The Fable Manga Gets Anime Adaptation

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Katsuhisa Minami‘s The Fable manga is getting adapted into a TV anime. A teaser visual has been released.

Ryousuke Takahashi (Muteking the Dancing Hero chief director) is directing the anime at Tezuka Productions. Yuuya Takashima (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury sci-fi researcher) is serving as series composer while Kyuma Oshita, Saki Hasegawa (Aoashi), and Junichi Hayama (pet) are the character designers.

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The original The Fable manga ran from 2014 to 2019 in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine and was collected into 22 tankoubon volumes. The Fable: The Second Contact began in 2021 and has seven tankoubon volumes as of May 2023.

Kodansha USA describes the plot as:

When you’re the infamous “genius killer” hitman The Fable, many things come easy. Being a normal person, however, isn’t one of them. In fact, being told that he can’t kill anyone for a while may just be the hardest job he’s ever taken…

The Fable has also inspired a short story manga collection and a live-action movie duology.


Sources: @the_fable_anime, Mantan Web

Melvyn originally wanted to write about video games, and he did so for a few years, starting from his college days. He still writes about video games sometimes, but now focuses on anime-related news content and the occasional review. Some of his free time is spent self-learning Japanese, both out of interest in the language and because English-translated light novels and manga are expensive. Every anime season, Melvyn looks forward to discovering new standout episodes and OP/ED animation sequences, as well as learning about the storyboard artists and directors behind them.
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