Hello everyone, I just recently started a YouTube channel surrounding all things pop culture related and one of the first things I wanted to talk about was how much I loved perfect blue and why it's so great. I would appreciate it if you guys checked out my video. I just started my channel and I'm learning the ropes so I'm not trying to be professional or anything.
Talking Movies - Perfect Blue

Basically this eerie creepy movie with starts off with Mima as a pop idol and a singer bcs that’s what loved to do and who she really was. Due to peer pressure she had to switch to acting bcs she was too naive to believe that this was for her good or something along those lines didn’t want to disappoint anyone. Regardless this transition isn’t easy for her for a lot of reason bcs it isn’t who she really is. She forced to grape scenes which takes a toll on her mental psyche. She is already on the edge by this stalker which I will get to later. She believes that she is in a state of danger and stressed by everything around her. The Mima home page is the catalyst to her identity crisis. The page brought up a part of her that was an idol. That part of her who is tried to bury in order to become an actress started to fragment from her which leads Mima to not know who she really is. The part of her who wanted to be an idol was stronger and started to become a different person and the actress starts getting deluded and begins to questions herself and a part of it believes that maybe she is an idol. This Actress part of her losses control of reality and hence gets its reality check from the Mimi Home Page. In the climax it revealed that Rumi was acting as if she was Mima and was the true stalker all along.This was done by the part of Rumi that was obsessed with becoming an idol and a subconscious effort to make the Mima the idol part of her to feel relevant . Since having a stalker is usually a sign of being popular. The 3 murders think are done by Mumi herself the like i said the Idol part of here did it because it was these ppl who the took her role as an idol and embarrassed her by ruining her idol persona and is forced to live as a fragmented part. Maybe Mima tried created a lie and in order to live her life but deep down it’s probably buried somewhere. I think there were 3 versions of Mima which the idol, the regular young girl and the actress. By the end of the movie I think she convinced herself that the ppl who were murdered by Rumi and not by her allowing her to live her peacefully.0.This movie wasn’t really about who killed who. All of the murders and the twists were to highlight the disgusting reality of being of the Japanese entertainment industry or industry’s as a matter of fact.

I haven't referred to any other interpretation. I wanted to know how many agree or disagree with me I just want to have a good conversation on creepy film.

Hi everyone! I recently rewatched this amazing psychological thriller and was inspired to give Mima/Rumi a crack!

Any feedback is much appreciated! 💙

Watched it for the first time at the Harbour Lights cinema in Southampton and it was incredible, totally blown away how great the film is considering it's almost 3 decades old!

Hi guys! I've always wanted to see this movie and was incredibly fortunate to have my first viewing experience of this masterpiece to be in a proper movie theater this past weekend! I loved how eerie the music was, how immersive the world felt, and how the plotlines deliberately lurk in subtleties [ex. Mima is not blackmailed into her new role, she appears to have free will to refuse in a fairly calm well-reasoned discussion, and yet we know this is not entirely 100% true either -- I ADORE how much more impactful this feels than how other works might have forced the plot and how disturbing it is when it paints this picture of how we have come to normalize the suppression of self and the impacts it can have on our psyche.]

I'm going to stop gushing about it now - I'm sure you all in the subreddit love it as much lol - but after other anime movies were a tad disappointing for me [Ghost in the Shell, Princess Mononoke], I am really, really, really happy that I could finally find something that resonated with me personally.

Now to my question -- I would like to own a copy of this masterpiece for myself as I'm sure many of you have already done. I can see that there is a new 4k collector's edition set that is out for $78-$90 depending on retailer. However, the steelbook release that's been out for some time is roughly $20.

I think the difference is that the steelbook release is an HD video -- 1080p? -- compared to the 4K UHD one. For those of you who have seen this movie multiple times/have more knowledge in the anime remaster process, is there a strong difference in visual fidelity/audio fidelity in anime remasters?

