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Crunchyroll Adds Great Pretender razbliuto Sequel Anime in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The anime premiered in Japan on Friday at 24:00 JST (effectively, Saturday at 12 midnight JST) and is streaming exclusively in Japan on the DMM TV streaming service.
The sequel anime centers on Dorothy, a gifted swindler, who is supposedly dead after losing a game with a Shanghai organization. She finds herself in a small town in Taipei, without any memory of her past. Chased by Taipei's black society, Dorothy heads to Kyoto, but there, something awaits her too.
The anime features much of the staff from the first anime. Hiro Kaburagi returned as director, and was also in charge of series composition alongside Taku Kishimoto, with previous head writer Ryota Kosawa now credited for script supervision. Mai Teshima was the assistant director. Shōsuke Ishibashi replaced Kyoji Asano as chief animation director, joining Hirotaka Katō in the chief animation director credits. Keita Shimizu is no longer credited for design, while Akiyo Okuda and Shōsuke Ishibashi remained credited. Yumiko Sudou is credited as art director alongside returning art director Yūsuke Takeda.
The sequel anime's cast are (image right, from top to bottom left):
- Yuka Komatsu as Dorothy
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Jei
- Yasuhiro Mamiya as Ai
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Lin
- Yasuyuki Kase as Wan
- Mitsuaki Kanuka as Sai
- Mariya Ise as Bin
The anime's first series premiered in July 2020 on Fuji TV's +UItra programming block. The anime ran for two cours (quarters of a year) for a total of 23 episodes. Netflix began streaming it in India in August 2020, and added the anime's second season in November 2020.
Hiro Kaburagi (Hozuki's Coolheadedness, My Little Monster, 91 Days) directed the series at Wit Studio. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Evangelion, FLCL) designed the characters. Ryota Kosawa (Parasyte live-action film, Always: Sunset on Third Street live-action film series) wrote the scripts, and Yutaka Yamada (Tokyo Ghoul anime franchise, Vinland Saga) composed the music. Maiko Okada was the producer.
Source: Crunchyroll (Joseph Luster)
