TV series
The Fable
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2024-04-07
- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 2 seasons
- Episodes
- 26 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime
- Network
- Nippon TV
- Production
- Tezuka Productions, Kodansha, Nippon Television Network Corporation, VAP
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Akira Sato (voice)
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Yoko Sato (voice)
- Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu (voice)
- Akio Otsuka as Takeshi Ebihara (voice)
- Ryota Iwasaki as Ryo Kuroshio (voice)
- Takeharu Oonishi as Kenjiro Takoda (voice)
- Yudai Mino as Katsuya Takahashi (voice)
- Jun Fukushima as Jackal Tomioka (voice)
- Takumi Asahina as Etsuji Kainuma (voice)
- Kojiro Takahashi as Soichi Sunagawa (voice)
- Takehito Koyasu as Hiroshi Suzuki (voice)
- Chika Anzai as Hinako Saba (voice)
Creators and crew
- Daisuke Nakajima - Director
- Ayaka Kobayashi - Director
- Takashi Kamei - Director
- Shintaro Matsui - Director
- Shotaro Kamiyama - Director
- Hiromichi Matano - Director
Seasons
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