Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zero-G and Saber Works begin broadcasting Grand Blue Dreaming Season 3, sending college diver Iori Kitahara and his boozy diving-club friends overseas to help run a new dive shop in Palau.

Lululemon cut the ribbon on a distribution centre of more than a million square feet in Brampton, Ontario, whose AutoStore system runs 525 robots over 292,000 bins to fill e-commerce orders in eastern Canada and the US.

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.

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.

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.