Dragon Hunters

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Dragon Hunters is a cartoon series created by Arthur Qwak and produced by the French company Futurikon. It follows the adventures of two hunters for hire through a futuristic, medieval world of floating land masses that is terrorized by a widely varying menace of monsters known collectively as dragons. Its original French title is Chasseurs de Dragons.

There are three main characters: Lian-Chu, Gwizdo and Hector. Lian-Chu is the sword wielding, muscle-bound warrior who actually deals out the dragon slaying, while Gwizdo is the crafty minded brains in the group who negotiates their contracts with the helpless people terrorized by dragons. Hector is their pet dragon who does not possess the evil nature of the ones they hunt.

The program was featured in the United States on Cartoon Network for a few weeks around January of 2005, but, after having its time slot moved, vanished from the line-up. Unlike the other cartoons around its Saturday morning time slot, several episodes of Dragon Hunters were rated TV-PG. It reappeared on Cartoon Network in September 2006, but disappeared again in October 2006. It is currently available for viewing on Cartoon Network Video.

The show has received a fanbase in Arabic speaking countries, after the show's repeated airing on MBC 3.

A 3-D feature film and a videogame based on the series are both in production. Geneon has released five DVDs (containing episodes 1 - 17) in the U.S. and Canada.

The show's theme, "Dragon Hunter's Theme", is performed by the English rock band, The Cure.