Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: When the fashion show on the television show is being shown, members of the audience are shown taking photographs on their cameras, but their hands don't move. They are never shown pressing the button on the cameras to take the photo, but the photos seem to get taken anyway. (00:22:46)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: When they are filming the TV show, whenever a monitor or television on the set showing what the cameras are filming is shown, the characters shown on it are standing completely still and motionless. The animators likely only drew a still image to show on the monitors and television without drawing any character movements. (00:14:21)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: Mima is having a conversation with her mother whilst sitting on the floor with her knees bent and shown positioned on the floor. There are frames during the conversation where we can see her knees passing over the edge of the table next to her. (00:11:32)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: Whilst Mima is opening the letters, there is a shot where she is sitting on her bed in the foreground of shot, and the TV is playing in the background of shot. On the shelf below the television is a game console with two controllers on top of it. The animation for the controller on the right is very weird. The right side is drawn longer than the left side, and its positioning on top of the console makes it appear as if it is hovering above it. (00:10:47)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: The animation for the news reports shown on the television are incredibly cheap and simplistic. The design of the reporters and the background behind them is far from finished and does not appear realistic in the slightest. Also, everything that is shown on the television is just a still image where none of the people in it are shown moving. (00:10:12)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: When the crowd are booing the hecklers, in a wide shot, most of the people are drawn without faces. This is even more noticeable when the crowd turn to Mima after she shouts at them. There is also very little detail is put into the animation of their hands, they come off as stumps attached to their arms, with no fingers. (00:06:26)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: At the concert, when the hecklers are throwing the cups and cans at the crowd, and the crowd are doing the same thing to the hecklers, we can see many of the cans literally pop into frame when they are being thrown, and pop out of frame when they are close to landing at the other person. Clearly the cans were only drawn into the shot whenever they were being thrown and not whenever they came close to landing or before being thrown. (00:06:26)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: When Mima is at the supermarket, virtually every character shown standing in the background behind her is completely still and motionless, with no signs of body movement in the slightest. (00:03:34)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Revealing mistake: When CHAM first go on stage, many of the extras in the crowd are drawn without much detail put into their faces. Also, despite them cheering and being extremely excited to see the trio perform, they are shown standing completely still and not moving whatsoever. (00:02:30)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When Ricky jumps over the table after the warden pushes it at him, there is a shot of Ricky kicking the warden with his foot whilst in mid-air. In this shot, we can see that Ricky's trousers are being pulled upwards, revealing that there is a wire attached to his trousers that is pulling him into the air. (01:26:30)

Casual Person

Revealing mistake: When the assistant warden explodes after his body starts inflating due to the warden shooting him with the elephant bullets, in the close-up shot of his head exploding, we can see that his head has been replaced with a fake dummy head. (01:23:18)

Casual Person

Revealing mistake: Just after the warden has shot the assistant warden with the bullet made for shooting elephants, there is a shot of the assistant warden's body inflating. In the shot, we can see that really bad prosthetics have been added to his forehead, cheeks, nose and chin to make it appear as if his head is inflating. It is extremely noticeable where the prosthetics end and where his real face begins, making the whole effect appear completely unnatural. (01:23:12)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When the prison wall begins to break apart after Ricky punches it, in the wide shot where the debris from the punch is shown falling to the ground, multiple wires can be seen pulling the chunks of debris from the wall. (01:30:04)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When Ricky throws the warden into the meat grinder, in the shot where the warden is being thrown across the kitchen, a wire can be seen attached to him, hoisting him across the room. (01:28:37)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Revealing mistake: Just after the warden throws Ricky to the ground, when he finishes saying "Your strength doesn't even come close to mine", he starts doing an evil laugh and here, we can see the actor's real tongue and teeth behind the fake prosthetic suit that he is wearing. (01:28:02)

Casual Person

Revealing mistake: When Ricky attempts to fight the muscular warden, he punches the warden in the stomach and the warden then punches him into a support column. Just before Ricky crashes into the column, a wire can be seen attached to him, pulling him backwards towards the column. (01:27:20)

Casual Person

Revealing mistake: When the warden shoots White God, the close-up shot of his face before he explodes reveals that the actor has been replaced with a dummy. (01:25:55)

Casual Person

Revealing mistake: When Ricky punches the prison wall, the wall can be seen beginning to break apart a second before Ricky's fist hits it. (01:29:59)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When White God fires a needle through the wall of the kitchen, Ricky grabs onto it and is dragged towards the kitchen wall. Just before he crashes into the kitchen wall, a large outline can be seen in the wall, revealing where the effects team made a hole in the wall and plastered over it before filming. (01:23:38)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When one of the inmates goes to cut off the assistant warden's right arm with an axe, the moment before his arm gets chopped off, we can see that it has been replaced with a fake dummy arm. (01:20:24)

Casual Person

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