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Cheating Craft

Cheating Craft 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. The anime series premiered on October 5, 2016 as a short anime and ran alongside To Be Hero.

Last revised
Jun 5, 2026
Read time
≈ 2 min
Length
503 w
Citations
13
Source
Cheating Craft
Key visual
チーティングクラフト
(Chītingu Kurafuto)
GenreAction, parody
Anime television series
Directed byKeitaro Motonaga
Written byTakamitsu Kouno
Music byGo Sakabe
StudioBlade
Licensed byCrunchyroll1
Original networkTokyo MX (Japan), PPTV (China), bilibili (China)
Original run October 5, 20162 December 21, 2016
Episodes12

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.34

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 Yamaguchi3
His name originates from Zhuge Liang.

Qiaoyi Huang (黃 巧衣) / Koi Oh (黄 巧衣, Ō Kōi)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya3

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

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa3
His name originates from Zhou Yu.

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

Voiced by: Reina Ueda3

Li Xing (杏璃) / Anri (アンリ, Anri)

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa3

JUN (ジュン, Jun)

Voiced by: Junya Ikeda3

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

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi3

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.

Notes

Notes

  1. This is the Japanese pronunciation of the characters or using the words closest representing the meaning.
References

References

  1. "Crunchyroll Announces Winter 2017 Anime Lineup". Crunchyroll. January 20, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  2. "Emon Announces New Cheating Craft Anime for October 5". Anime News Network. September 8, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  3. "Emon Announces New Cheating Craft Anime for October 5". Anime News Network. September 6, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  4. "Fall "Cheating Craft" Shorts To Adapt Chinese Novel". Crunchyroll. September 7, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
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