Makima

Dealing deadly blows to others she looks down upon

* Let Chainsaw Man eat her and fuse with him in order to make him easier to control.
* Use the Chainsaw Man's powers to eradicate all of the devils including the worst ones such as War, Death, and Hunger.
* Establish an Orwellian type of peace in the world.
* Live happily ever after with Pochita/Chainsaw Man.
* Create a world where she stood equal with others.
* Build a familial relationship with the one she perceives as her equal (all failed).

### Crimes

* Mass murder
* Psychological abuse
* Slavery
* Brainwashing
* Gaslighting
* Mutilation
* Conspiracy
* Sexual harassment

### Type of Villain

Obsessed Control Freak

> "*Your necessary evil is just an excuse to justify your own crimes. Those excuses are unnecessary to society. The truly necessary evils are always kept collared and controlled by the state.*"
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> "*I want to use Chainsaw Man... to create a better world.*"
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> "*Any source of happiness you experience? I'll be the one to create and destroy it all. You helped me kill Power. There might have been a way for you to save Hayakawa, but you killed him too. You even murdered your own father. Someone like you has no right to wish for a normal life, do they?*"
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**Makima** (マキマ?) was the main antagonist of the Public Safety Saga. She was a high-ranking Public Safety Devil Hunter who took Denji in as her human pet.

She is later revealed to be the **Control Devil** (の *Shihai no Akuma*?) who embodies the fear of control or conquest. Following her death, she is reincarnated as Nayuta.

**Makima** is the main antagonist of *Chainsaw Man Part 1: Public Safety*. She serves as the overarching antagonist of the Gun Devil Arc, in which she reveals her true nature, then going on to serve as the titular main antagonist of the Control Devil Arc, the final arc of Part 1.

She is the leader of the Public Safety Devil Hunter organization who takes Denji under her wing, giving him a happy life compared to the suffering that he endured during his childhood days. Initially acting as a helpful ally, she is later revealed to be a powerful and intelligent devil as old as the history of humanity known as the **Control Devil** who was feared by human beings for several centuries and several other nations, including the United States.

She then proclaims herself to be an admirer of the Chainsaw Man, the entity that was sealed in Denji's body, and plans to either be devoured by him or use his powers to eradicate all of the devils that have plagued humanity for years in order to bring a better world for humanity, fulfilling the hopes of her contractor, the Japanese Prime Minister.

After her death, the Control Devil was reincarnated in the form of a little girl named **Nayuta**. Having no recollection of her previous life as Makima, she was given to be raised by Denji as her brother, to ensure she lives a better life and not end up like Makima once more.

She is voiced by Tomori Kusunoki in Japanese and Suzie Yeung (who also voiced Miraschon and Keiko Koshide) in English.

**Makima** is the main antagonist of *Chainsaw Man Part 1: Public Safety*. She was the leader of the Public Safety Devil Hunter organization who takes Denji under her wing, giving him a happy life compared to the suffering that he endured during his childhood days. Initially acting as a helpful ally, she is later revealed to be a powerful and intelligent devil as old as the history of humanity known as the **Control Devil** who was feared by human beings for several centuries and several other nations, including the United States. She then proclaimed herself to be an admirer of the Chainsaw Man, the entity that was sealed in Denji's body, and planned to either be devoured by him or use his powers to eradicate all of the devils that have plagued humanity for years in order to bring a better world under her control.

She is voiced by Tomori Kusunoki in Japanese and Suzie Yeung in the dub.

**Makima** is the main antagonist of the manga series *Chainsaw Man*. She is the leader of the Public Safety Devil Hunter organization who, initially acts as a helpful ally towards the protagonist, Denji, by taking him under her wing. Although, from the beginning, she harbored an ulterior motive of using him only for his power and eventually stealing the chainsaw devil's heart from him. In order to achieve her goals and gain his trust, she formulated a specific plan for Denji to have a happy life, including giving him a found family, food, and shelter. She did this also so that he would be committed to her and want to protect her.

In spite of this constant callous manipulation, Makima has done some morally corrupt things over the course of the story for the sake of the greater good such as having no hesitation to hurt Denji if he disobeyed, using blackmails to get what she wants. Makima possesses several inhuman traits such as resurrecting herself even if she was murdered or fatally wounded. As the story progressesses, she reveals more and more of her sinister personality as a villainess.

Around Chapter 75, it was revealed that Makima herself is a powerful and omniscient devil as old as human history itself known as *The Control Devil* who was feared by the human beings for several centuries. Several nations, including the United States, attempt to escape from her grasp to prevent her bringing the worst kind of peace towards the world. In addition, it was revealed that the personality she fabricated of being a kind figure that Denji respected is not what it seems.

By the time Chapter 84 hits, she proclaims that she is a number one admirer of the Chainsaw Man, the entity that was sealed into Denji's body, and that she plans to use his powers to eradicate all of the devils including the formidable ones that have plagued humanity for years in order to bring a better world for humanity, fulfilling the hopes of her contractor, The Japanese Prime Minister.

As Chapter 87 hits, It is possible however, that Makima herself is heavily implied to be one of the members of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse that holds the moniker of Conquest as she was also involved in the battle with Chainsaw Man before he went missing which resulted on her attempting to find her whereabouts.

## Appearance

Makima is a Devil resembling a human woman in her twenties of average build, and marginally above average height (168 cm/5'6" to 173 cm/5'8"). She has long light red/pale auburn hair, normally kept in a loose braid with bangs reaching just past her eyebrows and two longer side bangs that frame her face. Her eyes are yellow with multiple red rings within them, making them the only visible sign of her inhuman nature.

Her usual Public Safety uniform consists of a white long-sleeved shirt, a black tie, black pants and brown shoes.

Makima initially presented herself as a woman possessing otherworldly beauty with red hair that is tied in a braid and eye-length bangs with two longer side bangs that frame her face. In addition, she also possesses strange golden swirly eyes. Most of the time, she supports a rather calm and collected look on her face to show that she is rather serious about her job. In most of her appearances, Makima wears a black businessman suit with a white shirt and black tie tucked inside of it just like other Devil Hunters and she sometimes takes off her businessman coat. In her casual outfit, Makima wears a nearly unbuttoned white jacket with a black dress inside of it, long black stockings and high-heeled shoes. In Denji’s vision, she is imagined wearing pure white lingerie alongside Reze. During the meeting at the beach, Makima only wears a plain, simple yet beautiful black dress. When she was shot by the Gun Devil, a halo of brain matter emerges from her headshot, making her resemble a faux angel. Later on, she wears a black jacket with a white shirt tucked inside of it and some regular pants.

## Personality

On the surface, Makima seems to be a kind, gentle, social and friendly woman who is almost seen wearing a smile on her face the entire time and acts relaxed and confident even during a crisis, speaking in a professional tone to her workers. As her natural appearance is nearly identical to that of a human, she avoids disclosing her Devil nature to most of her underlings and spends much of the series posing as a human contracted to a Devil rather than a Devil herself. However, this is only a façade that she uses to fulfill her ultimate goal: After the death of Aki Hayakawa, Makima begins to reveal her true colors to Denji. Makima's true face is of someone that is Machiavellian and calculating, who sees people around her as nothing more than "dogs" she can use as much as she likes and must obey her without any hesitation. Makima has demonstrated herself to be extremely cunning, cold and manipulative as she controls Denji through the promises of a romantic and sexual relationship while also threatening him with outright extermination if he disobeys her. Ruthless and normally dispassionate, she will do whatever it takes to reach her goals, even at the cost of the people she should be protecting. Makima also realizes that she is not a good person and deems herself as "necessary evil"; a weapon under control of the Japanese government, just like Gun Devil which is under the control of the American government. She is not afraid of her plans derailing, since whether her plans fail or succeed, she will almost always achieve something she wants. Makima is an extreme fan of Chainsaw Man, the "Hero of Hell". Fascinated by its ability to wipe out the embodied concept of a Devil through consuming them, her stated goal is to bring Chainsaw Man under her control in order to use its abilities to create an ideal world without fear, death, and “bad” movies. However, failure is also acceptable, as it would mean being eaten—an honor according to her. Makima's true goal, however, was to be together forever with Pochita and lead a happy life with him. She always yearned for something like a family, being incapable of forming equal and meaningful relationships as the Control Devil.

