I used to desperately want to be an idol. As a child, I would make “concert” invitations for all my relatives, handing them out whenever I saw them for my latest show. There was no set date. I’d just ...

The animated Perfect Blue didn't exactly tear up the box office when it debuted stateside in 1999, grossing just a tad over half a million in its U.S. run, but unbeknownst to us at the time, it marked ...

Satoshi Kon's first anime movie is arguably still his best. Perfect Blue is a taut psychological crime thriller on par with anything from genre masters like David Fincher or Christopher Nolan. Now, ...

When Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) breathlessly whispers, “It was perfect,” in the final moments of Black Swan, it feels as much like a comment on her performance in Swan Lake as it does about the ...

One of the best anime films of the late 1990s, Perfect Blue, is getting its first-ever 4K Blu-ray release with the upcoming Perfect Blue Collector's Edition launching on December 23. The new Perfect ...

In This Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news ...