Joker Game" to be adapted into an animated TV series by Production I.G!　Mystery work about spies in the Imperial Army

A TV anime adaptation of "The Joker Game" has been decided.

The Joker Game" is a novel by Hiroshi Yanagi published by Kadokawa Shoten in 2008. A live-action movie version was released in January 2015.

Kazuya Nomura, director of "Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie" and "Sengoku BASARA: The Last Party", will direct the newly announced anime version, while Shiro Miwa, director of the game "Seventh Dragon III code:VFD", will be in charge of character design. The animation is produced by Production I.L.C. Production I.G is producing the animation.

＜Story
In the fall of 1937, the spark of World War II is still smoldering, and the "D Agency," a spy training division, is secretly established by Lieutenant Colonel Yuki of the Imperial Army.
Contrary to the Army's tendency to honor the best and brightest of its soldiers, the young men selected to join the agency were graduates of ordinary universities in Tokyo and Kyoto, who had passed the superhuman selection tests without a hitch. Under the supervision of Lieutenant Colonel Yuki, who has the wits of a magician, they learn how to handle explosives and non-electric devices, how to fly cars and airplanes, and even how to pickpocket and crack safes.
The D Agency, which believes that suicide and murder are the worst options for spies who want to keep a low profile, is fiercely opposed by the Army, but it manages to deceive its allies, outwit its enemies, and operate in the dark around the world.
Tokyo, Shanghai, and London ...... are the locations where this intelligence mystery unfolds around the world.