During her first appearance, she was portrayed as an ally in the manga, even managing to save Denji from his hellish life and trying to make him happy by coddling him and even making a companion just for him to form a rather big and strong family that were integrated together while Makima acts as a motherly figure or an actual ideal girlfriend towards Denji. Her motherly figure can be shown when Makima attempts to cheer up Denji by either inviting him on a date to watch movies together or letting him stay at her home when he fell asleep on the park bench. Makima also shows herself to be a dog person as she owns several dogs in her own apartment. It is also stated that she is on the side of humanity, claiming that she attempts to save humanity from the devils that were plaguing the world. Despite some of her ruthless behavior, she does not hesitate to call out several yakuza about justifying themselves being a necessary evil as she needed their cooperation to further her own plans seemingly saving humanity. In addition, Makima also shows a bit of a glimpse of the humanity in her when she cried during her time with Denji watching the third film about a man seemingly reconciling with his lost friend. Makima is also shown to be a serious and calm person on her job as she made herself a no-nonsense authority figure for the Devil Hunter bureau itself while mostly spending her time as a person who has limited emotions over the course of the story. Despite this, Makima is shown to be a respected figure by the Devil Hunters as according to one of them, Hayakawa, he owed Makima deeply because Makima saved her life from a dark and troubled past while another one, Madoka, also respected Makima due to her respecting the decision to quit the bureau after the massacre towards the Devil Hunters happened. However, at the same time, Makima is shown to be ruthless in her job, having no hesitation to threaten Denji by euthanizing him or treat him like a devil if he decides to disobey her orders after he already made him her pet while also showing her ruthlessness nature towards people who were against her such as the assailant that nearly kills her or Denji or the aforementioned Yakuza by brutally wounding or killing them. In addition, Makima shows herself to be a rather shady figure as she conspired with other members of the bureau in order to further the goals of the Japanese Government, especially the mission to obtain several Gun Devil fragments. In addition, Makima's accomplice and the strongest devil hunter who ever lived, Kishibe, also suspects Makima is a compulsive liar as he suspects that Makima disguises her true intentions under the guise of being a benevolent savior of humanity. Makima can also be considered as a jingoistic person, willingly following her superior orders in order to obtain the fragment for the gun devil to ensure Japan become a superpower country trumping the likes of America, the Soviet Union, or China, even having no hesitation to start a war with other countries just to get the gun devil fragments to control the Gun Devil for their nefarious purposes. At the same time, Makima is also shown to perform several sketchy and inhumane behavior across the manga due to her seemingly immortal nature, being able to control other animal life itself to perform her bidding, managing to wound one of the Primordial Devils and also had a rather creepy Orwellian approach to increase her knowledge towards other surroundings which makes her rather frightening for a good reason. In truth, all of the inhuman and ruthless things she had done over the course of the manga are foreshadowing to reveal that she is something worse: It was revealed that she is actually the ancient Control Devil who is a powerful and omniscient devil old as the history of humanity. She was also feared across the world by humans and devils alike with the intention of bringing the worst kind of peace into the world. Her true personality was revealed to be that of a compulsive liar and manipulative sociopath who is willing to use other people and devils as mere pawns in order to further her own goals while in addition, revealing herself to be a sadist and revealing the fact that Makima groomed him to have a happy life at first, before crushing it all to pieces as she gaslights him for all the seemingly terrible things she had done so that she could sever the pact between Denji and Pochita. It was then revealed that all of the atrocities that she committed were for her own agenda alongside the Japanese Prime Minister to bring a better world towards humanity to flourish which clearly correlates with her earlier personality's seemingly care towards humanity as she attempts to use the power of the Chainsaw Man in order to get rid all of the devils including the powerful ones that had plagued the existence of humanity and was feared by them. It was also revealed that she also admires Chainsaw Man to the point it's a borderline obsession for her, blatantly saying that she was a number one fan of him, due to its powers being able to make a devil cease to exist as this was proven by several people forgetting tragedies or fears that the devil possesses such as Nazi, World War II, nuclear weapons, Four Fates besides death, stars that break children's minds and so on. Her obsession with Chainsaw Man was also shown in Chapter 87 as she becomes overjoyed on reuniting again with him after the big battle that she had in the past and attempts to settle the long fight that they had. Makima is also shown to possess an omniscient level of memory as it was shown that she is aware of the tragedies and fears that happened in the past despite humanity forgetting about it due to the powers of the Chainsaw Man that made the devils cease to exist. In addition to all of this, she also possesses a rather calm, collected demeanor and a shrewd mind as if she failed to do something or loses against someone in the battle, Makima uses several backup plans as she attempted to win in the end as her calm and collected behavior was also shown during her battle as while she knew full well she will lose the battle against Chainsaw Man with the hybrids, Makima stays very calm as she uses her backup plan by shooting Chainsaw Man to the space when her plan to defeat him by using Hybrid Devils that she had brainwashed seemingly failed while fully aware that she could possibly lose the battle against Chainsaw Man. However, at the same time, Makima's calm and collected demeanor led to her absolute apathy in winning and losing the battle, in the end, Makima also perceives some of her losses as an absolute win in the end especially when it comes to fighting the Chainsaw Man which she obsessed at. This was shown when she dismissed Kishibe's warnings about if she lost the battle against the Chainsaw Man and will be eaten by him, she still considered this as an absolute win because she intends to become part of the Chainsaw Man itself and still tries to harness his powers. Her calm and collected behavior was also shown during her battle with Chainsaw Man, seemingly apathetic if she doesn't win the battle against Chainsaw Man or not despite using hybrid devils at her own disposal to defeat Chainsaw Man, knowing full well that she will lose the battle. Makima also possesses a huge sadomasochistic tendency during the fight against Chainsaw Man as during Chapter 88, she is seemingly possessing a rather elated face as Chainsaw Man tied her and the brainwashed hybrids before cutting them off, indicating that she had a lot of fun during her battle against Chainsaw Man. In the end, it was then revealed that her calm and collected behavior paid off in the end because the gambits that she had pulled such as having him fight against Aki revealed to have weakened Chainsaw Man itself as Makima is aware that Chainsaw Man was powered by the fear of devil so as a result, she uses the power of adoration of the humans across the world in order to weaken the Chainsaw Man himself so that she could have an easier time to attack him. At the same time, however, Makima also reveals her sociopathic tendencies in a similar chapter when she weakened Chainsaw Man: While she clearly loves humans, she perceives that kind of love as humans' fondness for dogs as humans according to Makima are loyal, easily handled, clever and stupid as watching their movements is a rather fun thing to experience with Makima herself embracing the adoration and praises that the humanity had for her. As Makima easily attacks Chainsaw Man with the Spear of Longinus with the help of Angel which causes Chainsaw Man to be gravely wounded, instead of being happy, Makima felt disappointed, possibly due to the Chainsaw Man wounding himself to protect Kobeni instead of being submissive towards her. In addition to all of this, Makima also shows a rather condescending and elitist behavior, viewing Denji as nothing but an obstacle for her to meet Chainsaw Man and also viewing him as unworthy of the title due to his appearance and mannerisms alone. When Denji asks her if bad movies will exist in her utopian world, alluding to their date in the cinemas, Makima then answered his question by saying that she has no hesitations to remove all the bad movies from the earth, reflecting her determination to bring a world where human race experience no suffering and misfortunes. During the battle against Chainsaw Man, it was heavily implied that despite she gains tons of advantages during the battle against him, she also possesses a personal code during the battle as she prefers to battle one-on-one against Denji as she was rather bored after overpowering Chainsaw Man several times. As a result, Makima decides to revive Denji by giving him her blood in order to have one last battle against her. Despite this, Makima still shows her petty grudge as she still holds contempt against Denji after seeing Pochita choose him more compared to her, even perceiving him as an unworthy person holding the title of Chainsaw Man because he didn't fill the criteria of what Chainsaw Man was according to her while also having no hesitations sending death threats towards him because he is in her way. At the end of the day, it was then revealed that Makima herself only views Chainsaw Man as a possession that she was obsessed with while revealing that her seeming goal to make a better world is just a mere second objective for her as she contemplated living with Chainsaw Man in a happy life together forever. Her trait of severely underestimating Denji as nothing but an obstacle comes to bite her hard at the end as she was killed by the thing that she hated in the first place and was turned into minced meat to be eaten by Denji despite that he ate her to show love for her. However, at the same time, it was revealed that Makima is nothing but a tragic figure herself who still wants to create a utopian world in her own way by creating a world where she can be equal to others and also yearning for a familial relationship that she never has despite building the relationship through fear and trying to create said world with the wrong methods. This is due to the fact that she was never taught to feel love and empathy as she was raised to be a cold, ruthless, and no-nonsense woman that leads the Public Safety Division in order to exterminate devils and bring a better world for humans which in turns shows her distaste with the members of the Government and the Bureau itself. Her behavior through nurture was shown when she is reincarnated as Nayuta who is essentially the more docile and weaker version of Makima while keeping her innocence still intact as Kishibe tells Denji to not let her be given by the government to be raised and her distaste towards the Bureau was also shown where she expresses displeasure on meeting with the Kyoto Bigwigs as she wanted to enjoy her hobby in peace. Her wish to yearn something for a familial relationship was also shown during her date with Denji as she was shown crying after seeing a movie about two people hugging each other.

