Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Gintama: Shiroyasha Koutan, a short OVA first shown at Jump Super Anime Tour 2008, releases on DVD, presenting a brief trailer-style glimpse of an imagined Gintama movie centered on Gintoki's past as the 'White Demon.'

Fairy Tail begins broadcast, an adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga about the wizards of the guild Fairy Tail - fire mage Natsu Dragneel, celestial spirit mage Lucy Heartfilia, and their rowdy guildmates - taking on magical jobs across the kingdom of Fiore.

A bonus OVA continuing Shaft's Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei comedy, following pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki through fresh absurdist despairs, including a zombie-movie parody.

At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.

N787BA lifted off from Paine Field at 10:27 am PST and landed three hours later at Boeing Field, reaching 180 knots and 13,200 feet. The first airliner with a primarily composite airframe flew more than two years later than Boeing first promised.

Jungsik Yim opened Jungsik in Seoul in 2009 with an argument to make: that Korean cooking belonged in fine dining on its own terms rather than as a set of borrowed French techniques. The restaurant went on to hold two Michelin stars in Seoul and opened a New York sibling that earned three, making it one of the few Korean names to carry that weight abroad.

Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.

Durarara!! premieres, a Brain's Base-animated adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels following newcomer Mikado Ryuugamine into Ikebukuro's tangle of gangs, information brokers, and the legendary headless "Black Rider."

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Leogane, 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, at 16:53 local time. Haiti's capital, its National Palace and much of its public administration were destroyed.

A bonus K-ON!! OVA has the Sakuragaoka light music club performing at a live house on New Year's Eve, sharing the bill with other young bands at the invitation of one of Ritsu's middle-school friends.

Bones releases Darker than Black: Origins, a four-part special bridging the original Darker than Black series and its second season by filling in what happened to Yin and Hei in between.

Kyoto Animation's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya opens in Japanese theaters, finding Kyon alone remembering the SOS Brigade after Haruhi, Mikuru, and Itsuki vanish from an altered world where none of them ever existed.

The seven-part original video series Mobile Suit Gundam UC begins release, a Sunrise-animated adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s light novels set decades after the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

Sunrise's Gintama: Dai Hanseikai airs as a comedic anniversary special tied to a Gintama live stage event, with the cast bickering over screen time while looking back on four years of the anime.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American animated fantasy film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois and written by Sanders, DeBlois, and Will Davies, based on the 2003 novel by British author Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, and T.J.

P.A. Works' Angel Beats! begins broadcast, following Otonashi, who wakes with no memories in the afterlife and joins a rebellious student militia fighting the mysterious 'Angel' in a school suspended between life and death.

A DVD-only special episode of Nodame Cantabile: Finale airs, set before the main season begins and centered on pianist Miki Kiyora's run at a competition in Paris.

The volcano's second eruptive phase threw ash into the jet stream and about 20 countries shut their airspace to commercial jets. Roughly 10 million travellers were stranded in the worst air-travel disruption since the Second World War.

One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

A TV special adaptation of Gosho Aoyama's Magic Kaito begins airing, following phantom thief Kaito Kuroba as he hunts a legendary gem while evading police and a shadowy organization.

The Tatami Galaxy begins its TV run, a fast-talking college comedy in which an unnamed sophomore replays his stalled campus life over and over, chasing the 'rose-colored campus life' he never found.

Production I.G's xxxHOLiC Rou begins release, an OVA continuation of CLAMP's xxxHOLiC in which Kimihiro Watanuki, now running Yuuko's wish-granting shop a decade later, is drawn into investigating the dreams of his old rival Shizuka Doumeki.

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen opens in Japanese theaters, a feature retelling of the manga's Benizakura arc that finds Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura investigating a corrupted replica of a legendary sword.

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

Lufthansa received its first Airbus A380 at Hamburg on 19 May 2010, putting the double-decker superjumbo into European airline service weeks later.

Shrek Forever After is a 2010 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig and produced by DreamWorks Animation. Directed by Mike Mitchell, and written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, it is the sequel to Shrek the Third (2007) and the fourth installment in the Shrek franchise.

Norwegian Cruise Line took delivery of the 153,000-ton Norwegian Epic from the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, at the time the largest ship ever built there.

