Great Pretender
Oshimeter
Synopsis
A series of unfortunate events has led Makoto Edamura to adopt the life of crime—pickpocketing and scamming others for a living. However, after swindling a seemingly clueless tourist, Makoto discovers that he was the one tricked and, to make matters worse, that the police are now after him. While making his escape, he runs into the tourist once again, who turns out to be a fellow con man named Laurent Thierry, and ends up following him to Los Angeles. In an attempt to defend his self-proclaimed title of "Japan's Greatest Swindler," Makoto challenges his rival to determine the better scammer. Accepting the competition, Laurent drops them off outside a huge mansion and claims that their target will be the biggest mafia boss on the West Coast. As Makoto becomes increasingly involved with the cunning Laurent, his colorful associates, and the world of international high-stakes fraud, he soon realizes that he got more than what he bargained for as his self-declared skills are continually put to the test.
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Characters
Laurent Thierry
A charming con man with a Robin Hood complex, Laurent Thierry targets the corrupt, fueled by a vengeful anger masked by a silly demeanor.
Phillips Aaron B.
Abigail Jones
Orphaned in Iraq, Abigail's past as a child soldier fuels her complex character.
Mohammed Kausar
Makoto Edamura
Makoto Edamura: Japan's top swindler, a skilled con artist with a charming demeanor.
Lee Alan
Cynthia Moore
FBI agent Cynthia Moore, initially posing as Paula Dickins, expertly executes her undercover missions.
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need more of the heist ngl
This anime is good. Contains very serious topic and almost has no fillers so far. It's like a television drama with good scripts and dialogs but in anime form.
I like it so far, it's not one of that anime who have magic, powers etc. I think this anime have a good story, script and dialog; I like it. It gets to the story immediately.
The whole ending felt really interesting. fooling not only the yakuza, but also the chinese mafia with some sedative is a quite ridiculous feat. well, this show never relied on anything realistic, so i suppose ending the case in this epic comedic manner is nice.
Ok, that ending was beyond absurd. Very suspicious. But to build a skyscraper replica on some deserted island is way over the line haha.at least they've put a good act. Edamura's rant was closer to something sincere than just tricking the mafia.
Good episode so far. Edamura looks to be at the end of his rope same with Laurent. This episode was mostly prep for the big day but like one comment said atmosphere was thick as hell.
Tragic episode. But as expected everything had just been set in motion to get revenge on that mafia group. Though it seemed a bit like the thing with Edamura was by change, since he suddenly turned out to be interested in conning others as well.
whoa, a whole backstory episode. and it's not even done yet. Dorothy is a real hottie, so no wonder Laurent fell for her. so far so good, just a build-up to how Oz got in jail and most likely Dorothy died or some shit.
Finally time for Laurent's backstory and wow the first thing we see is him stabbing Dorothy. Isn't she the girl who was his fiancee or was he conned by her. Well guess I'll find out soon.
Damn Well, that's a twist. it's either some 4D chess move from Abby to push Edamura to trust his dad like that or just a mess. even though Edamura's trust swings, i still think they will end Edamura's dad all these years loving his family.
Well, it surely is Edamura's hardest job yet. although, it feels a bit odd how they combine the heavy-hitting child trafficking topic with a laidback attitude of the rest of the team. it felt alright in the previous cases, but this one definitely touches more on the morality.
Cant wait to finish this show. i'm just going to continue binge watching the second half of this series and ohh...HUMAN TRAFFICKING is the main theme this time... lets see how they will handle this one.
This episode was really interesting, With Thomas's forgery done at long last, only one thing remains is to completely cheat Coleman at his game and save Farrah from parting with her money.
Great Episode once again. Got to know more about Cynthia and Thomas's past. Oh my Cynthia, you were so lively and cute. But I guess it was everyone's fault here somewhere. Thomas was wrong too but I felt when he said what's good if he can't sell his paintings.
I feel bad for Cynthia and Thomas because with Cynthia's job..she can't really stay with him since she travels so much for con business. Arrggh what's gonna happen? It's getting real good again. haha
Funny episode after boring Singapur arc. Comedy tone is what this anime makes better. I'm wondering is that picture really worthy 20 million or Coleman said it to earn 20 milion.
This episode was absolutely classy. Got a BIT emotional for Abby and Luis just the same and seeing his wife be supportive the whole way through was great.
Did not expect the Battle of Baghdad to come up in this episode. I thought Abby was black at first but she's from Iraq. Her backstory is the most interesting so far.
Meh episode, I really liked that we got to meet Luis and see what he's going through, and that he has a past we have yet to uncover. Sam is a piece of crap, but I'm beginning to think that Clark hasn't been in on all of Sam's evil deeds and he might not be too bad a guy.
Not gonna lie, had a good laugh here. Anyway, I'm not really liking the series' approach so far, it feels like they're trying to somehow justify what these dudes are doing by throwing some sad backstories, making the bad guys... worse.
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