me too! It's one of my favorite films and I never even knew about how much it made... It's been getting more popular though because of all the video essays about it, maybe its net profit now is much higher? (Idk much about terms regarding the money a film makes 💀☠☠)

i agree, and it's so surprising that it flopped too because i feel as though everyone i've talked to who has watched loves it!

I had no idea it was unpopular. I feel so lucky to have gone to art school at a time where we vigorously shared our gems and interests with one another . I found out about so many amazing anime through friends back then

@@baby.nay. maybe it's because I live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere cause, even now, I only ever hear names of super popular anime and those too are only known within like the "geeks" or "nerd" cliques

@@baby.nay. I'm not sure how "unpopular" it is, but it's certainly "pre-internet fandom"- the film even has to explain what the internet even *is* to one of the characters, and it wouldn't have been too far out of lockstep with the real world at the time. If anyone did do any fanart or convention meetups at the time, the photos were probably printed from film and languish in an envelope in a box at the back of someone's wardrobe (if they've not been lost or thrown away) rather than nicely hashtagged on some social media site- even if there were websites they were probably on free hosting like Geocities which has been long dead, and the people who did it might well have just lost interest in anime since. That said, I stumbled across a fairly recent fan performance, in cosplay, of Ai No Tenshi, so maybe it's out there if you look hard enough.

It's not that it was unpopular when new. It's just that the cultural impact of Perfect Blue came and went before the rise of internet movie forum / board discussions. It has always been a part of the conversation. Just that those conversations got pushed further and further into the background as the years have gone by and newer films have come up. There is a generation of anime and movie fans, however, who sat up screaming (Leonardo di Caprio Pointing dot gif) "I know that reference!" when Black Swan came out!

even the pokemon anime completely ripped it off lmao (except if it comes from mutual inspiration) and i think that Evangelion got even more ripped off, just take a look at aot, everything's the same except it's worse

@@Hekai what AOT did not rip off NGE for 1 the way titans are made and the history of them are vastly different 2 titans eat humans angels just appear from space and kill them by stomping them or using their powers 3 the main characters are not even similar at the least bit all the characters have different stories in the two Shows Also just cause beings attack on earth in both shows doesn’t make them similar as there are multiple shows that do that

I would also like to know why you hate AOT if you don’t mind 😊

​@@Mialikesthings It's not just "beings attacking Earth", that's similar. The entire point of the main character, to find out who they both are, their true selves. From having to control the very beings they despise, to ending the world as a consequence of finding the truth. As for the world, humans are forced to live within a closed-off city/fortress, as a consequence of a tragic event that happened years ago. The nape of Titans holding the human, while Evas having the entry plugs in the exact same spot. The characters witnessing certain events in a similar fashion and having certain quirks in both stories. There's plenty of connections. Also on a side note, Hekai never mentioned that they "hated' Attack on Titan.

@@tarun_kumar_29 thx bro for the side note tho xD

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