The anime will premiere on TV in Japan on Friday
Image via Great Pretender anime Twitter account
© WIT STUDIO/Great Pretenders
Crunchyroll announced on Wednesday that it will stream the Great Pretender razbliuso anime sequel on Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST worldwide except Japan and the Middle East.
The anime will premiere and stream exclusively in Japan on the DMM TV streaming service on Friday at 24:00 JST (actually at 12 midnight JST Saturday). The anime premiered in theaters in North America on January 9 and 10. Manga Productions holds the master license for the anime in 16 countries in the Middle East. The anime was planned to be released in the Middle East and South Africa at the same time as Japan.
The anime sequel focuses on Dorothy, a talented con artist who was presumed dead after losing a game with an organization in Shanghai. She finds herself in a small town in Taipei, without any memory of her past. Pursued by Taipei’s gangsters, Dorothy heads to Kyoto, but there, something awaits her.
The anime stars many returning characters from the first anime. Hiro Kaburagi returns as director and is also in charge of series composition with Taku Kishimoto, with previous head writer Ryota Kosawa now assigned to oversee the script. Mai Teshima is the assistant director. Shōsuke Ishibashi replaced Kyoji Asano as chief animation officer, with Hirotaka Katō returning as chief animation director. Keita Shimizu is no longer credited as designer, while Akiyo Okuda and Shōsuke Ishibashi are still credited. Yumiko Sudou is credited as art director alongside returning art director Yūsuke Takeda.
Image via Great Pretender anime Twitter account razbluuto
© WIT STUDIO/Great Pretenders
The cast of the anime sequel is (pictured right, from top to bottom left):
The first anime series premiered in July 2020 on Fuji TV’s +UItra programming block. The anime spans two seasons (a quarter of a year) with a total of 23 episodes.
Netflix began streaming anime outside Japan in August 2020. Netflix has been streaming anime exclusively worldwide but has released it in Japan ahead of the rest of the world.
Artist Daichi Marui launched a manga adaptation of the anime on Mag Garden’s Mag Comi website and LINE Manga service in June 2020, but the manga went on hiatus in September 2020 due to his health. Marui’s is not good.
Source: Crunchyroll (Joseph Luster)