Half shark, half dog, and hungry every waking minute: Sharkdog is a 2021 animated family series from Singapore that pairs a ten-year-old boy named Max with the strangest pet on the block.

What is Sharkdog about?

Max is ten, and his best friend is not a classmate or a neighbour but a creature that has no business existing. Sharkdog carries the fin, teeth and bottomless appetite of a shark on top of the loyalty and tail-wagging enthusiasm of a dog, and he has no idea how strong, how stealthy or how thoroughly shark-like he really is. That blind spot is the engine of the show. Every short episode drops the pair into an ordinary childhood situation, and Sharkdog's instincts flip it upside down before anyone can step in. Max spends much of his time tidying up after his friend, keeping the secret from the grown-ups and standing up for a pet who never means any harm. The comedy grows out of the gap between Sharkdog's good intentions and the trail of wreckage he leaves behind, with Max's loyalty tested and reaffirmed in each new adventure.

About the cast

Jacinth Tan directs, and the voice ensemble features Liam Mitchell, Dee Bradley Baker, Kari Wahlgren, Judy Alice Lee, Liz Burnette, Donna Jay Fulks and Aly Mawji. Between them the cast covers the show's full range of sounds: excitable kid dialogue, exasperated adults, and the grunts, chomps and happy yelps of a creature who cannot speak but always makes himself understood.

Context & significance

Produced in Singapore, Sharkdog belongs to a wave of animated series for younger children that fold adventure, comedy and family storytelling into compact episodes of roughly twenty-five minutes. Its premise sits in a long tradition of children's television built around an impossible pet: the creature supplies chaos and slapstick, but the emotional core is a child's friendship with something the adult world does not understand. Listed under Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family and Short, the 2021 series is built for repeat viewing by small children and for parents who want something bright, quick and low on peril.

Watching Sharkdog on Ktime

Sharkdog streams on K-Time for account holders. Reading this page is free; watching the episodes requires a K-Time login. The series is presented in its original language, and no Persian dub or subtitles are listed for this title, so it suits households where children are comfortable with English audio. K-Time's Farsi interface makes it simple for Persian-speaking parents to find the series and queue the episodes.