Purrfect Apawcalypse

Purrfect Apawcalypse is an American adult animated horror drama created by Horizon Animation Studios co-founder Denise Truong and developed by Gary Dauberman and Lisa Hanawalt for Cartoon Network's nighttime Adult Swim programming block. It follows a group of dogs from Hachiko High School finding themselves in a world like theirs, fighting ghosts, zombies, and demons, while finding the person who brought them here in the first place.

Truong voices the protagonist Olive, with Charlene Yi, Stephen Amell, Judy Greer, Robert Sheehan and Zach Woods playing the rest of Olive's friends. The show originated from some visual novel/interactive fiction games of the same name by Truong and her friend Andrew Schneider, released for itch.io in 2019 and 2020, where it got the attention of Dauberman and Hanawalt. The show received critical acclaim for it's characters, world building, action, and humor.

Synopsis
Olive Higgins, a shy and insecure little puppy, is starting her first year of high school, and not in a good way. She faces bullies on her way to class, laughing at her for being some sort of freak. However, as she sits down in her homeroom, crying, she hears screams coming from the hallway and people being sliced. A ghost then appears in the room and murders everyone, but not Olive, who passes out at the right moment when the ghost attacks. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a room full of dead dogs, and doesn't know what to do. However, in an act of self-confidence, she, along with Brownie, the snack loving corgi, Sparky, the sporty husky, and Volt, the rebellious shepherd, get out of the school before the ghosts kill them, only to find out that their world had been turned into a wasteland, with nothing but ghosts and demons roaming around the place. Now, the team has one mission: survive the wasteland before they get turned into chopped dog, and find the mysterious person who is behind the apocalypse, all while reviving dogs, finding a mysterious killer, and befriending cats.

Main characters

 * Olive Higgins (voiced by Tara Strong)-
 * Brownie Pembroke (voiced by Charlyne Yi)-
 * Sparky Fritz (voiced by Stephen Amell)-
 * Volt Steiner (voiced by Keiyan Lonsdale)-
 * Patches Ito (voiced by Robert Sheehan)-
 * Coco Grimalkin by Ashly Burch)-
 * Angel Grimalkin (voiced by Zach Woods)-
 * Ginger Claret (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld)-
 * Miles Kahler (voiced by Bex Taylor-Klaus)-
 * Daisy Brooks (voiced by Jessica Rothe)-
 * Oscar Eastburn (voiced by Ezra Miller)

Supporting

 * Duke Higgins (voiced by Alex Wolff)-
 * Levi Higgins (voiced by Caleb McLaughlin)
 * Rex Winstead (voiced by Shea Whigham)-
 * Misty Lewis (voiced by Judy Greer)-
 * Asmodeus (voiced by Jeremy Shada)-

Hachiko High School

 * Doug Pugg (voiced by Gregg Berger)-
 * Luna Puddleton (voiced by Ashley Johnson)-
 * Holly Melita (voiced by Kimiko Glenn)-
 * Rover Jackson (voiced by Tom Holland)-
 * Noel Arenberg (voiced by Andrea Libman)-
 * Sora Aykroyd (voiced by Joel McHale)-

Kemono Woods

 * Whiskers Wichien (voiced by Taron Egerton)-
 * Mittens Wichien (voiced by Sonoya Mizuno)-
 * Felix Munch (voiced by Eric Bauza)-
 * Tigger Sugden (voiced by Michaela Dietz)-
 * Velvet Graham (voiced by Lucy Hale)-
 * Jaxson Yui (voiced by Lakeith Stanfield)-

Infurno

 * Nyx (voiced by Adam Scott)-
 * Medusa (voiced by Maya Rudolph)-
 * Daemon (voiced by Josh Brener)-
 * Kaige (voiced by Patton Oswalt)-
 * Lynk (voiced by Ben Schwartz)-
 * Jaymes (voiced by Norman Reedus)-
 * Bapawmet (voiced by Keith David)-

Pawardise

 * Raph (voiced by David Harbour)-
 * Gabe (voiced by John Cho)-
 * Salem (voiced by Khary Payton)-
 * Halo (voiced by Chris Parnell)-
 * Ariel (voiced by Samara Weaving)-

Production
In June 28, 2032, Daybreak Entertainment was announced to be opening up a new animation studio called Horizon Animation Studios and was announced to be making 4 TV shows with different creators, with Purrfect Apawcalypse being one of them. The series was then announced to have Gary Dauberman of the Swamp Thing TV show co-create the series, Lisa Hanawalt and Shawn Levy as executive producers, and The Exorcist and The Umbrella Academy creator and writer Jeremy Slater set to write the series. In September 8, 2032, it was announced that Upgrade and The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell will be directing the series, along with Joaquim Dos Santos. Then, in November 17, 2032, it was announced that the series had been picked up by Cartoon Network's Adult Swim due to their contract with the network to produce adult animated series for it. for a full 15 episode season. After the first episode of the first season aired, the network greenlit it for another 15 episode season.

Reception
The show gained immediately gained critical acclaim when the first episode aired. People praised it for it's characters, world building, action, and humor. Metacritic gave it a full 100, while IMDb gave it a 8.6.