## Sypnosis

### Intro arc

Makima went to exterminate the Zombie Devil but saw someone beat her to it. She then saw Denji as Chainsaw Man and told him he had a smell neither human or devil and asked him who he was, but he only told her to hug him. As she did, Denji turned back into human. Makima then told him that she is a Devil Hunter and that Denji has two options: be killed by her or kept as her pet, upon hearing he will be fed, he agreed. While travelling in the car, Denji's stomach growled and Makima told him she will buy him some food. When they reached the store and ordered food, a man rushed in and asked for help. Hearing the situation and that her food is ready, she sends out Denji to deal with the situation, since he was her pet. After Denji returned, she complimented him for being a good pet. She explains that there are a few precedents like his, but there is still no name for his situation, she also states that since she had a good nose she could sense that Pochita was still alive in him. She then fed him the soggy udon, as he couldn't himself. Denji then asked her what was her type, to which she responded it's him. Makima introduces Denji to the other members of Division 4 that he will be living with, Aki Hayakawa and the Blood Fiend Power.

### Bat Devil arc

Makima commands Denji and Power to patrol and search for a devil. After Power recklessly kills the Sea Cucumber Devil, Makima goes to the place where she killed that devil. Then, she tells Denji and Power about the consequences of killing a devil which was already being searched by the police pointing out that they should receive a punish for what happened, being in this case death sentence, however she decides to make a blind eye and pretend they didn't break the rules giving the two of them a warning so they can behave better and then leaves. Later that night, Makima is in her office hearing the report of Aki Hayakawa about the defeat Bat and Leech Devils that afternoon. Before he leaves, Makima states that Aki has become more flexible, something that he denies. The next day in the morning Makima has a phone call and tells Aki that from now on Power will stay at his place and live with them. At the HQ, Makima asks Denji to do some paperkwork. She notices him distracted while filling the papers and asks him if something has him worried. Right after hearing Denji's concern, Makima approaches and bites one of his fingers and makes him touch her chest. Then she motivates Denji to hunt the Gun Devil by promising to grant him any wish. She then commands Division 4 to kill the Eternity Devil and retrieve the piece of the Gun Devil's flesh in its possession.

### Eternity Devil arc

She then goes out drinking with the team in celebration of their victory. Makima is on her way to meet with members of the Special Division 1 when her fellow Devil Hunters are attacked by followers of the Gun Devil.

### Katana Man arc

She survives getting shot in the head thanks to an unknown ability or contract and then kills some of the assailants thanks to a different ability that requires her to sacrifice criminals condemned to life in prison. After the attack, Makima introduces Denji and Power to the strongest Devil Hunter in the Special Division 1, known only as Master. After they complete their training, Master and Makima have dinner where he accuses her of using Denji and Power as pawns in her schemes and questions her allegiance to humanity. Later, Makima meets with members of the Yakuza and forces them to disclose the names of the people who attacked Division 4 by presenting them with a bag filled with the eyeballs of their loved ones and refuses to return them to a healthy state if they do not cooperate. After successfully infiltrating the hideout and capturing the Katana Man Makima is seen reporting to a superior. She reported that Sawatari who was a former Private Devil Hunter contracted with the Gun Devil and passed guns to the Yakuza, in exchange for which she wanted the Chainsaw Devil's heart. She also reports that Sawatari committed suicide before they could interrogate her and that they obtained 1.4 Kg of Gun Devil fragments. Which when combined with their already obtained 5 Kg was moving towards the main body. She later examines Power and says that her blood must be drained to keep her in check. She assigns Beam as Denji's partner until the blood draining is complete. Makima then invites Denji on a date, they watch movies together and are mostly unmoved with them. In the final movie both her and Denji are moved to tears. After that movie, Denji asks Makima if she thinks that he has a heart to which she responds by placing her head on his chest and saying that he does.

### Bomb Girl arc

Makima is seen partnering Aki with the Angel Devil stating that he is the most powerful member of the 4th excluding Kishibe. She also tells Aki that the Angel Devil is lazy and that he doesn't have to be friendly with him, only to use him well as he could be a valuable asset. She intercepts Reze when she is going to meet Denji at the Café using her ability to travel as a mischief of rats. She tells Reze that she too likes the country mouse and talks about going to help a friend who lives in the country, stating that catching the mice which ruin the fields gives her peace of mind. She disarms Reze with the help of the Angel Devil who is waiting on the rooftop above the alleyway. She is standing in a pool of Reze's blood when she tells the Angel Devil that she told him to bring Aki with him. She sees it as considerate that he didn't bring Aki along as he wouldn't have wanted to kill a woman.

