Fox Spirit Matchmaker (; Japanese: ) is a Chinese romance manhua work painted by Tuo Xiaoxin () and colored by Pansi Daxian (). It was originally published on the magazine Manhua Show (SHOW) since 2012 until the magazine's cancellation but continued on Tencent Animation & Comics. On June 26, 2015, it was animated in Tencent Video. Today it has been broadcast more than 120 episodes. In Tencent Animation 2nd PV competition it passed the group stage and in the final with 35,838 votes to win the first. In July 2018, it was temporarily removed after Bilibili was named and criticised by CCTV.央视点名批评B站、动漫APP存在低俗内容後，大量动漫视频被下架 超能网 2018-07-21[2018-07-23]求生欲强烈：央视点名批评B站含兄妹恋等低俗动漫 ，後者紧急下架 IT之家 2018-07-20[2018-07-23] In 2017, it was praised by People's Daily as the first donghua which got high recognition in Chinese state official newspapers.. season 13 has been announced.
Plot The story centers on the love between humans and spirits. According to classical tales, spirits exist in the world, and some even fall in love with humans. While spirits can live for thousands of years, human lives are short. When humans die, they may be reborn, but they don't remember the love from their past lives. If a spirit is deeply in love, they can seek the help of a fox spirit, who offers a special service that allows the reincarnated human to recall the love they shared in their previous life.
The fox spirit takes on the role of a matchmaker, guiding former lovers back together. This story primarily follows the fox spirit's journey as it helps reconnect past lovers, weaving together a series of intriguing and mysterious tales in the process.
Main characters Bai Yuechu(白月初, Voiced by Yang Tianxiang(杨天翔))
The protagonist of the story and the fifth reincarnation of Dongfang Yuechu (东方月初). He is obsessed with money and food and he is the fiancé of Tushan Susu. He is a special individual created by Aolaiguo Sanshao(傲来国三少). He has Tushan Honghong(涂山红红)'s spirit power. He was strictly controlled by Yiqi Taoist League(一气道盟), but because of an agreement signed 500 years ago between Tushan and Yiqi Taoist League, he was freed.
Tushan Susu(涂山苏苏, voiced by Liu Xiaoyu(刘校妤))刘校妤 Xiaoyu Liu
The supporting character of the story who always carries a variety of snackse because her spirit power is low. She is Tushan Honghong herself because of her loss of spirit power and shrinking, but also because of memory as the cause of reincarnation and forgetting everything. Only blood that has been drunk from Bai Yuechu in certain conditions can be temporarily restored. Bai Yuechu Mister Taoist(道士哥哥) calls her “little fool” (小蠢货).
Tushan Yaya(涂山雅雅, voiced by Zhang Kai(张凯)), elder sister of Tushan Rongrong(涂山容容) and Tushan Susu. She has the strongest spirit power in Tushan and she is the leader of Spirit League.
Tushan Rongrong(涂山容容, voiced by Qiao Shiyu(乔诗语)), the smartest fox spirit and second boss in Tushan.
Wang Fugui(王富贵, voiced by Wei Chao(魏超)), a rich play boy. He is reincarnation of Wangquan Fugui(王权富贵), a member of Yiqi Taoist League.
Bai Qiuen(白裘恩, voiced by Tu Meng Ha Te(图特哈蒙)), father of Bai Yuechu(白月初) and obsessed with money and food. He is currently the team leader of Yiqi Taoist League(一气道盟).
Animated plot The donghua has several chapters. They are Xiasha Chapter(下沙篇), Wangquan Chapter(王权篇), Yuehong Chapter(月红篇), Beishan Yaodi Chapter(北山妖帝篇), Qianyan Chapter(千颜篇), Nanguo Chapter(南国篇), Zhuye Chapter(竹业篇), Weisheng Chapter(尾生篇), Jinchenxi Chapter(金晨曦篇), Mutiancheng Chapter(沐天城篇) and Liangshenghua Chapter(两生花篇). Each chapter tells a story and they jointly promote the development of the main line plot.
