Adult Swim is serving up a very different kind of culinary experience with Get Jiro!, an outrageous new animated series set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where chefs rule society, food is power and a sushi master is on a mission for revenge.
The Get Jiro! Official Red Band Trailer promises a wildly violent and irreverent take on the world of high-end cuisine, with martial arts, organized crime and culinary class warfare all on the menu.
The series premieres October 3 on Adult Swim.
A Post-Apocalyptic Los Angeles Where Chefs Rule
Forget politicians, billionaires and military leaders. In the world of Get Jiro!, chefs are the most powerful people on Earth.
Set in a near-future Los Angeles devastated by an unspecified apocalypse, the city has rebuilt itself around food. What you eat—and who prepares it—has become a reflection of social status.
Food isn’t simply nourishment anymore.
It’s currency. It’s power. It’s class.
The city’s culinary elite hold enormous influence, while restaurants and chefs have effectively replaced traditional institutions of authority.
And into this bizarre new world comes Jiro.
Get Jiro
- Director: Brian Gatewood
- Starring: Brian Tee, Titus Welliver, Alison Pill, Justin Kirk
- Genre: Animation
Meet Jiro
Brian Tee provides the voice of Jiro, a mysterious sushi chef whose arrival threatens to disrupt the established order.
Jiro isn’t interested in playing by the rules established by Los Angeles’ culinary aristocracy. Instead, he has his own agenda—and that agenda involves revenge.
As Jiro moves through the city’s dangerous culinary underworld, his expertise with sushi is matched by his ability to fight.
What follows is a quest that promises to be as bloody as it is ridiculous.
When Food Becomes a Weapon
At the heart of Get Jiro! is a wonderfully absurd concept: the restaurant industry has become a battlefield.
In this Los Angeles, chefs aren’t celebrities—they’re essentially warlords.
Competition between culinary factions can have deadly consequences, and social status can depend on everything from what you eat to which chef prepares it.
Jiro’s arrival threatens this carefully maintained hierarchy, putting him on a collision course with the people who control the city’s food culture.
A Violent and Hilarious Animated Series
The Red Band designation should give viewers an idea of what to expect.
Get Jiro! embraces an adult-oriented combination of violent action, dark comedy, satire and absurdity. The series takes the increasingly competitive world of food culture and pushes it to an outrageous extreme.
Rather than simply parodying chefs and restaurant culture, the show creates an entire dystopian society in which culinary preferences determine where you stand in the social hierarchy.
The result is a world where a disagreement over food can become a matter of life and death.
Brian Tee Leads the Voice Cast
Brian Tee voices Jiro, the enigmatic sushi chef at the center of the story.
Tee has extensive experience across television and film, including roles in Chicago Med, Jurassic World and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. His performance as Jiro brings a potentially intimidating presence to a character who is equally comfortable preparing sushi and taking on his enemies.
The voice cast also includes:
- Brian Tee as Jiro
- Titus Welliver
- Alison Pill
- Justin Kirk
Created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka
Inspired by the late Anthony Bourdain’s comic of the same name.
Get Jiro! is created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, who have developed the series around the comic-book-inspired premise of a future where culinary culture has become the foundation of society.
The creators use the exaggerated world of food as a way to explore class, status, power and competition, while simultaneously delivering an action-packed animated adventure.
What to Expect From Get Jiro!
The series appears to be mixing several very different ingredients:
- Post-apocalyptic science fiction
- Adult animation
- Martial-arts action
- Dark comedy
- Crime and revenge
- Culinary satire
- Class warfare
At the center of it all is Jiro, whose personal mission threatens to upset an entire social system.
And considering this is Adult Swim, audiences shouldn’t expect a polite culinary drama.
Get Jiro! Release Date
Get Jiro! premieres October 3 on Adult Swim.
Title: Get Jiro!
Network: Adult Swim
Premiere: October 3
Genre: Adult Animation / Action / Comedy / Science Fiction
Creators: Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka
Voice Cast: Brian Tee, Titus Welliver, Alison Pill, Justin Kirk
Final Thoughts
Get Jiro! takes the idea of food as a status symbol and pushes it to its most ridiculous—and violent—conclusion.
In a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where chefs are kings and cuisine is currency, Jiro arrives with a knife, a talent for sushi and a score to settle.
The result looks like a wonderfully strange combination of culinary satire, dystopian science fiction, gangster comedy and martial-arts mayhem.
If you’ve ever thought the restaurant world could use a little more chaos, Get Jiro! appears ready to serve it up.
