Two new main PV trailers have been released for the upcoming The Fable TV anime series. The anime is scheduled to premiere in Japan on April 6, 2024 as two consecutive cours. Disney+ will exclusively stream the series worldwide.
Both trailers also previewed the anime’s main opening and ending theme songs. The opening theme is “Professionalism feat. Hannya” by Japanese band ALI, while the ending theme is “Odd Numbers” by funk band UmedaCypher.
Ryosuke Takahashi (Soukou Kihei Votoms: Koei Futatabi) is directing the anime, with Yuuya Takashima (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury sci-fi researcher) as series screenwriter, and Kyuuma Ooshita (My Home Hero co-chief animation director) and Saki Hasegawa (Aoashi) as character designers. Tezuka Productions is in charge of the animation production.
Meanwhile, the main voice cast members include:
- • Kazuyuki Okitsu as Akira Sato
- • Miyuki Sawashiro as Yoko Sato
- • Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu
- • Akio Ootsuka as Takeshi Ebihara
- • Kenjiro Tsuda as Kenji Kojima
- • Tetsuo Komura as Boss
- • Jun Fukushima as Jackal Tomioka
Katsuhisa Minami’s original manga series ran in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine from November 1, 2014 to November 18, 2019. Twenty-two total tankoubon volumes were released. The first series was followed by The Fable: The Second Contact, which ran from July 19, 2021 to July 10, 2023 for a total of nine tankoubon volumes. The manga also inspired a short story manga collection and a live-action film duology.
Kodansha USA releases The Fable manga series in English, describing the synopsis 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…
Source: The Fable Official Anime Twitter
