Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

EXCEEDS: Gun Blaze Vengeance is Seven Arcs’ newest entry in the long-running Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, but it's a fresh original story rather than a continuation of Nanoha's own arc: thirty years after mysterious "invasive alien species" nearly destroyed the world, a UN agency called EXCEEDS fights to contain the ongoing fallout. It centers on Shina Hisase, a young extermination hunter on the remote island nation of Mizuho, trying to protect her younger sister Setsuna as the agency pulls her deeper into its operations.

Zero-G and Grass's TV adaptation of the romance web manga premieres, following a noblewoman whose icy new husband vows never to love her and then can't stop doting on her.

Studio CANDY BOX brings back the chibi Azur Lane shipgirls for a second season of eight-minute comedy shorts adapted from the official 4-koma manga.

Studio Comet adapts Metabo Hagure's revenge fantasy about a disgraced prime minister's daughter who answers a broken engagement by taking up grimoires and tearing down her own kingdom.

Queensland abandoned its plan for a new downstream dam in July 2026 and committed instead to rebuilding Paradise Dam's existing wall back to its original height.

Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games begins broadcast, a diomedéa adaptation about Aya Mitsuki, a student at the elite Kuromi Girls' Academy who discovers that her idol of refined poise is secretly a hardcore fighting-game player.

Clevatess Season 2 begins airing, continuing the fantasy TV anime's manga adaptation as the postwar search for General Drel's hidden secrets draws in Klen and the students of Boelate's divine academy.

Newon's TV adaptation of Otsuji's manga flips the Cinderella setup: an illegitimate daughter braces for cruelty from her new family, only to find her stepmother and stepsisters dote on her.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model for complex work across coding, research, science, cybersecurity, computer use and design.

Studio Eek's animated adaptation of the Korean hit Tomb Raider King premieres on Japanese TV, following a betrayed raider who returns to the past to loot every relic tomb first.

Disney's live-action reimagining of the animated adventure sends Moana (Catherine Laga'aia) beyond the reef with the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) to restore prosperity to her island of Motunui.

Asahi Production's Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You begins airing, adapting the manga about overworked salaryman Sasaki's chance smoke-break encounters with the women working at his local supermarket.

Doga Kobo begins broadcasting Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Suuguu Chouso Torikae Den, a light-novel adaptation in which rival noblewomen Keigetsu and Reirin swap bodies through forbidden magic and must survive the political fallout together.

Based on the manga of the same name and animated by LidenFilms, the series reimagines a defeated Demon King, Ryuūsei Narukami, living out a second life as a reclusive shut-in — until Meteor Hanaori, the hero who once struck him down, resurfaces reincarnated as an ordinary high schooler. Trying to turn his life around, Ryuūsei takes a teaching job that happens to land him at her school, and old rivalry curdles into an unlikely spark between former enemies.

B&W's board authorised buying back up to $50 million of its common stock, starting after its second-quarter 10-Q, with no expiry date and subject to its lenders. The same day it called its last $61.4 million of 2026 notes for redemption.

The first Eurofighter Typhoon built for Germany's 20-jet Quadriga order, serial 34+02, flew for about an hour before returning safely to Airbus's Manching site.

Johnson & Johnson reported second-quarter sales of $25.3 billion, up 6.6%, and adjusted EPS of $2.90, and raised its 2026 outlook to about $101.1 billion in sales and $11.68 adjusted EPS at the midpoint.

TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.

Abbott posted second-quarter sales of $12.59 billion, up 13.0% reported and 4.8% comparable, and adjusted EPS of $1.31, and raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.45 to $5.60.

Christopher Nolan's IMAX-shot adaptation of Homer's epic follows Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his perilous voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, facing the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, and Circe along the way.

The Elusive Samurai returns for a second season, continuing CloverWorks' TV adaptation of Yusuke Suzuki's manga about the young shogun's heir Hojo Tokiyuki, who survives the fall of the Kamakura shogunate by mastering the art of running away.

Ten years after Paris approved Nouvelle AOM's full glass-facade transformation of the Tour Montparnasse, the tower's co-owners voted to abandon that plan in favour of a smaller, cheaper intervention.

Nvidia said its Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems are now shipping to cloud providers and system makers, with 288 GB of HBM4 per GPU and about five times Blackwell's inference performance.

The 39-storey, 180-metre tower beside Central Station reached its full height at a topping-out ceremony, making it the world's tallest hybrid timber and steel building. Co-owned by Atlassian and the property group Dexus, it anchors Sydney's Tech Central precinct and is expected to be completed in 2027.

Yi Nian Yongheng 4 begins streaming, B.CMAY PICTURES' fourth and final season of its A Will Eternal (Yi Nian Yong Heng) donghua adaptation, continuing Bai Xiaochun's long climb through the cultivation world.

AMD launched its Helios rack-scale AI system, built on MI455X GPUs and Venice EPYC CPUs, with shipments to Microsoft starting in the second half of 2026 and a 2 GW Anthropic deployment from 2027.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, a step-change improvement for the Opus tier for long-running agents, with gains in coding and professional work.

The fourth and final cour of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, subtitled The Calamity, begins airing, bringing Tite Kubo's shinigami saga to its climactic battle between Ichigo Kurosaki's allies and Yhwach's Wandenreich.

A 853-metre cable-stayed span over the Detroit River, the longest in North America, carrying the busiest US-Canada trade corridor. Estimated date.

Johnson & Johnson announced a proposed resolution of its remaining ovarian talc litigation, about 76,000 claims, with a $5.5 billion commitment paid per claim - no more than $3 billion in 2027 and nothing more before 2028 - if at least 95% of claimants take part.

Shenman Entertainment’s Yi Zhan Cangqiong begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Gu An, a crippled young man who seizes the power of an ancient god at his lowest moment and turns it against the enemies who wronged him. The 26-episode ONA leans into a familiar but reliably popular power-fantasy setup — a written-off protagonist ascending to godlike strength to settle old scores.

Visa is eliminating about 2,600 roles, roughly 7% of its workforce and mostly in technology and product, with CEO Ryan McInerney saying AI is reshaping how work gets done.

Ultra-portable 20-watt analog guitar amplifier head with a three-band EQ.