The film screened in competition alongside Yuasa’s other recent film Lu over the wall (Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta).
The Ottawa International Film Festival awarded Masaaki Yuasa’s Night is Short, Walk On Girl (Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome) anime film with the Grand Prize for Features award on Saturday.
The main staff of The Tatami Galaxy anime returned for the film.
The film adapts Tomihiko Morimi’s (The Eccentric Family, The Tatami Galaxy) novel of the same name.