volvo Construction Equipment unveiled the A60H, its largest-ever articulated hauler at 60 tons capacity, at the Bauma trade fair in Munich. The launch marked the 50th anniversary of Volvo's first articulated hauler, 1966's 'Gravel Charlie.'

Carnival Vista, a 133,500-ton ship carrying more than 4,600 passengers, was delivered by the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy on 28 April 2016.

The Biolite SolarPanel 5+ comes equipped with a 2200 mAh battery that can be pre-charged at home via the supplied USB cable or topped up via the solar panel. A little row of LEDs offers a battery level indicator and the little batter icon beside the LEDs is a little on-off switch. There is a simplicity with the product, light, well-built with exceptional attention to detail, for example both USB ports are enclosed by two little rubber doors to protect them from the elements.

KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!: God's Blessings On This Wonderful Choker! is a bonus OVA bundled with the light novel's ninth volume, in which a magical choker forces Kazuma to fulfil his own wish or be strangled.

A nine-year, $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal was inaugurated, adding a wider Third Set of Locks for larger Neopanamax vessels.

A three-year, Tod's-funded restoration of the Colosseum's facade - the first phase of a longer project - wrapped up with a ceremony attended by Italy's prime minister, revealing the monument's stone cleaned of two millennia of grime.

J.C.Staff begins broadcasting The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., a gag comedy following psychic high-schooler Kusuo Saiki as he tries, and constantly fails, to keep his powers secret and live an unremarkable life.

Bones' TV adaptation of Mob Psycho 100 begins airing, following Shigeo 'Mob' Kageyama, a psychic middle schooler who suppresses his overwhelming powers to live a normal life while working part-time for con-artist exorcist Reigen Arataka.

Gintama°: Love Incense Arc, a two-part OVA bundled with the manga, begins release, following the Yorozuya as an outlawed incense that makes people fall for whoever they first see spreads chaos through Yoshiwara.

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.