The official website for the The Fable television anime revealed additional cast and the main visual (pictured) for its second season on Wednesday. The new season will adapt the Yamaoka-hen (Yamaoka Arc) from Katsuhisa Minami's crime comedy manga and is scheduled to premiere on the Nippon TV network on January 10, 2027, airing every Sunday at 12:55 a.m.

Cast
Yamaoka: Kouichi Yamadera (Yozakura-san Chi no Daisakusen)
Azami: Takanori Hoshino (Sentai Red Isekai de Boukensha ni Naru)
Eucalyptus: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Yomi no Tsugai)
Koji Mizuno: Satoshi Mikami (Kami no Shizuku)
Jiro: Taiten Kusunoki (Hidarikiki no Eren)
Suzumushi: Seiyuu Fujiwara (Liar Game)

Ryousuke Takahashi (Soukou Kihei Votoms) is returning to direct the second season at Tezuka Productions. Yuuya Takashima is handling the series composition. Mayumi Morita (Megami no Café Terrace) and Yuuya Takashima are writing the script. Saki Hasegawa (Darwin Jihen sub-character design) and Kyuuma Ooshita (My Home Hero chief animation director) are designing the characters. Yo Tsuji (Tasokare Hotel) is composing the music.

The first season aired in 25 episodes in Spring 2024. Disney+ and Hulu simulcasted the anime with subtitles and dub in multiple languages.

Minami serialized the manga in Weekly Young Magazine from November 2014 to November 2019. The sequel, The Fable: The Second Contact, serialized in the same magazine from July 2021 to July 2023.

A second sequel, The Fable: The Third Secret, began in March 2025. Kodansha shipped The Third Secret's fifth volume on July 6, with the sixth volume scheduled to go on sale on November 6.

Kodansha USA licensed the original manga in English in March 2022 and released the 22nd and final volume in January 2024. All three manga series are simulpublished on the K Manga platform.

The Fable won at the 41st Kodansha Manga Awards in the General category in 2017. The manga is also placed among the top 20 titles in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings' Male Readers division in 2019 and 2020.

Source: Comic Natalie