Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Tokyo Ghoul √A is Studio Pierrot’s 12-episode second season, directed by Shūhei Morita, picking up with Ken Kaneki after he defeats Yamori and joins the ghoul faction Aogiri Tree as CCG investigators close in. Rather than adapting the manga's second half directly, the season blends its events with new material credited to original creator Sui Ishida — a divergence that drew significant criticism from manga readers for skipping and altering major plot points, and is often cited as part of why the franchise later got the more source-faithful Tokyo Ghoul:re anime.

The life of Tomoyo Aki, a highschool otaku working part time to support his BD hoarding. With remarkable luck, he bumps head-first into Megumi Kato, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen.

Madhouse's Death Parade begins broadcast, a psychological drama in which pairs of the recently deceased arrive at the bar Quindecim, where bartender Decim forces them into life-or-death games that judge the fate of their souls.

Lerche's Assassination Classroom begins broadcast, following the students of class 3-E as they train to assassinate their new teacher, an unstoppable tentacled creature who has destroyed the moon and threatens Earth next, all while he genuinely mentors them.

Joe Kudla's Encinitas activewear label Vuori put its first product on sale in January 2015, men's training clothes styled for everyday wear, starting from a garage office two blocks from the ocean.

Shanghai Tower, the 632-metre twisting skyscraper meant to crown China’s financial capital, opens to the public - but spends its first years struggling to fill offices meant for multinational tenants.

A YuruYuri OVA sends the Amusement Club camping in the mountains for a weekend of tents, tests of courage, and hot springs before summer break ends.

Wit Studio and Studio DEEN release a run of Hoozuki no Reitetsu OVAs bundled with the manga's limited-edition volumes, continuing the comic misadventures of Hell's sharp-tongued chief clerk Hoozuki.

Sunrise's Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin OVA begins release, adapting Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga retelling of the years before the One Year War through Char Aznable and the Zabi family's rise to power.

Qualcomm announced that it completed the purchase of Wilocity and will soon deliver "a family of tri-band platforms that combine Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.ís Wi-Fi and WiGig solutions to significantly increase performance and enable cutting-edge wireless applications. The initial tri-band platform is a reference design based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, which is the worldís first mobile platform designed to support WiGig." The Snapdragon 810 is expected to ship in the first half of 2015.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus OVA for Free! -Eternal Summer-, an unaired episode bundled with the seventh Blu-ray/DVD volume revisiting the Iwatobi Swim Club cast in a lighter, comedic story.

Facebook employees moved into MPK 20, a Frank Gehry-designed office building topped by a nine-acre rooftop park, expanding the company's Menlo Park headquarters.

J.C.Staff's Food Wars! begins airing, adapting Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's cooking-competition manga about Souma Yukihira's rise through the elite, cutthroat Totsuki Culinary Academy.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? begins broadcast, a J.C.STAFF adaptation of Fujino Omori's light novels following novice adventurer Bell Cranel as he levels up through the monster-filled dungeon beneath the city of Orario.

Bandai Namco Pictures's third Gintama TV season, Gintama°, begins broadcast, continuing the Yorozuya team's mix of gag comedy and serialized samurai-and-aliens storylines.

Spring in the first year of high school. Kumiko, a member of the brass band in junior high school, visits the high school brass band club with classmates Hazuki and Sapphire.

Grisaia no Meikyuu: Caprice no Mayu 0 is a prologue OVA for the Grisaia visual novel sequel, digging into protagonist Yuuji Kazami's past as he weighs a promotion within CIRS.

Kuroko no Basket 3rd Season NG-shuu, a set of animated blooper reels bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of the basketball anime's third season, begins release.

Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München formally opened the 288MW DanTysk wind farm, built with 80 turbines 70km west of Sylt using the jack-up vessel Pacific Osprey.

Artland's MUSHI-SHI Special: Bell Droplets opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the final Mushishi manga arc as Ginko meets a young mountain lord, Kaya, torn between her duty over the Mushi and the human family she left behind.

A corroded 24-inch Plains All American Pipeline line carrying crude from ExxonMobil's Las Flores Canyon plant ruptured beside Highway 101 near Refugio State Beach, sending oil down a culvert into the Pacific. The spill shut the pipeline and, with it, the three Santa Ynez Unit platforms for more than a decade.

Durarara!! X2: My Heart is in the Pattern of a Hot Pot, a bonus theatrical special tied to the Durarara!!x2 Shou season, screens in Japan.

