A brand new key visual for the upcoming season has also been revealed.
It was previously announced that the popular 2024 anime “The Fable” is returning with a second season next year. It was announced that The Fable Season 2 will premiere on 9 January, 2027. The new key visual also came with new cast members. The anime is based on Katsuhisa Minami’s manga.
The Fable Season 2
Premiere date: 9 January, 2027
Animation studio: Tezuka Productions
Streaming platform: Disney + (Season 1)
What do we know about “The Fable” Season 2 so far?
The anime will return on 9 January, 2027.
The new cast members joining the anime in the second season are:
- Takanori Hoshino as Azami
- Kōichi Yamadera as Yamaoka
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yukari
- Taiten Kusunoki as Jiro
- Satoshi Mikami as Koji Mizuno
- Seiyū Fujiwara as Suzumushi
The returning cast members of the series are:
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Akira Satō
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Yōko Satō
- Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu
- Akio Ohtsuka as Takeshi Ebihara
- Tetsuo Komura as Boss
- Jun Fukushima as Jackal Tomioka
- Kouji Ishii as Hiroshi Hamada (Oyaji)
- Ryōta Iwasaki as Kuroshio (Kuro)
- Yūdai Mino as Katsuya Takahashi
- Koujirou Takahashi as Shūichi Sunagawa
- Kiyomitsu Mizuuchi as Matsu
- Takeharu Ōnishi as Kenjirō Takōda (President Octopus)
- Takumi Asahina as Etsuji Kainuma
- Kazuya Ichijou as Master
- Yūki Kaji as Yūki Kawai (Be Daiyocha)
Ryōsuke Takahashi returns to direct The Fable Season 2 at Tezuka Productions. Sci-fi writer Yūya Takashima is once again in charge of the series composition, and is also writing the scripts with Mayumi Morita. Kyūma Ōshita and Saki Hasegawa are returning as character designers. Yasuyuki Urakami returns as the sound director while Yo Tsuji is the anime’s new music composer.
What is “The Fable” about?
Katsuhisa Minami began serialising The Fable manga in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine in November 2014, and it ended in November 2019. The first sequel titled, The Fable: The Second Contact, ran in the same magazine from July 2021 to July 2023. The second sequel, titled The Fable: The Third Secret, began serialisation in March 2025.
The first season of the anime aired for two consecutive cours from April to September 2024. Disney+ streams the series worldwide.
K Manga serialises the manga in English digitally and describes the story as:
When you're the infamous prodigy hitman known only as “Fable,” many things come easy. Being a normal person, however, isn't one of them. In fact, being told that he can't kill anyone for a while may just be the hardest job Fable’s ever taken…