### International Assassins arc

Makima visits Denji's apartment and invites him, Aki and Power on a vacation to Enoshima. Denji and Aki readily agree and Power tries to worm her way out of it to no success. A group of Public Safety devil hunters enter the apartment and inform Makima of a development; Denji in his Chainsaw Devil form has become public knowledge due to Reze's efforts which Makima is angry at. She comments that America and China will both be after Denji due to his rarity as someone who is neither devil nor fiend and that the Soviet Union likely did this so that no matter who captured Denji he would be away from Makima. Makima postpones the trip to Enoshima, informing Denji that he will be without freedom for the foreseeable future. She gives orders to the other devil hunters for Kusakabe and Tamaoki from Miyagi Public Safety Devil Extermination Division 2 and Subaru from Kyoto Public Safety Devil Extermination Division 1 be brought in, and that Hirofumi Yoshida is to be hired from the civilian sector in order to protect Denji. On her way out, she informs Aki that the operation to kill the Gun Devil will commence next year and that he should try not to die in the meantime since they will need everybody for that operation. Makima speaks with Kishibe about the potential threats that will be coming their way, including a rumor than Quanxi is coming which Kishibe is unhappy with. She states that it is no use taking precautions against her and that the one they really need to be worrying about is Germany's Santa Claus who is rumored to have died of old age, but is still the biggest threat out there. Makima, alongside Beam and Prinz, take care of a large number of Santa Claus' puppet dolls in a ruined building. She orders Beam to go assist Denji and tells Prinz to make sure to save Denji no matter what, and to recover the bodies of any devil hunters who perish. Later Makima sits atop a pile of puppet corpses and shows an awareness that Denji and several other devil hunters are under assault from the Darkness Devil in Hell. She states that the Darkness Devil is intentionally bidding her to come and try to save them. Prinz, who has been defeated already by the Darkness Devil begs Makima not to come but after Makima gives the order, Prinz dutifully summons her by unzipping her upper body open and allowing Makima to emerge in Hell. Makima and the Darkness Devil point at each other, exchanging attacks, causing Makima's finger to break and the Darkness Devil to begin bleeding profusely. Makima makes her way over to Tolka's corpse and exchanges another round of attacks with the Darkness Devil which causes Makima's entire right arm to contort and break. She touches Tolka's body and forces him to speak to the Hell Devil; making an offer to exchange everything in order to be returned to Earth. The Darkness Devil summons a black blade which pierces Makima's chest just as the Hell Devil's hand sweeps through and returns all of the survival devil hunters and bodies to the top of the department store on Earth. Makima cradles Denji as the real Santa Claus - now transformed into a monstrous doll form - jumps up to the roof and faces her. Makima greets Santa Claus and pulls Denji's chainsaw cord, triggering his transformation. She advises him that since the enemy has ingested a piece of the Darkness Devil's flesh that no attacks in the darkness will work, and then bids him to defend her. Denji loyally responds with a "Woof!" and jumps into combat against Santa Claus. Once Denji manages to defeat Santa Claus, he is approached by Quanxi and her fiends. They instantly surrender upon Makima's arrival, with Quanxi begging that her harem be spared. Makima decapitates them without hesitation.

### Gun Devil arc

With much of the squad still reeling from their encounter with the Darkness Devil, Makima reveals that the Gun Devil has been located and in fact has been largely divided up between the world's most powerful nations to be used as a weapon. The President of the United States, under contract with the Gun Devil, sacrifices one year of every citizen's lifespan in order to issue a command: attack Japan and kill Makima, who is viewed as a serious threat. Shortly before the attack, Makima uses her powers to compel Aki and the Angel Devil to serve as her pawns. In addition, she summons several deceased devil hunters and is able to use their devil contracts by proxy. The Gun Devil appears in Japan and unleashes a devastating attack causing many casualties and large scale damage. Although the ensuing battle is not shown, it is implied that Makima is able to weaken the Gun Devil enough for it to possess Aki's corpse and turn him into a fiend.

### Control Devil arc

After Denji is forced to kill Aki in order to defeat the Gun Fiend, he goes to Makima seeking comfort and direction, stating that he is too depressed and detached to make his own decisions anymore and would prefer to be told what to do like a pet. At her residence, Makima is shown to be the owner of many energetic and affectionate dogs. She tells Denji matter-of-factly that she has invited Power over as well, and when Denji opens the door, Makima will kill her. True to her word, as Power arrives with a birthday cake for Denji, Makima instantly blasts her apart, leaving only her head and legs. She explains to Denji that she deliberately planned to provide him with a family unit and various sources of happiness, only to rip them away in order to break him. Ultimately, her goal is to mentally destroy Denji in order to make him an unsuitable host for Pochita, thus seperating him from the Chainsaw Devil. Meanwhile, Kishibe and his team are plotting to attack Makima, who is revealed to be the Control Devil. Makima states that she is a Chainsaw Devil fanatic, and would either like to control him or be consumed by him. She would also state that trying to kill her is futile as a contract she made with The Prime Minister of Japan makes her nigh-immortal. The moment anyone is able to land a fatal blow on Makima, a citizen of Japan would be sacrificed instead through non-suspicious means. At Makima's command, Denji, having apparently lost himself, transforms into the fully-powered Chainsaw Devil. Kishibe's men summon the Hell Devil by sacrificing their lives, but the Chainsaw Devil's strength is overwhelming. In an effort to subjugate the Chainsaw Devil, who has gone berserk, Makima calls upon a group of weapon hybrids, several of whom were former enemies presumed deceased (including Reze, Quanxi, and Katana Man) but who now serve her with adoration. Once again, the Chainsaw Devil largely overwhelms his attackers, though he is weakened when Makima points out the general public's fear that powers him is waning, as they now view him as a hero. She uses the Angel Devil to create a powerful spear and launches it at the Chainsaw Devil, impaling him. However, the Chainsaw Devil is revived after Pochita has an inner conversation with the remnants of Power, whose existence persists in Denji due to him having consumed her blood prior. Pochita grants her the ability to emerge as the fully-powered Blood Devil, but she is no match for Makima. Power is able to hide Denji in a dumpster before dying. After being recovered by Kishibe, "Denji" battles Makima and her minions for the final time at a mass gravesite. Makima is perplexed and disappointed that Denji's personality has seemingly resurfaced. She is able to defeat him and rip out his heart. Having achieved her goal, she rests for a moment with a cigarette, but is attacked by Denji who appears from a pile of corpses, wielding a chainsaw imbued with Power's blood. After dealing Makima a fatal blow, he tells her that she had been battling Pochita, while he hid and waited for an opportunity to strike. When Kishibe arrived, Denji apologized, before pointing the chainsaw at her, seemingly ending her. Following Makima's defeat, Denji reveals that his plan to circumvent her regenerative powers is to consume her, making various meals from her remains. Conversing with Kishibe after the fact, Denji claims this is an act of love rather than revenge. Furthermore, Denji explains his theory that Makima only perceived people by scent, and he believed she was so indifferent towards him that she never remembered his, thus allowing him to ambush her. Kishibe tells Denji that a new Control Devil, already reincarnated, has been brought over from China. The Control Devil has taken the form of a young black-haired girl called Nayuta. Kishibe goes on to say that Makima is effectively gone, and this new Control Devil must not be allowed to go down a similar path. He leaves Nayuta in Denji's care.

The full synopsis of **Makima**, the leader of the devil hunters who is revealed to be a formidable yet ancient devil herself and also a psychotic number one fan of the titular *Chainsaw Man* from the manga of the same name.

