For yakuza lieutenant Michi, being exiled by your family matriarch to a backwater town and forced to reinvigorate a failing mascot business would be bad enough. But in Promise Mascot Agency, that town, Kaso-Machi, is home to a yakuza-killing curse, and the mascots aren't people in suits but living, breathing, near-mythological figures. Though the ones that call the dilapidated town home are more than a little odd.
Going hands-on, we join Michi as he links up with Pinky, the titular agency's main mascot and leader. A severed giant little finger, Pinky is a disturbing nod towards yubitsume, the ritual practice of cutting off part of your own finger for atonement, usually associated with yakuza crime fiction. Having fallen on hard times, the agency itself was converted into a love hotel, giving the now-deserted interior a kind of tacky, grimy feel. Our first mission has us driving Michi's prized, battered pickup truck to the corrupt Mayor's office to beg for the restoration of the mascot agency's license to do business. There's a constant, seedy undercurrent in Kaso-Machi.
