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Official Website
www.ytv.co.jp/cheat
Broadcast
From 11.59 p.m., Thursdays, 3 October 2019
Network
NTV
Story
25-year-old Hoshino Saki is the brains of a mysterious specialist team called CHEAT, which deceives and exposes swindlers in return. CHEAT is the secret organisation established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s detective Anzai Kazuki to stamp out fraud which is claiming a growing number of victims every year. Besides Saki, the former investigator Negishi Shun and talented hacker Maruyama Mizuki make up the team pursuing fraudsters. Gifted with the ability to read people’s minds, Saki brilliantly corners them. However, she has a secret that she certainly does not want exposed. Saki is actually a struggling third-rate idol with the stage name Kisaragi Momo. As far as Saki is concerned, this is her main profession. She was scouted by Anzai and joined CHEAT in order to earn a living. Because the talent agency that Saki belongs to does not permit idols to work part-time, she cannot let anyone know about her activities with CHEAT. At the same time, she keeps her idol status a secret from the members of CHEAT. One day, Kamo Yuto, a detective from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department joins CHEAT as a new member. Although Saki is opposed to the inclusion of Kamo who is innocent and easily fooled, he is assigned to be her partner and ends up discovering her secret.
Characters
Honda Tsubasa as Hoshino Saki/Momo
The brains of the specialist group called CHEAT. She is a natural at fooling people. Detective Anzai Kazuki discovered this ability and she joined CHEAT. She has a fairly sharp tongue although she does not mean to hurt people. Her perceptiveness and unvarnished words strike home for her opponents. She hides the fact that she is an idol from the members of CHEAT. Her looks are decent. Both her singing and dancing are supposed to be respectable, but she is not in the least popular. She had been a solo artiste. However, her talent agency is fed up with the lack of results and forms the group Jewel Toriko with her and two teenage idols Yuna and Mai. She is the only one treated as a person past her prime and subjected to even more hardship. During the dark days of her youth, the sparkling idols on TV were the ones that kept her going and inspired her to become an idol.
Kaneko Daichi as Kamo Yuto
A police officer who becomes a member of CHEAT. He was told by his parents not to lie and grew up honest. He seems to be the embodiment of righteousness. Since he believes that human nature is fundamentally good, he does not know how to suspect people. Because of that, he has misgivings about CHEAT’s investigations and pushes back. He is actually a crazy fan of Yuna although he keeps this from the people around him. He is the only person who knows that Saki formed an idol group with Yuna and is an idol. However, he wants to hide the fact that he is a fan and they keep each other’s secret.
Uesugi Shuhei as Negishi Shun
A member of CHEAT. A former investigator whose investigation skills outshine the police. He is able to make himself and the rest of the members transform into all sorts of characters in order to deceive and expose swindlers. He is always easygoing and dependable. He will accept Hoshino Saki’s demands no matter how impossible they are.
Fukuhara Haruka as Maruyama Mizuki
A member of CHEAT. She used to be a hacker in her younger days and hacked the systems of well-known foreign companies as if she was gaming. She is outstanding in all things related to IT but is usually like the young women these days. She is extremely fond of cute things and her smartphone.
Kiyohara Sho as Nakagome Shinji
The manager of the idol group Jewel Toriko. He wages a one-man battle to make his idols a hit on the first try.
Kiriyama Ren as Hasumi Masaki
An enigmatic detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Second Investigation Division. He regards Anzai Kazuki who is his peer with hostility. He seems to have some past connection with Hoshino Saki
Kazama Shunsuke as Anzai Kazuki
A detective of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Second Investigation Division. He creates the specialist team called CHEAT to make undercover investigations where the police face limitations possible. He notices Hoshino Saki’s ability to read people’s minds and brings her on board CHEAT.
Scriptwriters
Matsumoto Miyoko (Seigi no Se, Koi ga Heta de mo Ikitemasu, Higanbana)
Yamashita Subaru (1-page no Koi)
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