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To the best of my knowledge, in the _Joker Game_ anime, we are not
consistently given information about when the different events shown occur. I
do know the following:

  * "Joker Game" clearly occurs shortly after the founding of D-Agency in autumn of 1937.
  * "XX (Double Cross)" occurs in spring of 1939.
  * "Robinson" and "Asia Express" take place in 1939.
  * "Double Joker" includes a flashback that takes place six months before the main events. In the flashback, the D-Agency has recently been created; the main events then probably are in 1938.
  * The spy in "Miscalculation" had a one-year stay in France planned, starting from June 15, 1939. France was occupied in June 1940, so it seems likely that "Miscalculation" is set in 1940.
  * "Pursuit" makes reference to the events of "Robinson", and so must have occurred afterwards.

We also see a character in "Coffin" comment that a behind-the-scenes three-way
alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy has been formed. This restricts the
possible dates of the main events of that episode, but I still do not have
anything narrow enough for want of sufficient historical knowledge.

I am left without knowing when "City of Temptation", "Pursuit", "Codename:
Cerberus", and "Coffin" take place. (It is obvious, for instance, that "City
of Temptation" takes place when Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese, but the
resulting timeframe is still rather large.) Is there any official information
on when the various events happen? If not, can we make any inferences (based
on details we see, or details in other adaptations of the same material) to
make educated guesses?


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Do we know the timing of all of the events in the anime?


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> the chronological order of the episodes goes as follows:
>
> D Agency founded in autumn 1937
>
> Episodes 1 & 2 ("Joker Game Part 1 & 2") - Spring 1939
>
> Episode 12 ("XX - Double Cross") - Spring 1939
>
> Episode 6 ("Asia Express") - July 25, 1939 (this is the only episode with a
> specific date)
>
> Episode 5 ("Robinson") - Autumn 1939
>
> Episode 7 ("Code Name: Cerberus") - Early summer 1940
>
> Episode 10 ("Pursuit") - Summer 1940
>
> Episode 3 ("Miscalculation") - Summer 1940
>
> Episodes 8 & 9 ("Double Joker Part 1 & 2") - Early autumn 1940
>
> Episode 11 ("Coffin") - Autumn 1940
>
> Episode 4 ("City of Temptation") - Summer 1941

Image from the official website of the anime : <http://jokergame.jp/story/>

[![Image from the official website of the anime :
http://jokergame.jp/story/](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a2M86.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/a2M86.jpg)


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