Ī sequel film, titled The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill ( ザ・ファブル 殺さない殺し屋, Za Faburu Korosanai Koroshiya), was originally announced to premiere on February 5, 2021, however, in January 2021, it was announced that it would be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it premiered on June 18, 2021. Live-action films Ī live-action film adaptation directed by Kan Eguchi premiered in Japan on June 21, 2019. In March 2022, Kodansha USA announced they licensed the series for English publication. A collected tankōbon, which also includes other stories by Minami, was published on June 5, 2020. Ī spin-off, also titled The Fable, but written in hiragana (ざ・ふぁぶる) instead of katakana, was published on Comic Days online platform from March 6, 2018, to February 26, 2019. Its first volume was released on November 5, 2021. Ī sequel, titled The Fable: The Second Contact ( ザ・ファブル The second contact), started in Weekly Young Magazine on July 19, 2021. Kodansha collected its chapters in 22 tankōbon volumes, released from March 6, 2015, to June 5, 2020. Written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami, The Fable was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from November 1, 2014, to November 18, 2019. For this human weapon with an unpredictable temperament, surrounded by trigger-happy criminals, the hardest contract begins. One day, his sponsor orders him to put everything on hold and lead the life of an ordinary citizen, in the hideout of a yakuza clan in Osaka, ban on killing or attacking anyone for an entire year. This assassination genius can send any of his targets six feet under and in six seconds, if his heart tells him. In 2017, The Fable won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for the General category.Įquipped with his favorite weapon, an anthracite-colored Nighthawk pistol, "Fable" is a professional killer feared by all the Japanese underworld, politicians, mobsters and public figures. A sequel series, titled The Fable: The Second Contact started in Weekly Young Magazine in July 2021.Ī live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan in June 2019 and a sequel premiered in June 2021.īy October 2022, the manga had over 20 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from November 2014 to November 2019, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes. The Fable ( Japanese: ザ・ファブル, Hepburn: Za Faburu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami.
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