So, what's behind the popularity of dog girl entertainment? Here are some possible reasons:
The werewolf film is a natural cousin to the dog girl, and several productions center on female protagonists. Never Cry Werewolf (2008) is a Canadian television film starring Nina Dobrev as a teenager who suspects her mysterious new neighbor is a werewolf. More comically, My Mom‘s a Werewolf follows a homemaker who is bitten by something strange at a local pet shop and must rely on her daughter to find a cure. The short film The Spectacular Summer of Weredog and Amy offers a clever inversion: a newly adopted dog is a reverse werewolf that turns into a man every full moon.
and Yae Miko (canine/fox traits) in Genshin Impact demonstrate how these traits are used to define a character's core personality and gameplay mechanics.