Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Vuori unveiled Breathe, a perforated, lightweight line for high-intensity gym training led by the Kore Breathe Short, with Chicago Bears tight end Colston Loveland in its "Breathe Through It" campaign.

A Ninth Circuit panel heard California and seven conservation groups argue that PHMSA unlawfully claimed federal control of Sable Offshore's onshore Las Flores pipelines and approved their restart; the case turns on whether oil processed at Las Flores Canyon is still in interstate transportation.

France's second vine-pull scheme opened for payment claims on 7 July 2026, paying a flat €4,000 per hectare of vines grubbed up for good after 27,926 hectares were put forward as wine consumption, especially of reds, keeps falling; claims close on 1 March 2027.

The second season of From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman follows Beryl Gardenant settling into his new roles as a special instructor for the Royal Order of Knights and guardian to an orphaned child. That relative calm does not last: the season sends him back to the magic institute, his hometown, the kingdom’s border and a foreign land as new threats surface. Produced by Passione, it continues the light novel adaptation's blend of understated swordplay and fantasy world-building.

ENGI returns with the same staff and cast for the long-awaited second season of Yomu Mishima's isekai, as Leon's meddling in the otome game's plot drags him into a kingdom-shaking conspiracy.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-5.6 Sol, its flagship reasoning model for complex work across coding, research, science, cybersecurity, computer use and design.

A South Bay jury found the Chula Vista father guilty after one day of deliberation, five years after May "Maya" Millete vanished; her body has never been found.

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.

Substitute Mikel Merino's 88th-minute rebound sent Spain past Belgium and into the World Cup semifinals in the last match of the tournament in Los Angeles.

TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.

Swatch and Omega's MoonSwatch Mission to the Moon 1969 - 1,969 numbered pieces with an 18K Moonshine Gold dial made from melted-down 1969 Omega parts - was sold only by an online ESTA ballot open 16-21 July 2026, at $570.