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| One of the best episodes I've seen in a while. |
| I was really confusing at first, but it all made sense at the end. But yeah, the episode had an awesome ending! 4/5 |
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| well all of you guys complaining about you dont know who the spy is ? well thats how a spy is supposed to be. dont expect this anime to be one of these standard anime where you follow one guy the whole time and basically know what hes doing or will do. this episode was ok. didnt like the conclusion with this "i take revenge". could have been something more interesting and twisted. though is still enjoiyed it. 3,5/5 |
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| I feel racist for saying this, but all the spies look the damn same. I like the premise of the show but I feel I miss out on some of it because I'm trying to figure out who the spy is the whole time hahaha. Once I realized it was the reporter, everything kind of clicked. I hope there's some sort of over-arching story though... this episodic feel is meh. |
"Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived." -Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)  |
| Traps are too strong :'( tragic. I don't blame the guy for falling in love. How can women even compete? Colonel Yuuki gets more recognition as well. |
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| I was reading some comments and I can't be more in disagreement. I like this episode, like I do with the other ones. The most significant in this anime isn't characters. The thing you must be aware is story. You must look for any detail you could overlook if you don't pay attention, discover who is the spy among characters presented in each chapter and try to know before it's said who is the traitor or the killer, all this things are the main purpose of this anime. Don't worry about names. They aren't important. At least, at the moment it isn't important. Maybe later you will learn their names, but you don't need it right now. At least that's my impression. As I said, I really like this anime. It's treated some taboo topics in a serious anime, like this, and that's a big plus point in my opinion. I will continue watching this anime only looking for a good story. <3 |
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| Episode's better than the previous. Although I couldn't point out the spy, there was an interesting mix of elements used in the main villain and story (those faces he pulled were amazing) and the ending was a bit intense. I liked that there was a little more to the setting this time as well. |
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Tokoya said: This episode confused me because I didn't recognize anyone but the ending kinda cleared things up a little The outcome of this whole thing was brutal as fuck O_O The entire tone and atmosphere of this episode worked really well and the spy themes were on point as usual I really need to study episode one by learning all of the names of the trainees as well as what they look like because for the longest I was very lost as to why we were following these people xD Good episode overall tho....Dat yaoi tho lol Same XD I forgot all of the names and what they looked like. The fact that I thought the opening had like 4 guys at different angles and it was like about 12 in all that looked similar, I am going to struggle knowing who is who. |
| This show is really cool! I really like the fact that we didn't know who the spy was until the end. Very clever and nice. These spies are so hot hnnng. |
| I really enjoyed this episode! It was pretty tight in the plotting and the characters were engaging enough to just blend into the background. Good stuff....makes you pay attention a lot more than the average high school harem. |
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| Plot twist of a plot twist of yet another plot twist of the other plot twist I LOVE THIS SERIES |
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| Spot the main character game is hard here. I want to see all of the spies together and with the militar guy |
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| That " lover" the fat guy was talking about was a boy dressed as a girl right? .-. |
| This episode wasn't as good as last episode because there wasn't any focus at the spy. There was nothing I learnt at all about him :( and even now I still don't know his name. I can barely remember who this dude is and I think it would have been nicer if they focus a bit on the spy's perspective. |
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Cretaion said: That " lover" the fat guy was talking about was a boy dressed as a girl right? .-. Yeah it was. The whole thing kind of disgusted me and had me doubt for a second if he is truly his lover since it looked more like prostitution :( but we will never know since he's dead. The young ladyboy also prostituted himself to the crazy superior >_> and was probably paid to shoot the guy that was tailoring someone in the beginning of the episode but then ultimately got killed in the end coz the damn superior bombed his own house. |
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Txunere said: I should've paid attention a bit more since I got lost a bit especially since I didn't recognize most of these people but otherwise, a pretty interesting episode. Certainly not your fault. All the characters look the same. WTF did I just watch? The guy turns into the Joker, laughing and smiling like a maniac. There was no subtlety to this episode at all. |
| I skimmed all these posts so I would know what was going on while I watched. Even though the spy was not present, I liked how we saw things from an outside perspective. This time was Fukumoto right? |
Estherella said: This episode wasn't as good as last episode because there wasn't any focus at the spy. There was nothing I learnt at all about him :( and even now I still don't know his name. I can barely remember who this dude is and I think it would have been nicer if they focus a bit on the spy's perspective. I'll remember him as Reporter Spy, the same way the last episode's spy was French Spy. I just hope that they don't bring them all back for the final episode because the art style isn't helping me at all to recognize them. At first the fact somebody died already reminded me of "Don't Kill. Don't be killed", so I discarded that guy as Spy. After, when I got suspicious of the boss, I was "but he killed people". Then when he got mad I was "ohhh is a broken spy". And it was none of that. Nice touch. By the way, the main site hasn't updated to remind us where this episode takes place, but it's after 1937, where the Battle of Shangai took place and Japan conquered that capital. It's interesting that they added this historical context to the story. A lot of people feels that Japan gets too victimized by Hiroshima, and they remind us that Japan did a lot of atrocious things too. What I don't get clearly is how he inferred the tatooed boy was a prostitute (based on the episode's evidence, not historical). Cool episode. Some problems about how the shots were composed and whatnot, and I understand if the "find the spy" game annoys people, but I enjoyed nonetheless. @rayeine The spy is revealed. He gives the lead about who is in charge of the explosions |
