JOKER GAME

JOKER GAME

2016
★★★☆☆ 6.7/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 12 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 JA
⏱️ 25 min/episode
DramaAnimationMystery
Taking place in the year 1937 on the eve of World War II, the story involves a mysterious spy training organization known as the "D Agency." The organization is established by Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki from the Imperial Japanese Army. His ideals lead him to recruit people beyond military academy graduates and personnel, while training them to become skilled agents in arts of manipulation. These agents would become a specialized team to conduct operations. One such antihero agent, under the name Jirou Gamou, goes on a harrowing mission to uncover secret documents titled "Black Notes," while battling forces from within and without his own ranks.

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Seasons

Season 1
2016 • 12 Episodes
Autumn, 1937. Against the Imperial Army's objections, Lt. Colonel Yuuki establishes the spy training group "D-Agency." The army sends Lieutenant Sakuma to serve as their liason to D-Agency, and he watches the applicants easily coast through the brutal examination process. Not long after, Sakuma is ordered by Colonel Mutou to search the home of a suspected American spy, the Japanophile John Gordon. Disguised as military police, Sakuma leads D-Agency on their first mission.

Crew

Producer
Rui Kuroki, Daijo Kudo, Sachi Kawamoto

Network

AT-X

Production

Production I.G, Glovision, KADOKAWA, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, movic, AT-X, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Sammy, Frontier Works

Keywords

based on novel or bookmilitaryanimeshōwa era (1926-89)