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Joker Game Spy Mystery Anime Will Have 12 Episodes
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
A flyer at the AnimeJapan event revealed on Friday that Production I.G's television anime of Kōji Yanagi's spy mystery novel Joker Game will have 12 episodes.
Kazuya Nomura (Ghost in the Shell: New Movie, Robotics;Notes) is helming the project at Production I.G. Toshiyuki Yahagi (Guilty Crown) is serving as chief animation director and is adapting Shirow Miwa's (Dogs: Bullets & Carnage) original character designs. Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, ERASED) is helming series composition and writing the scripts. Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Barakamon) is scoring the music.
The anime stars:
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Lt. Col. Yūki
Tomokazu Seki as Lt. sakuma.
Hiro Shimono as Miyoshi
Ryōhei Kimura as Kaminaga
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Odagiri
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Amari
Yūki Kaji as Hatano
Jun Fukuyama as Jitsui
Kazuya Nakai as Fukumoto
Takahiro Sakurai as Tazaki
Kenjiro Tsuda as Jirō Kamō
Tesshô Genda as Col. Mutō
Kentarō Tone as John Gordon
Nobuyuki Hiyama as Alan Lelunier
Ryōta Takeuchi as Jean Victoire
Shizuka Itou as Marie Torres
The original novel is set in 1937, before World War II begins in earnest. Lieutenant Colonel Yūki 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 Yūki establishes D Agency's tenets, which go against IJA doctrine: "Don't kill, don't get killed, don't get captured." With this, Yūki trains a team of operatives who conduct missions against domestic and foreign powers.
The anime will premiere on April 5.
