User Reviews

Entertainment value: 8 Some scenes are really interesting and totally unpredictable.

Visuals: 8 I quite like the animation style

Soundtrack: 7 The outro is a great fit!

Plot: 7 The end might be a bit too meta tbh, and also, why the f did the preciously targets help in the end, makes no sense...

Characters and dialog: 7 Average dialog, the characters were all relatable in their own way. Total: 7,4

I had fun watching the first season of the show with it's interesting plot twists, characters, and the 3 cases they had. The 2nd season did the exact opposite with having a really drawn out case, characters not feeling like their first season selves especially Edamame, new one dimensional characters I don't care about, and really stupid choices in the story. A lot of it felt like they wanted to be Cowboy Bebop with scammers instead of bounty hunters. The intro, music choices, art style, and kinds of characters telling me that. Not that it's a bad thing as Cowboy Bebop is my favorite anime at the moment. My biggest complaint is the ending. Why did they bring back the villains to help the confidence men when they were robbed of their money? When Laurent mentioned they broke even with the $100 billion dollars, I can't help but think a lot of that money went back to Eddie, Sam, and Coleman. Making the first season completely pointless. If the first season only existed, I'd give Great Pretender a 8/10. With the second season, I can't help give it a 6/10.

Loved the first three chapters (season 1), but the final chapter and second season was terrible. You can't keep fake killing people and expect there to be any sense of drama since we all know they will be ok. The child trafficking ring was horrific and was a terrible choice to add onto the series. It made every character look like monsters who allowed who knows how many children to suffer unspeakable horrors while they played their con game. Absolute awful ending for an otherwise good show.

Great Pretender is a new anime that came from WIT Studio, a Studio that has produced some of my favorite anime. I had high expectations for this show and wasn't let down. The vibrance of this show is fantastic. The second and third arcs, although not as great as the first, still do all the great things that the first arc did, with the exception of trying to trick the audience. The characters are all very compelling and interesting. Of the main 4, I'd say that the main protagonist is the weakest character, despite the fact that he too, is great. The music feels like something out of Cowboy Bebop and the OP is fantastic, with an even better ED. Great Pretender's ability to deceive the audience at first is its best aspect however, and although they can't repeat what they did, I feel like the show still could surpass that first arc. Great Pretender is a must watch this year.

The first season was incredible and after watching it I thought it was amazing; the characters the music the animation and the story while sometimes corny was worthwhile in any sense. However the second season was simply a disappointment.

While the first season had 3 story arcs that were 5 episodes each, the second season was just a one VERY stretched out story arc. This was very annoying since I really liked the way the first season did it and it seemed like it was a great way of managing this show.

In addition the personality of lots of the main characters from the first season completely changed in the second, and it's not even as if they didn't know it. They started out the second season with a weird form of a recap which watching the first season and than immediately the second I noticed that the recap was completely off, in that weird recap he talked about some of the characters from the first season, and the way he described them was completely different from how they were in the first. I didn't think much of it because the whole point of the show is that he doesn't entirely knows everything, however it wasn't the case, the case was that they changed their personalities so they would make sense to their new story arc.

And that's not all, in the second season they started telling the backstory of one of the characters and just sort of trailed off for like 2 and half episodes telling a completely irrelevant story with characters that most of them not only that I don't care about. Its not that the mini story was terrible but it was completely irrelevant and it could have just been skipped and (this is a big spoiler) just used the same reason they started that operation instead of changed the reason from "we want the 3 billion dollars" to "we want revenged" because it would have worked out the same anyways and the characters wouldn't have had to be scrapped and given a different personality (also big spoilers-- I'm mainly talking about the blond and how they completely changed his character from charismatic leader to sad guy who you know what happened if you watched the show)

The ending was terrible and made no sense at all (how on earth do you survive being shot and than drowning in the middle of the pacific, you cant just wash up to shore that's what the weights are for)

and as for the human trafficking, every character in this show deserves nothing but the worst for knowing about the human trafficking ring and not doing anything about it. I see no reason why they involved the police and the international authorities. There is a reason why the category "crimes against humanity" was invented and this just goes to show why we need international law in real life.

I had to give this at least a 6 for the first season and its not like I completely suffered through the second season, I was just very confused and sometimes even disgusted by the actions of most of the characters.

It was good, but the way it ended just ruined the entire series. It was nice to watch them scam the scumbags... but then they just randomly became friends with them in the end?? Wtf???