Anime Like The Fable

An assassin simply known as Fable has earned a legendary reputation in the underworld for ruthlessly, efficiently, and successfully carrying out hits for organized crime. However, after six years of efficient murder, his boss fears too much heat from authorities and tells Fable to take a year off.

Forced to move to Osaka and live like a normal citizen for a year with his handler staying with him under the guise of being his sister, Fable decides to try his best to follow these new orders.

However, the Osaka mafia is not happy to learn that the legendary Fable has come to stay in their territory. Between threats and plots going on in town, Fable still tries his best to be a perfectly normal person.

The Immortal Tatsu is an legendary yakuza name, but after taking down a rival gang single-handedly, he disappears.

Now, he has reappeared as an apron-wearing, laundry-doing, bento-lunch-making househusband for his office-working wife.

After disobeying their boss and messing up a job, three yakuza men are given a choice – commit suicide or go to Thailand and have a sex change to become female idols.

They make the choice to go to Thailand, and after grueling idol training, make their debut. Unfortunately for them, they are a hit!

One night, an object falls through space and time into the living room of dignified yakuza member Nitta. The object turns out to be a strange girl with psychic powers, but Nitta is reluctant to both take her in and to accept her offer to make use of those powers.

Respecting his decision to not use her as a tool, this girl, named Hina, decides to help him anyway as they begin their life together.

After becoming reformed from his rough and tumble past as a motorcycle gang leader, Onizuka is looking for a new ambition in life.

After witnessing a hot girl falling for her ugly teacher, he decides to become a teacher himself. However, instead of hot girls draping themselves all over him, he just has a group of problem students that the school administration had all but given up on.

Kazuki and Rei are roommates that also work as professional mercenaries while they each flee from their grim memories through the dangerous work.

However, while carrying out an assassination on Christmas Eve, their paths cross with four-year-old Miri who traveled to Tokyo by herself, told by her mother who abandoned her to go find her father. Unfortunately for everyone involved, her father was their mark whom they successfully took out.

Now saddled with a small child, this pair of grown men struggle to adjust to being new parents while also balancing it with their dangerous job.

Existing since ancient times, ninjas have always worked in the shadows for Japan. After World War II, the allied command in Japan, recognizing the skill of ninjas, created an agency that tasked them to handle various domestic affairs. Given time, their responsibilities soon branched out to international issues as well. Now, there are estimated to be 20,000 ninjas operating in the shadows at home in Japan and abroad.

However, unrest against the ninja is beginning to stir with foreign powers seeking to turn the skills of ninja assassins back on the organization that manages them. Kuro is one of many ninjas who are left unemployed due an over-saturation of ninja and a lower demand for their skills. However, one day he receives his orders to infiltrate a high school and finds himself increasingly wrapped up in the growing intrigue.

There is no order too big for master spy Twilight.

He uses his numerous skills as a spy to keep the peace between his country and aggressive neighbors, but his recent mission demands he investigate a reclusive politician that only attends school events for his child.

Dictating that he must now have a child and wife of his own to pull off the mission, Twilight manages to recruit a small orphan girl and an office lady to play the roles.

However, what he doesn’t know is that his new daughter is an esper capable of reading minds and his new wife is actually an assassin using him as a cover to maintain a guise of normalcy.

Falling for him at first sight, the Sonoyamas are happy to bring home their new adoptive son, Hitori.

While they find their son to be the perfect child, he harbors a secret. Hitori is actually a set of identical twins named Migi and Dali that are pretending to be one boy.

Migi and Dali worked hard to charm the Sonoyamas into bringing them home to Origon Village, the village where they were born and the village where their mother died. Together, the boys keep up the charade in order to discover who murdered their mother in this village many years ago.

Hole is a disorderly district where death and mutilation are common. The residents of Hole are the dregs of society and the test subjects of the magic users that live separate from it. As such, these residents are constantly tested on or just murdered by these mages.

In Hole is Kaiman, a man with a head cursed to be that of a lizard, but with an immunity to magic. He spends his time set on hunting down these magic users in one small bit of justice for the people that live in Hole.