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| Not bad, not bad at all. It was sort of a weird blend of Mulholland Drive and Tanebre. |
| You're not you when you're hungry. fat bitch just needs some snickers |
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| Damn I never expected the mastermind to be Rumi. This was a great movie. |
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| That was a very interesting and complicated movie, and after reading a little bit in the forums to clarify any confusion I had, everything kinda makes sense now. So my guess is that it was Rumi who was the stalker & murderer and not Mamoru, who was just a figment of her imagination. And it was her that was running the fan page as well since she was the closest to Mima and wanted her to get back into the idol industry. Correct me if I'm wrong. Overall a really good drama/psychological horror series. 8/10. |
| I watched this shit nearly a month ago and I'm still recoiling from the thought of it. If End of Evangelion didn't exist, this would be real close to being the best anime movie. the BEST fucking anime movie. I don't know if it's because I'm a degenerate, but I was uncomfortably and repulsively aroused for far too much of this film. That sort of visceral reaction is difficult to get this deep into all these years of media consumption. |
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| That was amazing, there was some confusing scene but it was really amazing in the end it was just all Rumi's doing, the gore was pretty amazing as well, to me it's a solid 9/10. |
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| damn that ending!! just when i was thinking that i got it all figured out...the ending happened. idk, im still processing the ending. |
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| Anybody heard of Death Grips? Because this shit was just as intense as a Death Grips song |
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| Omfg I loved this movie, I wish I had watched it sooner wtf... The characters are amazing and I like how it all tied together |
| I go back and forth between giving this movie a 9 or a 10. As a kid who sometimes caught anime on late night TV in the 90's and early 00's, these are the kind of anime movies/shows that I miss from back in the day. I can't believe I put off watching this for over a year. Amazing movie. |
| decent watch, I guess Biggest strong point was from start to finish it was really engaging. There was never a point which was boring or annoying to watch. Biggest weak point was character designs (that was shit, especially characters eyes or face) Also By the end it plot was confusing as hell (i dont know, i should call those plot hole or narrative itself) {Are all 3 people mima, rumi and stalker crazy? (because sometimes they act crazy and sometimes they don't) who killed who? (by the end of the last murder, it got even more confusing especially who killed the stalker? how did he end up with the todokoro? did the dead stalker took a taxi to reach todokoro or was the stalker who tried to rape mima was hallucination and for that matter who killed todokoro?) And I don't want to talk about the last line. I watched dub version, so I was saved.} I am sure their were many WTF moments which i ignored. Overall still a good movie, not the best. But it was better that what I expected (considering I am not a big dementia/psychological fan) |
AdampkFeb 6, 2021 2:14 PM
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GagzxAizen said: https://myanimelist.net/manga/24417/Kono_S_wo_Mi_yo_-_Cupid_no_ItazurastAtic91 said: Oh gawd, this was so mindfuckingly (wat?) awesome. The story got a bit confusing with all the changes between reality and imagination, but I think I figured most of it out towards the end. Watching this made me really sad that Kon Satoshi has passed away... who is this girl... I think I have seen her somewhere in some manga but can't remember. |
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| I didn't expect that about Rumi. I thought Mima just gone mad! |
 She got him back. If you understand the characters well enough, you'd know she did! |
| Ayo that was a fucking ride. I was at the edge of my seat for the entire movie. Should've watched this earlier tbh. 9,5/10 |
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| Damn, this was so confusing for no reason. Random to be edgy. I regret watching this. The creator is out of touch from reality. No Pop Idol lives in a small apartment and goes to work on train. No victim that was stabbed so many time will just to save their attacker. No fat woman would outran and survive those jumps. Just random stuff to appear shocking. |
| Well, that was.. an interesting experience. I'm still trying to process the whole thing but overall the movie was pretty good. 7/10 |
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| Damn, that as quite a thriller. I definitely wasn't expecting Rumi to be the one messing with Mima, although the throw away line in the middle of the movie about how she gave up her career made it all click for me. A satisfying ending to a very uncomfortable movie. I do wish the characters were a little more interesting though. 7/10. |
