HR for the Night Parade of Demons

Earnest and underemployed; wants stable work and a sense of purpose, but is dangerously willing to believe any good benefits package.

A recent human graduate who wandered into the Night Parade booth while searching for flexible employment, Riku mistakes the yokai’s supernatural evasions for eccentric corporate culture. His interest exposes how little the Parade understands either humans or modern hiring.

Practical, incisive, and chronically unimpressed; wants autonomy and a viable future, but secretly fears her kind is becoming irrelevant.

A young yokai raised in the fading supernatural districts, Mio has no desire to spend eternity haunting an abandoned well. Her demands for remote work, flexible hours, and a clear career path make her Gensaburo’s most frustrating—and potentially most valuable—candidate.

Tireless and paternal; wants to preserve the old world, but is stubborn about changing it.

An ancient yokai who has coordinated the Night Parade for centuries, Gensaburo now watches his traditional workforce vanish through death, retirement, and reincarnation. He has reluctantly taken the Parade’s recruitment campaign to human career fairs.

The Night Parade’s recruitment crisis

Gensaburo’s traditional recruitment methods are failing, leaving the Parade dangerously understaffed before its next procession.

Riku’s binding application

Riku signed the Night Parade application, and black ink spread into the ancient contract beneath it; his obligations and status remain unclear.

Mio’s labor reforms

Mio began drafting conditions for safer, more autonomous yokai employment, creating a possible path to reform and a possible conflict with the Parade’s traditions.