Per The Hollywood Reporter, Disney+ has announced the release date for the upcoming anime series adaptation of The Fable, based on Katsuhisa Minami’s best-selling manga series of the same.
Centered around the titular hitman, the anime will start streaming globally on April 7 on Disney+. This is part of Disney’s ongoing partnership with Kodansha, Japanese publishing company behind the serialization of a number of hit manga series such as Attack on Titan, Initial D, Blue Lock, Hajime no Ippo, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and more.
What is The Fable about?
“The series follows a legendary killer for hire called ‘Fable’ who has spent his entire life training to become the world’s best assassin,” reads the synopsis. “Famed within the underworld for his skillset, Fable knows nothing except how to deliver a quick death. After finishing off the year with more confirmed kills than ever before, Fable suddenly finds himself at a loss when the head of his crime family orders him to lay low and not kill anyone for a year. Suddenly uprooted, moved to Osaka and surrounded by trigger-happy criminals, Fable will be forced to control his temperament and adapt to the ordinary if he wants to survive.”
The Fable series is directed by Ryōsuke Takahashi from a screenplay written by Yuya Takashima and Mayumi Morita, based on the manga written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami. It features the voices of Kazuyuki Okitsu as Fable/Akira Sato, Miyuki Sawashiro as Yoko Sato, Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu, Akio Otsuka as Takeshi Ebihara, Kenjiro Tsuda as Kojima, Tetsuo Komura as Boss, and Jun Fukushima as Jackal Tomioka.
The adaptation is a production by animation studio Tezuka Productions. Prior to the anime series’ debut, the manga was actually first adapted into a live-action film in 2019.
