Great Pretender

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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: None found, add some
Studios: Wit Studio
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, MysteryMystery
Theme: Adult CastAdult Cast
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 8.221 (scored by 305509305,509 users)
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Ranked: #3142
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Popularity: #316
Members: 630,515
Favorites: 9,643

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Synopsis

A series of unfortunate events has led Makoto "Edamame" 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.

Jumping from city to city, Great Pretender follows the endeavors of Makoto alongside the cunning Laurent and his colorful associates in the world of international high-stakes fraud. Soon, Makoto 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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Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Okada, Maiko
Producer
Itou, Hitoshi
Producer
Kaburagi, Hiro
Director
Hata, Shouji
Sound Director


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"G.P." by Yutaka Yamada
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Ending Theme

"The Great Pretender" by Freddie Mercury




Reviews

Apr 22, 2023
My first Netflix anime that I throughly enjoy. Watching everyone go on and make plans for heists makes you want to jump into the screen and join them. Sitting down and watching the whole series makes it feel like a heist movie. Like watching Ocean's 11. Plenty of action to go around and the characters are very enjoyable. Edamura can be an annoying protag to get used to at the start but he gets to be very likeable and you can notice when his character starts to develop more and more through the series. I honestly don't want to say more as I think to ...
May 26, 2023
Mixed Feelings
I've seen many shows that saw themselves as smart, and yet, I saw them as... "okay" at best. This is one of those shows. It's full of fake outs, retcons, and other elements that make you /think/ it's a smart story, but really, it's highschool level smart. Which, I suppose it's okay, because realistically speaking, this is aimed at teens. However, for me... it's just not enough. That's not to say it's a bad, or a boring show - I /did/ watch 23 episodes of it, after all. And that would not have happened if it were that bad. Actually it had several merits, but ...
Oct 18, 2021
Literally thought it would be one of my rate 9/10 ratings... until the fucking ending that is

THIS REVIEW WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS



Most people could argue that its of course wrong of Edamura to have betrayed everyone during the 22nd episode. But i think otherwise, first of all i hate the entire "We are all a lot mature than the MC, so we will hide shit from him, not tell him the complete story, make him look like a complete idiot because of that and then teach him a lesson." trope. Ive seen it in so many fucking anime, especially SoL, that i feel like breaking my ...

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It’s time to ditch the text file.
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