FINISHED
Joker Game
12 Episodes
24 min each
SPRING 2016
Synopsis
In 1937, before World War II begins in earnest. Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki of the Imperial Japanese Army forms the "D Agency," an army intelligence outfit under his command and tutelage. Army General Staff attaches Lieutenant Sakuma to observe the unit's performance. D Agency casts a wide net to find agents beyond Japanese military personnel, and Yuuki establishes D Agency's tenets, which go against IJA doctrine: "Don't kill, don't get killed, don't get captured." With this, Yuuki trains a team of operatives who conduct missions against domestic and foreign powers.
Action
Drama
Mystery
Psychological
Thriller
Format
Unknown
Episodes
12
Per Episode
24 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
12 / 12 Episodes
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Episode 1
Joker Game (Part 1)
In Autumn 1937, Lt. Colonel Yuuki establishes the spy training group "D-Agency,” which went against the Imperial Army's wishes. The army sends Lieutenant Sakuma to serve as their liaison to D-Agency, and Lieutenant Sakuma observes the applicants brutal examination process. Disguised as military police, Sakuma leads D-Agency on their first mission: to search the home of a suspected American spy, the Japanophile John Gordon.
2
Episode 2
Joker Game (Part 2)
Sakuma gambles his life and the raid of home comes up empty. And when Gordon lets it slip that this is the second time his home's been searched, Sakuma realizes he’s been set-up - he’s the Joker. Sakuma takes a gamble….
3
Episode 3
Miscalculation
Following a scuffle with German soldiers, a man wakes up with amnesia. His only possession? A passport with the name "Shimano Ryuunosuke" and the port of entry, Marseille, France. Speaking with to one of people who helped him, he learns France has been occupied by the German army.
4
Episode 4
City of Temptation
Sergeant Honma Eiji has been assigned to the Shanghai military police. Not long after assuming his new post, he is summoned by Captain Oikawa Masayuki. Oikawa orders Honma to conduct an internal investigation and uncover an enemy agent who's infiltrated their ranks. As he explains the mission, they hear an explosion...
5
Episode 5
Robinson
Izawa Kazuo has a good life running a simple photography store in London... until he's suddenly arrested under suspicion of espionage. As Isawa undergoes a harsh interrogation, Lieutenant colonel Howard Marks, master spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service, appears before him.
6
Episode 6
Asia Express
One of D-Agency's collaborators, Morozoff has requested an immediate meeting and has important secret information to report. The meeting will take place on the South Manchurian Railway Asia Super Express. D-Agency member Seto Reiji arranges to meet him. Before the meeting can occur, he finds Morozoff has been murdered.
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Episode 7
Codename: Cerberus
Tokimaru is a luxury liner making its way from San Francisco to Japan. Along the way, it will stop at each Hawaiian island. While sitting on deck, Utsumi Osamu is approached by a man calling himself Jeffrey Morgan. At that same moment, cries of terror erupt from those looking out at the ocean.
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Episode 8
Double Joker (Part 1)
A former diplomat is suspected to have a copy of the "Grand Strategy -- top-secret knowledge of the Imperial Army's. Gamou Jirou investigates the diplomats friend in Japan, the British consul.
9
Episode 9
Double Joker (Part 2)
It's spy vs. spy as D-Agency and Wind Agency both race to prevent Japan's "Grand Strategy" from falling into enemy hands.
10
Episode 10
Pursuit
Aaron Price, Far East correspondent for the British Times, investigates the true identity of Lieutenant colonel Yuuki, the man rumored to have founded D-Agency. Flipping through the Military Preparatory School's list of past enrollees, his eye is drawn to a boy who passed the entrance exam at the top of his class, but was expelled for violence. His name? Arisaki Akira.
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Episode 11
Coffin
Hermann Wolff, a Wehrmacht Colonel assigned to German's intelligence agency, the Abwehr, investigates a suspicious train crash on the outskirts of Berlin with his right-hand man, Lieutenant Johann Bauer. Among the belongings of one of the bystanders is one of a spy's standard tools of the trade. When interrogated, its owner claims to have stolen it from a Japanese man named "Maki Katsuhiko..."
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Episode 12
XX (Double Cross)
Karl Schneider, writer for the Berlin Allgemeine, is suspected of being a German/Soviet double agent. While D-Agency searches for proof of his espionage activities, Schneider suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances. Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki sends his men on individual missions in order to uncover the truth.
Characters
Voice Actors
Kenyuu Horiuchi (japanese)
Yuuki
Main
Voice Actors
Tomokazu Seki (japanese)
Sakuma
Main
Voice Actors
Hiro Shimono (japanese)
Miyoshi
Main
Voice Actors
Ryouhei Kimura (japanese)
Kaminaga
Supporting
Voice Actors
Yoshimasa Hosoya (japanese)
Odagiri
Supporting
Voice Actors
Toshiyuki Morikawa (japanese)
Amari
Supporting
Staff
Kouji Yanagi
Original Story
Shirow Miwa
Original Character Design
Kazuya Nomura
Director
Taku Kishimoto
Series Composition
Toshiyuki Yahagi
Character Design
Shinobu Tsuneki
Mechanical Design
Comments
Information
Aired
Apr 04, 2016
to Jun 20, 2016
Season
SPRING 2016
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
Production I.G
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