Great Pretender (2020– )
5/10
That certain something is missing
26 March 2024
It's not bad, per se, but relatively boring in my opinion.

I find the characters all completely uninteresting, any information about their backstories felt without any real inspiration, everything had already been seen somewhere else.

The entire anime feels "borrowed" starting from the opening and ending with the background design/colors. (Which is stylish, but kinda lazy, because it's just completely generated) Anyone who has already seen a few anime will recognize some of the things they used, although they are all good set pieces such as: the Jazzy Tunes ala Cowboy Bebop as well as the OP. Here and there I also get strong Jormungand (for example Abi is like Jonathan) or even Black Lagoon vibes sometimes, which for me somehow robs this anime of the unique selling point that it should have had due to its relatively unused setting.

While the processing or the trick behind the scams is actually quite detailed and comes across as believable, it is staged in a very boring way.

I stopped after the third scam, it's just not for me, it all comes across as kind of boring western crime series. Which is definitely not what I'm looking for in an anime!
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