The Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats was a cartoon series which aired between 1995 and 1996 on ITV kids strand CITV, and was recently shown on Scottish children's programme wknd@stv. The series was about anthropomorphic automobiles that bore resemblances to cats and dogs. The main characters are freedom fighters trying to save their homeworld of Autopia from The Crusher. The show ran for two seasons, each consisting of 26 ten-minute episodes.
Hot Rod is a bright red animal hybrid. He's part car, part canine, and he's just one of a collection of dog-cars and cat-cars found on the anthropomorphic automotive world of Autopia. And this place would be something of a car utopia, if it wasn't for the fact that Hot Rod has fallen foul of the Autopia police force, who come in the bulldogged shape of the Gridlockers. He's also caught the eye of the all-powerful, megalomaniac machine known as the Crusher, who has a variety of bounty hunters and mean machines at his disposal. And that's our cue for lots of freewheelin' action a
Kaddy is a young girl from an ancient necromancer lineage who is expected to become the next Supreme Leader of the Necromancer Kingdom. When her apparent hopelessness for the dark arts brands her a disappointment, she decides to prove her worth by setting out on a conquering spree in the Highlands together with her faithful sidekick Fido, a street-performing werewolf.
Han Yuxi, a girl who works alone in a big city, is kind and talented, but she suffers from outside malice because of her appearance. After experiencing multiple blows in emotion and life, she had the idea of cosmetic surgery, and a conspiratorial hand was quietly changing her life ...
Makimura Koutarou has made up his mind: during the summer vacation, he is going to confess his love to the seemingly unapproachable Serizawa Kaho. Yet, on the night before, he has a run-in with a strange girl - an encounter which propels him into the future. There, he learns that not only has Kaho-chan become his girlfriend, but she has also died in a tragic accident. Returning to his own time, Koutarou sets out to change the future and save his love.