Germany's cartel office closed most of its resale-price-maintenance case with EUR 151.6 million in settled fines on seven retailers and four brand makers, Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd among them for two Haribo shelf-price rises.

The military fantasy series begins when a gate appears in Tokyo's Ginza district sometime in the 21st century.

P.A. Works begins broadcasting Charlotte, an original TV anime from Key writer Jun Maeda about teenagers who briefly gain supernatural powers during puberty.

The eccentric employees of everybody's favorite family restaurant will be going wild once again!

Overlord begins broadcast, a dark fantasy isekai adapting Kugane Maruyama's light novels about Momonga, a lone player trapped as his skeletal wizard avatar when the VRMMO Yggdrasil's servers shut down around him.

Even though there are still only five students who attend the remote Asahigaoka Branch School, each one of the girls already has a lifetime of wonderful experiences in the carefree Japanese countryside.

Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast releases in Japanese theaters, an original story about an orphaned boy in Shibuya who is taken in and trained by a gruff warrior beast in a hidden world.

Financed by more than 3,800 small Colombian investors instead of one developer, BD Bacatá reaches its final floor as the country’s tallest building, though its full opening keeps slipping.

The Len Lye Centre, clad in curved stainless-steel columns, opened in New Plymouth as New Zealand's first museum dedicated to a single artist.

Shipbuilder Kleven Verft floated out the Edda Freya at its Ulsteinvik yard, a hybrid-powered subsea construction vessel later chartered to DeepOcean for pipeline and platform repair work like the mission the documentary follows.

TMS Entertainment releases the first of four Kamisama Kiss OVA episodes bundled with the manga, adapting the series' "past arc" showing how the fox spirit Tomoe first came to serve as a shrine familiar.

Two additional TV specials of YuruYuri air, following the Amusement Club making the most of the last days of summer vacation before the new term begins.

One Piece: Episode of Sabo is a TV special retelling the childhood bond between Luffy, Ace, and Sabo before folding in Sabo's reappearance during the Dressrosa arc, animated by Toei Animation.

Studio Pierrot releases the first of three Akatsuki no Yona OVA episodes, bundled with the manga, adapting bonus chapters and the story’s Zeno arc for fans of the Yona of the Dawn series.

Young Black Jack is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's classic manga series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license.

Bones' second Noragami season, Noragami Aragoto, begins airing, continuing minor god Yato's struggle to build a following while a powerful rival war god, Bishamon, turns against him.

The second TV season of Haikyu!! begins airing, following Karasuno High's volleyball team as they train at a high-level camp with rivals like Nekoma and Aoba Jousai ahead of the Spring tournament.

Fraport broke ground on Terminal 3, a roughly €4 billion expansion of Frankfurt Airport that would add three passenger piers and a 69-meter control tower.

Madhouse's TV adaptation of One-Punch Man begins airing, following Saitama, a superhero so powerful that he defeats every opponent in a single punch, as boredom with the lack of challenge leaves him mentoring the cyborg Genos.

A short comedic Gintama special premieres at the Jump Festa 2015 anime fair, pairing a food-obsessed gag episode with an extended preview for the upcoming Silver Soul story arc.

A bonus OVA of Haikyuu!! screens at Jump Festa before its home video release, watching Hinata and Kageyama scramble to retake a failed exam without missing their team's training camp.

Bones releases a companion OVA to Noragami Aragoto, two bonus episodes bundled with limited-edition manga volumes that send Hiyori, Yato, and Yukine on a ski trip and an amusement-park outing between the main story's events.

WHITE FOX's Steins;Gate 0: 23β -Divide by Zero- premieres, an alternate version of the original series' 23rd episode bundled with the Steins;Gate Blu-ray box that sets the story on course for Steins;Gate 0.

MAD Architects finished its undulating Harbin Opera House, a two-theatre arts complex built to withstand the city's extreme winters.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. J. Abrams. The sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983), it is the first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and chronologically the seventh film of the "Skywalker Saga".

Harry Macklowe's 432 Park Avenue, then the world's tallest residential tower, officially completed in Manhattan in December 2015 after four years of construction.

One-Punch Man OVA collects six original bonus episodes bundled with the TV series' BD/DVD volumes, written by series creator ONE and animated by Madhouse.

The special Kuroko’s Basketball: The Greatest Present premieres, reuniting the Generation of Miracles for a friendly rematch after the main Kuroko no Basket story’s Winter Cup finale.