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Happy Sunday! The Animation Obsessive newsletter returns with a new issue — we’re excited to share it.

First, though, we want to mention that last Sunday’s issue (our interview with Jim Capobianco) got featured in Substack Reads.

We’re very grateful for the shout-out. Welcome to our new readers!

With that, here’s the agenda for today:

• 1️⃣ On the Oscar-winning House of Small Cubes (2008).

• 2️⃣ Animation news worldwide.

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With that out of the way, here we go!

For the past three or four decades, Japan has been an animation superpower. It’s only the Oscars that haven’t really accepted it.

The Academy started to give out awards for animation in the ‘30s; just two Japanese entries have won them to date.

The first was Spirited Away (2001) by Hayao Miyazaki, which took the feature category a little over 20 years ago.

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