Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Ferrero Rocher and Raffaello become 90g premium chocolate bars in seven flavours, Ferrero's first move into the category, arriving in UK supermarkets at GBP 2 a bar.

Shawn Levy's Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller who discovers he is a non-player character in a video game, opened in US theaters on 13 August 2021. It grossed US$331.5 million worldwide.

Seven Arcs releases TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You ~SNS~, a bonus OVA episode of Tonikaku Kawaii in which Tsukasa spends her first night alone since marrying Nasa and the two stay connected by phone.

On 23 August 2021 the FDA approved Comirnaty, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, for people 16 and older, making it the first approved COVID-19 vaccine and the first approved mRNA therapy in the US.

Former Reformation COO Peter LaBore became Vuori's first chief operating officer, with Andy Lawrence as its first vice president of international, as the brand prepared to expand abroad.

Chef Ki Chung opens a tasting-menu restaurant in Kakaʻako that reworks Hawaiian and Asian staples, with drinks by Justin Kawailani Park built into the menu.

A Siemens-led consortium signed a $4.5 billion contract to build Egypt's first electrified high-speed rail line, aiming to replace one of the world's deadliest rail networks.

Destin Daniel Cretton's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, with Simu Liu, opened in US theaters on 3 September 2021 and was the first Marvel Studios film with an Asian director and a predominantly Asian cast.

Ponant's hybrid-electric icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot reached the Geographic North Pole on 6 September 2021, the first French vessel and the first LNG-propelled ship ever to do so.

The $11BN Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline finished construction across the Baltic Sea, though it never entered commercial service and was later damaged by underwater explosions.

Vuori named LSU All-American gymnast Olivia "Livvy" Dunne, then followed by 5.7 million people on Instagram and TikTok, an exclusive brand partner and collaborator; it was the first brand deal of her career.

It's a two-seater, with side-by-side seating, as opposed to the tandem format of the Twizy. And unlike the Twizy, GEM, or a golf cart, it's fully enclosed, which means it's vastly more attractive to people living in places where it rains or snows. It uses a 4kW (5.3hp) electric motor powered by a 6kWh lithium-ion battery, which gives the Zero a range of 55 miles (89km), with a recharging time of 4.5 hours at 110V. A version with a bigger battery, the Zero+, will have a range of 85 miles (137km) thanks to a larger 8.3kWh pack—though this increases charging time to a still-reasonable six hours.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 22 September 2021, with every voting member in favour.

86 EIGHTY-SIX Part 2 continues the mecha war drama, following the Eighty-Six survivors of the Spearhead Squadron as they're given an uneasy second chance at life in the Republic of Giad before duty calls them back to war.

Studio Bind's second cour of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation begins airing, following Rudeus Greyrat and Eris as they team with warrior Ruijerd on the Demon Continent while Rudeus grapples with a strange new power granted by the Demon World's Great Emperor.

August 2021: the trade gap was $73.3 billion, up $2.9 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $213.7 billion and imports rose to $287.0 billion. Released October 5, 2021.

The world's number one assassin has been reincarnated as the eldest son of a family of aristocrat assassins. In exchange for being reincarnated in another world, a goddess has imposed upon him one condition.

SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 put $400 million into Vuori at a $4 billion valuation, one of the largest investments in a private apparel company, to fund international expansion and 100 US stores.

China's housing ministry tightened its skyscraper rules nationwide, barring any new building over 150m in cities under 3 million people and capping larger cities at 250m.

On 28 October 2021, at its Connect conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook's parent company would become Meta, a rebrand around building the metaverse that left the Facebook app's name unchanged.

Violet Evergarden: Recollections streams, a Kyoto Animation recap special revisiting Violet Evergarden's journey as an Auto Memory Doll released after the franchise's theatrical film.

Dou Po Cangqiong: San Nian Zhi Yue begins streaming, a Chinese donghua continuing young martial artist Xiao Yan's training during the three years he spends studying under the mysterious old man Yao Chen.

Vuori became the exclusive off-bike clothing partner of three riders from the Los Angeles criterium team L39ION: founders Justin and Cory Williams and Skylar Schneider.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 3 November 2021, with every voting member in favour.

