Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Science SARU's Masaaki Yuasa reworks Go Nagai's 1972 manga for its creator's 50th anniversary, following teenager Akira Fudou as he merges with a demon to fight back against an ancient race reclaiming the world from humanity, gaining monstrous power while trying to hold onto his own humanity. The ten-episode Netflix series became one of the most acclaimed original anime of 2018, praised for pairing Yuasa's fluid, unconventional animation with the story's escalating violence and tragedy.

Salesforce's first employees moved into San Francisco's new 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the anchor of the Transbay district and the city's tallest skyscraper.

Bandai Namco Pictures brings Gintama's TV anime to a close with the Silver Soul Arc, following Gintoki and old allies as they unite against Utsuro's plan to destroy the Amanto-occupied Earth.

Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden begins airing, following a former child soldier who becomes a letter-writing "Auto Memory Doll" to understand the meaning of the last words her commanding officer told her.

TRIGGER and CloverWorks' Darling in the FranXX begins broadcast, an original mecha series set in a walled city where teenage pilots pair up to fight giant creatures called klaxosaurs in mechs called FranXX.

German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven cut the 2001-built ro-pax ferry Peter Pan in two and inserted a prefabricated 30-meter midship section, stretching her from 190 to 220 meters for TT-Line.

The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.

Sparkly Key Animation begins streaming Soul Land (Douluo Dalu), a Chinese donghua adapting Tang Jia San Shao's novel about a reincarnated hidden-weapons master who rises through the ranks of spirit masters in a new world.

René Redzepi shut the original Noma after 31 December 2016 to rebuild it as an urban farm near Copenhagen. It reopened on 15 February 2018 after a year off, still built on foraging and New Nordic cooking.

TROYCA streams IDOLiSH7 Vibrato, a YouTube-exclusive spin-off of the IDOLiSH7 idol-management TV series and video game.

All-new 4K graphics, Re-orchestrated soundtrack, New zoom levels, Attack Move, Unit queuing, 250-300 population cap, Rally Points Basic, Rally Points Contextual (Intelligent Villagers), Grid default key layout, Select Idle Military, Select Idle Villagers, Right-click mouse scroll

P.A. Works' Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms opens in Japanese theaters, an original fantasy and the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Mari Okada, following the immortal Iorph girl Maquia as she raises an orphaned human boy across the decades.

The Air Force announced a deal to purchase two new aircraft from Boeing in 2017 that will serve as the future Air Force One under the next several presidents. The planes, two 747-8 jets, will begin transitioning to the Air Force One configuration in 2019, with initial operational capacity slated for 2024.

Nur-E Gulshan Rahman and her daughter Nur-E Farhana Rahman open a small Bangladeshi restaurant in Jersey City, starting out as a daily home-cooking buffet.

The chain told its staff it would wind down or sell all 735 of its US stores, ending a company that had defined the category-killer format for forty years. A leveraged buyout in 2005 left it carrying about $5bn of debt it never worked off.

Alton Towers debuted Wicker Man on 20 March 2018, the UK's first new wooden roller coaster in 22 years, built from about 7,500 tonnes of sustainably sourced Pennsylvania timber.

TMS Entertainment releases ReLIFE: Final Arc, a four-episode OVA closing out the ReLIFE story as test subjects Arata Kaizaki and Chizuru Hishiro's memory-erasing experiments reach their conclusion.

Symphony of the Seas, then the world's largest cruise ship, was officially delivered to Royal Caribbean International at the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.

Tech expected to be ready for chip designers in H2 2017, production in early 2018. It will skip "the marginal performance and power benefits for the high cost of the 10nm process node" to hopefully become a leading differentiated 7nm chip fabricator ahead of major rivals.

16Gbps GDDR5X speeds achieved. On track for GDDR6 mass production in Q1 2018.

Intel and AMD are joining forces to produce new 8th-Generation H-Series Intel mobile processors paired with stacked second-generation High Bandwidth Memory and custom-built discrete graphics from AMD. For the new H-Series chips, which feature all of the above listed components in a single processor package, Intel says is using its Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB), a power-sharing framework that reduces the standard silicon footprint to less than half that of standard discrete components on a motherboard. This is the first consumer product that takes advantage of EMIB.

Cannonlake Processors will be 15% faster than the Kaby Lake ones, 10nm FinFET Manufacturing Process, Chipset of 200 Series, USB 3.1 Gen 2 10Gbps support, 6 ports, Thermal Design Power (TDP) up to 95 W (LGA 1151), Updated Intel Optane Technology Support

A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski. Made from a screenplay co-written by Krasinski, Scott Beck, and Bryan Woods based on a story Beck and Woods conceived, it tells the story of a mother (Emily Blunt) and father (Krasinski) who struggle to survive and raise their children in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind extraterrestrial creatures with an acute sense

Bones' My Hero Academia Season 3 begins broadcast, sending Class 1-A into a brutal training camp with seasoned pro heroes just as the League of Villains launches an attack.

Steins;Gate 0 begins its TV run, a sequel following a depressed Rintarou Okabe after he abandons his time-travel research, until an AI simulation of a lost friend pulls him back toward the past he tried to forget.

