Mima is a pop-idol who is living her dream and is at peace with her job and life.She enjoys quite some popularity among fans of the genre and is well renowned.But not always can you do what you want to in the real world.Her agency wants her to quit being a pop-idol and become an actress simply because of the twisted reason that they weren't making much money out of her.Not wanting to leave what she loves doing and at the same time wanting to gain more acceptance and popularity besides fearing that she would otherwise be troubling the people in the agency,Mima decides to take the leap.And then she encounters the harsh reality.She is exposed to the cruel and perverted film industry where everyone starting from the director to the photographer tries and exploits her,be it getting her practically raped by making her shoot a rape scene in a bar or photograph her in full nudes and print them in magazines,and she can do nothing but comply,in fear of not dissapointing her seniors and not getting accepted by the audience.
And then it all begins.Mima starts hallucinating,seeing her former pop-idol self appear out of nowhere and telling her that she is now a wasted woman and just a fake.The real Mima is the pop-idol Mima who still exists.She starts haunting her day and night and soon Mima loses her sanity,she fails to distinguish between reality and dreams.She can't tell what she is doing in her real life and what she is doing in her movie shoots.Additionally,a series of murders starts taking place.Those who tried to exploit her start getting killed one by one of multiple stab wounds and this haunts her even further.She comes across a website dedicated to her where someone runs a blog in her name and claims that the pop-idol Mima still exists and the actress one is an imposter.Her every move is listed in details there,her every secret quoted.She begins to doubt herself in agony and distress and wonders whether she is alive or not,whether all of this is dream and whether it is true that she herself commited those crimes subconciously as some other personality.To add to this,there is a stalker,a fan of hers,who shadows her every move and can't cope with her betrayal to fans of her pop shows and is on the verge of going berserk.
The animation is crude and it fits the atmosphere perfectly.Not once could I turn away from this anime because it was so unexplicably exciting.
The voice acting and sound is good enough and elevates the experience further.
Psychological thrillers are at large,mostly of high quality in terms of storyline and are well thought out which adds to their charm and Perfect Blue stands at the peak of the mountain.With a rarely achieved perfect ending and nail-biting sequences,it leaves no space to ask for anything more.
