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Fine historical reconstitution(almost no anachronism).
Beautiful images and fitting music (I will miss the one we heard every week right before the opening).
An effective double episode to set up the forces, as introduction, followed by several international cases. The episodic format, wisely chosen to adapt anthology novels, allowed for various settings and story types but forced probably longer short stories to be compressed to an inadequate 19minutes format (with a few exceptions). Sadly, this lead to the use of unseen events told by the character instead of actual scenes in the anime. Don't come for suspense and thrills, this isn't what the show is after.

The spies at work each episode are as nameless, and easy to confuse for some spectators, and forgettable as their work requires them to be. (A "problem" for some people who seek enticing and recurring characters to "get in" a show.)

Score: 6/10
Plaisir: 4/5

To the people who complained throughout the whole broadcast about the episodic nature of the series: how could the anime makers have done it better? They were told to animate short stories anthologies. Should have they thought of an anime original "scenario" tying every independant story of the Joker Game and Double Joker novels ?
A third volume, Paradise Lost, was also released.

For the curious ones who already watched the (badly reknown) movie and are waiting for the bonus OAVs, someone translated the first chapters of the initial novel (Joker Game) in the trilogy on Tumblr.