## Past

Despite her past that is surrounded by enigma and mystery, it is revealed that in the final chapter of 97, Makima used to be an innocent demon, shown with her latest incarnation in the form of Nayuta, but was raised by the Japanese government into becoming a ruthless, cold and no-nonsense woman without learning any love and compassion. As a result of her upbringing, she then made a pact by the Japanese Prime Minister as their agendas were intertwined with each other: Creating a better world for humanity to flourish and to do that, she need the power of the Chainsaw Man to do so to eradicate the problems plaguing humanity such as Death, War and Hunger. However, at the same time, she intends to make a world where she stood equal with other humans so that she could bond a familial relationships as she need someone to embrace her and shower her some love due to her upbringing by the Japanese government which is the reason why she pursues Pochita, or better known as Chainsaw Man in true form, and become infatuated with him due to how powerful she is. Her intense dislike with the Japanese government and how her upbringing affected her can be shown when she expresses a with the Kyoto Bigwigs during as they attempt to meet with each other in Chapter 22 or at the very least, shown when Makima was crying in the cinema after seeing a movie with Denji where two people hugged each other. However, despite her poor upbringing, due to her nature as the Control Devil, it was then revealed that she was feared by the mankind itself from the early history when creatures feared to be controlled and was killed 29 times while also earning a horrific reputation as she was also largely feared across the world including the United States in which the President attempt to liberate his country from her grasp. At one point in her past, she came into the village near the seaside where The Angel Devil resides alongside his loved ones while brainwashing the Angel Devil to use his powers which resulted in all of the people in the village including his loved ones were massacred by the Angel Devil himself as Makima tries to suppress any memory the Angel Devil had in order to prevent him knowing the truth while also fabricating the story about his own origins. In addition to all of this, she also seemingly knew about what happened in Denji's life, which kickstarts the story for this manga while also revealed to knew the Chainsaw Man that possessed Denji: It is stated by Makima that the Chainsaw Man itself had a power to make demons ceased to exist from the past, present and the future alongside the humanity memories of them as Makima is the one that is able to remember the human tragedies that happened in thanks to the Chainsaw Man such as the Nazi Devil, World War II, AIDS, Nuclear Weapon, stars that break children's minds, four fates besides death at the end of life and so on. At some point in her past, she participated in a fight against the Chainsaw Man in a long and epic battle with the Weapon Devils and Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, making Makima heavily implied as one of it's members, as it was revealed that Chainsaw Man ate the devil that made the concept of hybrids to exists which causes the hybrids losing their identity whether they were humans, fiends or not. During the battle, it was revealed that the Chainsaw Man vanished to the point that both Weapon Devils and the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, including Makima, had a hard time to search the whereabouts of Chainsaw Man until they found out that the Chainsaw Man was still alive in a different form while nearly meeting his near-death state and was treated well by Denji.

## Intro Arc

Makima made her first appearance in Chapter 1 when she, alongside her accomplices, visited the crime scene where Denji massacred the Debt Collector and the rest of the Yakuza members who were possessed by the Zombie Devil in an attempt to exterminate it. Finding out that Denji was responsible on beating their attempts to kill the Zombie Devil, Makima suspected that Denji neither smell like a human nor a devil while turning him back into becoming a human by hugging him. After Denji turns back becoming a human, Makima then offered Denji two choices: Being killed as a devil or being treated well like a pet as he will be fed well. Denji decides to choose the latter option because Makima would offer the likes of toast with butter and jam, salad, coffee or a dessert, something that Denji would be happy with due to the misery that he had endured. As a result, Denji then went along with Makima's wishes. As Denji grew happy because he saw someone treating him well for the first time to the point she gave him a suit just to cover his naked body, Denji then suddenly grew hungry and having their moods collided due to them being hungry, they then went into a convenient store in order to eat some food while Makima will cover the costs which causes Denji falling in love with Makima for the first time. As they arrived in the shop while Denji wanting to eat a corn dog and an udon curry in peace, they encountered an innocent bystander who was attacked by a devil and his daughter being dragged into the woods. As a result, Makima then ordered Denji to defeat the devil and save the girl otherwise the udon Makima ordered will get soggy much to Denji's chagrin as he wants to eat his food in peace. However, with Denji being treated like a lapdog by Makima and making him only able to say "yes" or "woof" instead of "No" while threatening him to be euthanized if he disobey Makima, Denji had no choice but to follow Makima's orders which resulted in him changing his perception on Makima while letting his udon getting soggy. After successfully rescuing the girl and defeating the devil which resulted in Denji getting exhausted, Makima grew fascinated with what happened to Denji after seeing the devil that he had as a pet, Pochita, become his heart because there are no precedents about it while also giving him a reward by feeding him an udon. When Denji asked about the type of the guy Makima likes, she simply says that she likes people like Denji which causes Denji to assumes that she must like him. After the conversation, Makima then brought Denji into the one of the Devil Hunter Organization's division known as Division 4 with her explaining the details of the organization itself. While Denji was imagining on working together with Makima, she then paired Denji with another Division 4 member, Aki Hayakawa, much to Denji's dismay. However, Makima also promises Denji that she will work alongside him if Denji does his best to become a devil hunter. However, despite their strained relationship at first, Makima still insist Aki to be paired with Denji much to the former's disappointment. At the same time, Makima has no hesitation to dispose Denji if he either quits the Organization or violated any rules. When Denji asked Aki about her being a good or a bad person, Aki answers Denji's question by saying she is a good person and he owes her his life. In Chapter 4, when Denji and Aki manages to kill a devil that possesses a certain corpse and reading the corpse's porn magazines, Denji decides to feel the softness of a woman's breasts including Makima as a reason to live. As a result, Denji decides to work extra hard to earn his own reward. Returning to the headquarters, it was revealed that Denji is now paired with a devilman named Power in order to experiment with the 4th section squad as despite her dimwitted, rude and condescending nature, Power is a devilman with a high level of reasoning despite Devilman are sometimes subject to extermination.

## Bat Devil Arc

As Power and Denji went into a small scale patrol, Makima gave Denji some advice about encountering with the police or the private devil hunter and if Denji has more questions, he could ask Aki about it much to Denji's disappointment due to the quarrel that he had earlier with him. After hearing that Power went into an uncontrollable frenzy by committing an unnecessary carnage towards a devil to satiate his bloodshed, Makima then reprimands both Denji and Power with the former being incompetent on handling Power while the latter would potentially get arrested because of incidents like this. When Power decides to lie to Makima in order to save her own skin, both Power and Denji quarreling with each other which resulted in Makima stopping the fight and attempts to reconcile them. As Denji and Power went into devil hunting, Makima then met with the higher members of the bureau about the American incident which causes the Soviets using devils for military applications to fight against Japan. It was revealed that she also experimented on Division 4 because she wants to develop the squad of dogs and use them for battle purposes. After the Bat Devil incident, Makima then decides to arrange Power living together in Denji and Aki's apartment much to their dismay as Power is revealed to be a problem child in their apartment. As Denji tried to finish the paperwork alongside Makima due to the collateral damage the former had caused during his fight against the Bat Devil, Makima then asks about Denji's current sour mood after seemingly fulfill his wishes on touching a woman's breasts and as a result, Makima attempts to cheer him up by explaining that sensual relationship would work if Denji understand his partners nicely while at one point, also biting his finger, telling him that he needs to memorize the bite that she gave to him very well even if Denji will go blind in the future. In addition, Makima also tells the story about a seemingly formidable devil that appeared 13 years ago known as the Gun Devil that killed millions of innocent people while also telling him that if he managed to defeat the Gun Devil by collecting his fragments in order to locate the gun devil, she will grant anything that Denji desires much to Denji's excitement.

## Eternity Devil Arc

As Denji grew ecstatic after hearing Makima will grant his own desires, Denji and the rest of the Division 4 members joins a mission Makima had arranged to defeat a devil hiding in Hotel Morin in order to retrieve one of the fragments of the gun devil. After they successfully manages to defeat the devil, Makima then arranges them to come to the bar alongside other Devil Hunters in order to celebrate their victory with some nice drink. During their party, Aki then suddenly grows curious about the increasing amount of Devils with Gun Fragments that tried to target Denji which resulted in Aki suspecting Makima that she knew something about them. After Denji recovers from his drunken experience and knowing that his first kiss almost tastes like a puke which left him speechless, Makima decides to cheer him up by giving him a lollipop while making Denji's memory of his first kiss being tasted like a flavor of coca cola chups. In Chapter 22, as she and her associate went into Kyoto in order to meet the bigwigs in there to increase the number of strength of the Devil Hunter in order to protect Denji from harm, Makima seemingly expressing her displeasure at first due to her lack of interest meeting with the Kyoto Bigwigs and prefer to eat her meals in a tranquil environment. However, to their surprise, a group of terrorist, revealed to be the followers of The Gun Devil, hijacked the train and attempts to kill Makima once and for all in which they seemingly succeeded at first glance.

