Cheating Craft Episode 12 Discussion

Lelouch0202 said:
Speaking of which, I thought this was gonna be more of a calculating/thrilling series with the examinee's figuring out how to cheat and not get caught but this was basically Mumei just using OP powers to clear every test. Can't really say I enjoyed it apart from some fun comedy.

5/10

tlst9999 said:


The novel is more on cheating and not getting caught. There are still shonen battle elements, but they're way stealthier in their cheating. Anime was derailed from the start.

The orchestral version of the opening theme did it for me. I want the OST so bad.

Mascera said:
Duh, Mu Ming is the "C" type. How is he supposed to take the test by himself?

winddevil1 said:
this ending was even worse than last episode...how is that even possible? lmao
also wtf was that last second? ...

2/10, screw this anime LOL

stephen5000 said:
Fun finale.

This show ending up being better than I expected and a lot of fun, even though it didn't really make much sense. It was certainly better than most short series I've seen.

3xTripple said:
And guys, the series isn't supposed to make sense... that's the joke of the series. Nothing about the series is meant to be serious, which is why it's funny. The whole premise of the series isn't meant to be serious LOL. It's just making fun of popular concepts in anime dramatically.

1. Dramatic start where most people die and only a few survive. *check*
2. Elimination/People "die" each episode *check*
3. Fight scenes where protagonist uses hidden powerful techniques. *check*
4. Dramatic backstory for why they must graduate (save wrongly accused father) *check*
5. Perfect girl with no flaws *check*
6. Transformation sequence (I don't think a lot of people caught that Kou-chan putting on her glasses was making fun of transformation sequences in anime xD. All of that just to put on some fucking geeky glasses lmao)
7. Father testing his son's powers to help him unlock a new skill to overcome challenge *check*
8. Shuonen styled ending where main protagonist saves the world (but has to still take test) *check*
9. Villains screaming "impossible" and learning a lesson from being defeated by protagonist *check*
There's a lot more, but you probably get it by now lol.
10. I think even the outstanding music for a mediocre series may also be part of it, but i'm not sure about that one. The music was too good for the series lmao.

There's more, but you guys probably get it by now

I guess it takes a person that has seen a lot of anime to catch all of this mediocre brilliance lol.

Lubricus said:

But, But... The premise of the series is great and what I know quite unique. The cheating game could have real political undertext with the test of children determine there future. Then in ep 2. i hoped for a smart and fun anime with advanced tactics and tricks to cheat. I want to see those anime series and ep. 6, 7 is just weird not fun. Then the ending do the creators think they get money for a second season? Or is also just some meta joke?

Lubricus said:
I have a theory what happens at the end. But first we have to make some sense to this silly mess of a series as a hole.
It’s just a silly mess we could say it’s just bad writhing or it could be intentional and in some way make sense. First the characters are flat anime cliché’s with one exception Qiao Yi Huang (Kou-chan). Kou-chan is smart and strong and the same time silly and have watched to much bad anime and have Yaoi fantasies about her best friends in school. She doesn’t care much about how she looks and that other should like her. Mu Ming Zhuge (Mumei) also has some feelings but they are only roughly depicted.
The story is really incoherent f.ex. in ep 7. when they visit Mumei’s father. Remember that the main goal of Kou and Mumei was to free Mumei father from prison with the power and influence the got if they passed all the exams. But when the visited the father in the “prison” it was more like the dad had he’s own sky-skraper with a big staff of servant that he could mess around with. And it was more an intervention from the dad and Kou to cheer up Mumei from the depression of being beaten by “zuo” (not being the coolest guy in the class) and go back to school. Than visit someone in the prison.
How could all this make some sense? First we can’t take anything literal and second Kou sticks out as a character and is depicted in another way than all the other characters. Lot of stuff is obvious anime cliché’s with powers taken from Naruto.
So I think everything is supposed to be Kou delusions and fantasies and that the creators try to tell the story in a similar fashion as Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky but from a perspective from a delusional young girl that have watched to much bad anime instead of an delusional impoverished ex-student.
So after this wall of text, back to the last moment in the series where Kou are spying on Mumei hoping to see some Yaoi action and hear a bang and screams in anguish. I don’t think we should interpret that it happens literal but that Kou is realizing something big. Either that she is losing her best friend or that she get jealous and have real romantic feeling for Mumei. I don’t know. Both things would make sense they are just a bunch of kids being kids going to school and fooling around. They don’t act as grown up and won’t be the president of earth in the next episode as in so many other anime´s.

Tsuyu_no_Inochi said:
Can't believe I made it through to the last episode. What the hell was I watching and why?

The only good thing I can say about this anime is - great illustration. Love the way the characters were drawn. However, was there a plot? if so, it got lost somewhere after episode 5.