Habataki ~Ein Marchen~ summary: ‘Habataki ~Ein Marchen~’ is an adaptation of popular novelist, Hori Tatsuo, (famed for his modernism and proletarian literature during the Showa period) novella of the same name. This is one of his early fantasy pieces published in 1931 and collected in ‘Hori Tatsuo Early Fantasy Masterpieces’.