However, she progressively loses track of her identity in the process.
While technically a movie, Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue is one of the anime auteur's most celebrated stories, and fans still regularly talk about it more than two decades later. There's a simple, earnest ambition at the core of Perfect Blue where a pop idol, Mima, decides to reinvent herself as an actor. However, she progressively loses track of her identity in the process.