## Samurai Sword Arc

However, after she was seemingly successfully murdered by the Gun Devil followers, suddenly Makima miraculously revives herself while ordering the devil hunters that she met in Kyoto, Yutaro Kurose and Michiko Tendo, about cleaning the bodies of her associates that were killed by the Gun Devil followers and another corpses that were scattered around the train as she orders both Kurose and Tendo to cancel the luncheon between the bigwigs of Kyoto. It was then revealed that after miraculously reviving herself, Makima then brutally kill all of her assailants as their corpses were also scattered in the train and has a giant hole on their body. After knowing about the incident of the massacre of the Devil Hunters committed by the followers of the Gun Devil and is also aware about Denji and his companions was also being defeated while Denji was almost kidnapped by a agent of the Yakuza and his accomplices, Akane Sawatari in order to retrieve Denji's heart for the Gun Devil as Samurai Sword also attempts to avenge his grandfather, Makima then orders both Kurose and Tendo to bring 30 criminals that were sentenced to life imprisonment and also ordered them to reserve shrine with high elevation in order to bring 30 criminals there while ordering both Kurose and Tendo to bring her new clothes as her old clothes were stained by blood. As Kurose and Tendo followed Makima's orders while also using a blindfold in order to prevent themselves seeing what will Makima do, it was then revealed that Makima then performs a ritual to kill Denji's enemies in a very brutal fashion as their body exploded while Makima orders the criminals to mention the names of the enemies who were involved in Denji's fight against Samurai Sword. After seeing all of Denji's enemies being eliminated by Makima including the Team E section, Akane becomes very aware of what Makima has done and knowing her formidable powers, Akane then orders Samurai Sword to run away as fast as he could despite Samurai Sword was initially under the impression that he had killed Makima before via his subordinates. In addition, it was also revealed that all of the criminals died during the ritual after mentioning Denji's assailant. As Makima went back into Tokyo after finishing her ritual, she then encounters one of the surviving Devil Hunters of the horrific massacre, Madoka, while the latter reported Makima about what happened in the massacre: Almost every devil hunters that are non-humans died as Makima suspected the attacks were related to the Gun Devil and this incident resulted in the Bureau suggesting all of the 1st-3rd division of the organization to be combined with 4th division to compensate the lack of manpower as they will handled by Makima afterward while Madoka tells Makima to resign from her job. As Madoka asked about Makima's anticipation of the massacre, she only answered Madoka's question by saying that couldn't share any bureau secrets with civilians while also giving him a paycheck as he left his job. When Kurose and Tendo tells Makima that they were nervous about joining the special division as they only came for guidance as they needed to go back to Kyoto in one week, Makima only felt disappointment with their rejection and the seeming nervousness as they will miss a giant opportunity to stay in Tokyo because according to her there are many good restaurants in Tokyo that they can visit. At the end of the day, with Makima's suggestion, they ended up joining with Makima's squad in order to guide the 4th division members including on helping Aki on gaining another powerful devil to help him in the quest of defeating the Gun Devil that killed his family and Samurai Sword and Akane who killed one of his companions, Himeno, to the point he had to made a contract with the Future Devil that tells Aki about him dying in worst possible way in the future. After their first battle with Samurai Sword and Akane, it was revealed that Makima ordered both Denji and Power to look after Aki who was at the hospital and in the same chapter, Denji was then faced with a crisis of empathy after Himeno was murdered while also contemplating about Makima's death would also depresses him for three days before enjoying his life normally which resulted in him perceiving himself losing any semblance of humanity after losing his heart. After contemplating, Makima then arranges a meeting with Denji and Power in a graveyard and leaving them to be trained by the most powerful devil hunter ever lived, Kishibe, after the previous incident with Samurai Sword and Akane which left Makima worried so that she could get the two into shape to fight against future enemies. As Kishibe then attempts to report Denji and Power's progress in their training towards Makima as they hang out in a bar, Kishibe then suspects Makima knowing about the massacre that happened with the Devil Hunters including the people on Division 4 as he suspects that she let it happen. However, Makima rebuffs Kishibe's claim by saying she was also being massacred by the Gun Devil followers too while claiming that she wants to save as many people as possible from the devils. At the same time, she also tells Kishibe about the Division 4 members mission to capture both Samurai Sword and Akane Sawatari becoming the opportunity to show their capabilities because the mission will be aggressively reported to the Bureau if it was successful and the Division 4 will have more freedom to operate to save many people as possible. However, as Kishibe suspecting Makima was seemingly lying through her teeth about her saving humanity from the devils, she only left a rather unsettling grin on her face. As the small scale raid towards Samurai Sword's headquarters begins, Makima then arranges a meeting with one of the Yakuza Leader regarding the Devil Hunter massacre in which he responded by saying that he didn't order the shootings because Akane was the person responsible on pulling the strings of the massacre after tricking them making contracts with the Gun Devil while Makima also asks the details of the contract. After this, Makima then orders the Yakuza Leader ‌to write‌ ‌the‌ ‌name‌ of‌ ‌everyone‌ ‌in‌ ‌his and other Yakuza organizations regarding the people who made a contract with the gun devil in which ‌the‌ ‌Yakuza‌ ‌leader‌ ‌refuses‌ ‌to‌ ‌do‌ ‌so‌ ‌due‌ ‌to‌ ‌potential‌ ‌clash‌ ‌with‌ ‌other‌ ‌Yakuza‌ ‌families‌ ‌while also justifying himself that if his family were massacred by other Yakuzas, Japanese people wouldn't have any protection anymore from the Foreign Mafia who tried to usurp the country as the leader perceive the Yakuza work as a necessary evil for the country while also calling Makima and the rest of the Devil Hunters idiots because she didn't understand how hard the work of the Yakuza is to protect the country. Seeing the Yakuza Leader's refusal to cooperate with her, Makima then attempts to bribe him by giving him a package. However, he still refuses to cooperate because of his care towards his members that were not being able to be replaced by a mere money. This resulted in Makima telling the Yakuza Member about the content of the package: Human eyes from their loved ones and their relatives much to the leader's disgust as he looked on the contents of Makima's package as she prove her point. As Makima also tells them that their loved ones can be returned back to normal if they cooperate, Makima was almost attacked by a Yakuza member in which she retorts back by using her telekinetic power which resulted in the Yakuza bleeding while also calling out the Yakuza Leader about their so-called excuse calling themselves necessary evil when in reality, they bring more harm than good towards other people. After the devil hunters manage to defeat both Samurai Sword and Akane, Makima then reports the incident towards one of the members of the bureau while also managing to gain another fragment of the Gun Devil to find the devil's whereabouts easier. As she met with Denji and Power again, Makima then notices the change in appearance of Power and suspects that she drank a lot of blood during the fight against the Zombies and tells Denji that Power blood was drained periodically in order to prevent her becoming worse than before. As a result, Makima then ended up pairing Denji with another devil, The Shark Devil named Beam much to Denji's dismay due to Beam's annoying behavior.

