There's clear potential in this premise, though for me it's more potential than realization at this point.
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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.
The Fable
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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
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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.
The Fable – 04
It's a given that a series about people who kill for a living is going to feature not nice people.
The Fable – 03
I'll say this for The Fable - I've liked every episode better than the one before it.
The Fable – 07
The style of humor here feels appropriate for a series about gangsters, which is a rarity in anime.
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
First Impression: The Fable
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