ThieveryApr 26, 2016 7:46 PM
 It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.But does the heart have the right perspective? |
| Fukumoto episode YAY Whoa he was the reporter in disguise OMG Wow a casino and he was selling Opium to them Whoa that guy was crazy 0___0. Dat ending for him 0___0 Next week is Kimura, Ryouhei --- Kaminaga episode YAY |
| I like that show seems to be giving the D-agency guys their own separate parts. |
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Cretaion said: I think they just insinuated that since he was at the bombing scene, I think his lover could have been the cleaning lady for all we know.That " lover" the fat guy was talking about was a boy dressed as a girl right? .-. |
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| For all the haters last episode who were claiming this series is whitewashing Japanese history, I think this episode should be enough evidence that they've clearly misunderstood what kind of series this is. |
Duri1n said: Seems to me that Reporter Spy and Kusanagi were in cahoots with each other ie Reporter Spy tips Main Guy about Kusanagi so that he'd follow Kusanagi to the casino Also, the prostitute kid he saw at the casino had a similar tattoo, which is how Main guy made the deduction. What I don't get is who Kusanagi is??? The Reporter Spy and Kusanagi are not "in cahoots with each other", they are actually one and the same guy (http://myanimelist.net/character/137449/Fukumoto). You notice that when he removes his spectacles in the end. |
| Man this episode sucked. Comical villain who decided to reveal everything himself + plot convenient lover for resolution. Meh. Fukumoto's reveal was pretty nice though. |
| Sieg Zeon! |
| I wonder whether that crazy Captain went off the deep end due to PTSD from the horrors of war he witnessed during his five years in China? |
| Didn't like this episode. For an anime that's supposedly about spies, there was just so little screen time on the actual spy (by the time I had recognized him). Is the series going to stay episodic? It's just such a shame because the anime started off with a great first episode. It may be too early to judge, though. |
| Well, this series performs below my expectations. It's still good so far, maybe the best newcomer in the season, I just hoped for a more complex continuous story line. |
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Stark700 said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Dang, I got the whole espionage feeling this episode and the military flair running around town. Episode had a good balance of eerie and liveliness though. So much shit still going down in the streets though and no safe haven for anyone.  Pardon my English. Manga? I thought Joker Game is adapted from a pure Novel :O Is there actually a manga version for this? Illyricus said: For people who confuse the spies, if you are well known people of the seiyuu world, you could always look MAL page of the characters, see the seiyuu and later try to recognize the voice of the character, since all the mains have pretty recognizables seiyuus. About the episode, well, didn't expected the pedobear moment of the end, but I liked the previous episodes more. I knew the glasses guy was suspicious, and he ends being Fukumoto at the end. That was the best part. Agree.. My guess was right then XD nice... Only Nakai Kazuya has that kinda of voice among these 8 spies :D and it's actually showed already in the preview part of the 3rd eps after the ending song. A conversation between Fukumoto (Nakai Kazuya) and Jitsui (Fukuyama Jun) |
ramo_7890 said: i just want to know who is Kusanagi ? and why did he helped the red nose sergeant ? this episode was very confusing @_@ Pardon my English, It's Fukumoto one of the 8 spies, so if you watch the 3rd eps, on the last part after the preview there is a conversation between 2 spies and as the eps going this far we can see it since the 1st eps XD and also you might want to read this quote Illyricus said: For people who confuse the spies, if you are well known people of the seiyuu world, you could always look MAL page of the characters, see the seiyuu and later try to recognize the voice of the character, since all the mains have pretty recognizables seiyuus. About the episode, well, didn't expected the pedobear moment of the end, but I liked the previous episodes more. I knew the glasses guy was suspicious, and he ends being Fukumoto at the end. That was the best part. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duri1n said: I like Joker Game. I like the realism a lot. I also enjoy the mystery, though not completely. Problem for me is that I don't know the spies. They're just blank faces to me. I feel no sense of satisfaction when they accomplish stuff cos I don't even know what they've done or planned until it's all over... Then again, I'm not sure that's what this anime's about. Will reserve further judgment for when more episodes are released. KoreaWS said: What I don't get clearly is how he got the coin to enter the vip zone (and if there's an explanation, where do we see it in the show) and how he inferred the tatooed boy was a prostitute (based on the episode's evidence, not historical). I'm pretty sure it was Kusanagi who slipped the coin into the Main guy's pocket when he bumped into him. Seems to me that Reporter Spy and Kusanagi were in cahoots with each other ie Reporter Spy tips Main Guy about Kusanagi so that he'd follow Kusanagi to the casino Also, the prostitute kid he saw at the casino had a similar tattoo, which is how Main guy made the deduction. What I don't get is who Kusanagi is??? On the 3rd eps on the preview part, this "Kusanagi" playing around with the coin. Kusanagi = The reporter = Fukumoto. |
EufieApr 27, 2016 2:21 AM
| This show gets better every episode. Well, actually this is just the first episode in which I understood what was going on. I feel too stupid for this anime. ._. |
| if only there was an theme tying all the episodes together, yeah they're spies, but each of their stories look totally unrelated from the others this episode was quite confusing for me, the main focus, that guy who was asked to look for a spy, was acting very unnaturally, like when he finds out his captain was the culprit, why did he go to tell him? and not report it to an higher ranked officier? then the captain reason for acting being: lol i'm crazy and the other guy killing him... so much wtf, and it was all so contrived (and the general pacing and dialogue reactions felt wacky) Bobby2Hands said: same, realized it only at the end the reporter was the spy, only cause he basically named himselfI can't even name a single character. Quetzaly said: this was expecially true for this episode xDSpot the main character game is hard here. Quetzaly said: agree, their interactions in the first 2 episodes were more interesting and amusingI want to see all of the spies together and with the militar guy looks like all the premise of the training school for spies, and the "joker game" as a training, got tossed out of the window for now (or by now) it would be good to see more episodes of them all coming back and just interacting when they're not into a mission |
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| Where is sakuma? Am tired of this fillers |
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