Seven Seas also shipped Takeuchi’s second Perfect Blue novel, Perfect Blue: Awaken from a Dream on April 24.
Kon based his Perfect Blue anime film on Yoshikazu Takeuchi’s Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis novel, which Seven Seas Entertainment shipped on February 6.
GKIDS confirmed on Thursday that it has acquired the theatrical distribution rights for Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue film and will screen it in about 500 theaters in the United States in collaboration with Fathom Events.
GKIDS did not confirm in its press release whether or not it has the home video rights to the film.