History YMMV / JokerGame

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Some have seen this series because of WebVideo/{{BeatriceTheGoldenWitch}} talking about it in her "How to tell a Bad Anime in One Episode", though she notes that it isn't a terrible series so much as one that flaws that made it so she couldn't watch it, those being lack of characterization, and the ham fisted morals. The viewers courageous enough to see if they would enjoy it find that it isn't terrible, though she never called it that. It helps that she said that some people might enjoy it regardless of those flaws.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Some have seen this series because of WebVideo/{{Diginee}} talking about it in her "How to tell a Bad Anime in One Episode", though she notes that it isn't a terrible series so much as one that flaws that made it so she couldn't watch it, those being lack of characterization, and the ham fisted morals. The viewers courageous enough to see if they would enjoy it find that it isn't terrible, though she never called it that. It helps that she said that some people might enjoy it regardless of those flaws.

** The series is very popular in Japan considering that [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-02-22/yuri-on-ice-voted-as-tokyo-anime-awards-animation-of-the-year/.112542 it got second place]] on Tokyo Anime Awards' Animation of the Year Fan Award (behind ''Anime/YuriOnIce''), [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-10-09/shinkai-your-name-kabaneri-win-top-newtype-anime-awards/.107437 won]] the Nogizaka46 Award (Monthly Newtype Joint Special Award), [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-05-03/tiger-and-bunny-madoka-magica-love-live-top-nhk-best-100-ranking/.115640 was ranked]] #6 in NHK's Best 100 Ranking Poll and #5 in the female voter's poll. Many non-Japanese viewers were surprised with the series' popularity which made them wonder if this had to do with the CastFullOfPrettyBoys.

* RewatchBonus: The end of "City of Temptation" revealed that Fukumoto [[spoiler:is Shizuoka Hajime ''and'' Kusanagi. Rewatching the episode made you realize that he helped Corporal Honma to uncover the shady activities of his boss]].
** Combined with a FreezeFrameBonus -- look at the document that appears onscreen in "Codename: Cerberus" while Jeffrey Morgan is discussing Enigma decryption. The text is the final stanza of ''Epitaph to a Dog'', a poem by Lord Byron. [[spoiler:It seems like a cute in-joke by the animators at first, but actually describes how Cynthia Grane feels about Louis [=McCloud=] really well.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: "Double Joker Part 1" presented another spy agency known as Wind Agency sponsored by the Imperial Japanese Army which would act as a {{Foil}} to D Agency and viewers expected a huge showdown between them similar to [[Manga/DeathNote Light and L]]. Then, it turns out that in "Double Joker Part 2", [[spoiler:the Wind Agency are nothing but a pathetic bunch of spy wannabes that got utterly owned in a few minutes by Col. Yuuki who gave Col. Akimasa a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and it all ended with Col. Akimasa committing suicide]].

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Some have seen this series because of WebVideo/{{Diginee}} talking about it in his "How to tell a Bad Anime in One Episode", though he notes that it isn't a terrible series so much as one that flaws that made it so he couldn't watch it, those being lack of characterization, and the ham fisted morals. The viewers couragous enough to see if they would enjoy it find that it isn't terrible, though he never called it that. It helps that he said that some people might enjoy it regardless of those flaws.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Some have seen this series because of WebVideo/{{Digibro}} talking about it in his "How to tell a Bad Anime in One Episode", though he notes that it isn't a terrible series so much as one that flaws that made it so he couldn't watch it, those being lack of characterization, and the ham fisted morals. The viewers couragous enough to see if they would enjoy it find that it isn't terrible, though he never called it that. It helps that he said that some people might enjoy it regardless of those flaws.

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