5-disc set includes all 23 volumes, art card, poster, art book
Scream! Factory announced on Thursday that it will release a Deluxe Edition of Wit Studio’s original anime television series Great Pretender on Blu-ray from Anime Limited on March 12, 2024 in limited quantities. The five-disc set will include all 23 volumes, bonus features, a slipcase, 10 art cards, a double-sided poster, and a 192-page art book.
© WIT STUDIO/Great Pretenders
© WIT STUDIO/Great Pretenders
Anime Limited is releasing the anime on home video in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland. The company describes the story:
Self-proclaimed “Japan’s Greatest Scammer” Makoto Edamura primarily targets the elderly and occasional foreign visitors. But when he tries to scam a seemingly clueless French tourist in Tokyo, he can’t imagine that what looks like just another ordinary job will land him in Los Angeles, tied up. upside down on the famous Hollywood sign… And he still hasn’t found out what fate awaits him!
Hiro Kaburagi x Yoshiyuki Sadamoto x Ryota Kosawa x Wit Studio-A premium animated entertainment created by the best team of the century-!
© WIT STUDIO/Great Pretenders
The anime premiered in July 2020 on Fuji TV’s +UItra programming block. The anime ran for two seasons (first quarter of the year) with a total of 23 episodes.
Netflix began streaming the anime outside of Japan in August 2020. Netflix has been streaming the anime exclusively worldwide but has released the films in Japan before the rest of the world.
Hiro Kaburagi (Hozuki’s Coolheadness, My Little Monster, 91 Days) directed the film at Wit Studio. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, FLCL) designed the characters. Ryota Kosawa (live-action Parasyte film, live-action Always: Sunset on Third Street series) wrote the script and Yutaka Yamada (Tokyo Ghoul anime franchise, Vinland Saga) composed the music. Maiko Okada is the producer.
Yamada composed the first opening theme song “GP”‘s cover of “The Great Pretender” by late Queen singer Freddie Mercury of The Platters as the anime’s first ending theme song. This is the first Japanese television anime to use Mercury’s song as its theme.
Great Pretender razbliuto, a new sequel to the original anime, will hit theaters in North America in 2024. The anime will premiere in 2024. Japan on DMM TV. Crunchyroll will stream the anime in over 200 countries outside of China, and Manga Productions holds the master license for the anime in 16 countries in the Middle East. The anime is scheduled for release worldwide in 2024.
Source: Email correspondence