Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Banana Fish premieres, MAPPA's adaptation of Akimi Yoshida's manga following Ash Lynx, a New York gang leader raised by crime boss Dino Golzine, as he crosses paths with visiting Japanese photographer Eiji Okumura.

US Customs began collecting an extra 25 percent on 818 tariff lines worth about $34 billion of Chinese imports on 6 July 2018 — the opening move of the trade war, and the first time since the 1930s that the United States taxed a major trading partner at this scale.

Gintama.: Silver Soul Arc - Second Half War premieres, Bandai Namco Pictures' continuation of the manga's final story arc as the Yorozuya fight on two fronts to stop the Altana Liberation Army's planet-destroying weapon.

The Founder of Diabolism (Mo Dao Zu Shi) begins streaming, a B.CMAY Pictures donghua adapting Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel, in which the resurrected cultivator Wei Wuxian confronts the fallout of his past as the Yiling Patriarch.

2018 MacBook Pros feature eighth-generation Intel Core processors. Apple says the 15-inch model is up to 70 percent faster, and the 13-inch model is up to two times faster, than the equivalent 2017 models with seventh-generation Intel Core processors in benchmarks. 15-inch models can now be maxed out with a 2.9GHz six-core Core i9 processor, while the previous generation topped out at a 3.1GHz quad-core Core i7. Quad-core 13-inch models with the Touch Bar are now available, up to 2.7GHz, while 2017 models were dual-core up to 3.5GHz.

Wit Studio's third season of Attack on Titan begins broadcast, continuing the manga adaptation as Eren and Historia are placed under Levi Squad's protection while a cover-up inside the Walls comes to light.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to fly directly into the atmosphere of the Sun and explore its brutally hot corona.

The Model 3 will come equipped with a new suite of hardware that supports Tesla's second-generation Autopilot system, Enhanced Autopilot. Enhanced Autopilot will eventually allow the car to match its speed to traffic conditions, automatically change lanes without driver input, merge on and off highways, and park itself.

The third Non Non Biyori film, Vacation, reaches Japanese theaters, an original theatrical entry in the slice-of-life franchise sending the tiny rural school's handful of students on a summer trip to Okinawa.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas releases in Japanese theaters, a Studio VOLN adaptation of Yoru Sumino's novel about a withdrawn boy who befriends a popular, secretly terminally ill classmate after stumbling on her diary.

Brain's Base releases the School Babysitters OVA, a manga-bundled bonus episode pairing a slice-of-life story about Ryuuichi's babysitting club with a fairy-tale parody segment starring the same cast.

Studio Shuka's Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond opens in Japanese theaters, sending Takashi Natsume and Nyanko-sensei into a new story tied to an old friend's yokai-tinged memories.

8-bit's That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime begins broadcast, an isekai adventure following salaryman Satoru Mikami, killed in Tokyo and reborn as a slime in a fantasy world, as he builds a nation of monsters around him.

CloverWorks' Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai begins airing, a romantic drama in which high schooler Sakuta Azusagawa encounters a famous actress rendered invisible to others by a phenomenon known as puberty syndrome.

The fifth TV season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure begins airing, following Giorno Giovanna as he joins the Italian gang Passione hoping to reshape it from within.

Bonus chibi-parody shorts bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of Attack on Titan Season 3 begin release, continuing the comedic "Chimi Kyara Gekijou" side-story format used on earlier seasons' home-video specials.

The 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opened to traffic on 24 October 2018, linking the three Pearl River Delta cities with cable-stayed bridges, artificial islands and an undersea tunnel.

The winner of Eater San Diego's 2017 Restaurant of the Year opened a second outpost in a 2,000-square-foot space at Mira Mesa Shopping Center. It was owner Takashi Endo's 14th ramen shop, and it arrived about four months after the mid-2018 launch Eater had reported.

IHG opened the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, an 18-storey hotel built into the walls of a disused quarry with two underwater floors set against a lit aquarium.

The Apple Watch Series 4 expected this fall will feature a new design and a display that's 15 percent larger, according to the latest reports. Kuo expects the two new Apple Watch models will measure 1.57 inches (39.9mm) and 1.78 inches (45.2mm), compared to the current 38mm and 42mm Apple Watch sizes.

Douluo Dalu 2nd Season, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Tang Jia San Shao's novel, begins release, following young spirit master Tang San's ongoing rise through the world of Douluo Continent.

Meyer Werft handed over the AIDAnova, built at its Papenburg shipyard as the world's first cruise ship able to run on liquefied natural gas, to AIDA Cruises. The 337-metre ship carries up to 6,600 passengers and was assembled from roughly 15 million individual parts.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a 2018 American animated superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman from a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rothman, it is the first animated film in the Spider-Man franchise.

