why is it called perfect blue?
why?!?!?!?!?
shareThere's been a lot of debate about this and nobody is really sure but two of the most persistant explanations are that it is a subtle reference to Kon Satoshi's name (Kon can mean deep blue when written in Kanji) and that blue represents inocense in Japan (the ao, the Kanji used her to mean blue can also be pronounced sei and is used in words like seishun, meaing a time of youthful innocense etc) so perfect blue represents the inocence that Mima aspires to but looses when she changes from being an idol to being an actress.
Then again, this film was based on a book and a lot of changes were made in production so maybe perfect blue represents something that was in the book but wasn't in the film itself.
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thanks, that sounds like a pretty good explanation to me though it is *very* subtle
shareWhat I understood the title to mean was that it was a "perfect blue" day when everything was settled. Although this happens ina lot of anime, most of everything happens either at night, or within rooms. YOu only see daytime at the beginnig of the movie and at I think one other scene (when she's running through the crowd). When you finally see the end of the movie, that's when daytime is shown. That may be it. It seems overly simplistic but it could work.
Baby, you're the finest, the finest I've seen. Baby, you're the finest dream.
As I recal, chapter 14 is called "A perfect blue day", that was the chapter when Mimi becomes herself (regains her innocence). Interesting concept.
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Well the original japanese tagline is "The color of illusion is Perfect Blue"..
That pretty much sums it up doesn't it?
"By Grabthar's Hammer.......what a savings....."
Although probably not the reason for naming it you can see that during the day most of the time, the sky could be described as 'perfect blue' as it is done in one of the feature on the dvd I own.
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