'Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome' Wins Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year

The Japan Academy Prize Association announced in the 41st edition of its annual awards ceremony last Friday that director Masaaki Yuasa’s 2017 film Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl) is the winner of the Animation of Year award.

The film is Yuasa’s first work to be nominated for and awarded the Japan Academy Prize, considered Japan’s equivalent of Hollywood’s Academy Awards.

It was nominated alongside Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko ka…