The Fable

About The Fable

A legendary hitman trained to become the world's best assassin is asked to lay low for a year by the head of his crime family.

The Fable is an action-adventure, animation, and comedy series made for Nippon TV. It has run to 2 seasons and 26 episodes since April 2024. That is around 13 episodes a season.

Kazuyuki Okitsu leads the cast as Akira Sato (voice), Miyuki Sawashiro as Yoko Sato (voice), Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu (voice), and Akio Otsuka as Takeshi Ebihara (voice). The series began as a manga.

Shelv files it under organized crime, assassin, based on manga, and seinen. In the United States it streams on Hulu.

ERASED, Vinland Saga, and Monster make useful companions to The Fable. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 54 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.