Autumn and Marble

Autumn and Marble is a Beikaiese animated television series created by animator and artist Haiyan Huai. The series is set in a world where humans co-exist with anthropomorphic animals, primarily in a small village, and revolves around a fox named Autumn who lives with in a small house with a gray wolf named Marble.

The show originated from Red Fox and Grey Wolf, an unpublished manhua Huai made in 1994. He turned to Daohai Huang, a well-known voice actor and friend Huai, to voice both of the protagonists. Huai made an eight-minute short film based on the manhua in 1996, and the development of an animated series started in 1998. The series is produced and animated by Power One Studios.

Autumn and Marble premiered on Beikaiese television on 8 April 2000, and has since run for 16 seasons, It is currently the longest-running Beikaiese animated television series. Following the launch of the show's official channel in 2008, it has achieved international popularity, being praised by critics for its animation, voice acting, storylines, and occasional serious themes. Due its popularity, it has evolved into a media franchise, and has been adapted into a manhua series and multiple feature films.

The series is currently streaming on Omicron Video in Beikai and and Beepsync worldwide, with pre-2009 episodes remastered in high definition (albeit in 4:3). Due to the series' rapidly increasing popularity, an English-language dub of the entire series by Mobile Voices was announced in January 2022, with Alan Kai voicing both Autumn and Marble.

Setting
The show is set in a world where all humans co-exist with a race of other anthropomorphic mammals known as the Beasts, but animals have been excluded from human society after centuries of war. The main series takes place in the large city of Olympia, which sits on an island called Lake Island.

Premise
The series' main characters, Autumn Fox and Marble Wolf, are two 15-year-old Beasts whose parents went missing after meeting each other at a diner two years prior. Following this event, the two are offered to at the Gold House, a pseudo-orphanage for Beast children that actually trains them to be warriors under permission from the Government of Olympia.

After running away from the upon finding out that they were being trained to serve as brainwashed warriors, Autumn and Marble scrounge around Olympia, looking for treasures in hopes of being wealthy, meeting various enemies along the way.

Development
Autumn and Marble was created by animator and cartoonist Haiyan Huai. In 1994, Huai made a manhua titled Red Fox and Grey Wolf, which was never published. Eventually, in 1998, Huai decided to create a television series based on the manhua.

After pitching it to several studios, Huai struck a deal with Power One Studios, and made a seven-minute animated short film to give the company an idea of how the series would look. The production of a half-hour animated series began in late 1999.

Production
Throughout its run, Autumn and Marble has been written by numerous writers. As of 2022, the series is written by Haiyan Huai, Haiying Yu, and Donghui Jian. The show is animated at Power One Studios in Haijing, Haobei.

Manhua
Autumn and Marble was adapted into a series of the same name was published by Huajihua through their Spade Ace Comics from June 2004 to September 2018 for 17 volumes, and was serialized in Huajihua's Spade Ace Monthly magazine. The series was written and illustrated by Haiyan Huai, and serves an alternate continuation of the series' story after season four.