Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose’s graphic novel Get Jiro! arrives as an Adult Swim animated series on October 3, 2026, bringing its dystopian Los Angeles food wars to television.
The animated adaptation premieres at midnight on October 3, 2026, airing as part of Adult Swim’s Toonami anime and action block before heading to HBO Max the following day.
Brian Tee Stars as a Lethal Sushi Chef in Dystopian Los Angeles
At the center of this bloodthirsty metropolis is Jiro, a quiet, exacting sushi chef who operates out of a strip mall in the Outer Ring, far removed from the middle-class Inner Ring and the fine-dining Center.
Jiro’s rules are simple: cook every grain of rice with patience, grow fresh wasabi in-house, and treat soy sauce as sacrilege. When a patron commits the ultimate culinary insult by mixing wasabi into his soy sauce and then dipping his nigiri rice-side down into the salty condiment, Jiro responds by decapitating him.
“No one gives a shit about a decapitation in the Outer Ring,”
a jaded detective, via Yahoo
Tee leads a voice cast that also includes Titus Welliver, Alison Pill, and Justin Kirk.
Bob and Rose Wage War Over Culinary Empire Control
Jiro soon finds himself caught in the middle of a brutal turf war between the city’s reigning culinary overlords. On one side stands Bob, a traditional French chef and kingpin who runs a high-end kitchen empire with mafia-style menace. On the other side is Rose, a vegan chef whose followers are styled as idealistic young anarchists wielding automatic weapons, meat substitutes, and tattoos and unfortunate haircuts.
Law enforcement is equally eccentric. The City of Angels Health Department drives armored squad cars and packs heat out of a Fritz Lang-inspired skyscraper, clashing directly with the Alcohol, Firearms and Food agency.
Adapting Anthony Bourdain’s Posthumous Culinary Satire
The original graphic novel was created by Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose in 2012, followed by a 2015 prequel before Bourdain’s death in 2018 at age 61. Co-writer Rose and Bourdain maintained a 35-year friendship after meeting when Bourdain showed up at his door seeking help becoming a better writer; Rose’s prior credits include the thrillers Kill Kill Faster Faster and The Blackest Bird, the urban fiction novel Kill the Poor, and TV shows “Kojak” and “Miami Vice.”
The television adaptation was developed by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka—who wrote the A24 feature Sharper and Netflix’s forthcoming Positano, along with creating the series Comrade Detective—who serve as executive producers alongside Jordan Blum and Sam Register. Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen noted that the network was instantly attracted to the project because it captures Bourdain’s unique ability to use food as a gateway to exploring cultural obsessions.
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