Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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

Nike's fourth-quarter gross margin jumped to 49.2% and EPS to $0.72 on the expected recovery of $986 million of IEEPA tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court, while revenue slipped 1% to $11.0 billion and Greater China fell 12%.

The City Council approved Mayor Mamdani's first budget on 30 June, the largest expense budget in Council history, adding $350 million to reserves and $300 million over two years for a new rental-assistance program. It was agreed with Speaker Julie Menin the same day.

Draw This, Then Die! (Kore Kaite Shine) follows first-year high schooler Ai Yasumi on Izu Oshima island as she discovers a love of manga-making and pushes to turn her stories into a career, animated by Shin-Ei Animation.

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.

Adapted from the light novel series by Brain's Base, this romantic comedy follows Itsuki Tomonari, an ordinary student secretly recruited to look after Hinako Konohana — the most admired girl at a prestigious academy, whose flawless public image hides a near-total inability to handle basic chores. The show plays the gap between Hinako's polished reputation and her private disasters for laughs while nudging the pair toward an unlikely romance.

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.

The second season of Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc., animated by J.C.Staff, continues its corporate-workplace spin on the mahou shoujo genre: magical girls here are salaried employees, and protagonists Kana Sakuragi and Hitomi Koshigaya spend as much time on internal politics and product rollout for the company's Alice System as they do fighting. This season pits them against industry factions pushing to deregulate magic use for profit, raising the stakes beyond the first season's day-to-day office drama.

Colored Pencil Animation Japan animates Kureha's ayakashi Cinderella romance The Ogre's Bride, following its live-action film earlier in 2026.

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.

Set during Japan's postwar economic boom, Grow Up Show follows the struggling Sunflower Circus troupe as ringmaster Maria and her performers try to keep the show running on a shoestring budget. Everything changes when they take in Mizuka Tsurumaki, a natural-born circus prodigy, and set their sights on a spot at the prestigious nationwide Circus Collection festival. Animated by A-1 Pictures, it is an original coming-of-age story built around the discipline and spectacle of circus performance.