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So, there's some guy adviced me to rewatch this again; claiming that I've missed alot, so I gave it a second shot (I'm a good guy); My score still applies, so I decided to write this review to express the things I hate about this movie
So here it is, Perfect Blue; a movie which fucked so many minds.
This movie would work better as a normal horror mystery-crime movie; not as mind-manipulating series of events. I gotta admit, It has some really good scary moments, And I liked the whole mystery & crime stuff; but the whole mind-manipulating thing was totally unnecessary and ruined the story aspect.
In this review; I'm going to explain what actually happened; hence the MAJOR SPOILERS and there's a little quiz at the end which summarize some Major stuff:

00:07:07: Mima & creepy aka Me-Mania (he's an overly obsessed fan which sucks), at this moment they make an eye contact; Mima knows Me-Mania's face now, but still doesn't know his identity. (also the creepy make a creepy smile). After that she tells people that this is her last song; (btw I liked her last song).
00:09:09: A guy gives Mima a pink envelope.
00:09:48: She actually got three envelopes apparently, including the pinky one.
00:10:09: After a hard day she rests at her room, so what we got? damn there are too many dolls in her small room, we also got a poster of her pop-idol group which is called CHAM, and we got panty shot, and is that a shampoo? wait why the fuck the small details?
00:10:33: She pull out the poster, because fuck it; she's an actor now!
00:11:00: She opens the pink message from that random dude; I says "I was watching Mima, I'm on contact with her room" (Not her actual room, it means a website), what a fucking vague message, but she couldn't understand because she's not familiar with 4chan and doesn't know that the internet is for porn; what a poor pure girl :(
00:12:00: *Unimportant phone call*, she tells her mom about her career state and stuff, but the call was interrupted by another phone call; a silence strange person who was only breathing cliché; but that's actually important since that person got her PHONE NUMBER. so it's either the Creepy or Rumi.
00:13:00: Holy shit! a scary fax message!
00:16:14: Holy Fuck! the creepy dude appears again between the staff? how the hell did he know? Did Rumi send him the address? but why?! even if she were crazy; why would she give a random fan the address; it might be because he's not random, but screw it.
00:17:50: Rumi is listening here to the conversation between the manager and the director about lengthening Mima's roll; hence she developed more hatred toward the manager.
00:18:20: The Manager opens Mima's letter and then BOOM! (that's what you get for opening others envelopes kids).
00:19:35:
Mima: "I think we should call the cops, I think somebody is targeting me!"
Rumi: "Don't worry, it was a probably a joke"
Mimia: "Oh! okay"
00:22:00: After opening her online page, she reads, and reads; the writer know her too well, also knows what happend in the staff workplace and also has a recording of her voice.
00:25:00: Random Dude: "Somebody should save our Mima :(" the Creepy was like: "I will :)"
00:26:23: Creepy everywhere, Mima sees the news; "Takashi Doi was fucked" *Mima looks back* *Creepy dude smiles* it's as if he pasted that piece of newspaper there just to let Mima see it.
00:33:00: And here we go, the illusion is FUCKING STARTED!
00:33:20: Damn that's the worst rape scene I've ever seen, why let only 1 guy rape her? Even Rumi cries at this bullshit.
00:36:16: NO! the fishes die. The bitch cries and breaks everything; calm the fuck down bitch you haven't been RAPED yet
00:37:25: OMG! everything is fucked up! fuck my life, lets break everthing, and SHUT THE FUCK UP ILLUSION!
00:37:50: Creepy dude's room with no tissue paper?! what a nasty guy!
00:39:22: Holy shit the illusion can also appear in the computer screen
00:39:30: wow! it also be in full screen mode, nice!
00:40:00: And now it's in hologhram mode!
00:40:33: Hologhram illusion got some moves, also don't call others "Bitch" and run away, dick!
00:40:20: Takao Shibuya (scenario maker) owned (by a screwdriver apparently)
00:47:00: Apparently the creepy dude can also see the illusion
00:47:09: Other people are also cheering for the illusion WTF?!
00:48:44: Ok this creepy guy has some real brain issues; the posters are speaking to him! He replies: "Imma kill the bitch!"
00:49:11: Illusion hugs the creepy
00:49:56: Suddenly *Creepy Appears between the stuff*
00:50:14: Boo! *Creepy Disappears*
00:51:07: Mima sees the illusion having a cool radio show *Mima is scared* then *illusion run the fuck off* then *Mima run to chase the illusion*
00:52:30: After 1 and half minute of lame chasing scene, the creepy dude runs over her by his truck; and...
00:52:35: BOO! Was it a dream?! or maybe she got unconscious right before she chased the illusion; if it was a dream the question is; since when? Two possibilities; 1- right before the rain scene, 2- right before the CHAM radio show. picking any of these means one thing; there was no radio show. If it wasn't a dream then Mima was probably unconscious during the whole events after the radioshow; dick move author, how the fuck we can know if the radioshow happened or not?! fuck you!
00:52:50: Look closely! It's a cake and tea (maybe coffee), (Stop eating so much of that Rumi or you'll get more fat)
00:53:45: Camera zoom at Mima; Rumi suddenly comes behind Mima; wait...she hadn't finished her cake yet so why is that?
00:53:49: CUT! *Mima fucked up during acting*
00:54:00: (No wonder why you always fuck up Mima; the creepy guy is always staring)
00:54:14: And then he disappears again!; when did this thing happened again?
00:54:26: Boo! *Mima wakes up again* we don't fucking know if this was a time skip or just a damn dream; fuck you again author!
00:54:37: Same damn Cake and tea, look closely! it is putted in the same exact place...So here, let me think, it's either they didn't bother to draw another image here because they were too lazy or this is actually not a second day; logically i'mma choose the latter one, but that doesn't actually add or remove anything from the main plot, the whole events here are just to mindfuck the viewer and make an atmosphere, so don't bother them that much.
00:56:12: This is the one of the most bullshit scene in the movie! How?! How did this person know exactly that the photographer has ordered pizza in the first place?! and how did this person get the clothes?! and that the "BB" cop? Was it stolen from the restaurant? I mean, what am I trying to say here is that this was a well-planned crime for the mindfucked Mima, also the killer uses a screwdriver and targets the victims eyes just like what happened to the scenario maker in the elevator.
0057:00: Here, we see Mima killing the photographer by the screwdriver, some people argue that the killer here was actually Rumi, but no it's Mima and nobody else; and I'll explain who's exactly the killer here the the quiz.
00:57:30: Mima wakes up very scared as if she saw a nightmare
00:57:50: A phone call from her manager; tells her that the photographer is killed; she was unusally surprised, unlike for other previous murders.
00:58:10: You hear the news confirms that the weapon used to kill the photographer was the same as the one used to kill the scenario maker.
00:58:30: Mima opens her closet and see the same clothes that the fake pizza girl was wearing (pizza person got tits btw); Mima here was so surprised and afraid to let anyone know; hence this confirms that she actually has experienced the murder events; which confirms that she is the one who actually killed the photographer NOT Rumi; BUT then again, Rumi was the most fitted for this crime sence (I will expalin this at the end).
01:00:00: Mima doing a murder scene; we see an identical screwdriver to the same one that was used by the killer; (damn this screwdriver is so common in this city)
01:00:11: Boo! Mima wakes up; we don't know if this was a timeskip or a dream here; because fuck the auther for obscuring this such a moments by his cheap red herring like this
01:00:25: And now they're making her look like in psychiatric hospital (she's actually acting here)
01:03:44: *Creepy punches Mima*
01:05:10: *Creepy wants to give Mima his ding dong*
01:06:25: *Mima smacks the creepy's head with a hammer*
01:07:07: WTF?! she gets her clothes on and see everyone cheering for her; (Don't let Mima's mind fool you) This is just another unnecessary short scene.
01:07:35: Rumi meets Mima after Mima escaped from the theater.
01:07:55: Then they get back to theater (After Mima changed her ripped clothes) and the Creepy disappeared as usual, he probably got up and hid after that hit or...*explained later)
01:08:08: *Rumi drives back to Mima's room*
01:08:25: *Mima wakes up*
01:08:53: *Mima calls her manager*
01:09:11: We see here the manager was killed by a screwdriver; also the creepy dude is killed by the same way with him, WTF?! since when the creepy dude was killed? no info...the only possibly time was after that rape attempt scene; Rumi has met Mima; then Rumi left Mima to change her ripped clothes; at this time; Rumi killed the Creepy dude before they both got into the theater; and for the manager, he got killed before the Creepy dude by Rumi so it was during the rape attempt scene; and since Mima wouldn't have the time to do all that.
01:10:00: Illusion is back baby! IN FAT MODE!; I mean Rumi; here's where the more bullshit begins
01:11:18: Rumi tries to kill Mima; Rumi wants Mima to die; then why the fuck did she waited that long for her to wake up and didn't kill her during sleep? because....? She wanted a decent fight with her and give her a chance to resist? Also Rumi is using the same old screwdriver.
01:12:06: Ok it's sure thing that they're showing us Rumi as an illusion BUT how the fuck she's able to jump from that far without even tumbling?! since when this fat woman has that much of stamina?
01:14:45: After a long battle *Rumi is defeated*
01:17:41: *Movie ends with a troll smile*

