Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Attack on Titan: No Regrets (Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku), a Wit Studio prequel OVA, begins release, tracing how street thug Levi and idealistic recruit Erwin Smith became the Survey Corps' hardened leaders.

Date A Live II: Kurumi Star Festival premieres, an OVA bundled with the Date A Live Encore light novels that follows Shidou Itsuka through a Tanabata festival date with the enigmatic Spirit Kurumi Tokisaki.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. It is based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Airbus Defence and Space delivered the first production A400M Atlas military transport, assembled at its Seville final assembly line, to the German Luftwaffe.

TMS Entertainment airs The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History, a Detective Conan TV special marking the 20th anniversary of Gosho Aoyama's manga with a previously untold story from Conan's past.

Santiago's 300-metre Gran Torre Costanera, nicknamed "the Mordor of Santiago" by critics, topped out in February 2012 and was finished as the tallest building on the continent - a completion its architect dates to 2014 and Wikipedia to 2013.

Tsukimonogatari premieres, the third part of the Monogatari Series Second Season continuation, a Shaft-animated adaptation following Koyomi Araragi as a strange bodily change draws him back into the supernatural fallout of his past cases.

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 Tomoya Aki, a high school 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.

Kenneth Branagh's live-action Cinderella, with Lily James and Cate Blanchett, opened in US theaters on 13 March 2015 after a Berlin premiere. It grossed about US$543 million worldwide on a US$95 million budget.

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.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V reached PC on 14 April 2015 after several delays, with 4K and 60 frames-per-second support and the Rockstar Editor. Its Steam page, now named Grand Theft Auto V Legacy, ranks tenth on the weekly most-played chart, with a peak of 66,501 players in the week to 2 October 2026.

The 50th Academy of Country Music Awards moved from Las Vegas to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on 19 April 2015, drawing a Guinness-certified 70,252 people as Luke Bryan won Entertainer of the Year.

The first Apple Watch went on sale on 24 April 2015 in nine countries, with the Sport from US$349, the Apple Watch from US$549 and the 18-karat gold Edition from US$10,000.

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.

Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron opened in the United States on 1 May 2015, pitting the team against James Spader's Ultron.

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.

CD Projekt Red's open-world action RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt launched on 19 May 2015. Its Remastered edition, a free upgrade for owners, arrived on 29 September 2026 and lifted the Steam page to eighth on the weekly most-played chart, with a peak of 102,849 players in the week to 2 October 2026.

Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, based on the Disney Parks land and starring George Clooney and Britt Robertson, opened in US theaters on 22 May 2015. It grossed US$209 million worldwide against a budget of US$180-190 million.

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.

Pete Docter's Inside Out opened in US theaters on 19 June 2015 after debuting at Cannes, personifying the emotions inside a young girl's mind. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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.

Peyton Reed's Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, opened in the US on 17 July 2015 as the final film of Phase Two.

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.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi opened the expanded Suez Canal on 6 August 2015 at a ceremony in Ismailia, after a year of digging that added 72 kilometres of new waterways. Analysts questioned whether the projected revenue gains were realistic.

On 10 August 2015 Larry Page announced that Google would reorganise under a new holding company called Alphabet, with Page as CEO and Sergey Brin as President, and Sundar Pichai taking over as Google CEO.

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.