Kunio Kato Wins Oscar: Greatest Speech Ever!!!!!

Now you're probably thinking Pucca has nothing to do with Kunio Kato winning an oscar and you know what you're absolutely right!!! Or are you???? Fact is Pucca is Kawaii and so was Kato's acceptance speech at the 81st Annual Academy Awards. He won the Oscar for his work - La Maison en Petits Cubes which was nominated for Best Animated Short Film 2009.

The anime itself tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he has to add more blocks to his house to stem the flooding water. The title to this anime makes sense when you see the amount of water that has risen over the years and how many blocks he has had to add to his house which was so small at the start. The recollection of his memories at the house with his family are very sweet and it is all done with paper drawings and 2D computer graphics. The character doesn't speak but the musique and the images tell the story well enough in this short 12 minute animation.

I could start to moan (who am i kidding ...let the moaning begin) that the Annual Awards are full of rubbish like WTH isn't there any anime being considered in best animated film categories ( my guess is they can't face the embarrassment of the greatness of Japanese animation)....don't get me wrong i totally enjoyed Kung Fu Panda but are you seriously suggesting some of the Japanese animations like Sword of the Stranger weren't worthy of a nomination.... hmmmmm/.....poppycock...which is a nice polite English way of saying BULLSH*T.

Ok ok......enough of that.....here is the reason why i chose Pucca as the main picture for this post and it's because of the greatest award acceptance speech of all time. Yes, yes i was awake 2am or so and happened to see Kunio Kato's speech live and it's just so cute.....he thanks his Pencil and says domo arigato mister roboto which was just so CUTE!!!!!!

Well done:)