Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Date A Live II: Kurumi Star Festival premieres, an OVA bundled with the Date A Live Encore light novels that follows Shidou Itsuka through a Tanabata festival date with the enigmatic Spirit Kurumi Tokisaki.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 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.

Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first production A400M Atlas military transport, assembled at its Seville final assembly line, to the German Luftwaffe.

TMS Entertainment airs The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History, a Detective Conan TV special marking the 20th anniversary of Gosho Aoyama's manga with a previously untold story from Conan's past.

Santiago's 300-metre Gran Torre Costanera, nicknamed "the Mordor of Santiago" by critics, topped out in February 2012 and was finished as the tallest building on the continent - a completion its architect dates to 2014 and Wikipedia to 2013.

Tsukimonogatari premieres, the third part of the Monogatari Series Second Season continuation, a Shaft-animated adaptation following Koyomi Araragi as a strange bodily change draws him back into the supernatural fallout of his past cases.

Tokyo Ghoul √A is Studio Pierrot’s 12-episode second season, directed by Shūhei Morita, picking up with Ken Kaneki after he defeats Yamori and joins the ghoul faction Aogiri Tree as CCG investigators close in. Rather than adapting the manga's second half directly, the season blends its events with new material credited to original creator Sui Ishida — a divergence that drew significant criticism from manga readers for skipping and altering major plot points, and is often cited as part of why the franchise later got the more source-faithful Tokyo Ghoul:re anime.

Madhouse's Death Parade begins broadcast, a psychological drama in which pairs of the recently deceased arrive at the bar Quindecim, where bartender Decim forces them into life-or-death games that judge the fate of their souls.

Lerche's Assassination Classroom begins broadcast, following the students of class 3-E as they train to assassinate their new teacher, an unstoppable tentacled creature who has destroyed the moon and threatens Earth next, all while he genuinely mentors them.

A YuruYuri OVA sends the Amusement Club camping in the mountains for a weekend of tents, tests of courage, and hot springs before summer break ends.

Wit Studio and Studio DEEN release a run of Hoozuki no Reitetsu OVAs bundled with the manga's limited-edition volumes, continuing the comic misadventures of Hell's sharp-tongued chief clerk Hoozuki.

Sunrise's Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin OVA begins release, adapting Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga retelling of the years before the One Year War through Char Aznable and the Zabi family's rise to power.

Qualcomm announced that it completed the purchase of Wilocity and will soon deliver "a family of tri-band platforms that combine Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.ís Wi-Fi and WiGig solutions to significantly increase performance and enable cutting-edge wireless applications. The initial tri-band platform is a reference design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which is the worldís first mobile platform designed to support WiGig." The Snapdragon 810 is expected to ship in the first half of 2015.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus OVA for Free! -Eternal Summer-, an unaired episode bundled with the seventh Blu-ray/DVD volume revisiting the Iwatobi Swim Club cast in a lighter, comedic story.

Facebook employees moved into MPK 20, a Frank Gehry-designed office building topped by a nine-acre rooftop park, expanding the company's Menlo Park headquarters.

J.C.Staff's Food Wars! begins airing, adapting Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's cooking-competition manga about Souma Yukihira's rise through the elite, cutthroat Totsuki Culinary Academy.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? begins broadcast, a J.C.STAFF adaptation of Fujino Omori's light novels following novice adventurer Bell Cranel as he levels up through the monster-filled dungeon beneath the city of Orario.

Bandai Namco Pictures's third Gintama TV season, Gintama°, begins broadcast, continuing the Yorozuya team's mix of gag comedy and serialized samurai-and-aliens storylines.

Grisaia no Meikyuu: Caprice no Mayu 0 is a prologue OVA for the Grisaia visual novel sequel, digging into protagonist Yuuji Kazami's past as he weighs a promotion within CIRS.

Kuroko no Basket 3rd Season NG-shuu, a set of animated blooper reels bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of the basketball anime's third season, begins release.

