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Seven Seas Entertainment obtained the English-language publication rights for the 1991 novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis in April 2017. [54] They released them in February and April 2018, respectively. a b c Napier, Susan J. (2006). " 'Excuse Me, Who Are You?': Performance, the Gaze, and the Female in the Works of Kon Satoshi". In Brown, Steven T. (ed.). Cinema Anime: Critical Engagements with Japanese Animation. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-8308-4. Archived from the original on June 13, 2020 . Retrieved November 15, 2019. Henderson, Tim (August 12, 2010). "Perfect Blue Review". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 22, 2017 . Retrieved December 28, 2016. Crow, Jonathan. "Perfect Blue". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019 . Retrieved March 28, 2019. a b "Interview 12 2001年7月 カナダから、主に「千年女優」に関するインタビュー". KON'S TONE (in Japanese). 今敏. March 16, 2007 . Retrieved September 24, 2021.When Kon received the initial offer, it was for an OVA project, so he made Perfect Blue as a video animation. [20] Next, Kon wrote all the storyboards, where he also made changes to dialogue and other elements. [16] [19]

This genre was overused, having already been dealt with in various works such as Se7en, Basic Instinct and The Silence of the Lambs and was also something that anime was not good at. [16] [18] [22] a b c d "Japan mourns anime master Satoshi Kon". The Guardian. August 26, 2010 . Retrieved September 24, 2021. At Fantasia, the film was so well received that a second screening was hurriedly arranged for those who could not see it, and it was eventually voted by the audience as the best international film. [26] Best Movies You've Never Seen". Entertainment Weekly's. July 16, 2012. Archived from the original on November 14, 2012 . Retrieved August 2, 2015. Otomo is credited as a planning collaborator, but he never arranged for the company to ask Kon to direct the film, nor was he involved in the film. However, it seems that Otomo once advised the original author about the circumstances of the animation industry when he was touting around the animation project here and there. [18] [19]

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Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote that while the film "ultimately disappoints with its just-middling tension and underdeveloped scenario, it still holds attention by trying something different for the genre". [4] Hoai-Tran Bui of /Film called Perfect Blue "deeply violent, both physically and emotionally", writing that "this is a film that will leave you with profound psychological scars, and the feeling that you want to take a long, long shower". [41] Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle noted the film's ability to "take the thriller, media fascination, psychological insight and pop culture and stand them all on their heads" via its "knowing, adult view of what seems to be a young-teenage paradise." [44] Writing for Anime News Network, reviewer Tim Henderson described the film as "a dark, sophisticated psychological thriller" with its effect of "over-obsession funneled through early Internet culture" and produces a "reminder of how much celebrity fandom has evolved in only a decade". [45] Reviewing the 2019 GKIDS Blu-Ray release, Neil Lumbard of Blu-Ray.com heralded Perfect Blue as "one of the greatest anime films of all time" and "a must-see masterpiece that helped to pave the way for more complex anime films to follow," [46] while Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post noted "this is not a film one can watch often overall, nor should you, but when you settle into it you put everything else away, turn down the lights, and savor an excellent piece of filmmaking." [47]

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The film was well received critically in the festival circuit, winning awards at the 1997 Fantasia Festival in Montréal, and Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal. The film had a theatrical re-release in the United States by GKIDS on September 6 and 10, 2018, with both English dubbed and subtitled screenings. [33] GKIDS and Shout! Factory released the film on Blu-ray Disc in North America on March 26, 2019. [34] Analysis [ edit ] Initially, Murai wrote the first draft of the script, and Kon added or removed ideas from it. They spent a lot of time discussing, and many of the ideas came out of that. [19] Beveridge, Chris (January 15, 2021). " Perfect Blue Blu-ray Anime Review". The Fandom Post . Retrieved January 16, 2021. Kohn, David Ehrlich,Kate Erbland,Eric; Ehrlich, David; Erbland, Kate; Kohn, Eric (August 15, 2022). "The 100 Best Movies of the '90s". IndieWire . Retrieved November 9, 2022. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)