Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) begins broadcast, Asread's adaptation of Sakae Esuno's manga about loner Yukiteru Amano, who discovers his imaginary friend Deus Ex Machina is real when he's forced into a deadly battle royale against eleven other holders of future-predicting phone diaries.

Boeing handed over the first 747-8 Freighter to launch customer Cargolux at its Everett, Washington widebody plant, putting the largest version of the 747 into commercial cargo service.

Bunny Drop Specials premieres, four short bonus episodes bundled across the Bunny Drop TV series home video release that expand on single guardian Daikichi and young Rin's daily life together.

Shaft airs Hidamari Sketch x SP, a two-part special bringing back Yuno, Sae, Hiro, and Miyako alongside new students Nori and Nazuna for more slice-of-life art-school antics.

K-ON!: The Movie releases in Japanese theaters, sending the Light Music Club's graduating members on one last overseas trip to London before they part ways.

The two-episode OVA Major: World Series begins release, animating the World Series arc of Takuya Mitsuda's baseball manga that the television series had skipped, and closing out the Major anime franchise.

The fourth TV season of Natsume's Book of Friends begins airing, following Takashi Natsume as he continues returning yokai names recorded in his grandmother's Book of Friends while confronting more of his own past.

TNK's High School DxD premieres, an ecchi fantasy following high schooler Issei Hyodo after he is killed on his first date and reincarnated as a low-ranking devil serving under his upperclassman Rias Gremory.

The horror-mystery TV anime Another begins broadcast, following transfer student Kouichi Sakakibara as he uncovers the deadly curse haunting Yomiyama North Middle School's Class 3.

Steins;Gate: Egoistic Poriomania, an OVA bundled with the TV series' final Blu-ray/DVD volume, releases, following the Future Gadget Lab members some months after the anime's ending as they plan a trip to America.

Brain's Base begins releasing a string of OVA episodes for History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, bundled across several manga tankobon volumes and continuing the story of martial-arts trainee Kenichi Shirahama and the Ryozanpaku dojo.

Daily Lives of High School Boys Specials collects extra episodes of the deadpan high-school comedy that were left off the TV broadcast and released only on home video.

Xebec and AIC's Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 begins release, a remake OVA sending the battleship Yamato on a mission to save Earth from the invading Gamilas.

Fate/Zero Season 2 begins its TV run, closing out the Fourth Holy Grail War as its remaining Masters and Servants abandon their uneasy truce and fight to the finish.

Kyoto Animation's Hyouka begins broadcast, adapting Honobu Yonezawa's Classic Literature Club light novels as reluctant sleuth Houtarou Oreki is drawn into solving his high school club's small, long-buried mysteries.

Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren christened the 139,000-tonne MSC Divina in Marseille a week after her delivery. Built for $550 million at STX France's Saint-Nazaire shipyard, she became the third ship in MSC Cruises' Fantasia class.

Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower at the time and an earthquake-engineering showcase, opened to visitors in Sumida, Tokyo.

Liebherr presented its LTM 1750-9.1, an all-terrain mobile crane that can drive fully rigged on public roads with its 52-metre telescopic boom, to more than 2,000 customers at its Ehingen, Germany plant. The 750-tonne-capacity crane costs around 4 million euros.

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay opened on 29 June 2012, its Flower Dome conservatory later certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest glass greenhouse.

At a seminar at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments each report a new boson at around 125-126 GeV at five sigma, independently and from the same data-taking runs. It is the last unverified piece of the Standard Model.

A-1 Pictures' Sword Art Online begins broadcast, adapting Reki Kawahara's light novel series about players trapped inside a deadly virtual-reality MMORPG where death in the game means death in real life.

Wolf Children releases in Japanese theaters, Mamoru Hosoda's original film about a young mother raising two half-wolf children alone after their werewolf father's early death, animated by Madhouse alongside Hosoda's own Studio Chizu.

Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna, a newly animated television special retelling the Arlong Park arc and Nami’s backstory.

Sunrise's Gintama: Yorinuki Gintama-san on Theater 2D plays in select Japanese theaters, recutting the Shinsengumi Crisis and Kabukicho Four Devas TV arcs into a two-part movie presentation.

ADAC Luftrettung signs a framework order for 14 EC145 T2 (later renamed H145) and 3 EC135 P2e helicopters, built at what is now Airbus Helicopters' Donauwörth plant, the model whose build process this film documents.

