Questions tagged [joker-game]

Joker Game is a show about Japan during WWII. An unknown-to-the-public spy agency is created to combat foreign interests in espionage, and the show follows the field work of eight different Japanese spies. The manga was written by Koji Yanagi, and was adapted into a 12-episode anime by Production I.G., which ran from April 5, 2016 to June 21, 2016

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Where is this statue on horseback from?

In ep. 1 of Joker Game, we see this shot of a statue (that resembles a person on horseback) before a large Western-style building. Does this correspond to a real-life location? The first episode seems to take place in Tokyo, so I tried searching…
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What's the reason Yuuki employs only male spies?

Haven't read the manga, but in the anime all the spies in D Agency are male. Wouldn't it be beneficial for certain missions to have a female spy?
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How does the anime adaptation relate to the other parts of the Joker Game franchise?

The Spring 2016 anime Joker Game uses, to the best of my knowledge, the same premise as a set of novels by Koji Yanagi. There is also a 2015 live-action film that Wikipedia states is based on the novel, and a manga based on the anime. How does the…
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Do we know the timing of all of the events in the anime?

To the best of my knowledge, in the Joker Game anime, we are not consistently given information about when the different events shown occur. I do know the following: "Joker Game" clearly occurs shortly after the founding of D-Agency in autumn of…
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