Madhouse's Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail begins release, a five-episode OVA bringing the vengeful former terrorist-turned-maid Roberta back to the lawless port city of Roanapur.

Directed by Tetsurō Araki at Madhouse, Highschool of the Dead adapts Daisuke Satō and Shōji Satō’s manga about a high school suddenly overrun by a zombie outbreak, following a small group of students and a school nurse who fight and flee their way across a collapsing city. The 12-episode series leans hard into gratuitous horror and fan service alongside its survival-action plot, drawing reviews that praised its committed genre execution but knocked its thin characterization; its explicit content later got it named among dozens of titles China banned in 2015.

China's Ministry of Commerce slashed its second-half 2010 rare earth export quotas by 72%, tightening its grip on the roughly 97% of global rare earth supply it mined at the time. The move, framed as an environmental crackdown on unregulated mining, sent rare earth prices soaring within days.

Brain's Base releases two bonus Durarara!! DVD specials, one bridging episodes 12 and 13 around an Ikebukuro UFO sighting and another following the finale as Shizuo's brother's TV special turns dangerous.

Siemens revealed its Vectron locomotive family, presenting prototypes to the public at the InnoTrans rail trade fair in Berlin. Vectron electric and hybrid freight locomotives are built at Siemens' Munich-Allach factory and now haul freight for operators including DB Cargo.

Wilh. Wilhelmsen launched the 265-meter Tønsberg at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagasaki shipyard, the largest roll-on/roll-off vessel ever built at the time. The ship carries luxury cars, SUVs, and outsized construction equipment across the world's oceans.

The Stena Britannica, one of the world’s largest RoPax ferries, entered service on the Harwich–Hook of Holland route after final sea trials and certification.

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu Specials adds two bonus episodes to the Hidamari Sketch franchise, first announced at Comiket 78.

Aldar Properties opened Ferrari World on Yas Island, a Ferrari-branded park enclosed by a 200,000-square-meter roof shaped like the brand's GT badge, making it the world's largest indoor theme park.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 fantasy adventure film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and Michael Petroni, based on the 1952 novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published and fifth chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. The sequel to The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (20

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Special is bundled with the limited-edition home-video release of the earlier Benizakura-hen theatrical film, a bonus short tied to the same story.

SynergySP's Major: Message releases as a one-shot OVA epilogue to the Major baseball franchise, following pitcher-turned-fielder Goro Honda as he fights to return to professional baseball while rebuilding his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica begins broadcast, a subversive magical-girl series following Madoka Kaname toward a fateful wish-granting contract with the cat-like Kyubey after she watches her classmate Homura Akemi fight a witch.

TMS Entertainment begins releasing Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas 2, the second OVA season continuing the prequel story of the Lost Canvas manga set generations before the original Saint Seiya.

Doraemon: Shin Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan - Habatake Tenshi-tachi, a remake of the franchise's own 1986 film, releases in Japanese theaters, sending Nobita and friends up against an invading Robot Army after Nobita builds a mysterious fallen robot of his own.

Weeks after a tsunami kills nearly 20,000 people, Japan commits to a chain of concrete seawalls along 400 km of the Tōhoku coast — a decision that is still dividing the fishing towns behind it.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus K-ON!! episode bundled with the series' ninth Blu-ray/DVD volume, following the Light Music Club as they apply for passports ahead of a planned overseas trip.

Studio DEEN releases two bonus Sekaiichi Hatsukoi OVA episodes, filling in the backstory of editors Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano's high-school breakup and a later, awkward family visit for fellow couple Hatori and Chiaki.

An OVA adapting the climactic chapters of Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Gaiden manga, the prequel to her Saiyuki series set among the deities of Heaven before Son Goku's fall.

Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede delivered the Oleg Strashnov, a 183-metre DP3 crane vessel able to lift 5,000 tonnes, to Seaway Heavy Lifting on 1 April 2011. The ship went on to become one of the most powerful monohull crane vessels used in offshore construction.

Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

Sunrise's second Gintama TV season, Gintama', begins broadcast, picking up after a year-long time skip that scrambles the personalities of Edo's residents, including Yorozuya members Gintoki and Kagura.

White Fox's adaptation of the visual novel Steins;Gate begins airing, following self-proclaimed "mad scientist" Rintarou Okabe after his microwave-turned-time-machine starts sending text messages into the past.