Belzebubs

Juggling work and family is Hell.

Belzebubs is an animated sitcom for adults documenting the lives of your average devil-worshiping family next door, their romantic affairs and the sluggish evolution of the father’s hapless black metal band.

Available in Yle Areena in Finland both in Finnish and English!

Background

The Belzebubs series is based on the webcomic phenomenon of the same name by JP Ahonen. What started out as an improvised therapy project and and webcomic in 2016 has since grown into a global cross-media beast with over 650 000 online fans, comic book rights sold to over 20 countries and a three-album record deal with one of the world’s largest metal labels Century Media, music videos – and now animated series!

Synopsis

Sløth is juggling his stay-at-home dad obligations with his lifelong dream of being a heavy metal rock star. His breadwinner wife, Lucy, is fed up with her job and just one meltdown away from sacrificing her colleagues to Satan.

Their teenage daughter, Lilith, has just hit puberty and is wielding the effects of her raging hormones, stalking a boy in her class. And her brother, Leviathan, appears to be the only one exhibiting some sort of societal normalcy in the family. Unfortunately, he’s only eight.

Can Sløth handle his fierce wife, wicked kids, a very lively mother-in-law, a very deceased father-in-law, his dysfunctional band, mounting debts, and still achieve his dream? Probably not, but that sure as Hell won’t stop him from trying.