September 2021: the trade gap was $80.9 billion, up $8.1 billion from the revised prior month. Exports fell to $207.6 billion and imports rose to $288.5 billion. Released November 4, 2021.

Chloé Zhao's Eternals, an ensemble epic about immortal aliens on Earth, opened in US theaters on 5 November 2021.

Original Force's Fanren Xiu Xian Zhuan: Modao Zhengfeng begins streaming, continuing the long-running donghua adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality.

President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law, directing $1.2 trillion toward roads, bridges, rail, water systems and broadband nationwide.

Encanto is a 2021 American animated musical fantasy comedy film directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, and written by Charise Castro Smith and Bush. It reached US theaters on 24 November 2021.

Inditex's board approved Marta Ortega Pérez as non-executive chairwoman, effective 1 April 2022, and named Óscar García Maceiras chief executive with immediate effect, completing a generational handover from longtime executive chairman Pablo Isla.

Lerche's Given: On the Other Hand OVA is released, a bonus episode bundled with the manga that fills in a quiet moment for the band members of the boys'-love series Given.

david production's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Part 1 releases, the opening batch of episodes adapting Hirohiko Araki's manga as Jolyne Kuujou is framed and imprisoned at Green Dolphin Street Jail.

Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc begins airing, sending Tanjiro Kamado and the Sound and Love Hashira into Tokyo's Yoshiwara red-light district to hunt a powerful Upper Rank demon.

October 2021: the trade gap was $67.1 billion, down $14.3 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $223.6 billion and imports rose to $290.7 billion. Released December 7, 2021.

The first of 170 Patek Philippe Nautilus Ref. 5711/1A-018 watches with a Tiffany Blue dial sold for US$6.5 million at Phillips in New York on 11 December 2021, a record for a wristwatch sold online.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 15 December 2021, with every voting member in favour.

MAPPA's JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 releases in Japanese theaters, a prequel film following Yuta Okkotsu as he enrolls at Tokyo Jujutsu High under teacher Satoru Gojo to control the curse formed from his dead childhood friend, Rika.

Sparkly Key Animation's Tunshi Xingkong 2nd Season begins streaming, continuing the donghua adaptation of Chen Dong's Swallowed Star web novel as Luo Feng advances deeper into the story's war-torn galaxy.

On 30 December 2021 SK hynix completed the first phase of buying Intel's NAND and SSD business, taking Intel's SSD unit and its Dalian NAND plant for US$7 billion and launching the Solidigm subsidiary.

Sydney's decades-old rule capping buildings at 235m, tied to the height of Sydney Tower, gave way as the state government approved a planning framework allowing towers up to 310m.

Jon and Mary Kate Walker open a seafood market and restaurant in Safety Harbor, Florida, built on very fresh fish cooked simply.

November 2021: the trade gap was $80.2 billion, up $13.0 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $224.2 billion and imports rose to $304.4 billion. Released January 6, 2022.

Watame Did Borderline Nothing Wrong begins airing, a run of comedic shorts starring Hololive VTuber Tsunomaki Watame, released weekly on her own YouTube channel.

Nishikata hasn’t endured years of pranks for nothing.

MAPPA's Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2 begins broadcast, centering the war for Paradis around Shiganshina as the Jaegerists seize control and Marley strikes back.

Miyano spends his days reading Boys’ Love manga and worrying about the soft features of his face. His world of fiction becomes reality when a chance encounter leads him to high school senior Sasaki in the middle of a fight.

Gilmour Space Technologies test-fired the largest and most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia, a 75-second, 110-kilonewton hybrid-engine burn ahead of its Eris orbital rocket program.

Japan’s post-apocalyptic wasteland replete with dust can only be saved by one thing—fungus. Bisco Akaboshi, a wanted criminal and skilled archer, searches for a legendary mushroom, known as Sabikui, said to devour any and all rust.

An unaired bonus episode of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S releases on the season's Blu-ray, following Kobayashi and her household of dragons through a lighthearted look at Japanese hospitality customs.