The upcoming The Fable anime has released two new trailers as well as its theme songs’ details. The anime will air on April 6, with Disney+ exclusively streaming the series worldwide.
The theme songs include “Professionalism feat. Hannya” by ALI as the opening theme, and “Odd Numbers” by UmedaCypher as the ending theme. Each of the trailers features on of the songs, and you can watch both below.
Tezuka Productions is animating the series under the direction of Ryosuke Takahashi. Yuya Takashima is doing the series composition and writing the screenplay with Mayumi Morita. Meanwhile, Kyuma Oshita, Saki Hasegawa, and Junichi Hayama are doing the character designs.
The cast lineup includes:
The Fable anime was first announced in July 2023, with the first teaser trailer released the following month. It is based on a manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami. It was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine from November 2014 to November 2019. A sequel titled The Fable: The Second Contact started in Weekly Young Magazine in July 2021. Kodansha USA has licensed the manga in English:
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…
The manga received a live-action film adaptation in June 2019, starring Junichi Okada, Fumino Kimura, Mizuki Yamamoto, and Kai Iwonaki, to name a few. The film is available for viewing on Netflix. A sequel film titled The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill premiered on June 18, 2021.
Source: Official Website
©Katsuhisa Minami, Kodansha/”The Fable” Production Committee