Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Cypic's The World Is Dancing begins streaming, a coming-of-age drama fictionalizing the early life of Zeami Motokiyo, the boy who would grow up to found Noh theater in 14th-century Japan.

Bug Films' adaptation of Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier was renewed for a second season right after its first season finished, with Crunchyroll again streaming.

Crews finished installing a base-isolation system beneath the 19th-century Salt Lake Temple as part of an estimated $2.4 billion project to let the building float free of the ground during a major earthquake.

Johnny Spero, who won a Michelin star at Reverie in Washington, opens a seafood tasting menu at the Inn at Langley on Whidbey Island.

Asahi Production adapts Haruomi Tomotsuka's comedy about a fearsome serpent-like god of misfortune who is far more doting than frightening once two children stumble into her shrine.

Six stations opened along a 5.2 km stretch between João Paulo I and Perdizes, among them Água Branca, which at 47.8 metres is the deepest metro station in South America. Trains run on weekdays from 10.00 to 15.00 and are free for now; the finished line is to run 15.3 km with 15 stations from Brasilândia to São Joaquim.

Kaiju Girl Caramelise begins broadcast, a Liden Films adaptation of Spica Aoki's manga about high schooler Kuroe Akaishi, who transforms into a giant kaiju whenever her emotions run too high, just as she starts falling for her crush.

Chainsmoker Cat is a slice-of-life comedy animated by Bibury Animation Studios about Yani, a catgirl whose life revolves around cigarettes she can't put down — her apartment ankle-deep in butts and ash despite repeated, short-lived attempts to quit. The humor leans on her self-aware but powerless slide into bad habits rather than any larger plot, adapted from the manga published in English by Seven Seas.

100studio adapts Tsuyoshi Takaki's cult shonen manga BLACK TORCH, nearly a decade after its Jump Square run ended.

Publisher Overlap announced a second season of Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers, the laid-back isekai romance about a stranded would-be hero.

Sparks of Tomorrow begins broadcast, a Kyoto Animation period drama set in 1907 Kyoto about a sake brewer's daughter drawn into a search for a lost book of electrical predictions.

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.

Kinema Citrus's Goodbye, Lara premieres, a TV anime in which a mermaid princess who traded her voice for a chance at human love wakes at Lake Biwa two centuries later for one final chance to break the witch's curse.

Microsoft eliminated around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its workforce, mostly in Xbox and its commercial business; Xbox cut 1,600 that day on the way to about 3,200 through fiscal 2027 and let four studios go to new management.

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.

I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day begins airing, a dark fantasy TV anime adapting a Kodansha manga about Sheena, a girl raised in a wartime orphanage that trains its residents as killers, and her uneasy bond with Mimi, an immortal new arrival who cannot die.

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.

After 14 years of stalled foundations, construction officially restarted on 2 World Trade Center with a groundbreaking ceremony, anchored by American Express as its future headquarters tenant.

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.