## Bomb Girl Arc

Seeing Denji was a bit down after getting paired with the Shark Devil, Makima then decides to invite Denji on a date together by watching several movies in the theater in order to entertain him much to Denji's excitement. As both Denji and Makima watching several movies in theater, they seemed to be uninterested due to how uninteresting the two movies are until they watch the third movie with a huge tearjerker scene where a person hugged his long lost partner which causes both Denji and Makima to cry, seemingly showing an emotional vulnerability and a glimpse of humanity for the latter. After their date together as they discussed about the movies, Denji decides to asks Makima if he has a heart, Makima then sticks her head to Denji's chest as she hears that Denji's heart is still beating while saying he does have a heart much to Denji's surprise. This resulted in Denji become relieved after talking to her and decides to think that his heart belongs to Makima alone as she won't fall into anyone else until he ended up meeting with another woman named Reze which resulted in him unable to resist her temptations due to her seemingly genuine affection and care towards him as they ended up building a bit of an intimate relationship which causes Denji to be conflicted until Reze reveals her true nature as an assassin wanting to obtain Denji's heart for the gun devil much to his dismay. In the meantime, it was also revealed that Makima paired Aki with the Angel Devil for some patrolling reasons while also hoping they could get along well so that Aki could use him as a valuable asset for the future. In addition, Makima also tells Aki about Angel Devil's horrific backstory about him killing all the villagers where he was born and absorbed their life forces to make them as weapons while also revealing to Aki that the swords that he used were made by the Angel Devil, at least what Makima was supposed to tell to Aki about his seemingly traumatic backstory at first. It was revealed that Angel Devil preferred to live in a country despite Makima finding him first. When chatting about one of Aesop's Fables most famous tales, The Town Mouse and Country Mouse, with Aki, the Angel Devil tells Aki that he preferred to be the country mouse despite Makima seemingly treat the Angel Devil well in the city after she caught him and brought him there. After Denji's fight with Reze ended, Denji decides to run away with her from the Devil Hunter bureau despite Reze telling him that her relationship with Denji was fabricated just so that she could kill Denji easier, Reze decides to arrange a meeting with Denji at a cafe when they first time met as a result. However, their meeting was suddenly interrupted by Makima as Reze encountered her in an alleyway with Makima making an appearance emerging from the swarm of rats as she tells Reze about her interests with the Town Mouse and Country Mouse story with Makima's favorite character being the latter due to the Country Mouse story made Makima reminisce about her friend owning a field in a country as Makima helps him to kill the mouse plaguing the field. After the conversation, it was revealed the Angel Devil conspired with Makima to kill Reze by making the former throwing a spear to mutilate her arm and also impaling her with the spear, murdering Reze in cold blood. When Makima asks about why the Angel Devil forgot to bring Aki with him in order to participate on killing Reze, the Angel Devil merely answered that Aki had no interest to kill a woman. Due to Reze's death, it was revealed that Denji had waited in the cafe for a long time until the nighttime comes which resulted in the cafe owner kicked him out due to closing time until Power decides to pick him up.

## International Assassins Arc

After working hard as a devil hunter which resulted in her getting paid by the bureau, Makima decides to invite Denji and his companions to go to a vacation to Enoshima. However, at the same time, due to Denji's fight with Reze being overexposed by the media, she also brought several devil hunters to accompany and protect Denji because several assassins across the world attempts to kill Denji and obtaining his heart to get several rewards while revealing that the vacation was postponed for now for one month in order to save their energy to fight against the Gun Devil. As the assassins around the world preparing themselves to kill Denji, Makima then had a little conversation with Kishibe about the dangerous assassins that they need to be wary on with Quanxi that made Kishibe worried due to how powerful she is while Makima also perceive Santa Claus to be a dangerous enemy due to the numerous of contracts the assassin had and they would met their impending doom once Santa Claus manages to use the powers of one of the devils. In the meantime, when one of the assassins, The Three Brothers decided to make their moves, the Violence Devil who was hanging out with one of the Devil Hunters, Kobeni Higashiyama, then tells about the thing that he remembered when he died is that Makima saved him from trouble. After Santa Claus decided to make the move to kill Denji by turning several innocent villains into dolls, Makima orders her devil subordinates to protect Denji as they can and retrieve as many bodies as possible due to the potential larger number of deaths thanks to Santa Claus's attacks during their attempt to defend themselves against Santa Claus's dolls. When Quanxi made her move by attacking the department store which resulted in two of her girlfriends being taken as hostages by Kishibe and Denji, Quanxi decides to have a little nice chat with Kishibe in which he subtly warns Quanxi by writing a note towards her by saying that Makima is listening to the conversation while also expressing his intent to make Quanxi joining her forces to kill Makima once and for all under the pretense that he would guaranteed her safety. However, Quanxi decides to turn down Kishibe's offer and ended up fighting together when one of the Three Brothers, Aldo, attempts to shoot Denji. As all of the people inside the Department Store were transported to hell thanks to Santa Claus's machinations as she attempted to deal with a formidable primal devil, Darkness Devil, in order to gain ultimate power while also using Denji as a sacrifice, Makima then sends one of her devil subordinates, the Spider Devil Prinz, into hell in order to fight against Darkness Devil for a while and as Prinz was defeated as she was unable to withstand the power of the Darkness Devil, Makima then orders Prinz to bring her to hell. During her trip to hell, Makima then fights with the Darkness Devil as she manages to overpower him with just pointing her finger which wounded the devil itself despite Makima's right arm was contorted in exchange. When making the deal with the Hell Devil in order to send all of the devil hunters and Denji back to their world, Makima was nearly impaled by the Darkness Devil with it's sword but manages to escape in the end. After the Devil Hunters and Denji manage to escape hell, Makima then encountered the real Santa Claus who then becomes a doll-like monstrosity after gaining a huge power from the Darkness Devil. As a result, Makima then pulls Denji's cord to revive him and activate his chainsaw form in order to defeat the Doll Devil once and for all. During the fight against Santa Claus and her dolls, Kishibe then had a conversation with one of the Devil Hunters, Hirofumi Yoshida, about Makima playing some kind of 3D Chess together with Santa Claus in order to reach a rather ambiguous goal while revealing that protecting Denji was never one of Makima's real intentions while also having a sight of relief as according to Yoshida, there are no rats or birds for Makima to use as Makima will use lower lifeforms to hear several people's conversation including the one that they had. After both Denji and Quanxi manages to defeat Santa Claus which resulted in the latter ending their temporary truce by decapitating him, Makima then encounters Quanxi and her girlfriend as the latter attempts to surrender to Makima in the end with a compensation of not killing her girlfriend and letting Makima chop her limbs. However, Makima instead ruthlessly decapitating both Quanxi and her girlfriend with her katana as she said "A corpse is talking" before doing that. At the same time, both Kishibe and Yoshida decides to use a blindfold in order to prevent them seeing the horror Makima inflict to Quanxi as Kishibe preferred to blindfold himself because he didn't want to see a thing.

