An alien cat sent to seize Earth’s catnip supply gets sidetracked by a cozy couch and a steady diet of canned tuna in “Operation Maomao,” an animated sci-fi comedy series from Shaogao creator Jonathan Yu that is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei.
\n\nThe planned 26-episode series, with seven-minute installments, follows Agent 19 of the Meowtocracy, shipped out from a home world running short on catnip. He comes armed with top-tier training, a body built for battle and a boss who checks on him each Tuesday. Then a human finds him on the street, names him Maomao and keeps him stocked with catnip and tuna.
\n\nTwo years on, the invasion is just 5% complete and his boss is livid. Agent 19 now has to work out whether he is still the one doing the conquering.
\n\nThe idea came from Yu’s wife’s cat, 19, whom he met when he met her.
\n\n“I had never lived with a cat before, and so much of what he did felt completely foreign to me (ten years later, I still don’t understand most of it): staring at the wall, knocking things off tables, sprinting around the house at 3 a.m.,” Yu says.
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/