DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms
Genre	Comedy Adventure Science fantasy
Based on	How to Train Your Dragon
Developed by	Henry Gilroy
Voices of	Jeremy Shada Ashley Liao Marcus Scribner Aimee Garcia Vincent Tong Julia Stiles Lauren Tom Keston John Pavar Snipe Justina Machado D'Arcy Carden
Theme music composer	Patrick Cannell
Composers	John Powell (themes) Patrick Cannell (score)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	39 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Chuck Austen (2021–2022) Henry Gilroy (2021–2022) John Tellegen (2021–present)
Running time	23 minutes
Production company	DreamWorks Animation Television
Release
Original network	Hulu Peacock
Original release	December 23, 2021 (2021-12-23) – present (present)
Related
DreamWorks Dragons (2012–2018) DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders (2019–2022)

DreamWorks Dragons: The Nine Realms is an American computer animated television series in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise produced by the DreamWorks Animation under DreamWorks Animation Television for Peacock and Hulu. The series premiered on both Peacock and Hulu on December 23, 2021; the sixth season was released on June 15, 2023.

Premise

The series is set in the modern world, 1,300 years after the events of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019). It follows a group of misfit kids, brought by their parents to a huge fissure caused by a comet, who uncover the truth about dragons and where they've been hiding.^[1]

Characters and cast

Main

• Jeremy Shada as Tom Kullersen, an adventurous and kindhearted fourteen-year-old who is the leader of the Dragon Riders. In season 5, he is revealed to be the descendant of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. His dragon is a Night Light (a hybrid of Night Fury and Light Fury) named Thunder who is also the descendant of Hiccup's Night Fury: Toothless and his mate: the Light Fury.
• Ashley Liao as Jun Wong, Tom’s childhood friend who has an interest in myths and fantasy stories. Her dragon is a two-headed Mist Twister named Wu & Wei.
• Marcus Scribner as D'Angelo Baker, the team's veterinarian. His dragon is a crystal-horned Gembreaker named Plowhorn.
• Aimee Garcia as Alex Gonzalez, the team's tech expert, who never goes anywhere without her tablet. Her dragon is a cloaking Featherhide named Feathers.
• Vincent Tong as Eugene Wong, Jun's cocky older brother. He discovers the dragons in season 3 and is reluctantly accepted into the club. His dragon is a six-legged Deadly Spinner named Webmaster.

Recurring and Supporting

• Julia Stiles as Olivia Kullersen, Tom's mother and a geologist who works at Project ICARIS. She finally discovers the dragons in the season 4 finale. Like her son, she is also a descendant of Hiccup.
• Haley Joel Osment as Leonard "Buzzsaw" Burne, a lumberjack turned dragon-hunter and the main antagonist of the series. He starts hunting dragons after a forest fire burns down his logging business which he wrongfully believes Thunder started. He discovers the Hidden World in the season 3 finale, and eventually acquires his own dragon: a Timberjack that he names Old Jack.
• Carrie Keranen as Wilma Sledkin, a cocky and devious Rakke Corp scientist. She has a bitter rivalry with Olivia, and often attempts to discredit her work. She is known for always putting the company's needs above the people she works with.
• Keston John as Philip Baker, D'Angelo's father and the chief of security at Project ICARIS.
• Lauren Tom as May Wong, Jun and Eugene's strict dwarf mother and the director of Project ICARIS.
• Pavar Snipe as Angela Baker, D'Angelo's wheelchair-bound mother and the head medic at Project ICARIS.
• Angelique Cabral as Hazel Gonzalez, one of Alex's mothers and a biologist at Project ICARIS.
• Justina Machado as Carla Gonzalez, one of Alex's mothers and a cave botanist at Project ICARIS.
• D'Arcy Carden as Linda, a technician at Project ICARIS.^[2]
• Al Rodrigo as Ford, a lumberjack who works for Buzzsaw.
• Christian Lanz as Winston, a lumberjack who works for Buzzsaw.
• Mark Mercado as Dood, a lumberjack who works for Buzzsaw.

Episodes

The series was released on both Peacock and Hulu on December 23, 2021, while season two was released on May 5, 2022.^[3] The third season was released on August 18, 2022,^[4] while the fourth season was released on November 17, 2022.^[5] The fifth season was released on March 2, 2023.^[6] The sixth season was released on June 15, 2023.^[7]

Production

DreamWorks announced Dragons: The Nine Realms on October 13, 2021. The series was released on Peacock and Hulu on December 23, 2021, with season one containing six episodes for 22 minutes each. The series stars Jeremy Shada. It was produced by showrunners John Tellegen, Chuck Austen and Henry Gilroy.^[8]

Broadcast

Outside the United States, it aired on DreamWorks Channel Asia in 2022. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV on December 26, 2021. CBBC in United Kingdom, Rai Gulp in Italy, SX3^[9] in Spain, Super RTL in Germany and e.tv in South Africa in 2022. It has since also aired in the UK on CBBC.^{[citation needed]}

Video game

In May 2022, DreamWorks Animation and Universal announced that a game based on the series is in the works titled Dragons: Legend of the Nine Realms, published by Outright Games and developed by Aheartfulofgames, making this their second DreamWorks game since Spirit: Lucky Big Adventure. The game tells an original story before from the series and players get to play as Thunder, Tom's dragon, trying to find his family in the hidden world. The game was released on September 23, 2022 with Jeremy Shada reprising his role as Tom, narrating through.^{[citation needed]}