Liz and the Blue Bird releases in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation spin-off of the Sound! Euphonium franchise directed by Naoko Yamada, centered on oboist Mizore and flutist Nozomi as they prepare a delicate duet together.

Scissor Seven premieres, a Chinese ONA following washed-up, hairdressing assassin-for-hire Seven as he stumbles into a citywide struggle for power while trying to recover his lost memory.

This three-episode special bridges The King's Avatar's two seasons by following retired professional gamer Ye Xiu as a spectator rather than a competitor at Glory's All-Star Tournament, watching alongside teammates Tang Rou and Chen Guo. Colored Pencil Animation uses the lower-stakes setting to spotlight the wider cast of professional players introduced across the main series, while Ye Xiu finds his attempt to stay out of the spotlight tested anyway.

Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Network Rail finished its five-year, roughly £1 billion rebuild of London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme, and Prince William officially reopened the unified station on 9 May 2018. The project gave the station a single new concourse and step-free access to every platform.

A blocked diversion tunnel at Colombia's roughly $4 billion Hidroituango hydroelectric project triggered flooding and landslides that forced thousands of people downstream to evacuate.

Earlier this year, a supply chain report said that Apple plans to make all of its iPhones with an OLED screen by 2019. Apple was believed to be preparing to adopt OLED panels for 60 million units of the "iPhone 8" in 2017, and then the company would double the adoption of OLED panels in 2018 before wholly transitioning to OLED-only iPhones in 2019.

Violet Evergarden: Kitto "Ai" wo Shiru Hi ga Kuru no Darou, a bonus OVA bundled with the TV series' home release, premieres, following Violet as she struggles to ghostwrite a love letter for a famous opera singer.

Banana Fish premieres, MAPPA's adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's manga following Ash Lynx, a New York gang leader raised by crime boss Dino Golzine, as he crosses paths with visiting Japanese photographer Eiji Okumura.

US Customs began collecting an extra 25 percent on 818 tariff lines worth about $34 billion of Chinese imports on 6 July 2018 — the opening move of the trade war, and the first time since the 1930s that the United States taxed a major trading partner at this scale.

Gintama.: Silver Soul Arc - Second Half War premieres, Bandai Namco Pictures' continuation of the manga's final story arc as the Yorozuya fight on two fronts to stop the Altana Liberation Army's planet-destroying weapon.

The Founder of Diabolism (Mo Dao Zu Shi) begins streaming, a B.CMAY Pictures donghua adapting Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel, in which the resurrected cultivator Wei Wuxian confronts the fallout of his past as the Yiling Patriarch.

2018 MacBook Pros feature eighth-generation Intel Core processors. Apple says the 15-inch model is up to 70 percent faster, and the 13-inch model is up to two times faster, than the equivalent 2017 models with seventh-generation Intel Core processors in benchmarks. 15-inch models can now be maxed out with a 2.9GHz six-core Core i9 processor, while the previous generation topped out at a 3.1GHz quad-core Core i7. Quad-core 13-inch models with the Touch Bar are now available, up to 2.7GHz, while 2017 models were dual-core up to 3.5GHz.

Wit Studio's third season of Attack on Titan begins broadcast, continuing the manga adaptation as Eren and Historia are placed under Levi Squad's protection while a cover-up inside the Walls comes to light.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to fly directly into the atmosphere of the Sun and explore its brutally hot corona.

The Model 3 will come equipped with a new suite of hardware that supports Tesla's second-generation Autopilot system, Enhanced Autopilot. Enhanced Autopilot will eventually allow the car to match its speed to traffic conditions, automatically change lanes without driver input, merge on and off highways, and park itself.

The third Non Non Biyori film, Vacation, reaches Japanese theaters, an original theatrical entry in the slice-of-life franchise sending the tiny rural school's handful of students on a summer trip to Okinawa.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas releases in Japanese theaters, a Studio VOLN adaptation of Yoru Sumino's novel about a withdrawn boy who befriends a popular, secretly terminally ill classmate after stumbling on her diary.

Brain's Base releases the School Babysitters OVA, a manga-bundled bonus episode pairing a slice-of-life story about Ryuuichi's babysitting club with a fairy-tale parody segment starring the same cast.

Studio Shuka's Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond opens in Japanese theaters, sending Takashi Natsume and Nyanko-sensei into a new story tied to an old friend's yokai-tinged memories.

8-bit's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime begins broadcast, an isekai adventure following salaryman Satoru Mikami, killed in Tokyo and reborn as a slime in a fantasy world, as he builds a nation of monsters around him.

CloverWorks' Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai begins airing, a romantic drama in which high schooler Sakuta Azusagawa encounters a famous actress rendered invisible to others by a phenomenon known as puberty syndrome.

The fifth TV season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure begins airing, following Giorno Giovanna as he joins the Italian gang Passione hoping to reshape it from within.

Bonus chibi-parody shorts bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of Attack on Titan Season 3 begin release, continuing the comedic "Chimi Kyara Gekijou" side-story format used on earlier seasons' home-video specials.

The 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opened to traffic on 24 October 2018, linking the three Pearl River Delta cities with cable-stayed bridges, artificial islands and an undersea tunnel.