Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

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

The cooking-competition TV anime Iron Wok Jan! begins broadcast, following arrogant young chef Jan Akiyama's rivalry with fellow prodigy Kiriko Gobancho as he chases his grandfather's old nemesis.

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.

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.

Studio CANDY BOX brings back the chibi Azur Lane shipgirls for a second season of eight-minute comedy shorts adapted from the official 4-koma manga.

Studio Comet adapts Metabo Hagure's revenge fantasy about a disgraced prime minister's daughter who answers a broken engagement by taking up grimoires and tearing down her own kingdom.

Project No.9 adapts Yu Hibari's romantic comedy about a boy whose rough-and-tumble childhood pal turns out to be a demure beauty at his new school.

Sapporo Breweries agreed to pay Carlsberg $643 million for 25% of a new joint venture holding Carlsberg's businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, with perpetual exclusive rights to Sapporo Premium Beer there and a UK licence for Carlsberg.

Structural steel columns buckled at 235 East 42nd Street, the former Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan being converted into roughly 1,600 apartments, forcing an evacuation and emergency stabilisation.

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.

Queensland abandoned its plan for a new downstream dam in July 2026 and committed instead to rebuilding Paradise Dam's existing wall back to its original height.

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.

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.

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.

Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2 continues the story of the ruthless military officer Tanya Degurechaff as her campaigns for the Empire, and her long defiance of the god-like Being X, escalate.

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.

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

Fast Retailing's nine-month fiscal 2026 revenue rose 17.1% to ¥3.07 trillion and business profit jumped 33.6% to ¥592.7 billion, a new record, prompting the Uniqlo owner to raise its full-year forecast again.