Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, told from Roxas's point of view inside Organization XIII, released for Nintendo DS in Japan on 30 May 2009 and reached 1.22 million units worldwide by November 2009.

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.

Square Enix and Level-5 released Dragon Quest IX on the Nintendo DS in Japan on 11 July 2009. It sold 2.32 million units in its first two days and earned Famitsu's first perfect score for a Dragon Quest game.

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.

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.

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - Carlsbad in Carlsbad. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

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.

The first A330-200F freighter, F-WWYE, took off from Toulouse-Blagnac on 5 November 2009 for a flight of about 3 hours 50 minutes that opened a 180-hour test programme.

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.