On Wednesday, actor-comedian Zack Fox shared the first episode of Yoppaman , an animated comedy series about a dilapidated grits diner in the south, and it’s fuckin’ bonkers. The project was first teased back in April, when multi-hyphenate Donald Glover shared that he was working with Fox on an “anime” project during an episode of his Gilga radio live stream. Clocking in at just over two and a half minutes, the first episode of Yoppaman centers the eccentric employees of a Waffle House-inspired diner restaurant called Happy Grits.
While beating up an unruly customer outside the diner, the group transforms into Power Rangers-style heroes to fight against the henchmen of a maniacal alien warlord who happens to be hovering in his ship above the restaurant. It’s chaotic and weird and bursting with personality; the exact type of anarchic comedy that’d feel right at home alongside the likes of Adult Swim staples Black Dynamite and Freaknik: The Musical . A post shared by Chibu Okere (@chibuyum) “In 2022 I started developing an animated idea with my good friend and collaborator Chibu Okere,” Fox writes in the episode’s YouTube description.
“We’re both Atlanta-raised artists who grew up on stuff like Devilman , FLCL , Evangelion , 90’s Cartoon Network, and of course black southern folklore/music/comedy/fashion etc. So we wanted to make something that synthesized all of that into a big gumbo pot. Yoppaman is the spawn of that synthesis.
” The resemblance is ce.