Spring anime “The Fable” An invincible assassin works for 800 yen per hour!? Works at a design company… Episode 5 advance cutThe synopsis and advance cut of the 5th episode of the spring anime “The Fable”, which will be broadcast from May 4, 2024 (Saturday), “Kikitonka Korra!!”, have been released.

The Fable'' is an action comedy based on the manga serialized in Young Magazine” by Katsuhisa Minami, which has a cumulative circulation of 24 million copies. The film depicts the cool, humorous, and slightly quirky life of Fable, an invincible hitman known as a fable, who calls himself Akira Sato and spends a year on hiatus as a hitman. In 2019 and 2021, it was made into a live-action movie starring Junichi Okada, which became a huge hit with cumulative box office revenue of over 3.1 billion yen.

The second part of the original work, “The Fable The second contact”, which began serialization in 2021 and gained popularity, came to a conclusion last year, but on the day of the announcement of the TV anime adaptation, X (formerly Twitter) ), it received an overwhelming amount of attention and received a great response.

Episode 5 “Do you listen to me? Colla!!” Synopsis Akira

finally begins to look for a new job.

…However, a job was never decided.

Meanwhile, Misaki Shimizu, who is on her way to work, introduces her to her workplace, the design company Octopus. Akira was hired on the condition that the hourly wage was 800 yen!

A new life begins from here.

In a different place, in front of the prison.

Finally, Ebihara’s younger brother Kojima is released from prison.

“The Fable” Episode 5 “Kikitonka Korra!!” will begin broadcasting on Nippon Television from May 4th (Saturday).

[Broadcast Overview]

All episodes will be broadcast nationwide on Nippon Television from 24:55 on Saturday, April 6, 2024. All episodes will be available

for unlimited viewing on Disney Plus Exclusively

available for rental on other distribution sites

*TV Broadcast date and time / Distribution start date and time may change without notice.

[CAST]

Kazuyuki Okitsu, Miyuki Sawashiro, Kana

Hanazawa, Akio Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda, Tetsuo Komura, Jun Fukushima, Koji Ishii,

Ryota Iwasaki, Yudai Mino, Kojiro Takahashi, Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi, Takeharu Onishi, Takumi

Asahina, Kazuya Ichijo, Yuki Kaji

[STAFF]

Original work: Katsuhisa Minami “The・Fable” (published in Kodansha “Young Magazine”)

Director: Ryosuke Takahashi

Series composition: Yuya Takashima

Screenplay: Yuya Takashima, Mayumi Morita

Character design: Hisuma Oshita, Saki Hasegawa

Sound director: Yasuyuki Urakami

Music: Shuichiro Fukuhiro

Sound production: Audio Planning You

Opening theme: ALI “Professionalism feat. Hannya”

Ending theme: Umeda Cipher “Odd Numbers”

Animation production: Tezuka Productions

Production: Anime “The Fable” Production Committee

(C) Katsuhisa Minami/Kodansha/Anime “The Fable” Production Committee