J.C.Staff airs The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Kanketsu-hen, a one-episode special adapting the final chapters of Shuuichi Asou's manga and closing out psychic high-schooler Kusuo Saiki's story.

Lamborghini unveiled the Huracán Evo, a 640-horsepower V10 supercar built by hand at its Sant'Agata Bolognese factory in Italy.

Studio Bones' Mob Psycho 100 II begins broadcast, continuing the story of psychic middle-schooler Shigeo 'Mob' Kageyama as the group Claw returns to threaten him.

Kinema Citrus's The Rising of the Shield Hero begins broadcast, adapting Aneko Yusagi's light novel about Naofumi Iwatani, summoned to a parallel world as its weakest hero and betrayed early, who rises anyway with only his shield.

CloverWorks' TV adaptation of The Promised Neverland begins airing, following Emma, Norman, and Ray, the brightest orphans at Grace Field House, after they discover the dark truth behind the idyllic orphanage that raised them.

A-1 Pictures' Kaguya-sama: Love is War begins airing, a romantic comedy pitting student council president Miyuki Shirogane against vice president Kaguya Shinomiya in a battle of pride neither will break first to confess their feelings.

Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II. lost butterfly, ufotable's second Heaven's Feel film, opens in Japanese theaters, following Shirou Emiya's resolve to protect Sakura Matou as the Holy Grail War turns darker.

Sri Lanka finishes reclaiming 269 hectares of land from the Indian Ocean off Colombo, laying the ground for the Chinese-backed Port City Colombo financial district.

Kinema Citrus's Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight opens in Japanese theaters, a compilation film recapping the back half of the TV series as Riko and Reg press deeper into the Abyss while the truth behind her mother's disappearance comes into focus.

The consortium building Venice's MOSE flood-defence system put the last of its 78 mobile barrier gates into place across the lagoon's three inlets, nearly sixteen years after groundbreaking, though the system as a whole was still years from completion. Heavy-lift specialist Fagioli spent years floating and positioning the multi-tonne steel gates; individual gates were first raised in October 2013, and the first full test of all 78 followed on 10 July 2020.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is a 2019 American animated fantasy film written and directed by Dean DeBlois, based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) and the final installment of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

Indonesia opened the 140.9km Bakauheni-Terbanggi Besar toll road in Lampung, the flagship first section of the Trans Sumatera Toll Road network built by state contractor Hutama Karya.

Thomas Heatherwick's climbable honeycomb staircase, The Vessel, opens to the public as the centrepiece of Manhattan's new Hudson Yards district.

At 85.4 meters and 18 storeys, Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway opened as the world's tallest timber building, built from engineered glue-laminated wood instead of steel or concrete.

J.C.Staff releases Hi Score Girl: Extra Stage, an OVA continuing the Hi Score Girl anime as episodes 13 through 15, following Haruo, Akira, and Koharu four years after they first met.

A 34-metre concrete tube is half-sunk off Norway's southernmost point and opens as a restaurant, five and a half metres down, with an 11-metre window onto the seabed. Between services it works as a marine research station.

Construction manager Pizzarotti sued developer Fortis Property Group, alleging cost-cutting on the foundation left Lower Manhattan's One Seaport tower leaning about three inches to the north.

A-1 Pictures releases the first Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku) OVA, bundled with a special manga edition and continuing the story of the original anime's office-otaku couples.

The device, according to the documents, will be lighter, more comfortable to wear, and have significantly improved holographic displays. But most importantly, it will cost significantly less than the current version of the HoloLens.

Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba begins airing, following Tanjiro Kamado as he becomes a demon slayer to find a cure for his sister Nezuko, turned into a demon after their family was slaughtered.

One-Punch Man returns for a second season, this time animated by J.C.STAFF, continuing the superhero comedy about Saitama, a hero so overwhelmingly strong that no opponent can survive a single punch.

The Jewel, a 3,500-tonne glass dome housing the world's tallest indoor waterfall and thousands of trees, opened at Singapore's Changi Airport, fulfilling a vision for a garden city dating to the 1960s.

Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

WIT STUDIO's Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2 begins broadcast, covering the Scout Regiment's operation to retake Shiganshina District and the revelations that follow.

Cover Corp's Holo no Graffiti begins release, a short-form comedy ONA following Hololive Production's virtual YouTubers through absurd skits set around their office.

Disney opened Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, a 14-acre immersive themed land, at Disneyland in Anaheim.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a 2019 American monster film directed and co-written by Michael Dougherty. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.