What? You said you don't like anime? Get outta here and watch Satoshi Kon's 1997 masterpiece in horror and animation: Perfect Blue! This shit ain't Disney, son. In this episode we discuss the importance of the color red, fan entitlement, the Japanese idol industry, as well as creating and experiencing confusion.

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Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com

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Resources:

Perfect Blue Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Blue

The Fractured and Famous: Celebrity culture and control in Perfect Blue by Priya Sridhar

https://www.animefeminist.com/tag/perfect-blue/

HOW PERFECT BLUE PREDICTED ALL OUR SOCIAL MEDIA ANXIETIES By Michael-Oliver Harding

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/perfect-blue-predicted-social-media-anxieties

Perfect Blue: Blurring the Worlds & Sexuality by SC

https://insightsandart.com/2017/05/22/perfect-blue-blurring-the-worlds-sexuality/

What Are Good Girls Made Of? Impossible Femininity in Black Swan vs. Perfect Blue BY VRAI KAISER

https://vraikaiser.com/2016/06/06/impossible-femininity-in-black-swan-vs-perfect-blue/

Black Swan’ and ‘Perfect Blue’: The Feminine Quest for Perfection by Cora

https://nfdgurrl.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/black-swan-and-perfect-blue-the-feminine-quest-for-perfection/

Excuse Me, Who Are You? Female Gaze in Satoshi Kon’s Films by Susan Napier

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781403983084_2

Feeling Blue: The deeply disturbing Perfect Blue BY BIANCA GARNER

https://filmotomy.com/perfect-blue/

10 Amazing Facts About Perfect Blue by María Victoria González Lage

https://go.yumyumvideos.com/blog/10-amazing-facts-about-perfect-blue

Perfect Blue – Visual criticism of the Japanese Idol Industry by Stephanie Ditscheid

https://sexualitaetundmedien.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/perfect-blue-visual-criticism-of-the-japanese-idol-industrie/

A GIRL DIVIDED: THE FRAGMENTED SHŌJO IN PERFECT BLUE by DYLAN LEVY

https://www.flowjournal.org/2016/07/a-girl-divided/

The Path to Womanhood: Female Coming-of-Age Narratives through the Animated Lens by Katherine Liu

https://medium.com/@petrichorate/the-path-to-womanhood-female-coming-of-age-narratives-through-the-animated-lens-78215953acb7

Perfect Blue (1997); And Our Complicated Relationship with Celebritism

https://thecinephiliac.com/2017/10/09/perfect-blue-1997-and-our-complication-relationship-with-celebritism/

Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue Is Still Beautifully Relevant in Modern Celebrity Culture by Princess Weekes

https://www.themarysue.com/satoshi-kons-perfect-blue-beautifully-relevant/

What Makes Perfect Blue Utterly Terrifying? by Marianne R.

https://manga.tokyo/otaku-articles/what-makes-perfect-blue-utterly-terrifying/

I'm The Real Thing: Perfect Blue at 20 by Kayleigh Hearn

https://talkfilmsociety.com/articles/perfect-blue-20-years

Youtube:

Red Actually Has A Lot To Say In Perfect Blue

https://youtu.be/2D9iZfedoiY

Perfect Blue Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nK1cITu4oo

Perfect Blue - The Greatest of Horror Anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkiLm8VEdwc

Taking a Look at Idol Culture and the Strange Industry Around it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq_eYJGP8Yo