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JOKER GAME

TV·2016–2016·1 season, 12 episodes·AT-X·Drama, Animation, Mystery·25m

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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.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01JOKER GAME S01E04City of TemptationS01E04 · 9.0Sergeant Eiji Honma has been assigned to the Shanghai military police. Not long after assuming his new post, he is summoned by Captain Masayuki Oikawa. 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...
  2. 02JOKER GAME S01E09Double Joker (2)S01E09 · 9.0It's spy vs. spy as D-Agency and Wind Agency both race to prevent Japan's "Grand Strategy" from falling into enemy hands.
  3. 03JOKER GAME S01E01Joker Game (1)S01E01 · 8.0Autumn, 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.

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode12Episodes2016Aired 7.6Season avg
  1. S01E01JOKER GAME S01E01Joker Game (1)April 5, 2016 8.0Autumn, 1937. Against the Imperial Army's objections, Lt. Colonel Yuuki establishes the spy training group "D-Agency." The army sends Lieute
  2. S01E02JOKER GAME S01E02Joker Game (2)April 12, 2016 7.0The raid of Gordon's home comes up empty. And when Gordon lets it slip that this is the second time his home's been searched, Sakuma realize
  3. S01E03JOKER GAME S01E03MiscalculationApril 19, 2016 7.0A man wakes up with complete amnesia. His only posession? A passport with the name "Ryosuke Shimano" and the port of entry, Marseille. Speak
  4. S01E04JOKER GAME S01E04Season's bestCity of TemptationApril 26, 2016 9.0Sergeant Eiji Honma has been assigned to the Shanghai military police. Not long after assuming his new post, he is summoned by Captain Masay
  5. S01E05JOKER GAME S01E05RobinsonMay 3, 2016 8.0Kazuo Izawa has a good life running a simple photography store in London... until he's suddenly arrested under suspicion of espionage. As Is
  6. S01E06JOKER GAME S01E06Asia ExpressMay 10, 2016 7.0D-Agency receives an urgent meeting request from one of their collaborators, Morozoff, who has important secret information to report. D-Age
  7. S01E07JOKER GAME S01E07Codename: CerberusMay 17, 2016 7.0The luxury liner Tokimaru makes its way from San Francisco to Japan, stopping at each Hawaiian island along the way. As Osamu Utsumi sits on
  8. S01E08JOKER GAME S01E08Double Joker (1)May 24, 2016 8.0Former diplomat Kiichiro Shirahata is suspected to have illegally gained knowledge of the Imperial Army's top-secret "Grand Strategy." Inves
  9. S01E09JOKER GAME S01E09Double Joker (2)May 31, 2016 9.0It's spy vs. spy as D-Agency and Wind Agency both race to prevent Japan's "Grand Strategy" from falling into enemy hands.
  10. S01E10JOKER GAME S01E10PursuitJune 7, 2016 6.0Aaron Price, Far East correspondent for the British Times, investigates the true identity of Lieutenant colonel Yuuki, the man rumored to ha
  11. S01E11JOKER GAME S01E11CoffinJune 14, 2016 7.0Hermann Wolff, a Wehrmacht Colonel assigned to German's intelligence agency, the Abwehr, investigates a suspicious train crash on the outski
  12. S01E12JOKER GAME S01E12XX Double CrossJune 21, 2016 8.0Karl Schneider, writer for the Berlin Allgemeine, is suspected of being a German/Soviet double agent. While D-Agency searches for proof of h

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