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

Ryohei Kimura as Kaminaga

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Odagiri

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Amari

Yuuki 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

Kentarou Tone as John Gordon

Nobuyuki Hiyama as Alan Lelunier

Ryota 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.