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The following are Subjective Tropes to Perfect Blue.
- Adaptation Displacement: A comparatively mild example; it's fairly frequently mentioned that it's based on a novel, including on the DVD case for the anime... but you'll be hard-pressed to find a Westerner who has heard of the novel outside that, or knows anything about it.
- Crowning Moment of Awesome/Heartwarming - "Like I even care! I AM WHO I AM!"
- Crowning Music of Awesome: Virtua Mima. If this song does not make you want to crawl under the bed and hide, nothing will.
- Ear Worm: "Ai no Tenshi" by CHAM.
- "Hitori demo Heiki" by CHAM.
- Hell Is That Noise: Several sounds/songs, like "Virtua Mima" which is mostly played during all of the high-tension/insanity filled scenes. The song makes use of the sounds of chimes, bells, and metal clinking together... the percussions almost resembling the sound of one's heartbeat. There are several whispery thin voices singing soulfully, not necessarily in chorus as the play of notes travel erratically from high to low (soprano to bass). It all comes together to resemble some rather creepy sounding tribal music. It's pretty much the kind of music that will make you want to dive under your bed covers and stay there for a while.
- No mention of "Nightmare" or "Uchida's Theme?"
- Nausea Fuel: Let's see, there's...
- Mima's rape scene.
- The scenes where Mima is being photographed naked.
- The corpses that have their eyes gouged out.
- The photographer being stabbed in his eye and his crotch and then repeatedly stabbed over and over by the supposed "pizza deliverer".
- Me-Mania's physical appearance and his attempted rape of Mima.
- The final battle between Rumi and Mima.
- Nightmare Fuel: For your viewing pleasure, see here.
- Nightmare Retardant: Me-Mania was extremely scary, especially in the scenes were he was partially shown. And then he starts speaking. Tension turns to laughter And then, he makes that sound when he gets hit by the hammer
- Paranoia Fuel: Could be retitled "Paranoia Fuel: The Movie."
- Tear Jerker: "I guess I went to Harajuku today..."
- The Woobie: Mima.
- Uncanny Valley: Mima goes through a journey filled with all kinds of things nightmarish throughout the movie, and while most of the character designs lean toward realistic, there are two notable exceptions: Me-Mania, who is obviously creepy-looking from the start, and Rumi, who, like him, has eyes that are too widely spaced.