冲吧烈子和凯蒂猫同属三丽鸥公司创造，但她与凯蒂猫可爱的模样大不同。 冲吧烈子的外形像一只红熊猫小姐，25岁，在东京一家贸易公司会计部上班。外形十分可爱，但生气时——例如老板要她加班或同事戏弄她──她就会变得和凯蒂猫完全相反。头上会出现“烈”字，表达自己的怒气。 冲吧烈子每天被塞满工作，压力大到只能到卡拉OK狂唱死亡摇滚乐舒压、或是去喝啤酒，叫喊着“我会辞职！这不会是我的命运！”她的经历对于上班族来说甚有共鸣，而平常可爱的影像也与爆发Death Metal模式的样子有着强烈的反差。
TV动画《妖怪手表》新系列《妖怪手表Jam <妖怪学园Y～与N的遭遇～>》将从12月27日起播出，该作是以12月13日在日本上映的《妖怪学园Y 猫能成为HERO吗》登场的寺刃ジンペイ为主角的、新世界观展开的作品。片头曲由すとぷり演唱，曲名《ギンギラ銀河》，片尾曲《Y学園へ行こう！》为周替版本，ろん、96猫、そらる、＋α／あるふぁきゅん。、莉犬参加演唱。
In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sung by J.R. Johnston. This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (although Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped using a few seconds of the theme playing in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even though season six used music from some of their episodes.
