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Tony K.
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(The) Fable (TV) Source: Manga (completed @ 22 volumes, by Katsuhisa Minami) Demographic: Seinen Animation Studio: Tezuka Productions Genres: comedy, drama Themes: adult cast, assassins, crime, mafia, satire, yakuza Plot Summary: When you're the infamous prodigy hitman known only as “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 Fable's ever taken... Air Date & Platform: April 6, 2024 (Saturday) Available on: Disney+ Episode Count / Runtime: Pending ---------------------------------- This actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Pretty good voice cast, too. Will try it. Last edited by Tony K. on Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:37 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Looking forward to this one, too. MC has the perfect facial expression for a killah.
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smurky turkey
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I liked the first episode a lot more than I probably should have. The animation is very budget, the characters look...unique and story wise not all that much really happened in the first episode besides a bit of action at the start and a lot of talking (the voice acting is also a tad unique). All that said, I found myself very entertained and looking forward to how much of an absolute mess the mc is going to create in trying to be a normal person.
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Edjwald
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Yah, it's a weird show. The background colors aren't quite as butt ugly as all those crap tan and puke green visuals in that show about bum ninjas a season or two back. There were some cool things about that show, but I dropped it because I could barely stand to look at it, just like I dropped the unobjectionable Fire Fighter Daigo because that friggin same blaring background music over and over was starting to hit my eardrums like a dentist drill.
Anyway, there are hardly any background colors at all in this show, but all the murkiness is kind of appropriate to the theme and tone, so it kind of works. The lead character has zero charisma as far as I can see. He's a cretin who's ultra competent at one thing, and that one thing happens to be insta-kills. On the other hand, would having him be a smooth, glib, charismatic, likable sociopath really be better if we're picking nits here? There is something compelling about this show, and if I'm reading the tea leaves right here, this is going to be an anime about a bad guy coming into conflict with more bad guys. Not so much a big fish in a small pond as a pirahna in a small pond. I don't know if the lead will be making any progress as a human being, but the chaos of bad things happening to bad people could be interesting. |
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smurky turkey
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Yup, it is fun seeing the mc trying to hold back and act his way out of situations. That said, keep pushing the guy and things will probably not end well for those involved. He also does not a hobby or two besides the weird naked guy with a tie.
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Episode 4
Ha ha, Fable's "sister" is one twisted chick! Makes me love her even more. Her seiyuu, Miyuki Sawashiro, is doing an awesome job. Kind of surprised that this show didn't get selected for the episode review treatment. Could be because it's on Disney+ and not enough voters were aware of it... |
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Gina Szanboti
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Yeah, for all she yells at Sato for not keeping his head down enough, I thought she was going to wreck things herself by letting the guy die of alcohol overdose.
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DuskyPredator
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I thought that the show had been a bit too dry, such that there wasn't really much character to latch onto, with the most interesting thing with him was him being really into the cleaning guy. Something he cared about.
She on the other hand had been even more dull in my opinion, such that I couldn't really pick out anything she actually cared about. About the closest I thought was that maybe she was tricker than she lets on, since the guy monitoring them said that the microphones were acting up at her place, I thought maybe she fully well knew they were being watched, and disabled the bugs to not be listened to while not bothered by what could be seen. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. So, I am happy to her so into seeing the yakuza henchman act pathetic while drunk, to the point she probably has a fetish. Considering that she seemed to have no qualms in undressing to her underwear to embarrass him, pushes me further into believing that she is aware of the cameras, and doesn't care so much about being seen over perhaps having some control over the information he thinks that he has. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Ep 7
Well that got dark fast.  I knew the ex-con was going to be trouble, but not this much so soon. It should be very interesting watching Sato go up against him while maintaining his cover. I also wonder how the guy who stole her keys is going to figure in.
I really liked Sato's little lecture to his wannabe disciple. You want to make a name for yourself? Find another line of work. I wonder if that got through his thick skull. The animation for this is weird. The character designs are unusual to begin with, but half the time they seem off-model even in medium and close-up shots. They do fine for the action scenes though. |
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DuskyPredator
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I presume that it is intentional that the yakuza guy had a whole vendetta against Sato because he presumed that he was a murder violence loving psychopath, we now have his friend that he was really fond of turn out to be exactly that kind of person.
