Wit Studio teased on Friday that it will announce a new release for the original Great Pretender television anime series during a panel at this year’s Anime NYC event on November 18 at 12:45 p.m. EST. The company streamed an introductory video:
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IG and Wit Studio production president George Wada, director Hiro Kaburagi and producer Hitoshi Itō will be present at the conference.
Anime NYC 2023 will take place from November 17 to 19. The event will continue to have the same space it has used for the past few years at New York City’s Javits Center.
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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 streamed the anime exclusively worldwide but released the film in Japan before the rest of the world.
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-!
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 opening theme song “GP” and a cover of “The Great Pretender” by late Queen singer Freddie Mercury of The Platters as the anime’s ending theme song. This is the first Japanese television anime to use Mercury’s song as its theme.
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 Marui’s poor health. Good.
Source: Wit Studio’s Instagram page, YouTube channel
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