WIT Studio brought out the final piece of their big new project this fall with Great Pretender with its November 25th, 2020 debut going live as “season two” on Netflix. Now, the streaming service is doing some new promotion through its YouTube channel where it’s got five minutes of very slick looking stylish animation digging into the targets of the series and how these marks are being taken down. If you haven’t checked out the series, this is a nice little intro to it all.
The series is directed by Hiro Kaburagi based on the scripts from Ryota Kosawa. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto is on the character designs and Hirotaka Kato is serving as the chief animation director along with Kyoji Asano.
The Japanese cast includes Chiaki Kobayashi as Makoto “Edamame” Edamura, Junichi Suwabe as Laurent Thierry, Natsumi Fujiwara as Abigail “Aby” Jones, and Mie Sonozaki as Paula Dickins.
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Plot Concept: Makoto Edamura is supposedly Japan’s greatest swindler. Together with his partner Kudo, they try to trick a Frenchman in Asakusa but unexpectedly get tricked instead. The Frenchman, whom they tried to swindle, turns out to be Laurent Thierry- a much higher-level ‘confidence man,’ in control of the mafias. Edamura is yet to find out what fate awaits him, after having engaged in the Frenchman’s dirty jobs…!
