Mima Kirigoe was a member of a pop band, but her agent wanted her to switch to acting. Her friend, Rumi, was not so keen on switching. Nonetheless, Mima switched. She got a small part in a TV thriller and was also called upon to pose nude for a photoshoot. Her TV character was raped, which transformed her into an avenging angel in the show. Is it only the show? She had crazy dreams. Or were they memories? She was soon haunted by her old self, the pop icon in a pink dress. Then there is the stalker with dead eyes, the webpage that knows her every move and thought, and a series of murders. Was she going insane?
This is not the sort of story one expects from Anime. In fact, the script was originally intended as a live-action movie. The movie has a dream quality to it. There are some things that don't make sense in retrospect. Mima sure seemed to be losing her marbles, but she was being gaslit. Could she have dreams of murders that she did not commit only to find they happened as she dreamt? When Ghost Mima is revealed to be an actual person, one wonders how she bounded from the second floor and fled on top of light posts. Was Mima just hallucinating?
Though highly-rated (8 stars on IMDb, 84% Rotten Tomatoes), it missed the medium. This isn't a story for Anime.
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