On Dec. 2, Xing announced the 2013 Joysound Yearly Ranking. The results were aggregated from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30 based on song playback numbers on the commercial karaoke series Joysound and UGA.
There was recently a news flash regarding *Buddha 2: Tezuka Osamu no Buddha - Owarinaki Tabi*, an anime movie premiering on Feb. 8. It was announced that the worldwide premiere is to be held in the Louvre Museum in France.
*Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:2 Ghost Whispers*, the second part of the *Ghost in the Shell: Arise* tetralogy, was released in 23 theaters throughout Japan on Nov. 30.
Emergency is a music trio consisting of New Young (Masaya Onosaka), Crazy Yu (Yu Kobayashi), and Dancing Yukari (Yukari Goto). They released a cover album titled *ADM - Anime Dance Music Produced by tkrism* on Sept. 25.
On Nov. 28, Nippon Ichi Software released the second promotional video for its PlayStation Vita game *Disgaea 4: Return*, which will be released on Jan. 30, 2014.
On Nov. 27, the short animated film *Traveling Daru*, the story of a stuffed animal who goes on a journey to find an owner, was released in 17 Asian countries on iTunes.