CATDOLL: "Fox Spirit Matchmaker" animation wins support from netizens, ancient love story takes over the screen

For the entertainment industry, the summer vacation has always been a battleground. Theaters, TV series, and the Internet have prepared a variety of TV series to reward students who are about to go on vacation, and this year, cartoons have also joined the battle. Just as netizens were madly complaining about San Shu's "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" or digging out the goofs in "The Journey of Flower", an online cartoon called "Fox Spirit Matchmaker" became a new work that netizens were talking about. Fans used the topic "#Everyone says we can't#" to trigger a discussion on Weibo about the love story between humans and "demons".

The topic attracted more than three million netizens on Weibo on the day it was launched. As of press time, it has become the second hot topic on Weibo. Some fans commented, "I hope this animation can be faithful to the original novel, and not be like "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", where even die-hard fans of the original novel cannot spoil the plot." Some netizens even made a connection between Dongfang Yuechu in the original novel and Dongfang Yuqing in the hit TV series "The Journey of Flower", "Dongfang Yuqing is probably the previous life of Dongfang Yuechu?"

The anime "Fox Spirit Matchmaker" is currently being serialized on Tencent Animation Platform and has been updated to episode 189. Due to its popularity with over 100 million views, it was adapted into an animation of the same name in 2015. When its PV was released online, it was well received by the outside world for its extremely exquisite production. Both comic fans and industry insiders believe that the production quality of this animation is excellent and is not inferior to many mainstream Japanese animation works.

It is understood that the main creative team of the "Fox Spirit Matchmaker" animation is equipped with top domestic talents. Among them, the theme song creation team is led by ediq and Kebei, the main creators of China's top and most influential ancient music team Mo Mingqi Miao, and Zhang Jie, a well-known domestic voice actor, will be the voice actor of Dongfang Yuechu, the male protagonist of "Fox Spirit Matchmaker". In addition, it is reported that "Fox Spirit Matchmaker" will hold a grand premiere on June 18, and China's top cartoonist Yao Feila will also be present.

Tuo Xiaoxin, the original author of the anime Fox Spirit Matchmaker, began writing the long work Fox Spirit Matchmaker in 2012. He was invited by Comic Show, a popular weekly magazine under Manyou, to serialize the work, which was well received in print and new media. In 2013, Fox Spirit Matchmaker was launched on Tencent Animation Channel as the main serialized work, with a hit rate of over 200 million. It competed with internationally renowned anime works such as One Piece and Naruto, and has long occupied the top 10 of Baidu Animation Rankings. In 2014, it won the Best Youth Manga Award at the Tencent Animation Star Award.

According to the official poster, Fox Spirit Matchmaker will premiere on June 26 and will be updated every two weeks. Judging from the current number of views of the animation PV, fans are looking forward to the next series of animation.