Anime Review: Great pretender (Season 2)

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Rating

★★★★

Duration

0 Hrs 23 Mins

Drama Digest

Another season of the chaotic world of pickpockets, scammers, and con artists continue. This time around, the drama is intense and fired up. In this season, the group of con artists wraps up their scams in their previous season. Edamura decides to return to Japan and find a regular job and settle down. However, continuing with the theme of Edamura never getting what he wants, he is roped into more scams and plans courtesy of Laurent. How deadly is this scam this time around? Will the team be in complete jeopardy? What will happen to Edamura? Watch the drama and find out.

The Feel-Good Part

With stunning twists and exciting turns at each corner of this season, you can expect to have a wonderful time with this season. Moreover, we continue to have these stunning visuals and backgrounds that are so beautiful that you can’t help but keep looking at them. The way this season unravels is a lot of fun and definitely something worth watching.

The Disappointing Factor

If you are not a fan of dark humor and mature themes, you may not enjoy this show. This season there is an ample amount of both, so if that’s not your cup of tea, you may not want it. Aside from that, there are also repetitive jokes. But that is just nitpicking and trying to find some fundamental wrong with this film.

In-Depth Analysis

Great Pretender continues to be an enjoyable, comedic, and thrilling watch. The storyline of a small-time pickpocketer turning into an international con artist is exciting. It maintains this perfect balance of comedy and action that is just perfect, and the second season manages to keep up this momentum.

Star Power

All your favorite characters are back this season, including Laurent Thierry, played by Junichi Suwabe; Abigail Jones, played by Natsumi Fujiwara; Makoto Edamura played by Chiaki Kobayashi; Cynthia Moore, played by Mie Sonozaki; and many more. Each actor gives an excellent performance, which adds to the beauty of the episodes this season. Junichi Suwabe, who quickly became a fan favorite, is equally as good this season. Junichi Suwabe has starred in several popular anime, including Boku No Hero Academia, Psycho-Pass 3, Fairy Tail, and many more.

Overall Opinion

The second season of this instant classic does not disappoint even in the slightest. It is worth checking out for a good time. You will be in for a crazy and wonderful ride.