ok if we summarize the major events; we most will kinda agree that Rumi was the person who killed all the people who was killed by a screwdriver BUT as I mention above with that bullshit Pizza scene and making Mima unusally afraid and scared after seeing the bloody clothes; If we just ignored that scene everything will probably make a sense.

Let's take a little quiz with three possible killers: A. Mima B. Rumi C. Creepy.

Q1: Who killed Takashi Doi?
The answer is C, the Creepy. Rumi neither interacted with nor saw Takashi Doi, who was the only character to be killed without using the screwdriver. He is also the only character to be killed by the Creepy.

Q2: Who killed Takao Shibuya, the scenario maker, in the elevator?
The answer is B, Rumi. The weapon used was the screwdriver, which belongs to Rumi. Mima is excluded because of her stable mental state at that point.

Q3: Who killed the manager?
The answer is B, Rumi. The manager went to his office, which was the last scene where we see him alive. At this point, the Creepy stalked Mima and tried to rape her. Rumi then murdered the manager with her screwdriver and returned to the panicked Mima.

Q4: Who killed the Creepy (Me-Mania)?
The answer is B, Rumi again. When Mima went to change her ripped clothes, the Creepy was injured by her and went unconscious. Rumi then got rid of him, perhaps to hide evidence, or maybe she did not even know him in real life. She dragged him next to the dead manager and returned to Mima, bringing her back to the empty theater.

Q5: Who is the person disguised as a pizza guy who killed the photographer?
This is the hardest question. Creepy is excluded because this person has breasts, so the answer is probably B, Rumi. But why not Mima? In the previous well-planned murder, the author used a red herring to make the viewer think that Mima dreamed of the event, which is impossible due to the unlikely coincidence. Logically, if Mima had experienced this event, she would be the murderer here. There's another red herring where Mima overreacts when she hears the news. But the murder was well-planned, and Rumi was the mastermind behind most of the murders. For the clothes covered in blood, it's easy for Rumi to place them in Mima's closet. Therefore, the answer is Rumi, which means Mima did not kill anyone.