Cheating Craft is the definition of an absolutely brilliant mediocre anime!
You might be thinking, "How could you give this mediocre series a ten, especially when you only give tens to three percent of anime?!" Well, it's actually a six, but hear me out for a second...
(TL;DR at end)
If you've already watched this show, you probably already know that it's really not THAT great. However, have you ever seen another series like this...? The answer is probably no, and that's where I feel this anime shines the most.
Anime is supposed to be the genre of artistic imagination, yet we're constantly bombarded with the same concepts
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Zuobi Yishu
Japanese: チーティングクラフト
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
12
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Oct 5, 2016 to Dec 21, 2016
Premiered:
Fall 2016
Broadcast:
Wednesdays at 18:30 (JST)
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
Blade
Source:
Novel
Theme:
School
Duration:
12 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Statistics
Ranked:
#126892
2
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Popularity:
#2771
Members:
72,756
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Your Feelings Categories Dec 21, 2016
Even with a short runtime (12 mins per ep) and a lack of promotion, for lovers of stupid senseless "switch off your brain" comedies, Cheating Craft is easily a barrel of laughs and jaw dropping goodness.
Story: 10 China brings you a new generic shonen battle / gag series to add to the pile of generic shonen battle series we already have in Japan. WITH EXAMS!!! Cheating Craft takes place in a world where CHEATING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS!!! There are those who can learn and there are those who can cheat. Everything's fair in love, war and exams. From pen tranquiliser guns to X-ray glasses; from making origami ... Dec 21, 2016
Ok, if I would describe this anime amongst the character's technique, I describe it as "Suck-katsu Technique" as it in this anime for all of what is expected "TOTALLY SUCKS!!!!!" as one reviewer's comment states, "It becomes a chore than an amusement." Man, just what the fuck was Haoliner Animation League', studio Blade thinking for making an anime out of a Chinese light novel titled Zuobi Yishu by Gemini Xin Luo? Tbh, I have nothing but regrets about allowing myself to subject to such chore of watching this.....thing, where it would have been much exciting to watch 'Prison School" than this, sooooooo:
Storywise, It was ... Feb 12, 2017
I'm honestly not sure how this show received a go for production but I'm guessing some cheating was involved. Apparently, there's a country in which success in life is solely based on an exam. Students attempt to pass this exam using various techniques, including cheating. The show follows cheating expert and inheritor of the paper/wind/fire-controlling Shokatsu technique, Mumei Shokatsu and his actually test-literate partner in crime, Koui Ou. This is one of the worst mockeries/parodies that I've seen in ages and it really was neither funny nor cohesive. Do yourself a favor and save yourself a few brain cells by watching something else.
[b]Animation:[/b] The show has ... Dec 21, 2016
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This series was really a chore to watch each week during my school lunch break. If your looking to watch this series to cheat in real life at your school, then I highly recommend not to. It may just get you in trouble imitating it, and make your low IQ that's making you cheat in the first place drop ... Dec 24, 2016
I wanted to finish the show before reviewing it but I honestly can't watch it anymore, everything about this show either bothers me or annoys me in some way. I will view all 6 sections that MAL has given us and give my thoughts on them.
Sound [8]: Let's just say the good things out of the way first, the voice acting, introduction and ending songs. The voice acting is amazing and the songs they use in the intro and outro are just fantastic, flipping to every episode listening to these fantastic songs are easily the best part of it. Art [6]: Like the sound of the ... Jan 21, 2019
This was a wondrous trainwreck tbh
- Overall, this ain't that bad a thing to watch if you're in a mood to criticize something; even for those who are rather lax while watching something. If you want an actual story or series, tho, then just dodge this like the plague. The saddest thing is that all of this show's problem is spoiler-free... due to there nothing available to spoil that'd stop people from giving this a go. And those that dodge even the barest spoiler (eg if it's worth the watch) wouldn't have bothered reading these things lol .:STORY:. (2/10) Okay, so the story is basically ... Sep 6, 2017
First things first. This anime is bad. Period.