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Animegomaniac
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The psycho yakuza guy is a normal threat so I think Misaki's coworker creep to be the far more likely guy who Sato deals with first. Sato already knows he was filming her, he knew about the keys seeing how he told Misaki she needs to change her locks.... the guy seems too much of a coward for direct sexual assault so did he set up a camera in her home... which seems unlikely considering Misaki turns out to be an ex-gravure idol and anything found online should be more exciting that footage of her undressing.
Why is Misaki working that one job for 1600 yen an hour, plus four other jobs, when she could be going worldwide with her sex appeal? Instead of making it pay for others, she should be putting it out there for her own use. Hopefully there are reasons for it and it's not because it didn't occur to the author. Maybe it didn't occur to Misaki? That I could believe. Misaki could use a good manager... why does Yoko immediately come to mind? Regardless, I have questions for Misaki. She's not trying to hide it so why not put out the clean work in her own name and use the fake name for the heavier stuff? Doing both under the same name seems like the easy way to end a lucrative modeling career. |
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Poor Fable. All the guy wants to do is be a pro and follow his orders to live normally for a year. But his yakuza hosts (other than the boss) just won't let him. The captain with the heart attack stuck his nose in against the boss's orders, that other dipshit wants to be his disciple and now he's got an extorting wacko to deal with. I feel for him. He just wants to kick back with his parrot and watch the soap opera with the Jackal in it but these asswipes just aren't gonna let it go.
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Gina Szanboti
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Forgive me for not knowing anyone's names as usual...
This arc really ramped things up to 11. Fun to see other "pros" being awed by Sato's mad skillz, in part because of their own mistaken reads on his odd behavior. And then there was Sato's boss's little chat with the Captain (?) in hospital. Very calm and understated threatening atmosphere but still clear as a bell tolling. I wonder if he'll decide Sato can be released back into the wilds of normal society or not. But omg, Yoko is soo freaking irritating! Her whiny voice drives me up the wall. Miyuki Sawashiro is one of my favorite seiyuu, but she's about to break me. I'm not saying she's doing a bad job - she's clearly supposed to be like the mosquito whine, and is doing a perfect job of it, but girl, spare my poor ears!  I can just hear the recording sessions: "Miyuki-san, that was great, but can you make her sound even more annoying? Yes, perfect!"
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Episode 12
I can certainly see what somebody would find Yoko's voice irritating, but I love it! It cracks me up all the time. It fits so perfectly with her character. I am very curious as to how Sato is going to deal with Kojima. Kojima doesn't seem like the kind of guy you can reason with. Be interesting to see how Sato squares that with his "no kill" directive. |
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NeverConvex
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I was a little unsure what to make of this show in the first few episodes, but it's honestly my favorite currently airing show now (though this is an easy season to claim that title in); never fails to crack me up. Bums me out it's in Disney jail, so I end up only paying for a month to catch up every 12 episodes or so.
Somehow it's managed to avoid irritating me with the "Sato is basically invincible" trope. spoiler[Actually, his sister recently turning out to also be an absolute badass was also an amazing way to upend my expectations when the hitman I thought was being positioned as a serious competitor for The Fable caught her off-guard at home. That scene felt fully scripted out --- was already anticipating several episodes of him desperately trying to figure out how to work through this and save her, maybe slowly being humanized in various ways as he accumulated damage saving people and trying to save her or something while working through how he was going to defeat the only guy we've met so far that is a near-match for him, only for her to kick the absolute crap out of the evidently second-rate hitman in a few seconds. And, of course, an immediate return to him being a bizarre, invincible weirdo] spoiler[And, her drunkenly guffawing / tsk'ing at his "probably 100 times as strong as her" line as both he and she nonchalantly go on with their evening while dismissing the other hitman politely was hilarious. Clear priorities.] |
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