Zig &amp; SharkoZig &amp; Sharko Zig & Sharko Zig & Sharko (French: Zig et Sharko) is a French animated slapstick comedy television series created and directed by Olivier Jean-Marie (who also created "Oggy and the Cockroaches") and produced by Xilam Animation. It chronicles the conflict between Zig, a brown hyena, and Sharko, a great white shark, who lives on a island The conflict is fueled by Zig's constant attempts to devour the mermaid Marina, (Possibly to gain her tail, as seen in certain episodes) whom Sharko loves. The series employs silent comedy: characters either do not speak, or use unintelligible vocalizations, gestures, and occasional pictograms  in speech balloons (the Indian version dubs Hindi dialogue over the animation). Three seasons with a total of 78 half-hour episodes (234 seven-minute segments) were originally broadcast on December 21, 2010, followed by an official premiere on January 10, 2011 on Canal+ Family, with the second and third seasons airing on Gulli, and reruns airing on TF1. A third season was announced in December 2018. Premise. The series focuses on the exploits and adventures of a group of characters - Zig, a brown hyena; Sharko, a great white shark; Marina, a mermaid with red hair; and Bernie, a hermit  crab. Much of the stories of each episode revolve around an eternal war over Marina between Zig, who attempts to capture her to eat her, and Sharko, who loves her and acts as her bodyguard against Zig's various plans. The show itself draws inspiration for its plot and slapstick humor from the cartoons of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, in that Zig often makes use of various items or concocts plans based on things he witnesses with Sharko and Marina, but is often foiled by the former, bad luck, or a combination of both, that often results  in him receiving grievous bodily injury. Alongside the main characters, the show is frequently populated by minor background characters, many of whom are animals and aquatic creatures that, alongside Zig and Sharko, are portrayed as anthropomorphic beings. Although Zig and Sharko are real enemies and have intense grudges against each other, they are also best friends; Sharko can't live without Zig and Zig can't live without Sharko, as shown in the episodes "Lost in the Jungle" and "Freezing Buddies." Characters. None of the characters in the series speak; a form of gibberish speech is sometimes used, but most  interactions involve hand signals and body language to convey what a character is thinking about. The show's main characters include: Recurring. Alongside the main characters, various episodes feature a variety of background and minor characters to the stories - jungle animals, aquatic lifeforms, and various human characters - in the first season, one of these human characters is portrayed as a Japanese cargo ship captain, who, as a running gag, frequently crashes his ship into the island and is forced to return home via a rubber dingy. Throughout the first season, several episodes featured the supporting character of Neptune, based on  the mythological Roman god of the sea and portrayed as a vain, muscular merman with numerous killer whale henchmen, who competed with Sharko for Marina's love, despite her disliking him whom Marina despises and often has to rely on Sharko and Zig to keep him at bay, the production team also added in the Greek god Hades, portrayed as a muscular, elder merman, who served as Marina's adopted father, and an amnesiac human cargo plane pilot who often exhibits the behavior of a monkey due to his condition. Setting. Throughout the first season, much of the plots revolve  around the oceans surrounding a tropical volcanic island, alongside its coastline, in which Marina often spends the day residing on a rocky pinnacle off the coast during the day, while residing in an underwater home that she shares with Sharko. In the second season, the plots shifted to the island itself, including its beaches, volcano, and jungle, with some changes for the main characters - Marina takes residence in an ornate, life-sized sandcastle evocative of the Taj Mahal, built by Sharko; Zig and Bernie live with the cargo plane pilot in his crash plane within the jungle, and Sharko operates  as a lifeguard for the aquatic lifeforms who frequent the beaches. In the third season, the main characters and the island's inhabitants move onto a cruise ship to travel the oceans, where much of the season's plots take place. Production and development. In 2008, the television group Canal+ decided to develop pilot episodes for nine out of 135 animation projects received, including "Zig and Sharko", for television broadcast during the 2010–2011 season. A development budget of 6 to 6.5 million euros ( to million US dollars) was allocated to the series. The original title was "The Mermaid, the Hyena  and the Shark", and it is a co-production between the television channels TF1 and Canal+ Family which broadcast later this series. The type of animation is similar to the American series of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, "Tom and Jerry", and "Oggy and the Cockroaches", the latter also produced by Marc du Pontavice. Dong Woo Animation and Armada TMT contributed some of the animations for this series. The development of the series was carried out by the French studios Xilam known for other successful series such as "Space Goofs" and "Oggy and the Cockroaches", the series’ first season has been  ordered and picked up by Xilam Animation in 2009, which premiered on Canal+ on December 21, 2010, the series was launched on Canal+ Family on February 12, 2011, on Cartoon+ every Saturday at 7:40 pm. Xilam then produced a second season in 2013. YouTube channel. On May 6, 2015, the YouTube channel of "Zig & Sharko" was created, with all the episodes from season 1 to season 3. The channel made also compilations episodes. The channel made episodes with English title cards. As of August 2021, the channel has 11.9 million subscribers making it one of the Top 10 most-subscribed  French channels on the site. As of November 2020, "The Were-Yena" (episode 67 of season one) is the most-viewed episode of the official channel with over 99 million views. The most-viewed compilation has 118 million views. Zig & Sharko Zig & Sharko (French: Zig et Sharko) is a French animated slapstick comedy television series created and directed by Olivier Jean-Marie (who also created "Oggy and the Cockroaches") and produced by Xilam Animation. It chronicles the conflict between Zig, a brown hyena, and Sharko, a great white shark, who lives on a island The conflict is fueled by Zig