Cowboy Bebop is a ubiquitous symbol of 1990s anime, to the point where anyone even remotely curious about the medium's best offerings have been recommended it. This is no surprise; Sunrise knocked it out of the park with Shinichiro Watanabe's direction and idiosyncratic style. While future titles would be weighed against it, one successor fully embodies its spirit: Great Pretender.

Produced by Wit Studio and released for stremaing in 2020 as a Netflix original , Great Pretender is to con artists in anime as Cowboy Bebop is to spacefaring bounty hunters. It's an astounding successor and, while similarly concise at just over 20 episodes and a movie much like Bebop, features mini-arcs instead of its spiritual predecessor's mostly episodic structure.

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