Upon finishing yet another rather uneventful episode of Joker Game, I began to wonder just what this series had planned for its finale. “How best to top off a rather mediocre series such as this?” I thought to myself. However when looking over general consensus over the episode I found out that I seen the finale of Joker game, and this was it. I was truly shocked. Nothing in this episode felt final or conclusive, not even an after credits scene or a simple affirmation that yes, this was indeed the end. In some ways it’s fitting, as Joker Game is a series without an impact so to bow out before anyone notices you are gone is somewhat poetic. However i must wonder why this particular story was chosen as the finale. When compared to other episodes of the series it is a much somber and simple affair. A spy is killed under the watch of a D-agency spy and he must investigate just what happened. Naturally he finds out what happened easily and decides he is unfit to be a D-agency spy. For he actually has human traits worth caring about.
It is rather funny that this was the first Spy to make me somewhat care about him and at least showed some level of humanity. Yet when the episode ends they get rid of him because he is far too human to be a part of the team. It really is a testament to the utter lack of defining traits these boring supermen have that they see any some shred of personality as a weakness. This is the author pretty much saying that because this man was lead astray by his memories of a girl in his past that he was no longer “cool” enough to be a part of the big boys club. Also got to love the casual sexsm of Yuuki stating that the reason the D-agency doesn’t have women is because they are far too temperamental and in less control of their emotions. Considering the time period it’s not all that surprising for Yuuki to think this but considering how much of a super spy he is, I would have thought he was too smart to believe such rubbish
Frankly I don’t have much to say about this. I have long beaten the problems of this show to death and seeing as it just repeated those problems it’s just left me reiterating points like a broken record. There’s really nothing here, a man dies, the spy finds out why he dies from offscreen info and decides he’s not fit to be a spy anymore because he feels love. Only real point of note is when the man of the episode got bent out of shape when the D-agents were reporting to hm. Yuuki pretty much gave him full authority on the mission which is likely because he knew what happened and figured he would let the man be in control of his last mission. With an episodic series like this you could have chosen any episode to be the finale and there are certainly better episodes to end on. Ultimately I think I will have a hard time recalling this series in a year’s time, in fact I still don’t even know anyone’s name. Besides Yuuki. Maybe because he was the only real consistent character in the series.
~AidanAK47~
[in fact I still don’t even know anyone’s name]
Even the studio said that their names are not worth remembering and I’d think that by ep12 it would be obvious that this is not a character-driven show and that these spies were never supposed to be seen as characters in the first place. All the spies are part of a single character whose name is D-Agency, that’s all there is to it.
That is a truly horrible idea. Either way I get that motive of making them undefined due to the nature of a spy but the problem with that is that you can’t care about the explots of a indivual with no real character. This isn’t character driven which is a weakness because due to the episodic nature of the show, it’s plot suffers heavily. Theres no continous narrative and the characters have no character. All thats really left is a ridiclous self indulgent spy fantasy where the outcome is always the same.
And that’s just dreadfully boring.
I’ve been following because of the action and production values.
However it’s another time when I’m not entirely convinced a series needed a main antagonist, especially since it’s only made to annoy the audience with clique plans (I don’t know how Jojo does that better but it does).
I’ll be more hooked if I knew the protagonist died. I don’t get why they don’t do that here or why they didn’t do that on Attack of Titan. Both could and would have turned out more interesting without that security blanket.