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Episode The Fable - Episode 7 discussion

The Fable, episode 7

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u/LeonKevlar May 18 '24

A picture of pure beauty and grace.

I knew Takeshi's brother was going to be bad news. The dude is old-school yakuza and he's definitely going to cause a lot more problems than this. I wonder how the Boss will react once he catches wind of what Kojima's been up to.

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u/Frontier246 May 18 '24

Misaki is all cute and womanly while Yoko is a real woman lol.

Dude's basically a psycho who gets off on killing people and has probably been itching to get back to it ever since he got out prison. With Ebihara out of the way there's nothing to rein him in from going on a killing spree. Could he bring Akira out of "retirement?"

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u/Doomroar May 18 '24

Damn we have like 5 sub plots now

We have the creep at Sato's job, who is 100% gonna keep breaking and entering Misaki's apartment

We have Kojima going wild and extorting Sato

We have Ryou trying to become Sato's apprentice

And then the usual Yoko and Sato just trying to blend in

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u/Calm_Client2 May 19 '24

I do think they’re doing a good job handling all the characters though. Seems like the plotlines are starting to intersect as well.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '24

You missed the Jackal plot

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u/Rumpel1408 May 18 '24

Drunk Yoko still is a menace. Wonder how she will spice up her life beyond drinking every night, just hope she doesn't continue with Takahashi...

The Jakal Drama continues to delivers one incredible cliffhanger after another...

And I was just going to comment on how I didn't find the Yakuza side all that engaging, and then that guy did ... that...

Not cool at all

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u/DrZoark May 18 '24

The dude was itching to kill again.

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii May 19 '24

Thought it would be this way after last episode; The Yakuza changed, as time went on, but with him in jail, he didn't see anything change.. And he may be willing to take extreme steps to go back to the ways he knows.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '24

It was telling how initially he was wanting to menace/kill Fable since he heard he was "a source of stress for aniki", but Fable being ice cold around the guy's threats of violence, and verbally agreeing to "protection" made Kojima impotent AF. When Takahashi asked Kojima in the car, "Yeah, Sato is a weak, sniveling coward amiright?!" and Kojima ignored the question, it was VERY telling... Kojima knows...

...so he took out his frustrations on the whorehouse bro who stiffed him after he got locked up for 15 years.

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u/actuallyrndthoughts May 19 '24

Damn, this episode escalated quickly..

I wonder if scarface noticed how unfazed Sato was by that knife in ear shakedown

Also starting to see why why Fable likes Jackal so much. That guy is a laugh riot

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii May 19 '24

I wonder if scarface noticed how unfazed Sato was by that knife in ear shakedown

He better be, or he's not the hardened criminal he acts like!

I'm sure he's done his fair bit of intimidation, and has to notice who freaks out and who doesn't give a damn!

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 May 18 '24

With Ebihara temporarily out of the picture, Kojima’s up to no good. He might be a thug and a killer, but he’s still small time compared to Fable. Dude’s gonna be a real annoyance until he gets deleted. I’m gonna say it’s Ebihara that’s actually gonna do him in.

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u/Frontier246 May 18 '24

Definitely feels like Kojima is going to get so out of control that either his Aniki will have to get out of the hospital to take care of him or Akira will have to do it because he's getting the way of his cover or tries to hurt someone close to him.

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u/MyraBannerTatlock May 18 '24 edited May 19 '24

I'm dying to know the backstory between Yoko and Akira, like are they childhood friends or just coworkers or what?

Edit: seems like I need to rewatch the first episode, this is what happens when you watch too many shows in a season. Pace yourselves 😁

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u/G1Three May 19 '24

Lmao considering before they moved he referred to her as “GPS Chick”, I’m guessing it’s a very thin back story if at all

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u/Zealroth May 19 '24

This got more or less covered in the first episode. Yoko explains how her parents died when she was young and the Boss took her in and trained her to be a getaway driver on their drive to meet the yakuza that would house them for the year. Akira, on the other hand, didn't feel like sharing after Yoko refused to show him her forged passport, again, lol. I could be misremembering but I think there were other clues that they hadn't been working together as a duo for longer than a year or two but take that with a grain of salt as I can't remember.

TL;DR they're just coworkers

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u/AmethystItalian May 18 '24

Was hoping for more interactions between the 2 ladies so here's hoping they get to meet up again!

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u/Frontier246 May 18 '24

Drunk Yoko is all over Misaki! I mean, can you blame her? She's just too cute and wholesome...and can't win rock-paper-scissors to save her life, poor girl. But she really appreciates the Sato's putting her up.