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton submit a deep convolutional network to the ImageNet challenge as team SuperVision and win by a wide margin. The result turns GPU deep learning from a niche into an industry.

Gintama': Enchousen begins airing, a 13-episode continuation of Sunrise's samurai-comedy anime adapting Hideaki Sorachi's manga, following the Yorozuya through the "Kintoki impostor" and Yoshiwara arcs.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure begins broadcast, David Production's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's long-running manga, opening with Phantom Blood's rivalry between young aristocrat Jonathan Joestar and his adoptive brother Dio Brando over a cursed stone mask.

The first Puella Magi Madoka Magica compilation film, Beginnings, opens in Japanese theaters, condensing the early episodes of the TV series with new footage as the tetralogy of films begins.

Production I.G's Psycho-Pass begins airing, a cyberpunk thriller set in a future Japan where the Sibyl System judges citizens' criminal potential before any crime occurs.

Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 2: Eternal opens in Japanese theaters, recapping the back half of the TV series as Homura Akemi and the other magical girls confront the truth behind their contracts and the witch Walpurgisnacht.

Kokoro Connect: Michi Random premieres, a set of OVA episodes bundled with the Kokoro Connect light novels that catch up with Taichi, Iori, Himeko, Yoshifumi, and Yui as a new "emotion sickness" ability strikes the group.

DCNS handed over the Aquitaine, the lead ship of France's FREMM-class multi-mission frigates, to the French Navy. The 142-meter, 6,000-tonne frigate was built at DCNS's Lorient shipyard.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic 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.

The $16BN Makkah Royal Clock Tower, holding the world's largest clock face and the highest occupied space on Earth at the time, was completed overlooking Islam's holiest site.

Nekomonogatari: Kuro premieres as the sixth and final part of the original Monogatari Series broadcast, adapting NisiOisin's Nekomonogatari Black light novel as Koyomi Araragi investigates why Tsubasa Hanekawa is hiding behind a bandage.

Tatsunoko Production releases a bonus SKET Dance OVA bundled with the manga's 29th volume, wrapping up plot threads from the TV anime's final episode through the Sket Dan club's usual mix of comedy and problem-solving.

Nigeria formally launched Eko Atlantic, a planned city being built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, at a ceremony attended by Bill Clinton.

A bonus OVA episode of Kuroko's Basketball, bundled with the manga's 22.5th volume, revisits the tense championship duel between Aomine and Kise.

The Devil is a Part-Timer! (Hataraku Maou-sama!) follows Devil King Sadao, stranded in modern Tokyo after his defeat to hero Emilia, as he takes a fast-food job to get by, animated by White Fox.

The television anime My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU begins airing, a Brain's Base adaptation of Wataru Watari's light novels following cynical loner Hachiman Hikigaya as he's drafted into his school's Service Club.

Wit Studio's Attack on Titan begins broadcast, adapting Hajime Isayama's manga about humanity's last refuge behind massive walls after the sudden return of titans, giant humanoids that devour people.

Steins;Gate The Movie – Load Region of Déjà Vu opens in Japanese theaters, a White Fox-produced sequel to the TV series in which Rintarou Okabe begins vanishing from the world as the side effects of his time travel catch up with him.

Meyer Werft delivered the Norwegian Breakaway, then the largest ship it had ever built, from its Papenburg shipyard to Norwegian Cruise Line after an 18-month build. Her maiden voyage was the transatlantic crossing to New York, where she was christened; seven-day Bermuda cruises out of New York followed from 12 May 2013.

Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

Gintama: The Final Chapter - Be Forever Yorozuya opens in Japanese theaters, a Sunrise-animated film that sends Gintoki five years into a bleak future to uncover the source of a deadly epidemic called the White Plague.

Monogatari Series Second Season, adapting five arcs of Nisio Isin's light novels, follows Koyomi Araragi and the women around him as new supernatural "oddities" surface after summer vacation ends.

Two bonus original-video episodes of Kamisama Hajimemashita release with the manga’s 16th collected volume, extending TMS Entertainment’s adaptation of Julietta Suzuki’s story of a runaway teen who inherits a shrine god’s duties.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend, a one-off special that re-animates the Going Merry ship's final voyages and the Straw Hat Crew's farewell to it.