Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

CloverWorks' BOCCHI THE ROCK! Recap Part 1 opens in Japanese theaters, a compilation film revisiting the TV series' story of socially anxious guitarist Hitori "Bocchi" Gotou joining a high-school rock band, framed with newly animated footage.

Shengying Animation's How Dare You!? begins streaming, a Chinese ONA in which an office worker who transmigrates into a web novel as a scheming concubine finds her plans upended by a fellow transmigrator.

A third season of the isekai comedy Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- was announced straight off the second season's finale, promising more of Makoto Misumi's wasteland kingdom-building.

A Quiet Place: Day One is a 2024 American apocalyptic horror film, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, based on a story he conceived with John Krasinski. It is the third installment in the A Quiet Place film series, and a prequel spinoff of the first film.

Studio Durian's Look Back opens in Japanese theaters, adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot manga about two aspiring young manga artists, Fujino and Kyomoto, whose creative partnership and rivalry shapes both their lives.

Ufotable's closing chapter of Demon Slayer was locked in when the Hashira Training finale revealed the Infinity Castle arc would be told as a theatrical trilogy, of which this is the third and final film.

Ufotable's Infinity Castle theatrical trilogy, including the still-undated second film, is announced right after the Hashira Training season finale of Demon Slayer.

B.CMAY PICTURES' Yi Nian Yongheng 3rd Season begins streaming, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Er Gen's xianxia web novel A Will Eternal as protagonist Bai Xiaochun climbs further through the cultivation world's ranks.

Shaft streams Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, continuing the story of the girls Koyomi Araragi once saved after his own story concluded.

Crunchyroll's industry panel at Anime Expo 2024 announced a TV anime of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, the Korean apocalypse web novel and webtoon hit, co-produced by Crunchyroll and Aniplex.

Europe's new heavy-lift launcher Ariane 6, built by ArianeGroup, flew for the first time from the Guiana Space Centre. The inaugural flight met its main objectives despite an anomaly in an upper-stage auxiliary unit late in the mission.

OpenAI introduces GPT-4o mini, its most capable and cost-efficient small model, surpassing GPT-3.5 Turbo on academic benchmarks.

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 begins release, an OVA continuation of the long-running Yamato franchise picking up from the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205 films as the crew presses further into the war with extradimensional forces.

Lingwu Continent is an iQIYI-streamed Chinese fantasy donghua from Soyep about a fallen prodigy who regains his power as a rare dual cultivator of spirit and martial arts.

The Chinese donghua Slay the Gods begins streaming, a Shenman Entertainment production in which a blind teenage night watchman battles mythic invaders threatening his world.

Production I.G streams Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3, picking up right after Sawako and Kazehaya become a couple as their families and friends' own romances keep unfolding around them.

The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua comedy-fantasy Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) streams online, continuing its manga-adapted story of mismatched humans and mythical beasts.

A second season of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, the isekai comedy about a healer drilled into a battlefield medic, was announced on stage at Otakon 2024.

The second season of Rising Impact begins streaming, following golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy's Japan team as they compete against gifted young golfers from UK and US schools in the Camelot Cup.

On August 11, 2024, the Martin JRM Mars flying boat "Hawaii Mars" made its final flight, escorted by Snowbirds jets, ending 78 years of service as the world’s largest water bomber.

OpenAI ships a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that users preferred in experiments, while saying it is not a new frontier-class model.

NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.

Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Cloud Art adapts the wuxia-flavored web novel Jian Lai, following an ordinary boy whose single sword strike is powerful enough to split the sky, as he works his way up from nobody to legendary swordsman by taking on increasingly formidable opponents. The 26-episode donghua run established enough of a following to earn a second season the following year.

Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.

The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.

A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT to make better use of uploaded files and to save the key parts of a conversation to memory.

Marriott's plan for the world's tallest modular hotel in Manhattan's NoMad district collapsed after years of stalled construction, and the site was sold for a residential condo tower instead.

A section of the 1971-built Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany collapsed into the Elbe overnight with no warning, minutes after the last tram had crossed it.

OpenAI releases o1-preview and o1-mini, the first of a new series of models that spend more time thinking before they respond.

Malaysia formally launched the Forest City Special Financial Zone, a tax-incentive push aimed at reviving the stalled $100 billion artificial-island city project in the Johor Strait.

Given the Movie: To the Sea, the third feature film in Lerche's Given series, opens in Japanese theaters, picking the story back up as singer Mafuyu Sato begins to doubt his place fronting the band Given.

The second season of the reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block, continuing Ars Louvent's rise as he leads his territory through the empire's widening war.

Chef Fátima Juárez runs a molino and antojitos counter in South Los Angeles, milling heirloom Mexican corn into masa every day.

Crews finished dismantling all four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in 2024, the largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in US history.

Sharefun Studio's Scissor Seven Season 5 begins streaming, sending hitman-turned-hairdresser Seven back to Xuanwu Country to confront the fragmented memories at the center of the series' overarching mystery.

OpenAI trains GPT-4o to work in canvas, a side-by-side writing and coding surface in ChatGPT, as an early beta.

Madhouse's adaptation of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite begins airing, a historical drama following generations of scholars risking their lives to prove heliocentrism in a fictionalized 15th-century Europe hostile to the idea.

A second TV season of Gushing over Magical Girls, the anime of Akihiro Ononaka's comedy manga about a girl who is drafted as a villain and discovers she enjoys tormenting the heroines she idolises, was announced at a fan event.

Aircraft-maintenance and storage specialist Tarmac Aerosave opened its fourth Airbus A380-capable hangar at Teruel Airport, Europe's largest aircraft boneyard. The 15 million euro building, the world's largest metal-textile hangar, can house one A380 or four narrow-body jets at once.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 begins broadcast, continuing Studio Shuka's adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's supernatural slice-of-life manga about a boy who can see spirits and works to return the names his grandmother once collected.