Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Sunrise brings Rumiko Takahashi's Taisho-era yokai mystery MAO to NHK as a two-cour TV anime.

Inter Miami played its first match at the 26,700-seat Nu Stadium, the centrepiece of the 131-acre Miami Freedom Park built on the former Melreese golf course beside Miami International Airport, drawing 2-2 with Austin FC. The club had played out of Fort Lauderdale since 2020 while the site was fought over and built.

Nippon Sangoku begins streaming, a science-fiction drama set after Japan collapses into three warring successor states, following former agricultural officer Aoteru Misumi as he rises to reunify the country.

A third season of How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, subtitled ULT, was announced for the ecchi isekai comedy about a socially awkward gamer summoned into his MMO world as its overpowered demon-lord avatar.

Oracle named Schneider Electric finance chief Hilary Maxson its chief financial officer to fund and run the capital-hungry AI cloud build-out, taking over from principal financial officer Doug Kehring.

The Korea Football Association's national training campus, designed by UNStudio around a 'total football' philosophy, officially opened.

The Latin Recording Academy named Daddy Yankee its 2026 Person of the Year on 7 April 2026, to be honored at a gala in Las Vegas on 11 November during Latin Grammy Week.

Studio PuYUKAI's Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Kyuukei Jikan (Break Time) 4th Season begins streaming, the latest run of chibi-style comedy shorts spun off from the Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- franchise.

After 40 days of US-Israeli strikes, the United States and Iran agreed to halt attacks for two weeks while Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, in a truce brokered by Pakistan; Israel said it did not cover Lebanon.

Drop 1 opened global sales for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, after a locals-only presale put hundreds of thousands of $28 tickets in LA and Oklahoma City residents' hands; fans bought more than 4 million tickets that month.

The Fed's main inflation gauge rose 0.4% in February and 2.8% from a year earlier, while core PCE, excluding food and energy, rose 0.4% and 3.0%.

DC Water lowered the tunnel boring machine Mary into a 100-foot-deep shaft in West Potomac Park and started her north towards Georgetown University, the first 2.4 miles of a 5.5-mile combined sewer overflow tunnel. The $819 million tunnel is part of the Clean Rivers Project and will cut Potomac overflow events from 74 a year to four; a second Herrenknecht machine, Emily, bores south towards Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.

Nike lead director Tim Cook bought another 25,000 Nike shares at about $42.43 on 10 April 2026, and CEO Elliott Hill and directors Robert Swan and John Rogers Jr. also bought that week, after the third-quarter outlook sent the stock sharply lower.

After a three-year pause, the VA switched its Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw medical centres to the Oracle Health-built Federal EHR on one day, the first of 13 deployments planned for 2026.

Bruno Mars starts his first headline tour in nearly a decade before a sold-out crowd of 65,000 at Allegiant Stadium, on the day Las Vegas renamed a street Bruno Mars Drive.

Will, a washout student at a magical academy who is unable to use magic, is aiming to join the top tier of mages, the Magia Vander, to fulfill a promise to his childhood friend, Elfaria.

European Commission officials made unannounced antitrust inspections at a chocolate maker's premises in two EU countries over possible restrictions on cross-border trade, and Ferrero confirmed it was the company.

LVMH's first-quarter 2026 revenue fell 6% on a reported basis to €19.1 billion, though organic revenue still grew 1%, as the group said the conflict in the Middle East cut about a point off underlying growth.

Vuori hired Rothy's former chief product and merchandising officer Heather Archibald into a new chief product officer role over design, development, merchandising, sourcing and production.

A multi-year deal through 2029 for Broadcom to co-develop and supply Meta's MTIA accelerators and Ethernet networking, starting with more than 1 GW and the industry's first 2nm AI compute accelerator; Hock Tan leaves Meta's board to advise it.

Salesforce's developer conference filled Moscone West for two days of 400+ technical sessions, where it unveiled Headless 360, exposing its platform to coding agents as APIs, MCP tools and CLI commands.

A federal jury in Manhattan found Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally monopolised primary ticketing and amphitheatres and overcharged fans $1.72 a ticket, a win for 33 states and the District of Columbia that pressed on after the Justice Department settled.

The Chinese ONA Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan begins release, continuing the Nitian Xie Shen action-fantasy story into its next arc.

Three months after leaving 529 Broadway, Nike opened a smaller street-level SoHo store a few blocks north at 611 Broadway, pitched as the first of its 'hyperlocal sport worlds'.

Jacob Wheeler finally won Major League Fishing's championship, catching 21 scorable bass for 51 pounds 11 ounces on Table Rock Lake's final day to beat Takahiro Omori by 13-3 and take $300,000.

Santa Barbara County Judge Donna Geck refused to lift the injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting its Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, rejecting for the first time the company's claim that a federal Defense Production Act order overrides California law. She set a May 22 hearing on whether Sable, which resumed moving oil in March, should be held in contempt.

MARTA started service on the Rapid A-Line, a five-mile route with 14 new stations linking downtown Atlanta to Capitol Gateway, Summerhill, Peoplestown and the BeltLine's Southside Trail, much of it in dedicated bus lanes. Construction continues along the corridor, with temporary stops standing in at five stations until final revenue service in the autumn.

WWE's flagship event returned to Las Vegas for a second straight year, drawing 97,126 fans over two nights; Cody Rhodes kept the Undisputed WWE Championship and Roman Reigns took the World Heavyweight title from CM Punk.