Joker Game

My first impressions after the first episode, which I noted down, were something like, "it looks quite interesting and mature, as long as there is not going to be some stupid crap." In the end, it turned out that there was no problem with it making sense, the narratives were interesting almost every time, so I enjoyed watching it quite a lot. I was worried about the repetitiveness and absurdity, like how the anime's creators would want to implement more and more of the "joker game" into the narrative. However, given that they focused on the individual (and very diverse) missions of the agents, they made it abundantly clear to me that there was not going to be a problem with that here. Each of the agents got their moment of glory, and Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki excelled as the "spymaster" in most episodes. Unfortunately, it is also true what some other reviewers have written. Due to the episodic nature of this anime series, I risk forgetting the episodes rather quickly. In the end, probably the only thing I will remember after a few months is that it was a series about WW2 spies and that Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki was a character in it. Still, in my opinion, Joker Game is definitely one of the best and highest quality releases of Spring 2016. In summary, it was interesting, mature, and fairly well produced. 7.5/10. (2016.04.05)