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

Artland's MUSHI-SHI Special: Bell Droplets opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the final Mushishi manga arc as Ginko meets a young mountain lord, Kaya, torn between her duty over the Mushi and the human family she left behind.

Durarara!! X2: My Heart is in the Pattern of a Hot Pot, a bonus theatrical special tied to the Durarara!!x2 Shou season, screens in Japan.

P.A. Works begins broadcasting Charlotte, an original TV anime from Key writer Jun Maeda about teenagers who briefly gain supernatural powers during puberty.

Overlord begins broadcast, a dark fantasy isekai adapting Kugane Maruyama's light novels about Momonga, a lone player trapped as his skeletal wizard avatar when the VRMMO Yggdrasil's servers shut down around him.

Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast releases in Japanese theaters, an original story about an orphaned boy in Shibuya who is taken in and trained by a gruff warrior beast in a hidden world.

The Len Lye Centre, clad in curved stainless-steel columns, opened in New Plymouth as New Zealand's first museum dedicated to a single artist.

Shipbuilder Kleven Verft floated out the Edda Freya at its Ulsteinvik yard, a hybrid-powered subsea construction vessel later chartered to DeepOcean for pipeline and platform repair work like the mission the documentary follows.

TMS Entertainment releases the first of four Kamisama Kiss OVA episodes bundled with the manga, adapting the series' "past arc" showing how the fox spirit Tomoe first came to serve as a shrine familiar.

Two additional TV specials of YuruYuri air, following the Amusement Club making the most of the last days of summer vacation before the new term begins.

One Piece: Episode of Sabo is a TV special retelling the childhood bond between Luffy, Ace, and Sabo before folding in Sabo's reappearance during the Dressrosa arc, animated by Toei Animation.

Studio Pierrot releases the first of three Akatsuki no Yona OVA episodes, bundled with the manga, adapting bonus chapters and the story’s Zeno arc for fans of the Yona of the Dawn series.

Bones' second Noragami season, Noragami Aragoto, begins airing, continuing minor god Yato's struggle to build a following while a powerful rival war god, Bishamon, turns against him.

The second TV season of Haikyu!! begins airing, following Karasuno High's volleyball team as they train at a high-level camp with rivals like Nekoma and Aoba Jousai ahead of the Spring tournament.

Fraport broke ground on Terminal 3, a roughly €4 billion expansion of Frankfurt Airport that would add three passenger piers and a 69-meter control tower.

Madhouse's TV adaptation of One-Punch Man begins airing, following Saitama, a superhero so powerful that he defeats every opponent in a single punch, as boredom with the lack of challenge leaves him mentoring the cyborg Genos.

A short comedic Gintama special premieres at the Jump Festa 2015 anime fair, pairing a food-obsessed gag episode with an extended preview for the upcoming Silver Soul story arc.

A bonus OVA of Haikyuu!! screens at Jump Festa before its home video release, watching Hinata and Kageyama scramble to retake a failed exam without missing their team's training camp.

Bones releases a companion OVA to Noragami Aragoto, two bonus episodes bundled with limited-edition manga volumes that send Hiyori, Yato, and Yukine on a ski trip and an amusement-park outing between the main story's events.

WHITE FOX's Steins;Gate 0: 23β -Divide by Zero- premieres, an alternate version of the original series' 23rd episode bundled with the Steins;Gate Blu-ray box that sets the story on course for Steins;Gate 0.

MAD Architects finished its undulating Harbin Opera House, a two-theatre arts complex built to withstand the city's extreme winters.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. The sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983), it is the first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and chronologically the seventh film of the "Skywalker Saga".

Harry Macklowe's 432 Park Avenue, then the world's tallest residential tower, officially completed in Manhattan in December 2015 after four years of construction.

One-Punch Man OVA collects six original bonus episodes bundled with the TV series' BD/DVD volumes, written by series creator ONE and animated by Madhouse.

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.

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.

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.