| Im confused about one thing : So, who is the one killed that prevert photography, screenwriter, the stalker and the boss? is it even real? are they all Rumi's doing? or is it just in Mima's head? if these are real this is so unrealistic, the police seems didn't even exist in this movie after that murder sequence and nobody seems to go through police investigation, not even Mima and Ruri. I also don't like the twist, feels like the author just wants to add the element of surprise by making Rumi is the another crazy one (well the stalker is also creepy af). The chase feels unrealistic for fat woman to do some run, jump and acrobatic like that.... and she didn't even die (for some reason, got saved by Mima) and go through some mental rehabilitation, Mima didn't actually get fucked up in the head. All in all a good thriller, but some distrurbing scene and some confusing unanswered scenes really make this movie not that enjoyable for me. 7/10. |
| One word. Kino. Well, it wasn't quite 10/10 because it was a little bit drier than I expected. But overall great movie, so much weird things kept happening it was hard to wrap my head around what was real or not, maybe that ties into the surreal behaviour of this movie, something I need decipher? Maybe for another day. I thought this was going to be more about the stalking tbh but there was a lot unpacked so it ended up being a wide range to deal with. The explicit stabbings are kinda hard to take in sometimes. I pulled through tho, but imagine dying in such brutality with some small ass knife screwdriver looking thingy. Yeesh. That ending tho, I can't make out whether Mima was fighting Rumi or her idol self? For another day to find out lol. 9/10. |
| I feel like the screenwriter who didn't know how to end his drama series was a self-insert for the person who wrote this, because Rumi being the real mastermind all along really came out of nowhere. Why was she even doing this? The only clue I can think of were the emails the stalker claimed receiving, though considering his mental state I had assumed he was simply sending those to himself, or that it could be from someone making fun of him (haters from the concert?). The part where they were trying to make us think that Mima was imagining she was an actress because of her trauma made more sense to me. |
| hmmm dafuq wuz da end doe 🤨🤨🤨🤨 @Semi-Automatic @MrBrawlz wana help a mf out?? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 |
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| what an anime! It doesn't feel like a typical anime but surreal and dark pushed to high levels. This anime reminds me of Black Swan, I can see the resemblance on the multiple personality disorder and the psychologically darkish side side of entertainment industry. It feel strange for sure how anime as a medium can be haunting like this. In contrast to the typical fluffy anime shows, this is refreshing to see. I'm eager to watch more Satoshi Kon's anime. |
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| I endend this movie now and i'm like-- What? Idk if i should be in shock, or confused, or in shock and confused. Of the middle to the end, i was just so confused with everything, and i'm still, maybe i be always confuse by this, and i never suspected about Rumi, serioulsy, i think is bc of this i became in shock! Is one of few movies/animes that makes me scared and with tension all the time. |
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| So in the end I guess Rumi was the one with multiple personality disorder. The movie did such a phenomenal job at potraying Mimi's regret about becoming an actress. I'm SO FUCKING CONFUSED at the scenes where Mimi woke up from a 'supposed dream'!! But anyways this movie is a total masterpiece and it was BONE-CHILLING. The soundtrack really complemented the scenes and thisovie honestly went WAY beyond my expectations. I thought that Parprika was a huge mindfuck, but this one, oh boy did it totally put me through a mindfuck!! Satoshi Kon is goated. 10/10 |
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| Won't wrap my head too much on some of those points that were there just to make us feel ambiguous, but I guess I did got who was the one pulling the strings right from the start. As for multiple personalities, seems like not only Rumi but Mima too was suffering from it. Nevertheless, this 80 minutes felt really short and I wasn't able to take my eyes off even for a moment there. So can say it proudly it was all worth the time. 8.5/10 for now, might change it after the rewatch. |
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| When reality and illusions come together. |
