A new key visual and more cast members have been unveiled for the upcoming second season of The Fable, which will premiere in Japan on January 9, 2026.
The six new voice cast members joining the series include:
- • Takanori Hoshino as Azami
- • Koichi Yamadera as Yamaoka
- • Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yukari
- • Taiten Kusunoki as Jiro
- • Satoshi Mikami as Koji Mizuno
- • Seiyu Fujiwara as Suzumushi
They join a voice cast that will star:
- • Kazuyuki Okitsu as Akira Sato
- • Miyuki Sawashiro as Yoko Sato
- • Kana Hanazawa as Misaki Shimizu
- • Akio Otsuka as Takeshi Ebihara
- • Tetsuo Komura as Boss
- • Jun Fukushima as Jackal Tomioka
Ryosuke Takahashi (Soukou Kihei Votoms: Koei Futatabi) is returning to direct the second season, along with Yuya Takashima (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch of Mercury sci-fi researcher) as series composer and Kyuma Oshita (My Home Hero co-chief animation director) and Saki Hasegawa (Aoashi, True Cooking Master Boy) as character designers. Tezuka Productions is in charge of the animation production.
The first season of The Fable was released from April 2024 to September 2024. It was a two-cour series that had a total of 25 episodes. Hulu streamed the first season in the U.S., while Disney+ streamed it in other countries and territories.
The anime is based on the manga series by Katsuhisa Minami, which ran in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine from November 1, 2014 to November 18, 2019. Twenty-two total tankobon volumes were released in Japan.
The manga series was followed by two sequels, including The Fable: The Second Contact, which began in 2021 and ended in 2023 with nine tankobon volumes, and The Fable: The Third Secret, which began serialization in March 2025.
The series has also inspired a short story manga collection and two live-action film adaptations in 2019 and 2021, respectively.
Kodansha USA releases The Fable manga series in English and describes it as:
When you’re the infamous “genius killer” hitman The 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 he’s ever taken…
Sources: The Fable Official X/Twitter (2), Anime News Network
