I don't doubt that this subplot could turn dark, but honestly it seems like the whole Kuro arc is mostly going to be about comic relief.
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The Fable
A manga about a legendary hitman known as 'The Fable' who is ordered by his boss to live quietly as a normal person for one year. Continue reading…
The Fable - Episode 1 - The Fable Taps Forehead
The Fable, a professional hitman, has a method for switching between Japan's popular dialects. It looks ridiculous. The Fable - Episode 1
The Way of the Househusband, Golgo 13: The Professional, Golgo 13, The Fable
The Fable - Episode 11 - The Fable Kills Gangster
Does Fable need to replace his Osaka accent to kill people again? Killing has a cadence and grammar, so why not? The Fable - Episode 11
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The Fable – 19
What I found myself thinking a lot this week was how poignant this story can be.
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The Fable – 13
There are times when a lack of style can actually be a style (whether intentionally or not).
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The Fable – 07
The style of humor here feels appropriate for a series about gangsters, which is a rarity in anime.
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The Fable – 17
I don't think you'd pick anybody in a head-to-head with Akira (or Fable), but Utsubo is clearly no one to take lightly.
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The Fable – 15
This was certainly the most linear episode of The Fable so far.
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The Fable – 08
Maybe the most dangerous thing in Osaka is a bored Youko.
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The Fable – 09
All of these people are tainted by the life they've chosen, even when they try and leave it behind.
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The Fable – 18
Boy, this is turning into a hot mess now.
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The Fable – 05
While the humor is somewhat hit and miss, there's a generally absurdist tone to this material which I quite like.
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The Fable – 10
The Fable is a living example of great manga's power to thrive with middling adaptation (but it does have to at least be middling).
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The Fable – 04
It's a given that a series about people who kill for a living is going to feature not nice people.
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The Fable – 16
In thinking about it The Fable is kind of what would happen if King of the Hill and The Coen Brothers had a love child.
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The Fable – 11
With all these elements colliding, it would be a good time not to stand in front of the fan.
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The Fable – 03
I'll say this for The Fable - I've liked every episode better than the one before it.
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First Impressions – The Fable
In terms of pre-season expectations, The Fable is the biggest premiere of the season so far.
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Anime Like The Fable
An assassin simply known as Fable has earned a legendary reputation in the underworld for ruthlessly, efficiently, and successfully carrying out hits for
Dorohedoro, GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, HINAMATSURI, The Fable, UNDER NINJA
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The Fable – 20-21
Could there be anything more Japanese than a guy coming into a house, pointing a gun at you, and saying "somebody walked into your house without taking off…
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The Fable – Episode 1
Likely to fall into obscurity on Disney+, unless the casual anime viewer has been secretly dying for tongue-in-cheek deadpan homage to the aesthetics of 70s hitman manga
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Second Impressions – The Fable
There's clear potential in this premise, though for me it's more potential than realization at this point.
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First Impression: The Fable
Thugs are dropping like flies in the dark, dank hallways of a sketchy apartment block. The cause? The Fable—a legendary professional hitman who has taken out 71 big…
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The Fable - Even Legends Need a Community
A few years back, while I was browsing the Kodansha section for manga, a certain manga caught my seinen-seeking eyes. On the cover appeared to be a menacing…
The Fable - Episode 20 - Youko Steals Gun
Other hitmen in the underworld misunderstand the legend of The Fable. The ghost story assassin is not a man but a team. The Fable - Episode 20
The Fable - Episode 16 - Youko Drunk Queen
Youko took advantage of Sato being in the mountains to hunt for drunken victim entertainment. She found it! The Fable - Episode 16
The Fable - Episode 21 - Youko Drinks Liquor
Youko relaxed with a bottle of liquor after incapacitating a hitman who followed Sato home. She's not a killer like Sato. The Fable - Episode 21
The Fable #01 — Improper Ways to Store Ammo
A lot of those gun hiding places seem incredibly suspect. I'm not sure what the deal with the crow show is, but it's an NHK-only show, and…
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The Fable: The Killer who Doesn’t Kill (2021) review [Camera Japan Festival]
“A satisfying sequel that fans of Fable’s first outing should not pass this up.”
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By Gakuto Mikumo and Manyako. Released in Japan by Dengeki Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Jeremiah Bourque. This is definitely a stronger volume…
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Episode 14: The Outtake Factory
This is legitimately the episode I've cut the most out of for the bonus reel, because my god did we go on tangent after tangent.
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By Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu. Released in Japan as “Yakusoku no Neverland” by Shueisha, serialization ongoing in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. Released in North America by…
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Rating: A- Episode 14 contains the sequence that I was probably most looking forward to seeing animated from this part of the story: Maomao’s lessons to the four…
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Anime Taste Testing: Tonari no Youkai-san, The Fable, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
A bit of everything for what I can at least say is a fairly varied season so far.
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Plunderer – 14
「7分12秒」 (Nana fun juuni byoi) "7 Minutes 12 Seconds" I'm Chris Hansen and this is To Catch A Predator.
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Helck – 14
Helck's flashback is a pretty tragic story, not solely for the bad stuff that happens but for the fact that so much seems unnecessary.
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Mononogatari – 14
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