History Trivia / PerfectBlue

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Mima is a twenty-one-year-old who ''doesn't know how to use a computer''. This was plausible in 1997, when the film came out, but the very concept is ''unthinkable'' twenty years on. [[spoiler:(Alternatively you could take it as an indicator that Mima isn't Mima at all, but Rumi, her middle-aged manager...)]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Mima is a twenty-one-year-old who ''doesn't know how to use a computer''. This was plausible in 1997, when the film came out, but the very concept is ''unthinkable'' twenty years on.
** [[spoiler:Alternatively you could take it as an indicator that Mima isn't Mima at all, but Rumi, her middle-aged manager...]]

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20051031030951/http://www.simontseproductions.com/ A series was planned]] but never materialized.
* Think the anime is a lot like ''Film/BlackSwan''? You're not the only one: Director Creator/DarrenAronofsky bought the copyright to ''Blue'' initially in order to use it for a scene in ''Literature/RequiemForADream''. Him and Creator/SatoshiKon actually became friends over this.

* LateExportForYou: The original novel was released in 1991, and the sequel in 1995, two years before the animated film was released in Japan. The film was released internationally in 1999, and almost 20 years later, Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that the novels will ''finally'' be coming to western shores, with the first novel released in January 2018.

* Think the anime is a lot like ''Film/BlackSwan''? You're not the only one: Director Creator/DarrenAronofsky bought the copyright to ''Blue'' initially in order to use it in ''Literature/RequiemForADream''. Him and Creator/SatoshiKon actually became friends over this.

* LateExportForYou: The original novel was released in 1991, and the sequel in 1995, two years before the animated film was released in Japan. The film was released internationally a year later, and almost 20 years later, Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that the novels will ''finally'' be coming to western shores.

* LateExportForYou: The original novel was released in ''1991'', and the sequel in ''1998'', a year after the animated film was released in Japan. The film was released internationally a year later, and almost 20 years later, Seven Seas Entertainment has announced that the novels will ''finally'' be coming to western shores.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the original Japanese-language version, [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Hikari Horaki]] is [[Creator/JunkoIwao Mima]] and [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Satoshi/Ash Ketchum]] is [[Creator/RicaMatsumoto Rumi]]. Oh, and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Might Guy]] is the [[Creator/MasashiEbara pornographer]] that takes naked pictures of Mima.
** The dubbed version is made even weirder by the fact that Me-Mania is voiced by the same actor who played Jinnai in ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld''.
*** He was also [[Manga/{{Cyborg009}} Cyborg 001]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Gomamon]].
** Speaking of ''El Hazard'', Mima has the same [[Creator/BridgetHoffman voice actress]] as Rune Venus.
*** She was also the English voice of [[Anime/SerialExperimentsLain Lain]], and Jeri Kato in Anime/DigimonTamers.
*** And the second voice of Nia Teppelin in Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann
** Also WendeeLee as Rumi and SteveBlum as several minor characters.
** In a sense, you can also say that [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Ryoko Asakura]] is a pop idol, with Haruhi Suzumiya as her manager.
** The porn photographer is Creator/JamiesonPrice in English. [[Anime/CodeGeass Diethard]] couldn't hold back his urges behind the camera any longer, could he?
** Mr. Shibuya is [[Anime/NinjaScroll Dokuan]].
** Rei, one of Mima's fellow singers, was [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell a Major]], [[Anime/CodeGeass a badass princess]], and [[Manga/{{X1999}} an evil soothsayer]] in English.
*** She's also a [[Anime/BishoujoSenshiSailorMoon Sailor soldier]] from outside of the solar system in Japan.
** [[Creator/MichaelLindsay Kisuke Urahara and Joe Kido]] can be heard in a couple of extra roles.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the original Japanese-language version, [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Hikari Horaki]] is [[Creator/JunkoIwao Mima]] and [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Satoshi/Ash Ketchum]] is [[RicaMatsumoto Rumi]]. Oh, and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Might Guy]] is the [[Creator/MasashiEbara pornographer]] that takes naked pictures of Mima.

** Rei, one of Mima's fellow singers, was [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell a Major]], [[Anime/CodeGeass a badass princess]], and [[Manga/{{X}} an evil soothsayer]] in English.

** The porn photographer is JamiesonPrice in English. [[Anime/CodeGeass Diethard]] couldn't hold back his urges behind the camera any longer, could he?

*** She was also the English voice of [[Anime/SerialExperimentsLain Lain]], and Jeri Kato in DigimonTamers.

* Think the movie is a lot like 'Film/'BlackSwan''? You're not the only one: Director Creator/DarrenAronofsky bought the copyright to ''Blue'' in order to use it in ''Literature/RequiemForADream''. Him and Creator/SatoshiKon actually became friends over this.

* Think this show is a lot like [[Film/BlackSwan Black Swan]]? You're not the only one: Director [[Creator/DarrenAronofsky Darren Aronofsky]] bought the movie rights to [[Anime/PerfectBlue Perfect Blue]] to avoid any potential copyright lawsuits.

* Think this show is a lot like [[Film/BlackSwan]]? You're not the only one: Director [[Creator/DarrenAronofsky]] bought the movie rights to [[Anime/PerfectBlue]] to avoid any potential copyright lawsuits.