Episode: 1–13
OP: Love You Ready, Love Me Ready (Chinese: 爱YOU READY，爱我READY)
ED: Water Flows Eastward (Chinese: 东流, pinyin: Dōngliú)
This chapter mainly tells about the love story about the Fan Yunfei(梵云飞) who is the Prince of Xixiyu(西西域) and Li Xueyang(厉雪扬) whose previous life was called Ice General(冰将军). Fan Yunfei is a sand fox spirit but he isn't afraid of water. He has a stammer. In Li's reincarnation, Fan wanted her to marry him but she refused 99 times. Fortunately, he succeeded. They used Qiannian Yushuizhu(千年御水珠, has amazing power to control water) as their magic item of love continuation.
In modern time, Li is a teacher in a kindergarten. Sometimes Fan will become a dog temporarily because of losing power. Fan and his secretary Yueying Licheng(月映丽城) wanted Bai Yuechu and Tushan Susu could help them achieve love continuation in this life. Bai asked him to touch the half part of Qiannian Yushuizhu and Li had a stomachache immediately when she was watching a movie with Wang Fugui. She was sent to the hospital and another part was picked up from her stomach. Fan and other people arrived at hospital and he expressed his love to her. But she refused. She was reminded of something sad about her reincarnation and became angry. However, Ehuishou (厄喙兽, it destroys love continuation) controlled her. Bai and Susu were roped. Bai wanted to write Kehuofu (克火符, a magic item to generate a flame) on Susu's head. Bai was hurt by Ehuishou and his blood dropped on her head. To his surprise, the fire became more powerful than before and a strange but familiar shadow appeared temporarily. Finally, Li realized the truth and accepted. Fan inherits the throne of Xixiyu in the end.Episode: 14–27
OP: Dreams Come Back (Chinese: 梦回还, pinyin: Mèng Huíhuán)
ED: Water Flows Eastward
This chapter mainly tells about the love story of Wangquan Fugui and a spider spirit names Qingtong(清瞳, the name has meaning about the eyes which can see world clearly). The Wangquan family was the first family to use a magic item to fight against spirits. Wangquan Fugui was the most talented in his family. He could use Wangquan Sword well. His father Wangquan Baye(王权霸业), who was the host of the family, asked him to kill any spirits and could not get out of mansion. But when a spider spirit came to his mansion, he didn't kill her. The spirit knew he couldn't go anywhere so she used her arachnoid to weave paintings which showed beautiful scenery outside of his mansion. Unfortunately, Wangquan Fugui's shimei, Feng Tingyun(风庭云) knew what happened and told everything to Wangquan Baye. Baye asked Fugui to kill the spirit at once, but Fugui didn't follow him and ready to get out of the mansion with the spirit. He was badly wounded in the yard. However, Dongfang Yuechu came here in time and saved him, while Tushan Honghong fighting against 500 guards out of the mansion.
