Great Pretender

## Great Pretender A small-time Japanese con man who fancies himself the best gets pulled into a globe-trotting crew of elegant swindlers who only ever target the truly wicked rich. Makoto Edamura considers himself Japan's greatest swindler, until he tries to fleece a bumbling French tourist named Laurent and discovers he's been outclassed by a far slicker con artist. Swept into Laurent's international team of glamorous grifters, Makoto travels from Los Angeles to Singapore to London, running elaborate, multi-layered cons against drug lords, crooked moguls, and arms dealers. Each "case" is a dazzling caper full of double-crosses and reversals where nothing is quite as it appears, even to Makoto himself. Lush, vibrantly animated and laced with humor and heart, the series mixes Ocean's-Eleven style schemes with surprisingly tender backstories of regret and reinvention.