Infernally Employed is an original series by Mariko Abe, based on the Japanese folklore tale Momotaro with a contemporary twist. In the city of Cosmopolis, it doesn’t matter if you’re animal or human—Big Tech is behind the wheel, ready to bulldoze anything that stands in the way of their profit.
Stories in the Infernally Employed series
Cold hands, cold heart
Tamaki Sakurai is your typical corporate consultant. Every week, they fly out of town at dawn to put in long days at the offices of Bettr, their tech giant client. Then at the end of each day, it’s back to a generic hotel for a grab-n-go dinner and a video chat with the friends back home that Tamaki desperately misses.
It’s just modern life in the digital age—but there’s something lurking outside the confines of Tamaki’s hotel room, and it’s not here to allay Tamaki’s crushing loneliness.
Cold Hands, Cold Heart will run for roughly 4 issues in total. A sample of issue #1 can be found at this link.
Infernally Employed
Momotaro is a talented but lazy software engineer content with resting on his laurels. After a party goes awry, he finds himself low on cash and reluctantly joins Bettr, a tech conglomerate. Unfortunately, the management team is made up of demons determined to push AI onto their company to free up employees… So they can be eaten instead.
Infernally Employed will be a longer series (5-act story) that will follow the conclusion of Cold Hands, Cold Heart.