The second novel, Perfect Blue: Awaken from a Dream (Perfect Blue – Yume Nara Samete) tells a separate story that was adapted into a live-action film in 2002.
He debuted the second novel under the title Yume Nara Samete…… (If This is a Dream, Wake Up) in 1995, and it was retitled Perfect Blue – Yume Nara Samete for the 2002 rerelease.
Seven Seas Entertainment announced on Monday that it has licensed Yoshikazu Takeuchi’s Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis and Perfect Blue: Awaken from a Dream novels.
Director Satoshi Kon based his 1997 Perfect Blue anime film on the first novel, Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (Perfect Blue – Kanzen Hentai).