Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

BYD put the F3DM, billed as the first mass-produced plug-in hybrid car, on sale in China on 15 December 2008 at 149,800 yuan, to government agencies and companies.

A privately financed airport built to rival Madrid-Barajas opened near Ciudad Real in December 2008, before closing within four years as one of Spain's most notorious infrastructure failures.

Maikaze's doujin OVA Touhou Niji Sousaku Doujin Anime: Musou Kakyou begins release, an unofficial fan adaptation of the Touhou Project game series following shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei investigating a rash of thefts in Gensokyo.

A neighborhood French bistro serving seafood and classic dishes.

Iberian seafood, tapas, and generous shared plates in the historic Boardwalk Building.

MADHOUSE's second Hajime no Ippo TV series begins airing, continuing amateur-turned-pro boxer Ippo Makunouchi's climb through Japan's boxing ranks.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 begins its TV run, continuing Takashi Natsume's efforts to return the spirit names bound in his late grandmother's Book of Friends, with his bodyguard youkai Nyanko-sensei in tow.

After the baseball season was over, Goro returned to Japan. There he learned from Toshi that there is going to be a Baseball World Cup the following year hosted in America.

Cantonese and Hainanese cooking beside Coral Bay, with a current autumn menu featuring island ingredients.

Sea views, Hainan-inspired cocktails and a priced evening snack menu at Mandarin Oriental Sanya.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss won five Grammys for Raising Sand at the 51st ceremony at Staples Center, including Album and Record of the Year, on a night when Rihanna and Chris Brown pulled out of their performances after Brown's arrest; Adele won Best New Artist.

The two-episode OVA xxxHOLiC Shunmuki continues Production I.G's adaptation of CLAMP's manga, picking up directly after xxxHOLiC Kei and tying into the linked Tsubasa Chronicle OVA project.

A Sangyuan Road Shandong restaurant serving braised pork intestines, stir-fried kidneys and traditional Jinan dishes.

Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicles premieres, a two-part OVA bundled with the Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC manga's limited editions, continuing Sakura and Syaoran's dimension-hopping search for her lost memories.

A set of bonus Hidamari Sketch x 365 shorts bundled across several Blu-ray/DVD volumes, following the residents of Yunohana Sou through everyday slice-of-life vignettes.

Tokyo Movie Shinsha airs Lupin the 3rd Vs Detective Conan, a crossover TV special pitting master thief Lupin III against teenage detective Conan Edogawa amid a royal succession crisis.

Kyon has found himself dragged through many adventures as of late—all because of the SOS Brigade club and its excitable leader, Haruhi Suzumiya.

Bones' second, manga-faithful adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist begins airing, following brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric's search for the Philosopher's Stone after a forbidden alchemy ritual costs them their bodies.

Carrie Underwood won Entertainer of the Year at the 44th Academy of Country Music Awards on 5 April 2009 in Las Vegas, ending Kenny Chesney's four-year run, while Taylor Swift took Album of the Year for Fearless.

Square Enix releases Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, a re-edited home-video version of the Advent Children film adding roughly 26 minutes of new and revised footage.

Gainax's Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars opens in Japanese theaters, the second of two compilation films recapping and continuing the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann TV series with new footage covering its back half.

A bonus OVA for the Spice and Wolf light novels arrives on home video, catching up with traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and the wolf goddess Holo as her illness and a budding rivalry with a fellow traveler draw the two closer together.

Pete Docter's Up opened in US theaters on 29 May 2009 after opening the Cannes Film Festival, about an elderly widower who floats his house to Venezuela with balloons. It won the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.

TMS Entertainment releases Detective Conan: The Stranger in 10 Years, an OVA imagining Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara growing up alongside their friends after never taking the antidote to APTX 4869.

TMS Entertainment begins releasing Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, an OVA prequel set 243 years before the original Saint Seiya that follows young saint-in-training Tenma and his childhood friend Alone, chosen vessel of Hades.

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, the second of the Rebuild of Evangelion films, opens in Japanese theaters, introducing new pilots Asuka and Mari as the Angel attacks escalate toward the Third Impact.

A bonus OVA on Clannad After Story's final DVD volume reimagines the story from an alternate timeline, casting Fujibayashi Kyou as the series' central heroine in place of Nagisa.

Shaft's Bakemonogatari begins airing, the first entry in the Monogatari series following high school student Koyomi Araragi as he helps girls afflicted by supernatural 'oddity' curses after narrowly surviving a vampire attack.

Bell delivered the first production Bell 429, serial number 57006, to Air Methods and MercyOne from its helicopter factory in Mirabel, Quebec.

Traditional Ningbo cooking by Heyi Road, with bean-curd-wrapped yellow croaker, shredded eel and tangyuan.

Income-restricted family apartments and townhomes with one- through four-bedroom layouts. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026. Published rents: 1 bedroom — operator-listed $951–$1,166, 2 bedroom — operator-listed $1,119–$1,382, 3 bedroom — operator-listed $1,279–$1,656.

A compilation OVA recapping all 25 episodes of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 releases, condensing the second season's story for viewers catching up on the series.

Typhoon Morakot hit central Taiwan on 7 August 2009 and stalled over the island, dropping up to 2,777 mm of rain, killing 755 people and wiping out the town of Siaolin in a landslide.

the Garden of sinners Chapter 7, the final chapter of Kara no Kyoukai's theatrical film series, releases in Japanese theaters, resolving Shiki Ryougi's murderous impulses as she and Mikiya close in on a serial killer echoing crimes from her past.

Redline, Madhouse's hand-drawn racing film seven years in the making, opens in Japanese theaters, following daredevil driver JP as he competes in a deadly interplanetary race for a shot at the title and at fellow racer Sonoshee.

Usain Bolt won the 100m final at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in 9.58 seconds, 0.11 faster than his own 9.69 from the Beijing Olympics a year earlier.

The Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection begins staggered release, four bonus episodes from Bones filling in side stories about Winry, Riza, Izumi Curtis and a young Roy Mustang alongside the main Brotherhood series.

On 31 August 2009 Disney agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock-and-cash deal worth about US$4 billion, or US$50 per Marvel share. The deal brought Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor, and more than 5,000 characters, into Disney.

Ningbo seafood and Cantonese classics, with a linked branch menu and signature-dish photographs.

Gintama: Shiroyasha Koutan, a short OVA first shown at Jump Super Anime Tour 2008, releases on DVD, presenting a brief trailer-style glimpse of an imagined Gintama movie centered on Gintoki's past as the 'White Demon.'

Academy City is a highly developed place in terms of technology. It is said to be 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world, and 80% of its 2.3 million residents are students.

Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior.

Fairy Tail begins broadcast, an adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga about the wizards of the guild Fairy Tail - fire mage Natsu Dragneel, celestial spirit mage Lucy Heartfilia, and their rowdy guildmates - taking on magical jobs across the kingdom of Fiore.

Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura opened his Nikkei restaurant in Lima, cooking the blend of Peruvian and Japanese traditions built by Japanese migration to Peru. It was ranked the best restaurant in the world in 2025.

A bonus OVA continuing Shaft's Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei comedy, following pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki through fresh absurdist despairs, including a zombie-movie parody.

At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.