
Crunchyroll media distribution company has revealed on their company website that it is beginning to stream
Kunio Kato's Oscar-winning short, La Maison en
Petits Cubes (Tsumiki no le or House of Blocks) today at 6:00am EDT. The
anime won the Best Animated Short Film at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.
The 12-minute work uses paper drawings and 2D computer graphics to tell the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters. It was the second Japanese animated work to win a major Oscar, after Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. ~ Anime News Network
Along with
Kato's Petits Cubes is the streaming of Kato's The Diary of Tortov Roddle Short which will took place at 6:00 am EDT as well.

Crunchyroll has already begun to stream
Studio Fantasia's
Glass Maiden television anime series (pictured above). Streaming of the series began on Wednesday. Other recently added anime titles include; the Dark Side Cat Flash anime series, the Greathunt Flash anime series and the Japan Tourism Anime Channel shorts.
Source: Anime News Network
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