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Great Pretender
2020 – 2024Show2 seasons · 27 episodesTV-MAEnded
Summary
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.
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+16)
Critics 100Audiences 84GoodWatch 90
Time to watch it all
11 h
27 episodes, about 24 min each
An episode a night: about 4 weeks.
Reach
Streams in 131 countries
+121
First aired
2020
July 9, 2020
Ended 2024
Genres
AnimationDramaComedyAction & AdventureLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Also spoken
EnglishChineseFrenchMade in
Japan
Rated
- TV-MAUnited States
What's in it
- ViolenceLittle or none
- Gore, disturbing imagesLittle or none
- Frightening scenesLittle or none
- Sex, nudityMild
- Dark themesMild
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsDate NightFriends NightPartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensBinge-FriendlyPure EscapismThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
24 of 82 · most episodes first
Chiaki KobayashiMakoto 'Edamame' Edamura (voice) · 23 episodes
Junichi SuwabeLaurent Thierry (voice) · 23 episodes
Mie SonozakiCynthia Moore (voice) · 23 episodes
Natsumi FujiwaraAbigail 'Abbie' Jones (voice) · 23 episodes
Taito BanSubordinate (voice), Employee (voice), Security Agent (voice), Young Chief (voice), Man (voice), Collector (voice) · 16 episodes
Yohei TadanoKudo (voice), Shougo Nakanoshima (voice) · 16 episodes
KujiraKim Shi-won (voice) · 15 episodes
Yuki OminamiInterpreting Moderator (voice), Female Staffer (voice), Woman (voice), Dyshana (voice), Housewife (voice), Staff (voice) · 11 episodes
Wataru KomadaMan (voice), Detective (voice), Kevin (voice), Komada (voice), Guest (voice), Banker (voice) · 11 episodes
Yuka KomatsuDorothy (voice), Woman (voice), Xiangxiang (voice) · 10 episodes
Volcano OtaMan (voice), Master (voice), Prison Guard (voice), Toto Vialli (voice), Detective (voice), Director (voice) · 9 episodes
Atsushi OnoEddie Cassano (voice) · 8 episodes
Shunsuke SakuyaSeiji Ozaki (voice) · 8 episodes
Shinya TakahashiDriver (voice), Interviewer (voice), Man (voice), Moderator (voice), Husband (voice) · 7 episodes
Sheng FengChen Yao (voice) · 7 episodes
Tomokazu SekiIshigami (voice) · 7 episodes
Gara TakashimaAkemi Suzaku (voice) · 7 episodes
Chikahiro KobayashiClark Ibrahim (voice) · 6 episodes
Fuminori KomatsuSam Ibrahim (voice) · 6 episodes
Zhang EnzeLaurent Thierry (voice) · 6 episodes
Tong YinLiu Xiao (voice) · 6 episodes
Ryota TakeuchiSalazar (voice) · 5 episodes
Hana SatoKawin (voice), Boy (voice), Wife (voice) · 5 episodes
Yoshito YasuharaJames Coleman (voice) · 5 episodes
Directing · 9
- Yoshiyuki Shirahata Director, Storyboard Artist
- Tetsuaki Matsuda Director
- Yukiko Imai Director, Storyboard Artist
- Yoko Kanamori Director, Storyboard Artist
- Tomoko Hiramuki Director
- Katsushi Sakurabi Director, Storyboard Artist
Writing · 1
- Ryota Kosawa Writer, Series Composition, Script Supervisor
Production · 19
- Masahiro Kosugi Executive Producer
- George Wada Executive Producer
- Keiji Ota Executive Producer
- Mitsuhisa Ishikawa Executive Producer
- Yukiko Takase Executive Producer
- Hitoshi Ito Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Kazuto Izumita Director of Photography
Editing · 7
- Daisuke Imai Editor
- Yuichi Aoki Online Editor
- Kohei Kanemaru Assistant Editor
- Kosuke Yoshihara Online Editor
- Moe Suzuki Online Editor
- Chika Ishii Online Editor
Sound · 4
- Yutaka Yamada Original Music Composer, Main Title Theme Composer
- Takuya Hasegawa Sound Effects
- Haruka Matsushita Sound Recordist
- Kohei Chida Music Editor
Art · 12
- Yusuke Takeda Art Direction
- Yumiko Sudo Art Direction
- Hideki Futamura Storyboard Artist
- Shinobu Tagashira Storyboard Artist
- Kazuya Nomura Storyboard Artist
- Ayumu Watanabe Storyboard Artist
Visual Effects · 1
- Kim Seong-jun Animation
Other crew · 269
- Hiro Kaburagi Series Director, Opening/Ending Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist
- Ryoji Masuyama Assistant Director, Storyboard Artist, Director
- Takashi Katagiri Assistant Director, Director
- Mai Teshima Assistant Director, Director, Animation Director
- Hirotaka Kato Character Designer, Supervising Animation Director
- Atsuko Nozaki Opening/Ending Animation, Key Animation, Animation Director
Tropes
Great Pretender episodes
2 seasons · 27 episodes
Episodes
- S1 E1 Case 1_1: Los Angeles Connection, 7.5
- S1 E2 Case 1_2: Los Angeles Connection, 7.5
- S1 E3 Case 1_3: Los Angeles Connection, 7.6
- S1 E4 Case 1_4: Los Angeles Connection, 7.9
- S1 E5 Case 1_5: Los Angeles Connection, 8.7
- S1 E6 Case 2_1: Singapore Sky, 7.4
- S1 E7 Case 2_2: Singapore Sky, 7.5
- S1 E8 Case 2_3: Singapore Sky, 7.2
- S1 E9 Case 2_4: Singapore Sky, 7.4
- S1 E10 Case 2_5: Singapore Sky, 7.8
- S1 E11 Case 3_1: Snow of London, 7.5
- S1 E12 Case 3_2: Snow of London, 7.7
- S1 E13 Case 3_3: Snow of London, 8.0
- S1 E14 Case 3_4: Snow of London, 8.2
- S1 E15 Case 4_1: Wizard of Far East, 7.9
- S1 E16 Case 4_2: Wizard of Far East, 7.9
- S1 E17 Case 4_3: Wizard of Far East, 8.3
- S1 E18 Case 4_4: Wizard of Far East, 8.6
- S1 E19 Case 4_5: Wizard of Far East, 8.2
- S1 E20 Case 4_6: Wizard of Far East, 8.9
- S1 E21 Case 4_7: Wizard of Far East, 7.8
- S1 E22 Case 4_8: Wizard of Far East, 8.2
- S1 E23 Case 4_9: Wizard of Far East, 7.8
- S2 E1 Intermission 1-1: Taipei Rendezvous, 8.1
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