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Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter - Sanctuary premieres, a Toei Animation OVA adapting Masami Kurumada's manga as Hades' resurrected Gold Saints move against Athena and the surviving Bronze Saints.

A two-episode recap special that revisits the Hades Sanctuary story from the vantage of the revived Gold Saints, trimming the Bronze Saints' scenes to focus on Shura, Camus and Saga as Athena's strongest defenders confront Hades' resurrected army. Animated by Toei Animation as part of the long-running Saint Seiya OVA cycle, it repackages existing Sanctuary-arc footage into a condensed retelling rather than new story content.

Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho premieres, a 13-episode OVA continuing the Ojamajo Doremi magical-girl franchise with a more mature, romance-tinged coda for the five witch apprentices.

The second OVA arc of Saint Seiya's Hades storyline begins release, continuing the surviving Bronze and Gold Saints' descent into the underworld to confront Hades himself.

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.

One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

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.

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.

To the excitement of fans across the globe, the long-awaited (and briefly-delayed) "Sailor Moon Crystal" finally has a final air date as well as a brand new trailer. A reboot of the beloved 1992 Japanese animated TV show, "Sailor Moon Crystal" is set to air in Japan on July 5 and will be simulcast worldwide. The trailer shows the "Sailor Moon" protagonist, teenager Usagi Tsukino, getting ready for school before transforming into superhero Sailor Moon and introducing her fellow Sailor Scouts.

Toei Animation airs the One Piece 3D2Y TV special, an original non-canon story bridging the manga's two-year time skip as Luffy trains under Silvers Rayleigh on Rusukaina Island while protecting Boa Hancock from a new adversary.

One Piece: Episode of Sabo is a TV special retelling the childhood bond between Luffy, Ace, and Sabo before folding in Sabo's reappearance during the Dressrosa arc, animated by Toei Animation.

The TV special One Piece: Episode of East Blue reanimates the story's earliest chapters for the manga's 20th anniversary, retelling how Luffy assembled his first four crewmates on the way to the Grand Line.

220 Central Park South, a limestone-clad tower on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row, completed as one of the most profitable condo buildings ever built, breaking from the glass-tower norm.

The world's tallest residential building began closing apartment sales on Billionaires' Row, months after finishing construction as Manhattan's newest supertall.

Toei Animation's feature film The First Slam Dunk opens in Japan, a big-screen return for Takehiko Inoue's basketball manga told from point guard Ryouta Miyagi's perspective.

The MTA's East Side Access project opened Grand Central Madison, a new Long Island Rail Road terminal built in caverns roughly 150 feet beneath Park Avenue.

The Henderson, a curved Zaha Hadid-designed office tower on the world's most expensive building site, was completed in mid-2024 in Hong Kong's Central district.

Chef Fátima Juárez runs a molino and antojitos counter in South Los Angeles, milling heirloom Mexican corn into masa every day.

One Piece Fan Letter premieres, a one-off Toei Animation special adapting a chapter of the One Piece novel Mugiwara Stories to mark the 25th anniversary of the One Piece anime, set as the Straw Hats reunite on the Sabaody Archipelago.

Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.

The newest mainline entry in the Digimon franchise, Beatbreak imagines a world running on e-Pulse — human thoughts and emotions harvested to power AI devices called Sapotama. When Digimon start materializing out of these devices and feeding on the e-Pulse that powers them, protagonist Tomoro Tenma joins Glowing Dawn, a task force investigating the rogue creatures and the system's darker workings. Animated by Toei Animation, it positions itself as a narrative descendant of the original 1999 Digimon Adventure while building its own emotion-driven premise.

Star Detective Precure! begins broadcast, the 23rd entry in Toei's long-running magical-girl franchise, following student Anna Akechi after a mysterious pendant flings her back nearly three decades to team up with an aspiring detective and transform into a Precure.

Chef Csilla Thackray opens a bright Austro-Hungarian restaurant on Butler Street, named for her great-grandfather and inspired by her Hungarian grandmother.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Denver on 1 September 2026, with a roughly 60-square-mile service area served only by its Zeekr-built Ojai robotaxi.

Toei Animation's Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is an enhanced re-edit of Dragon Ball Super with redrawn scenes and new cuts, retelling the story from the God of Destruction's awakening onward.

San Miguel Corporation's New Manila International Airport in Bulacan has seen its first-runway target pushed back to 2028 after a sand shortage stalled land reclamation.

The first phase of Dubai's US$35BN Al Maktoum International Airport expansion, ultimately sized to handle more than 260 million passengers a year and become the world's largest airport.