Great Pretender

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Japanese: GREAT PRETENDER
Spanish: El Timador Timado
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Type: TV
Episodes: 23
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 9, 2020 to Dec 17, 2020
Premiered: Summer 2020
Broadcast: Thursdays at 00:55 (JST)
Licensors: Netflix
Studios: Wit Studio
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, MysteryMystery
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.211 (scored by 330610330,610 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #3672
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #311
Members: 686,016
Favorites: 10,110

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Synopsis

A series of unfortunate events has led Makoto Edamura to adopt the life of crime—pickpocketing and scamming others for a living. However, after swindling a seemingly clueless tourist, Makoto discovers that he was the one tricked and, to make matters worse, that the police are now after him.

While making his escape, he runs into the tourist once again, who turns out to be a fellow con man named Laurent Thierry, and ends up following him to Los Angeles. In an attempt to defend his self-proclaimed title of "Japan's Greatest Swindler," Makoto challenges his rival to determine the better scammer. Accepting the competition, Laurent drops them off outside a huge mansion and claims that their target will be the biggest mafia boss on the West Coast.

As Makoto becomes increasingly involved with the cunning Laurent, his colorful associates, and the world of international high-stakes fraud, he soon realizes that he got more than what he bargained for as his self-declared skills are continually put to the test.

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"G.P." by Yutaka Yamada
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Ending Theme

"The Great Pretender" by Freddie Mercury




Reviews

Aug 31, 2024
I've got just two words : JUNICHI SUWABE
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why are you still reading this? Junichi Suwabe always picks amazing anime to work in, and this one is no different. I started watching it to hear his voice and because the art style looked amazing and the story turned out to be amazing too. Rightfully labelled 'slick' on Netflix, this show had some great cons with the character's relationships and the music being a huge bonus.
The end of each con can be a bit predictable but I truly have no interest in watching an anime where the intelligent and heart-broken con artists lose at their own ...
Mar 4, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Great Pretender has many things to offer, and could have been a great anime, but it fails to deliver towards the end, hence the mixed feelings review.

I'll try to explain down below every reason that might make you enjoy this anime while also disclosing the few parts that should make you lower your expectations.


Things done right :

- The art :

Although art is rather subjective, anyone will reckon that the art shown in this anime has a unique vibe, it's colorful, it's good looking, you have many different kind of places depicted ( urban places mostly, but from all around the world ...
Jun 24, 2021
The Great Pretending that this anime is a well written story about con artists making well-crafted schemes and not a giant mess full of nonsensical plot twists and protagonism.

The Great Pretender was in fact a good anime in the beginning and it quickly became one of my favorites. The first season is worthy of a 10, with great schemes and character development put together in three interesting cases. This anime was very creative and stood out of the ordinary with fresh new ideas and characters with well constructed personalities. And it even chose a Freddie Mercury song for the outro! What could possibly go wrong?

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