Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Get Jiro!’ To Become Adult Animated Series
by Tito W. James
It was recently announced that Briand Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka will be adapting Anthony Bourdain‘s comic Get Jiro! into an animated series for Adult Swim. Bourdain was notably an anime fan whose favorite film was Masaaki Yuasa‘s Mind Game. Hopefully, the showrunners can add that kind of madcap energy into the Get Jiro! animated series. If done right Get Jiro! could be like a Quentin Tarantino film in animated form.
In a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants, a bloody culinary war is raging.
On one side, the Internationalists, who blend foods from all over the world into exotic delights. On the other, the “Vertical Farm,” who prepare nothing but organic, vegetarian, macrobiotic dishes. Into this maelstrom steps Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef, known to decapitate patrons who dare request a California Roll, or who stir wasabi into their soy sauce. Both sides want Jiro to join their factions. Jiro, however has bigger ideas, and in the end, no chef may be left alive!
