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10[[caption-width-right:350:There’s more to a can than you think!]]
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12Created by Vooz, the same Korean company that brought you ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'', ''Canimals'' revolves around a bunch of cute animals with cans for their bodies. They love to play with the environment around them, often times hiding in their cans from humans.
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14The series consists of computer animated critters running around in live action settings. Their numerous shorts usually revolves around Canimals playing around in various everyday objects and places. They tend to focus on nine particular members: Mimi, Oz, Ato, Uly, Fizzy, Nia, Toki, Pow and Leon.
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16A fast-growing franchise, they have shown up on plushies, shirts, pillows, cups, and other merchandise. They have also shown up in apps for Android and iOS.
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19!!Tropes in the ''Canimals'' series:
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21* AnimalSweetOnObject: In "Toki in Love", Toki the rabbit sees a can that depicts a female rabbit on it and immediately falls in love with it, ignoring Mimi and driving her to stop him from being so attached to the can in the process.
22* BadassAdorable: Seeing how the Canimals get around places much larger than they are may put you in awe.
23%% * Bad Butt: Fizzy and Oz, the action loving kitties.
24* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: {{Justified|Trope}}, as they're aliens from a distant planet.
25%%* Berser kButton: Yes, these adorable critters can go berserk, especially [[HairTriggerTemper Mimi]].
26%%This trope is for when a specific thing makes a character angry. Please specify WHAT exactly makes any of the Canimals angry before commenting this example back in.
27* BigEater: Uly will happily try to chomp down any food he sees without thinking twice.
28* ChameleonCamouflage: Leon the chameleon can change color or make himself invisible at will.
29* CirclingBirdies: In "Chili Can Carnage", Fizzy temporarily gains circling stars above his head when he lands on the ground after grabbing a bunch of chili peppers hanging on the wall.
30* ColorCodedCharacters: The color and/or pattern on the can helps distinguish Canimals in their hiding state.
31 **Red: Oz
32 **Orange: Uly
33 **Yellow: Nia
34 **Green: Ato, but also Leon
35 **Blue: Fizzy, but also Toki
36 **Purple: minor (recurring) characters Woo-ang the Bull Terrier and Pip the Tuxedo kitten
37 **Pink: Mimi
38 **Brown: Pow
39* CuteButCacophonic: Nia may seem like an adorable kitty, despite her shyness, but if she's extremely frightened or angry, she will [[SuperScream scream loud enough to blow anyone away.]]
40* CuteKitten: A third of the main Canimals are kittens.
41%%* {{Determinator}}: All of them.
42%%* TheDitz: Ato and Uly, who are both dogs.
43%%** Sometimes the Canimals cross into GeniusDitz category when it comes to figuring out a use for everyday objects.
44%%* DogsAreDumb
45* FireBreathingDiner: In "Chili Can Carnage", Oz eats some chili peppers from a Mexican restaurant and promptly breathes fire onto a kebab, cooking it. She utilizes this to her advantage by forcing Koby the turtle, who has come with her, to eat the peppers and breathe the resulting fire onto some more kebabs; Koby does not take this treatment very kindly.
46* InstantBandages: Several times. For example, near the end of the episode "Super Can", Fizzy falls to the ground and suddenly gains a couple of bandages throughout his body from the collision.
47* IrisOut: Almost every episode ends on one of these. The circle formed by the iris-out is sealed by a can lid suddenly appearing over it.
48* {{Portmantitle}}: The show's title combines the words "can" and "animal".
49* PreciousPuppies: another third of the main Canimals are puppies.
50* HiddenInPlainSight: The Canimals retreat into their can bodies when humans are around.
51%%* LeParkour
52%%* LovableCoward: Nia, and sometimes Ato.
53%%* MundaneObjectAmazement
54%%* {{Narcissist}}: Mimi is this to some extent.
55* NaughtyIsGood: The Canimals are curious little beings, yet they prank and steal from each other.
56* OneWordTitle: ''Canimals'' is only one word.
57* PintsizedPowerhouse: It’s quite surprising to see such tiny critters push around step ladders.
58* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Every single Canimal is ''absolutely adorable''.
59* RightUnderTheirNoses: See HiddenInPlainSight.
60* RogerRabbitEffect: The animated Canimals appear in live-action environments, sometimes alongside live-action humans.
61* ShoutOut: One episode is called "[[Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest Can Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]".
62%%* ShrinkingViolet: Nia, again.
63* SkywardScream: Toki does one in "Toki in Love" when the can with the female rabbit on it falls off the countertop.
64* SuperDeformed: The Canimals consists of big heads and small can bodies.
65* SuperheroesWearCapes: Fizzy dons a cape when he becomes a superhero in "Super Can".
66* VisibleInvisibility: When Leon makes himself invisible, he's only visible as a distortion of the background.
67* WingdingEyes: Toki's eyes turn into hearts several times throughout the episode "Toki in Love" as he is admiring the female rabbit depicted on a can of carrots.

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