Donghua coming this fall

First season will have 16 episodes

It will have Mandarin and Cantonese version

Season 2 is already in preparation

First trailer

Second trailer

Third trailer

I have posted about this Chinese comic before, 谷围南庭 (Gu Wei Nan Ting). I still have no idea if there are any English translation for this. But nevertheless, I am gonna spam more pretty pictures from the official source.

Pictures from official weibo of Gu Wei Nan Ting : 谷围南庭 微博

An action supernatural manhua by Mo Fei about Gao Ying who experienced series of mysterious events after he arrived in an old town's hotel. I feel like I'm just gonna ship these two lol

An action supernatural manhua by Mo Fei about Gao Ying who experienced series of mysterious events after he arrived in an old town's hotel. I feel like I'm just gonna ship these two lol

(1) Yes, they are two different people.

(2) "Ri" and "Kun" are the names of their swords. The fandom uses them as names for the two Medicine Sellers, who still don't have names of their own. "Kun" is also sometimes written as "Kon"—same guy.

(3) It is canon.

(4) There's no official word on their relationship, but the most widespread fanon is that they are mentor (Ri Kusu) and student (Kun Kusu).

(5) It's sort of cryptically mentioned in the movie, but not fully explained.

No worries! This information was dropped on us without warning a little while ago. It came via a YouTube video released by the movie staff. Director Nakamura revealed that the two Medicine Sellers are different and carry different swords, and he released some backstory about the swords and the Medicine Sellers.

You can watch the YouTube video with auto-generated subtitles, but the quality of the translation is pretty bad. Fortunately, @kastellaran did some awesome translation work on the story bible page they showed in the video, which explains more of what they were talking about.

Just a warning: I don't think this backstory is what any of us expected, and the ideas behind it can get a little complicated. We've been doing a lot of processing since we learned all this!

Basically, the swords and Medicine Sellers are all different agents of a single cosmic force. They appear in the world as needed, up to a maximum of 64 at a time. These ideas are based on the Trigram and hexagram concepts from the I Ching, a Taoist philosophical text. @purplealmonds explained more about those concepts in a video here.

Director Nakamura also said a little bit about the two Medicine Sellers' personalities in an interview on Twitter. You can read an auto-translation of that section in the second half of this post.