Is Great Pretender good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Great Pretender is a TV series from Summer 2020 by Wit Studio, Inc.: 23 episodes, about 8.8 hours in total, finished, 8.2/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 8.8 hours for the run, 12 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 23
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 8.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2020
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Wit Studio, Inc.
- Score
- 8.2/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, comedy, coming of age, crime, detective, drama, episodic, mystery, nudity, psychological, seinen, shounen, thriller, tragedy, war, workplace
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Great Pretender?
- About 8.8 hours for all 23 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Great Pretender have?
- 23 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Great Pretender finished?
- Yes, Great Pretender is finished (23 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Great Pretender good for a group?
- Yes. Great Pretender is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Great Pretender listed?
- Great Pretender is on AniList (id 110349) and MyAnimeList (id 40052); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists