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

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Podcast: [Michael and Us](https://stenobird.com/podcast/michael-and-us-646417)
Published: 2026-05-11T03:36:56+00:00
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Duration seconds: 236

## Resource

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

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