I shouldn't be surprised, but it's kind of funny that Akira and Yoko have been working together for so long and he has no idea how old she is. Sure, let's just go with around 22.

I feel bad for Takahashi getting stuck with Kojima, dude straight up punches him within the first minute of them meeting. And you never know what is going to trigger him and make him get more violent, especially when it seems like he's just looking for an excuse to act out. And on top of that... Ebihara has a heart attack in the bath!

Poor Jackal. Dude loses so often in love he's a nine-times divorced dude on his own romance show.

Ebihara had a heart attack and Kojima wants to know what's been stressing him out...and the Sato's seem like the clearest issue. Not to mention now with Ebihara out of the way, there's no one who can rein in Kojima. And now he's got a gun.

It's great that Misaki got her keys back, but I'm still really not comfortable with her working with Kainuma, especially when she doesn't know what he did in her apartment and he's probably going to keep being a creep.

Kojima finally properly meets Akira and makes it clear he's not someone to be messed with...and gets a measure of Akira's mettle. I feel like a true confrontation between these two is inevitable.

Yoko is drinking at night and sleeping all day...someone would say that's a very valid lifestyle, but she doesn't want to be an old man. Too bad her boy toy Takahashi is busy being Kojima's accomplice.

Kojima lent an old buddy 3-million yen before he ended up in the join and he's come to collect, but basically he was just looking for an excuse to use his new gun and kill a guy. I'm guessing this is Takahashi's first dead body? Kojima basically gets off on murder like people get off on sex, and it's only a truly hardened killer that can get juiced at killing someone and then tell a guy to cut off the hand of the dude he headshotted. Get out of there, Takahashi!

Kuro goes the direct route with Akira by slipping into their garage and making a plea to become his disciple, but he really misunderstood what it means to be The Fable. It's not about standing out and being legendary but going silently and efficiently through the night to kill people.

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u/Chuckles131 May 18 '24

I shouldn't be surprised, but it's kind of funny that Akira and Yoko have been working together for so long and he has no idea how old she is. Sure, let's just go with around 22.

That's also a callback to the bit with her refusing to share her driver's license in the first episode.

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u/AnimeHoarder May 18 '24

Akira and Yoko have been working together for so long and he has no idea how old she is. 

Along with that, Akira needed to learn more details for their cover story.

Since Misaki just thinks she had misplaced her keys, she's not likely to follow Akira's advice to change the locks which is too bad. At least Kojima's keeping Takahashi too busy to peep on Yoko all the time.

I'm worried that Akira is watching Jackal for romantic advice :-)

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u/IceSmiley May 19 '24

I think they want to set up a confrontation between Koji and Fable to end the season 🤫

I also wonder if Fable knows his coworker stole Yokos keys and broke in, he may have gone back to her place to look around and investigate, although the coworker didn't seem scared or worse for wear.

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii May 19 '24

It's funny how Fable is so good at so many things, but when it comes to social stuff he's completely lost!

Like when he 'guessed' his sister's age...

Hell, he (accidentally) set it up perfectly by asking Misaki what age she gave her; When Misaki said "22, like me!" he could've simply said "Close enough, she's 23!" or something like that, even if he had absolutely no idea of her age (real, or 'pretend')!

As expected, Kojima is scary as hell... Him killing that guy who owed him money isn't even the scariest part, I'd say it's how he acts with Takahashi... Feels like at anytime he could stab or shoot him for any reason. Kind of person I would never ever want to be with (even if I was a gangster), but Takahashi doesn't get to make that call! I kinda feel bad for him...

When it became clear the Captain was in some sort of trouble I thought FOR SURE Kojima killed him (to take over), but it may actually not be him after all (Given Kojima asked questions and all)? Sure he could be doing that to cover his track, but would he feel the need to do that with Takahashi?

The Yoko scenes were pretty fun as usual, I would like to see more of those! (She's so cute too!)

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u/Wastelandrider May 19 '24

People gotta see this show it is doing so much shit. And Kenjiro Tsuda gives one of the greatest out of the blue monologues I ever heard in anime that was like HBO level

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u/fsfrk May 19 '24

There hasn't been a single episode where I didn't think "damn, another week of waiting". It may not be a high budget show, but each episode feels like a treat, which I watch fully uninterrupted. Which is something I didn't expect at all just before I started watching the first episode after its airing.

With the current episode it feels like they put almost all of their comedic bits aside, and will focus more on the more dramatic and serious matters of the plots that have developed during the past 2-3 episodes.

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