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The Fable TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, Half-Year Continuous Run Starting in April (Updated)
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This year's ninth issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine confirmed on Monday that the television anime adaptation of Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable manga will premiere in April. The magazine additionally announced the main cast and revealed that the show will air for two continuous cours (two quarters of a year). The anime will air on NTV and its affiliates.
Update: The anime's Twitter account revealed a visual and character designs for the anime:
The anime will star: (left to right in top row and then next rows)
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Akira Satō
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Yōko Satō
- Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu
- Akio Ohtsuka as Takeshi Ebihara
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Kojima
- Tetsuo Komura as Boss
- Jun Fukushima as Jackal Tomioka
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the original manga in English, and it describes the series:
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...
Minami launched the original manga in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in November 2014, and ended the series in November 2019. The manga has 22 volumes. The series won Best General Manga at the 41st annual Kodansha awards in 2017.
The original manga inspired two live-action films, which opened in Japan in June 2019 and June 2021, respectively.
Minami launched the The Fable: The Second Contact manga as a sequel to The Fable in July 2021. The manga ended its serialization on July 1. The manga serves as the "second part" to the overall manga franchise. Kodansha released the manga's ninth and final volume on November 6.
Source: Weekly Young Magazine issue 9
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