The Fable

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The Fable
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ザ・ファブル
(Za Faburu)
Manga
Written byKatsuhisa Minami
Published byKodansha
MagazineWeekly Young Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original runNovember 1, 2014 – November 18, 2019
Volumes22 (List of volumes)
Manga
Written byKatsuhisa Minami
Published byKodansha
MagazineComic Days
DemographicSeinen
Original runMarch 6, 2018 – February 26, 2019
Volumes1
Live-action film
Directed byKan Eguchi
Written byYūsuke Watanabe
Studio
ReleasedJune 21, 2019 (2019-06-21)
Runtime123 minutes
Live-action film
The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill
Directed byKan Eguchi
Written by
  • Masahiro Yamaura
  • Kan Eguchi
Studio
  • Geek Pictures
  • Shochiku
ReleasedJune 18, 2021 (2021-06-18)
Runtime131 minutes
Manga
The Fable: The Second Contact
Written byKatsuhisa Minami
Published byKodansha
MagazineWeekly Young Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 19, 2021 – present
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The Fable (Japanese: ザ・ファブル, Hepburn: Za Faburu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhisa Minami. 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. A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan in June 2019 and a sequel premiered in June 2021. As of January 2021, the manga had 8 million copies in circulation. In 2017, The Fable won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for the General category.

Media[]

Manga[]

The Fable is written and illustrated by  [ja]. The series ran in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from November 1, 2014 to November 18, 2019.[1][2] Kodansha collected its chapters in twenty-two tankōbon volumes, released from March 6, 2015 to June 5, 2020.[3][4]

A sequel, titled The Fable: The Second Contac (ザ・ファブル The second contact), started in Weekly Young Magazine on July 19, 2021.[5]

A 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.[6][7] A collected tankōbon, which also includes other stories by Minami, was published on June 5, 2020.[8][9]

Volume list[]

No. Release date ISBN
1 March 6, 2015[3]978-4-06-382563-3
2 June 5, 2015[10]978-4-06-382613-5
3 September 4, 2015[11]978-4-06-382666-1
4 December 4, 2015[12]978-4-06-382713-2
5 March 4, 2016[13]978-4-06-382745-3
6 June 6, 2016[14]978-4-06-382796-5
7 September 6, 2016[15]978-4-06-382847-4
8 December 6, 2016[16]978-4-06-382887-0
9 March 6, 2017[17]978-4-06-382932-7
10 June 6, 2017[18]978-4-06-382975-4
11 September 6, 2017[19]978-4-06-510154-4
12 December 6, 2017[20]978-4-06-510530-6
13 March 6, 2018[21]978-4-06-511090-4
14 June 6, 2018[22]978-4-06-511622-7
15 September 6, 2018[23]978-4-06-512822-0
16 December 6, 2018[24]978-4-06-513841-0
17 March 6, 2019[25]978-4-06-515397-0
18 June 6, 2019[26]978-4-06-516126-5
19 September 6, 2019[27]978-4-06-516938-4
20 December 6, 2019[28]978-4-06-517853-9
21 March 6, 2020[29]978-4-06-518813-2
22 June 5, 2020[4]978-4-06-519984-8

Live-action films[]

A live-action film adaptation directed by Kan Eguchi premiered in Japan on June 21, 2019. The film stars Junichi Okada as Fable.[30][31]

A 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,[32] and it premiered on June 18, 2021.[33][34]

Reception[]

As of January 2021, the manga had 8 million copies in circulation.[32] In 2017, The Fable won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for the General category.[35] Alongside Blue Period, the series ranked #14 on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list of best manga of 2020 for male readers.[36]

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