In modern time, Qingtong wanted to find her love continuation man in this life. She knew that Susu had a book called Chunai Tianpian(纯爱天篇, a fox magic book which can tell fox spirits some information about love continuation between spirit and human, each fox spirit has only one book in their whole life. The books in other fox spirits have no name but Chunai Tianpian is the only one which has its name written by Dongfang Yuechu because this book belongs to Tushan Honghong before). When she approached the book, Tushan Yaya came and asked Susu to return the book. Susu refused, so Yaya was angry and wanted to kill Susu. Suddenly, Bai used his tears to stopped her. Wang Fugui and other people came. The book was robbed and Bai used his tears again to stopped them from escaping but unfortunately, the book was cut in half. After that, they came to Tushan. Bai and Tushan Rongrong used all kinds of ways to let Fugui reminded of his reincarnation. Finally, he accepted her love. Yaya and Rongrong wanted to prove that if Susu was Honghong herself. They copied the environment which day Bai used Kehuofu. However, Bai was controlled by Ehuishou and he would fight Yaya with his tears. When he shot his tears, Susu ran in front of him, shot by the tear and disappeared. everyone thought she died except Fugui' grandfather. He calculated the position where Susu would appear. When Bai shot again, Susu appeared, becoming Honghong and kissed him. She helped him recover. Yaya finally believed that Susu was Honghong herself. At that moment, leaves and flowers fell everywhere, people all knew that she who they missed had come back.Episode: 28–48 (including Beishan Yaodi Chapter)
OP: If We Meet in Next Life (Chinese: 若当来世, pinyin: Ruòdāng Láishì)
ED: Bell and Boat (Chinese: 铃舟, pinyin: Língzhōu) Way You Walk (Chinese: 君路, pinyin: Jūnlù, in Beishan Yaodi Chapter)
This is one of the most important chapters. It tells about the love between Dongfang Yuechu and Tushan Honghong. Tushan Honghong was the Queen of Tushan. Dongfang Yuechu came from Dongfang family, whose members could use magic kill-spirit fire, Chunzhi Yangyan(纯质阳炎, means pure sun fire). His parents were killed by Huhe Shuangxian(虎鹤双仙, a two-spirits group) so he ran to Tushan and was saved by Tushan Honghong. After that, Tushan was attacked by Jinmian Huoshen(金面火神, God of fire, real name is Jin Renfeng(金人凤), the host of Shenhuo Mansion(神火山庄)). Jin's Chunzhi Yangyan was so strong that Tushan couldn't fight against him. However, Dongfang Yuechu asked Tushan Honghong to use her hand through his heart and he kissed her immediately. Honghong got strong spirit power from that and finally Jin failed. After the attack. Yuechu used his diluted blood to wash her hands so that she was not afraid of Chunzhi Yangyan. Yuechu loved Honghong so much that he was ready to confess to her on Double Seventh Festival which day that Niulang and Zhinu meet each other every year in Chinese traditional legend. After Tushan Rongrong knew his idea, she told him that Honghong often went to Shuangsheng Mountain(双生峰) on that festival. When Yuechu arrived there, he just saw Honghong walked into an icy cave and sat in front of a dead little Taoist body. Honghong knew he was nearby and said something to him on propose. Then Yuechu knew that she and Rongrong were caught by two Taoists when they were young. But while the elder one sleeping, the little one wanted to save these two fox spirits. Honghong reminded of something that be told by an elder fox spirit, she just thought the little one would kill her so she used her hand through his heart but she understood his real motivation at that moment. The little Taoist told her his thoughts and died soon. Honghong was very guilty and it left a shadow in her heart. She couldn't do what she wanted even couldn't love others. Yuechu was distressed after knowing the fact and left Tushan for fifty years.
In these years, the friendship between human beings and spirits became worse than before. Yuechu experienced something important and became much stronger. He became the host of Yiqi Taoist League. At that time, people still thought Tushan fox spirits often killed people. Only Yuechu and Wangquan Fugui knew the fact: the black fox spirits(黑狐) broke the peace. Yuechu and Fugui talked about how to let people believe the fact. Yuechu pretended to believe black fox spirits' plan and fight Honghong in order to lure black fox spirit to show up. But he knew the end clearly, it is a bet of his whole life. After fighting, the Queen of black fox spirit showed up. Honghong finally realized his real idea and was moved. Yuechu left Tushan 50 years ago just wanted to achieve her dream, a dream about the peace between humans and spirits. Until this moment, Honghong expressed her love to Yuechu and Yuechu got his magic item, Xukong Zhilei(虚空之泪, means the tears of void) because of his guilt. The Queen really wanted to get it, she seriously hurt Yuechu. But the magic item had become Yuechu and Honghong's magic item of love continuation in their heart. The Queen couldn't kill them if she wanted the complete item. Honghong started the love continuation, making a wish that they meet each other in the next life. Dongfang Yuechu was dead and Tushan Honghong lost her spirit power and memory, become Tushan Susu.