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Story 5 / 10
Joker Game's story is not something to write home about. It starts out very promising with a newly established spy agency who have to gather intell for Japan during the second world war. The plot, however, is very confusing and although this anime tries to make it look like all episodes are connected to each other, all episodes look more like separate stories than one big plot line.
Note that there is nothing wrong with a confusing story. If a story is well written, the confusing part can be used to even improve the show. Unfortunately, that's not the case with Joker Game.
Characters 3 / 10
There is no character development at all. You won't bond with the characters and most of the time you won't even know their names, or who they are for that matter. This results in a lot of frustrating confusion. Characters are boring and seem to be all the same.
Art 7 / 10
The art is good, but not great.
Sound 5 / 10
Definately insufficient. There is absolutely nothing special about the music in Joker Game.
Enjoyment 6 / 10
Not taking into account the last couple of episodes, I did enjoy Joker Game somewhat. The first couple of episodes were pretty good. I especially liked the train episode.
Overall 5 / 10
In my own anime list, I rated Joker Game as a 6 / 10. I did this because the first couple of episodes were good enough to make this, at least to me, enjoyable enough to not rate it as
insufficient.
Since I'm trying to be as objective as possible while writing reviews, I have to take the last episodes into account too. For that reason Joker Game deserves a 5 / 10 as nothing can justify these last horrible episodes.
