The Fable

Description

From Kondansha:
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.

Note: Won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2017 and was nominated for the Best Series Award at the 51st Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2024.

Type

Manga

Related Series

The Fable: The second contact (Sequel)

The Fable (Omakes) (Side Story)

Associated Names

Байка

Фейбл

فابل الموسم الاول

โหดไม่ถามชื่อ (VBK)

ザ・ファブル

寓言殺手

더 페이블

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Latest Release(s)

v.22 c.229-240 (end) by TCB Scans 3 years ago

v.21 c.220-228 by TCB Scans 3 years ago

v.21 c.218-219 by TCB Scans 3 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

22 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 13, Chap 135

User Reviews

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Forum

2 topics, 2 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.7 / 10.0 (283 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.47 / 10.0

34%

26%

27%

Last Updated

September 8th, 2025 11:45am PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Drama Mature Romance Seinen Slice of Life
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Category Recommendations

The Fable: The second contact

Recommendations

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Author(s)

MINAMI Katsuhisa

Artist(s)

MINAMI Katsuhisa

Year

2014

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Young Magazine (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Kodansha USA (22 Digital Volumes; Complete | 5 Physical Omnibuses; Ongoing)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #675

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Monthly Pos #1328

(-334)

3 Month Pos #2320

(+105)

6 Month Pos #2474

(+1066)

Year Pos #1395

(+378)

List Stats

On 648 reading lists

On 419 wish lists

On 498 completed lists

On 18 unfinished lists

On 207 custom lists

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Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable Teases Final Arc

2 years ago

Katsuhisa Minami's The Fable gets TV Anime

2 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

Simply PEAK

by blegasul
1 year ago

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Just discovered the anime, and because I literally cannot wait a week for the next eps, I decided to read the manga, and it's simply so freaking good, the characters, plot, everything

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pure gold

by silver and blue
1 year ago

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both in action and surprisingly in terms of comedy as well.

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Trails off

by Sandwhale765
3 years ago

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Enjoyed the beginning but it dragged on too long and the pacing suffered. By the end, I was bored.

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A pro among pros, A Top among top.

by DarkTachyon
3 years ago

Rating: 9.9 / 10.0

If John 'baba yaga' wick, jason bourne, Stunt skills from jackie chan + tom cruise and dar robinson, Bruce lee's JKD philosophy combined with CQC, and spidey sense are combined and wrapped into one form, that's a brief description of the main character's abilities here.
Despite his superhuman abilities in Assassin form. He was just a man who only had abilities on the level of a normal child's skills. Like a coin that has 2 sides. He is a savant who is a genius when it comes to k!lling. but on the other side, he is just a grown man who has life skills as naive as a 'little kid'.
And this manga focuses on his story after being ordered by his 'father' to take a break from his assassin life and forced to become a 'Normal' Man.

That's why, this manga not only contains extraordinary action stories from a super assassin, but is also interspersed with adult jokes that are very entertaining.
The art style is also semi-realistic or realistic (where the background is drawn using the photo tracing method and most of the characters or scenes are drawn using the realism method) so it makes your reading experience enjoyable.

Really great 'Slice of life + comedy action' manga with romance subplot. Enjoy your time.

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Character growth is a thing!

by Eddie Marvin
3 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Just seeing how the characters growth is beautiful. That Kuro have grown a lot since the first arc, it melt my heart.

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one of the best reads I had in a while

by monte.marie14
3 years ago

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not fan but can't stop reading

by Eremes
4 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

i really don't like this kind of manga, the comedy is kinda cringe and the art is trying realism without nailing it, leading to either ugly or disturbing faces and expressions

but i don't know why i can't stop reading, so i guess it has some undescribable qualities, like, a sitcom, but i really don't like the comedy nor the characters that much...

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Strongly recommended!

by ReyKaNeel
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This Manga wasn't my first choice because of the artwork but the story is so good! I rooted for the MC before I even knew, he is a real badass. Still: The main protagonists’ characters aren't clique at all. It's realistic but not boring with long explanations and on top of it I cried while laughing so hard whenever the "sister" plays her "favorite game". Give it a try at least until you see her play – I swear you won’t stop at that point and it keeps getting better.

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Love it a lot

by RooftopSwordMaster
6 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I need more. I desperately didn't want it to end and I whisper screamed in sorrow once I caught up to ch 39

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First chapter is a mess.

by BeAsOne
6 years ago

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"Won the 41st Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2017. "
There're more awards than there are manga aren't there?

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