PREVIEW - #712 - Perfect Blue (w/ Talking Simpsons)

About this episode

In this episode, the hosts collaborate with guests to discuss the anime classic 'Perfect Blue' and its themes related to fan culture and reality.

In a special collaboration with Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert of the Talking Simpsons and What A Cartoon! podcasts, we discuss Satoshi Kon's PERFECT BLUE (1997), the anime classic that imagined a world in which obsessive fan culture stoked by the internet leads to the dissolution of one J-pop star's reality. Would you believe that people have called it prescient? PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/712-perfect-blue-157652359

People in this episode

Hosts: Luke Savage, Will Sloan

Guests: Bob Mackey, Henry Gilbert

Topics covered

• anime
• fan culture
• internet
• J-pop
• psychological thriller
• collaboration

Keywords

• Perfect Blue
• Satoshi Kon
• anime
• fan culture
• J-pop
• psychological thriller
• Talking Simpsons
• What A Cartoon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Talking Simpsons, What A Cartoon!

Books & works: PERFECT BLUE

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