Cheating Craft

Cheating Craft
	Key visual
チーティングクラフト; (Chītingu Kurafuto)
Genre	Action, parody
Anime television series
Directed by	Keitaro Motonaga
Written by	Takamitsu Kouno
Music by	Go Sakabe
Studio	Blade
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	Tokyo MX (Japan), PPTV (China), bilibili (China)
Original run	October 5, 2016 – December 21, 2016
Episodes	12

Cheating Craft (Japanese: チーティングクラフト, Hepburn: Chītingu Kurafuto) is a Japanese-Chinese anime television series animated by Blade and produced by Emon. It is based on Gemini Xin Luo's novel Zuobi Yishu (Chinese: 作弊艺术). The anime series premiered on October 5, 2016 as a short anime and ran alongside To Be Hero.^[3]^[4]

Plot

In a world where people have been sorted since childhood by exams, only those who excel obtain happiness. L (Learning) Types, who prioritize study, and C (Cheating) Types, those who choose not to study to pass, will battle and team up in exams. C Type protagonist Muming Zhuge (诸葛睦明) and L Type heroine Qiaoyi Huang battle together to pass tests.

Characters

The character's Chinese name is listed first, followed by their Japanese name:

Muming Zhuge (諸葛睦明) / Mumei Shokatsu (諸葛睦明, Shokatsu Mumei)^[a]

Voiced by: Tomohiro Yamaguchi^[3]

His name originates from Zhuge Liang.

Qiaoyi Huang (黃巧衣) / Koi Oh (黄巧衣, Ō Kōi)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya^[3]

Guanyu Zhou (周綸羽) / Rinu Shu (周綸羽, Shū Rin'u)

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa^[3]

His name originates from Zhou Yu.

Baijiu Liu (劉白玖) / Haku Ryu (リュウハク, Ryū Haku)

Voiced by: Reina Ueda^[3]

Li Xing (杏璃) / Anri (アンリ, Anri)

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa^[3]

JUN (ジュン, Jun)

Voiced by: Junya Ikeda^[3]

Teacher Wong (王先生) / Teacher Oh (オウセンセイ, Ō Sensei)

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi^[3]

Media

Anime

The anime is directed by Keitaro Motonaga, with animation by Haoliners Animation League. Mai Matsuura and Norie Tanaka designed the characters. They also serve as chief animation directors, alongside Ryousuke Tanigawa. Yasunori Ebina is in charge of the sound effects and Go Sakabe is the composer of the series. Takamitsu Kouno collaborates on the writing of scenarios. Yutaka Kamogawa is credited as the main animator. Kenichi Ohnuki and Hisashi Saito are credited with design works, while Goichi Iwahata is credited with prop design. Kei Ichikura is the art director, while Hideki Imaizumi is the director of photography. Aiko Shinohara is in charge of the color designs.^[3]

The female idol group Kamen Joshi performs the opening theme "Kasoku Suru Trial," while Aina Kusuda performs the ending theme song "Welcome Future," with lyrics by Saori Kodama, composition by Takahiro Yamada, and arrangement by Shinya Saitou.