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| Finished watching Perfect Blue and I'm like, "wtf did i just watch" though I like the psychological element in the story, the r**e scene was quite shocking though they could've just hire another actress to do the scene, the struggle of being an actress who eventually became famous is really shown imo and this is one of the realistic ones I've seen being uncut but every-time Mima's imaginary idol appearing makes me think Mima is over-conscious and very incompetent over her surrounding but that's just a minor thing that bothers me a little. I was quite terrified in the movie when people who are associated with Mina are killed to death and the traitor was one of the interesting plot twist I've ever seen, Rumi is the antagonist the whole time but I definitely knew it at first sight because Rumi in the beginning has been conscious over Mima, so I gotta change my mind that the imaginary Mima was definitely not Mima's own vision but an unusal impersonation clone of Mima the idol back then. Me-Mania is a total freak who always stands and appear like I get he's a obsessive fan of Mima since the very beginning but his intentions left me questioning during the movie since it's unclear. The OST is so classical and though I'm not much of a fan of any JPOP girl groups during that era to where the movie was set up so it's a 9.5/10 musical score. Animation wise is unexpectedly good, I like aesthetic and the character's emotion and such makes this show very iconic. Overall, it was quite an interesting watch, but I need to rewatch it again anytime because I get really confused with the interchanging of Mima's dream and acting segments so yeah 8.5/10 for me :). |
CQLLISTJan 21, 2022 4:05 AM
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| A strange disturbing movie that needs to be rewatched. I was totally surprised and tricked. Never imagined that the maniac and Rumi cooperated and that Rumi was the wanna-be Mina. But God damn it was good. It depicted rapid job change for a celebrity in a very interesting way. Totally worth watching. Winter said: I started to watch Black Swan immediately after this ended, to compare the two. It only took me a second to realize what a horrible idea that was, unless I was feeling particularly suicidal today. I totally understand. But in my case, Black Swan was easier to interpret because it was a straight timeline. But with this and Paprika, I had to read a long interpretation to actually understand what I watched and what happened. :P outolunch said: never would have guessed it was Rumi, the entire time I thought Mia had split personality disorder. When I saw the detective scene where they talk about that I thought it was some sort of a hint right there I actually thought the same and that ME-Mania was the one who did the killings. I was in a for a surprise. Mod Edit: merged posts |
KayKimiiJan 15, 2023 7:11 PM
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| I've been trying to find a horror anime that's actually scary and struggling really hard to find one. I'm so glad I finally found it. |
| I took pause breaks to breathe air in between scenes. Intense |
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| This whole thing started out normal then we saw Mima wanting to become an actress then she got that extreme acting scene and then later those pictures were taken witch was messed up but everything started to get confusing I couldn’t tell what was real and what was fake was she hallucinating did it even ever happen is it all in her imagination that’s what I started thinking but I didn’t except Rumi to be the one behind all of this she created the website and was the person who killed everyone that was ruining or tainting Mina’s image |
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| This movie was crazy but the rape scene was so uncomfortable to watch but it like Mima gotten broken down both psychically and mentally give me Evangelion vibes I rate this movie 10/10 |
| This is probably the first time an anime has made me pause a bit out of pure discomfort I felt. Having grown up in the Internet Age, I've been made numb to a lot of things, the gore and rape was not an issue for me, it was the scene at 47:45. I had to pause for a minute because it just felt so uncomfortable. This show is absolutely amazing, constantly guessing to the very end with pure feeling of discomfort I've never felt at this level before in anime. The discomfort then translating to full on screams of terror at certain jump scare-type scenes. This is exactly how you do Psychological Horror. Nothing but mastercraft. 10/10 |
Celest__May 25, 2022 7:42 PM
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| This really holds up to modern anime, just cause the story is so unique. A big weakness with the older anime is most of the stories are very basic. |
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| That was pretty damn good and quite a thriller. Really didn't expect that when I started watching it. Some thoughts I had on this...
All in all I really enjoiyed this. Scoring this is really difficult because of the intended confusion. Alternating between 9 and 10 really... Usually I'd not recommend something that is difficult to follow but in this case it definitely was intended and well orchestrated. I really should have watched it sooner. Great movie! |
NanashiJun 20, 2022 6:59 AM
| Highly reminiscent of David Lynch's films, especially from the 2000s. Media that plays with the distinction between (in universe) reality and imagination tends to be pretty vague and ambiguous, but the ending makes a lot of sense and wraps everything up very nicely. Rumi was a failed idol that was living vicariously through Mima, but Mima changed and destroyed her perfect idol image, causing Rumi to snap and exact her revenge on everyone involved. |
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