

Haven't read the manga, but in the anime all the spies in D Agency are male.
Wouldn't it be beneficial for certain missions to have a female spy?


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What's the reason Yuuki employs only male spies?


Joker Game is set from 1937 and later. During this time, Japan was in its
Imperial Era, where every male was required to serve in the [Imperial
Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army). Many women were
forced into gender roles that would not allow them to become soldiers in the
war. You can read more about Japanese women's role in WWII
[here](http://ethw.org/Japanese_Women_and_the_Japanese_War_Effort).

However, D-Agency is definitely under different leadership than the rest of
the Imperial Army, as evidenced by most of the show. I think that despite
their variance from then traditional ways in military leadership, _Yuuki still
was not at the point where he could employ a woman as a spy due to the
conservative and rigid gender roles at the time_. I do agree that for certain
missions, a female spy would have been beneficial to D-Agency's goals, but I
think the concept was too 'ahead of its time' for the late 1930s/early 1940s
in Japan.


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