Is Perfect Blue good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Perfect Blue is a film from Winter 1998 by Madhouse Inc., Oniro: 1 episodes, about 1.4 hours in total, finished, 8.27/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 1.4 hours), so the whole thing fits one evening — the easiest kind of anime to agree on. Rule: type MOVIE → one sitting.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- Film
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 81 min
- Total time
- about 1.4 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Winter 1998
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc., Oniro
- Score
- 8.27/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- crime, detective, drama, ecchi, gore, horror, idol, music, mystery, nudity, psychological, revenge, seinen, slice of life, supernatural, thriller, tragedy, violence, workplace
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Perfect Blue?
- About 1.4 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Perfect Blue have?
- 1 episode of 81 min.
- Is Perfect Blue finished?
- Yes, Perfect Blue is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Perfect Blue good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Perfect Blue is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Perfect Blue listed?
- Perfect Blue is on AniList (id 437) and MyAnimeList (id 437); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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