Add three cups psychological thriller, one cup murder mystery, a tablespoon of great music, and a pinch of pubic hair and you have the recipe for Perfect Blue. You've never seen anything like this before, I guarantee it. While the first twenty minutes or so of Perfect Blue are actually pretty boring, it quickly speeds up in the last hour and it delivers hard. You could cut the suspense with a knife... or an icepick, as the people in PB seem to prefer.

As I've said before there is some great music in PB, but only the songs that Mima sings are really good. The animation, unfortunately, is not very fluid at all and character movements are sometimes a little unbelievable. For those of you looking for a great soundtrack, comedy, and quirky characters, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Perfect Blue is absolutely not for you.

Perfect Blue has a seemingly complicated plot as our main character slowly loses her sanity, and it'll take just about all of your mental prowess to figure out what's going on. Even I can't claim to know what the heck was going on for most of the time. Not only is it a little hard to understand but it is FULL of plot twists. Just when you think you've finally figured it out it puts in another twist and you're left just as clueless as before. Usually, such a thing would hurt an anime but in PB, it all comes together so nicely in the ending that is truly deserving of being called an ending.

I think I should warn you all that Perfect Blue is quite graphic. It's extremely bloody and has a couple of sexual situations that are just a little obscured by a person or an object or something and it also shows Mima's go at being a nude model. However, all of these heavily impact the plot and her transformation is so well shown throughout the movie.