The story is as bad as it can be, you get a protagonist with cheating powers based on a secret technic wich is depicted seriously bad. This guy has a sister that is smart, don't care about her, she doesn't matter. Smart people don't get anything at this, the main focus is about cheating on exams and it continues the same until the end. Art, nothing to talk about Overall music might be decent but your not likely to watch this for the music. Characters plain and bad. Easily forgettable for every character. You could remember about them for the series ... Sep 29, 2017
Geez... and LA thought fighting over bento boxes was a stupid and wacky premise for a shounen.
Cheating Craft is but a simple anime short shounen about essentially cheating your way through superpowered school equipment and the like in order to even stand a chance in the world. But our fledging cheater and genius of Cheating Craft Shokatsu Mumei voiced by Tomohiro Yamaguchi and Qiao Yi Huang voiced by Rie Kugimiya will beat the national test in order for Mumei's father to be freed from prison for a crime he did not commit..........so basic shounen plot right there. We also get the typical rivals and allies such ... Apr 24, 2021
Cheating Craft was the one of the worst anime I've watched to date. The first episode introduced an interesting concept, but they had no clue on how to execute. It was confusing, didn't make sense, and the characters had no depth and the power system was terrible. Starting from episode 2 I got the feeling they had no clue what to do with this series and was just putting episodes out. The biggest problem is that they made the show have no direction. The show never went in a linear path, it just went backwards. The music was alright for a show this bad. The
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May 17, 2017
The concept of the story is undeniably unique in their own way. Then, when you just finish watched episode 1, your reaction will be like WTF!!!!! It look so lousy to me. Why the hell the examination is still valid once the examination hall is destroy, the examiner our cold? The f**k! The 1st episode itself is indeed lousy already and stupid for me. I surprise they even made it into anime and aired it. I can bet 1mil dollar that they will never be 2nd season. The length of the episode (12min) also agrees with me. normal length 23min is probably not worth for
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Dec 23, 2016
WOOOOOW. I finished watching the final episode and was blown away by the ineptitude of it all.
This WILL come as a shock but this is an action parody anime will "humor" somewhere i guess. There's tons of great ideas, as shown in the first episode. But as you watch you realize that the show has no purpose. We never hear character goals for when they graduate. The written test doesn't matter because the goal of the test is to kill/knockout the teacher and do whatever you want. Also the only rivalry in the show is DESTROYED by having an entire episode be nothing but a montage ... Jun 27, 2022
for me this anime is a wasted potentiel, i mean the characters were cool i'm not gonna lie but there isn't any real story..... we also have the fact that 2 or 3 episodes are fillers.
when i did read about this anime i really did think that it would just be students cheating but instead it's about super powers fights during exams ???? sure anime are unreal but well it did make me upset. nothing makes sense please don't loose your time like me watching this one but if you want you can watch the anime on youtube if you're french with subtitles p.s : ... Nov 16, 2023
I hate that i don't hate it
But this doesn't feel like a real anime, it feels more like an anime they watch on the background of an anime, or like an anime writed by someone who doesn't know what anime is, but has like a vague knowledge of some tropes and think like all anime are like this, kind like kappa mikey (?) You know what The entirety of this anime feels like a gag they'll make on Gintama, but as i said at the beginning i don't hate it, it made me laugh a couple of times by the absurdity of the jokes, and ... Dec 8, 2022
I've yet to see any anime like this, with so much yet so little going on at the same time.
This feels like a total waste of what could have potentially been an extremely interesting concept for a story, but I don't really know what Blade Studio was trying to go for here. It quickly became just a ironically funny, mediocre show to watch Plot: It's basic, in a world where taking tests decides your fate as a member of society, students fall into 1 of 2 categories. Learning Type or "L-Type" and Cheating Type or "C-Type". The L-Types finish the tests and give the answers the ... Apr 1, 2017
Are you bored with no ideas? Do you want to see a low-rated anime? Do you like to waste time? You no longer feel that feeling: "How Dragon Ball fillers are good."?
If your answers were "Yeah" so far, then watch "Cheating Craft". I would not recommend this anime even for my enemies. Let's talk about topics: 1. History. Totally rushed, with more holes than cheese and totally and definitely able to give you Bugs and Tilts in the brain. It turns well until the 2nd episode. Where to start from there begins the "shooting" to leave holes. Missing explanations of why such thing was done, how things ... |


