The award-winning manga series The Fable by Katsuhisa Minami will have a TV anime adaptation, Kodansha revealed tonight. At Tezuka Productions, the series will be directed by seasoned anime director Ryosuke Takahashi (Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Ozuma). A series teaser image was made public.
Here's some of The Fable's history:
From November 2014 through November 2019, Weekly Young Magazine published the original The Fable manga. On July 19, 2021, the same publishing released the first volume of a sequel series with the working title The Fable: The Second Contact. The manga has been printed (physically) and sold (digitally) in excess of 22 million copies. Kan Eguchi, the filmmaker, had two live-action action movies come out in 2019 and 2021.
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Kodansha USA publishes The Fable manga in English, and describes it below:
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...
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