Great Pretender

About Great Pretender

Supposedly Japan's greatest swindler, Makoto Edamura gets more than he bargained for when he tries to con Laurent Thierry, a real world-class crook.

Great Pretender is an action-adventure, animation, and comedy series that ran on Fuji TV and DMM TV. Its themes are playful, complex, mafia, and anti hero.

Its 2 seasons and 27 episodes were broadcast from July 2020 to February 2024. Seasons run to about 14 episodes.

Yuka Komatsu appears as Dorothy (voice), Shunsuke Takeuchi as Jay (voice), Yasuhiro Mamiya as Ai (voice), and Kazuyuki Okitsu as Lin (voice). It comes from BS Fuji and WIT STUDIO.

In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads. Banana Fish, Devilman Crybaby, and Moriarty the Patriot make useful companions to Great Pretender, all filed under adventure. TMDB voters put it at 7.5 out of 10 across 161 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.