Mima was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated
otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting.
A soap opera role is offered but Mimas character is less clean cut than desired.
Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse.
She begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. She
discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasnt given up singing.
Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her
from the shadows.
Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends
into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact
from illusion in order to stay alive.
Perfect Blue represents a major change from
traditional anime subject matter, analysing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its
psychological impact on the performer.