The TV anime adaptation of Minami Katsuhisa‘s The Fable manga has received a teaser trailer.
The Fable manga ran from 2014 to 2019 in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine and has been collected into 22 tankoubon volumes. The sequel, The Fable: The Second Contact, began in 2021 and will release its ninth tankoubon volumes on November 6 this year.
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…
Tezuka Productions is producing the anime. The main staff includes:
• Director: Ryosuke Takahashi (Soukou Kihei Votoms: Koei Futatabi)•
• Series composer: Yuuya Takashima (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury sci-fi researcher)
• Character designers: Kyuma Oshita, Saki Hasegawa (Aoashi), Junichi Hayama (pet)
The manga has also inspired a short story manga collection and a live-action movie duology.
Source: @the_fable_anime