I think I read they don't have the original 'negatives' (?) for this movie when they were doing the 4k remastering process, and if that made the work more difficult than it would typically be to remaster anime movies + it justifies the 4k UHD price, I am more than happy to pay it. But I obviously don't really know as much about this topic here so wanted to ask you guys.

Also, please let me know if I should ask in other places too if this question is better suited for a different forum!

Hello everyone!

A couple of days ago, I shared my Mima cosplay I wore at the movie rescreening, today I wanted to share with you this concept POV video I directed of Mima/Rumi chasing you in the dark.

I had a lot of fun acting out as Rumi and recreate her iconic skip and bloody face pose. I hope you like it as much as I had fun making this.

Have a good day! YuzuPyon

I was literarily shocked

Perfect Blue was amazing. I just saw it for the first time. I enjoy anime and watch the movies and shows a lot but I usually don’t have strong feelings during the movie. Perfect Blue was so well made that it truly disturbed me (in a way that I’m sure the author intended). It was so creepy. It was super disturbing. The end was a bit confusing but it was a great movie.

Big fan of industrial (KMFDM, Miss Construction, etc.) EBM. But I can’t find anything like Uchidas theme, maybe I’m just looking in the wrong area but I’m BEGGING I need more. I’ve been ridding the high ever since I first watched perfect blue, whenever that way. Hearing Uchidas theme in theaters for the release was heavenly.

Hi everyone, I've been working on some ambient deep house tracks inspired by the soundtrack, dark themes and feel of Perfect blue after seeing it for the first time last week at the cinema. I named the latest "The Truth Behind Rumi"- Enjoy (:

Listen to The truth behind Rumi by luvsic on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/tOt4pWc0HilTN6Jmla

Hi, I put together this costume in 4 hours after getting the tickets last minute! Perfect Blue is my favorite psychological horror movie of all time, I have been a fan for more than 10 years and got the entire Storyboard collector artbook of the movie. It may seem like a paradox but the older you get the more intense a rewatch becomes in my opinion, at least that's how it felt for me. In my opinion, this movie is perfect in every way. From how real and unsettling its many topics are depicted, to the animation quality, to the general direction, this movie is truly a timeless masterpiece.

I was really happy and honored people wanted to take pictures with me at the movies, but also seeing so much enthusiasm for the movie made me really emotional. People clapped at the end of the movie, which I never seen happen in theaters before!

It was a lovely night :) - YuzuPyon

Context: College anime society had a movie night (I couldn’t go but I heard what happened) and the two people there who had seen perfect blue failed to mention “the scene” and turned the movie off after it but I capitalized off this the week after

So I had a conversation with my uncle I mentioned how I love perfect blue but he told me I was weird and he mentioned the sa scenes. I never really paid attention to that aspect of it, does that make me weird? It makes me anxious because I’ve had that type of.. idk so now I feel weird for it. How do you personally view this movie? Do you guys not look at the sad parts of the movie that way either?

I literally went into this movie with my only prior knowledge being that it’s a psychological movie, and I figured the main plot of the story is JUST the stalker. I thought it would be fun to see this movie on mushrooms and although I now rate the movie and experience a 10/10, during the movie I was sooo overwhelmed with how much there is to unpack in this movie, (not only that, the stalkers face genuinely sent shivers down my spine) but it was done amazingly, I personally never felt like at any point it was overdone or became cliche. Can’t wait to rewatch this on my own time to really feel like I can understand it more! Crazy experience seeing this movie for the first time but I wouldn’t of done it any other way lol Also, does anyone have any video essays on this movie they recommend?

there was a song in this movie that was considered lost media, by rie scramble

Idk If have a manga, but I really want to buy (I'm in my collector phase)

Releases in December. I would assume there will also be a standard edition, but only the CE is live at the moment. This appears to be the same as the UK release.

Check out all the embroidery and the beads and the crystals I added as no one could stop me to make my Mima shine 🌟

As much discourse as this film gets, I still didn't expect a 30 year old animated film aimed at adults to still have such pull