{"id":77114,"date":"2018-09-27T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/77114\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T23:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T23:58:39","slug":"idol-the-terrifying-reality-of-perfect-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/77114\/","title":{"rendered":"IDOL &#8211; The Terrifying Reality of Perfect Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAcb_57r1Bo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerfect Blue is perhaps Satoshi Kon&#8217;s most enduring work: a dark, twisted, unflinching look at Japan&#8217;s idol industry. In this video I explore the reality behind that vision, and explain why this stunning movie still stands as one of anime&#8217;s all-time greats. <\/p>\n<p>Consider supporting me on Patreon:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/patreon.com\/BeyondGhibli<br \/>\nFollow me on Twitter:<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"770\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeyondGhibli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweets by BeyondGhibli<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can find more work by Patrick Henaghan at https:\/\/discobible.com<\/p>\n<p>Spanish translation provided by Rayeloy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect Blue is perhaps Satoshi Kon&#8217;s most enduring work: a dark, twisted, unflinching look at Japan&#038;#82<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":77115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,93287,16885,93284,93285,93286,3888,21428,93288,49466,77237],"class_list":{"0":"post-77114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-anime","9":"tag-beyond-ghibli","10":"tag-idol","11":"tag-idol-culture","12":"tag-idol-industry","13":"tag-joe-oconnell","14":"tag-paprika","15":"tag-perfect-blue","16":"tag-recommendations","17":"tag-satoshi-kon","18":"tag-tokyo-godfathers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}