[Ken Sogen] Better than Sex [Uncle Bane] (Ongoing)

Fresh off an inheritance and three months of soul-crushing overtime that left him literally pissing blood, Takamichi blows his entire 8-million-credit fortune on a bunny girl android marketed as better than the real thing. The emotionless machine grinds him toward collapse while coolly demanding a password he never set and a safe word he doesn't have, turning his dream purchase into an endurance test he's rapidly losing. A flashback to a robotics classroom—where a classmate once admitted his withdrawn devotion to machines was exactly what charmed her—suggests this credit-burning fantasy hides more heart than its hardware lets on.