The Fable

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Japanese: ザ・ファブル
English: The Fable
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Type: TV
Episodes: 25
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 7, 2024 to Sep 29, 2024
Premiered: Spring 2024
Broadcast: Sundays at 00:55 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Source: Manga
Genres: ComedyComedy, SuspenseSuspense
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 22 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.121 (scored by 3109831,098 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5072
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2470
Members: 87,277
Favorites: 668

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Preliminary Spoiler
May 12, 2024
Preliminary (6/25 eps)
Fable is the first anime I’ve seen where I have read the manga first (though not to completion) and couldn’t help but think to myself ‘people should just read the manga instead.’ And of course, I was appropriately disgusted in myself for thinking such a thing. But then it got me thinking about the nature of adaptations and the difference between western and Japanese approaches to adaptations of previously existing works. I’ve expressed my frustration about the predominant use of manga adaptations over original works that have taken over the medium before, but my frustrations have only grown in the handling of the adaptations. Japan ...
Apr 28, 2024
Preliminary (3/25 eps)
This is the worst adaptation that I've ever watched

The animation is meh. It makes the show look cheap and do the characters dirty. Those facial expression appeared in my nightmare yesterday. Even the action scenes look like fuckin slideshows. There is no saving grace for this goddamn disaster.

The pacing is just sooooo fucking bad. Although the manga itself has such god facing, the anime ruined it by making every scenes look sooooo slow. They also make the main character Akira talk like a fucking old man. Who tf is his 30s could talk that slowly. This is the main reason why this show is so ...
Jun 12, 2024
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (9/25 eps)
I will start by saying I haven’t touched the manga so my review will be based solely on the anime.

The premise of the show seems really cool, a hitman that has to try to live a normal life with his fake "sister" for a year. The setup was done and explained nicely in the first episode and I genuinely enjoyed it. But it goes downhill from there.

The cast of characters is really bland, they don’t bring much to the table bar the main character which reminds me in a lot of ways of Kazuma Kiryu from the Yakuza games. The pace of the show is ...