Kamabo Corporation



Kamabo Co. is a company in the Octo Expansion. It is the company that operates the Deepsea Metro and C.Q. Cumber's employer. The company's logo is made of two wave shapes that form a sea cucumber and appears throughout the expansion in loading screens, challenge selection, and on various items, such as CQ Cards and C.Q. Cumber's hat. The logo is also seen on the Rainmaker and the Tower in tests instead of the regular Ranked Battle anchor logo.

Following Commander Tartar's defeat, C.Q. Cumber mentions that Kamabo Co. has ceased to exist; in light of this, it is likely that it existed as a front for the AI's operations.

Trivia

 * If the player fails to defeat the final boss of the Octo Expansion, Kamabo Co.'s logo is visible on a monitor in destroyed Inkopolis Square.
 * There is a logo of a single eye frequently present around the testing facilities, where a variation of the Kamabo Co.'s logo features the eye in its design.
 * This variant sometimes features text at the bottom that seems to spell "No 10008-85", where the "No 10008" part is identical to the text that appears when Agent 8, also known as test subject number 10,008, clears a station. 85 can be read as "hachigō" ('eight-five' in Japanese), which also translates to "Number Eight", which is Agent 8's name in Japanese.
 * There are two Kamabo Co. posters near the entrance to the subway in Inkopolis Square, first appearing in Version along with the release of the Octo Expansion.
 * Alongside C.Q. Cumber mentioning that Kamabo Co. ceased after Tartar's defeat, Cuttlefish also has two raps in the post-game that hint that Commander Tartar was the CEO of the company.
 * One is "Kamabo Co. tried to mash us into paste, but Agent 3 showed up 'n' laid 'em to waste!", referring to the blender that was controlled by Tartar.
 * The other is "Kamabo Co.'s CEO got legit smacked down!", possibly referring to the battle on the NILS Statue.
 * When the Telephone reveals himself as Commander Tartar, the goo-like substance on it is shaped like the Kamabo Co. logo.
 * In the Belly Phase, the boxes containing Sanitized Octarians have a monitor that displays what looks to be "1 + 1 =" followed by Kamabo Co.'s eye logo.
 * In HaikaraWalker, the official Octo Expansion artbook, there is a mention that the Kamabo Co. logo looks like feces. The artbook also mentions how digesting things creates poop; this references the goal of Kamabo Corporation, which is to turn everyone who is intelligent enough to pass all the tests into primordial ooze by using a blender.

Etymology

 * "Kamabo Co." phonetically mirrors the word 'kamaboko', a type of cured surimi (a processed seafood product common in Japanese cuisine).
 * "Kamabo" also resembles the last two syllables of "cucumber."