## Gun Devil Arc

After the fight against Santa Claus, Makima then arranged a meeting with Denji in a cafe as they conversing about Denji visiting Aki in the hospital as it was revealed that Denji ate Aki's food when Aki didn't want it and also discussing about their trip to Enoshima. Initially, Denji wants to go with Makima, but in the end, he decides to turn down the offer due to Power becoming a nervous wreck after her encounter with the Darkness Devil in hell and decides to take care of Power in the end. As Makima arranged a meeting with the trio again regarding the fight against the Gun Devil, Aki attempted to request Division 4 to withdraw from the current mission. However, Makima still insists that Denji and Power go into operation to defeat the Gun Devil as she had them temporarily joining Division 7 to carry out the operation in order to show their capabilities. This resulted in Aki having no choice but to join the operation with Denji and Power to guard them until Makima then reveals the horrific truth about what happened to the Gun Devil: It was then revealed that the real gun devil was actually defeated and confined after it appeared on the Soviet Union and was in an unconscious state with 20% of his fragments were possessed by America, 28% by Soviets, 11% by China, 4% by other countries and 37% were possessed by other devils. It was also revealed that the gun that used by the Gun Devil Followers that killed Aki's other companions were made by men despite manufacturing guns were strictly controlled by the International law. This is because every government in every country manages to use the loopholes that the International Law had by circulating guns by having them manufactured and also trafficking them in secret under the pretense they made a contract with the gun devil. As a result, Makima decides to go an all out war towards other countries by taking all of the fragments of the gun devil that they had possessed so that she will keep all of the fragments for Japanese government in order to get the upper advantage towards other countries as the fear of the Gun Devil will also make the Gun Devil stronger much to Aki and Denji's shock. After contacting with the Future Devil as he heard from him that he and Power will meet an inevitable death due to them being slaughtered by Denji which would result the ultimate devil that even the other devil fears will come, the Angel Devil suggest Aki to contact Makima to prevent his death as she ended up arranging a meeting with them at the beach the day before a big operation and during their trip at the beach, when Angel Devil asked Aki about why does he like her and why did he fall for her, Aki answers that he couldn't remember any of it. As Aki wants to make Denji and Power happy and survive well, Makima then uses this as an opportunity when Aki says that he will make any contract with any devil as it was revealed that Makima is a devil itself that tries to manipulate Aki to make a contract. Seeing what happened with Aki, the Angel Devil had his real past memories triggered which resulted in him attempting to kill Makima in which she retorted by brainwashing him again in the end while justifying what she had done towards Aki and the Angel Devil by saying that she did this because Japanese is full of spies more than any other nation in the world while the operation to slay gun devil has been exposed which made it meaningless in the end. As her true nature as the Control Devil was revealed by the President of the United State as her existence will bring the worst kind of peace, the President of United States had no choice but to made a contract with the Gun Devil as a last resort to liberate themselves and the other countries from her grasp which resulted in the President sacrificing the one year of the life spans of the American people. Makima then goaded the gun devil to attack her which resulted in the city of Nikaho in Akita prefecture including it's citizens being brutally decimated by the Gun Devil and also resulted in Aki and Makima's seemingly death. However, the shot by the gun devil was revealed to be nothing but a small wound for Makima as a halo of brain matter emerges from her wound and floats over her head which resulted in her using the abilities of other devils and the former and current devil hunters so that she could use their devil contract to decimate the Gun Devil. Due to the Gun Devil's defeat, Makima then tells Denji about the Gun Devil possessing a body of someone corpse and said corpse is currently ringing his apartment doorbell, said corpse is revealed to be none other than Aki who was possessed by the gun devil and tries to attack Denji and Power. After being possessed by the Gun Devil, Aki's mind was warped because he reminisced about a snowball fight with Denji and Power. Because of this, Denji attempted to snap Aki out as he accidentally caused severe collateral damage and killed innocent people while also fatally injured Denji. This resulted in Denji being given blood by other civilians and having no choice but to kill Aki in the end who still reminiscing about his childhood until his death.

## Control Devil Arc/Final Arc of Part 1

After Aki's death, it was revealed that Denji was seemingly burdened in guilt after killing Aki. As Denji bought some ice cream for Power to eat via the park vending machine as he eats one of them which he ended up vomiting despite getting a winner's ice cream stick while also laying down on the park's bench in a lifeless manner, he then encountered with Makima who ended up bringing him to her house to cheer him up a bit. As Denji arrives at her house, she reveals herself to be a dog person with several dogs that she kept at home and tries to treat Denji well by giving him some tea and tiramisu which resulted in Denji becoming a bit comfortable in her home as Makima cheered him up on what happened. However, when she asked Denji about his request after defeating the Gun Devil, Denji then decided to become Makima's personal dog after seeing how she treat her dog well much to Makima's surprise as it was revealed that Denji is unable to think about himself anymore and wanting to liberate himself from the burdened thoughts. After Denji wilfully becomes Makima's new personal dog so that he could experience happiness, it is revealed that she called Power and as Denji wondered on why Makima invited Power, she tells Denji that dogs were unable to think and then orders him to open the door. As Denji opened the door, it was revealed that Power brought a birthday cake to entertain him as Makima decides to ruin the fun and killing Power by shooting her with her own psychic finger gun power in cold blood which left Denji's speechless as she offhandedly disregards Power's corpse and Denji's expression as she ordered Denji to get inside. After seeing Power's death, Denji then asks if the incident that happened was just a dream. However, Makima only responded Denji's question by laughing and revealing her true intentions towards Denji: It was revealed that after knowing the fact that Denji forming a bond with Pochita due to Denji's miserable past, she then intends to ruin his life beyond repair by seemingly giving a happy life or him and then when her true nature has been revealed, she then will destroyed it all in order to break the contract between Denji and Pochita. She also then sadistically remarks towards Denji that if Denji overcomes his sadness by making new friends, she has no hesitations to kill them all and also has no hesitations to killing the wife and children of Denji if he ended up being married and having a normal life. In addition, Makima also investigated Denji's true and dark past as it was revealed that Denji had accidentally killed his drunken father in self-defense which resulted in him repressing his dark memories which led to his miserable life until today as Makima uses this as an opportunity to gaslight him for all the seemingly terrible things he had done despite most of the time, he had no choice but to kill them. This resulted in Denji becomes severely mentally damaged beyond repair with him sleeping on the couch as Makima enjoyed her breakfast in peace. In the next chapter, as Makima prepares to go somewhere else alongside the lifeless and traumatized Denji, she then introduced him to several devils who lied on her corridor of her apartment who are revealed to be Denji's kin whose name were based on Biblicial Angel as it was revealed Makima brainwashes them in order to put their lives to protect Denji as they tried to wait for the day of rebirth. The devils that Makima introduced are none other than: Seraphim the Bug Devil, Beam who is now revealed to be Cherubim, Violence Devil who is now revealed to be Galgalim, Dominion the Bat Devil, Virtue whose head has been decapitated, Power, Prinz and Angel. Suddenly, after the conversation, a SWAT Team led by Kishibe then launches an attack towards Makima's apartment as they attempt to kill Makima to no avail as she managed to recover a bit and orders Denji to help her. As a result, several Devil Hunters under Kishibe's orders then sacrifice themselves in order to summon The Hell Devil to fight against Makima and Denji. However, as Denji transformed into his more powerful Chainsaw Man's form under Makima's control, Denji then seemingly manage to defeat the beast with ease. As Denji was dragged to hell by the Hell Devil, Makima then watched calmly as she is aware that the Chainsaw Man was wrecking havoc in hell. As she encountered Kishibe who attempts to shoot him, she then warns Kishibe that due to the contract that she made with the prime minister, any attack that will be inflicted towards Makima will be turned into some kind of curse towards Japanese people as they will suffer an illness or their deaths will be dismissed as nothing but mere accidents. Declaring herself to be the admirer of the Chainsaw Man, Makima then tells Kishibe about the formidable powers that the Chainsaw Man had possessed as she plans to use him for her own agenda, bringing world peace, while justifying herself to be a benevolent devil despite Kishibe's suspicions as she calls her out about using the Chainsaw Man's power to distort the world even further. Knowing that her powers only works with the creatures that she considered lower below her, she then decides to fight against Chainsaw Man and has no hesitations to control him after the fight is done. When she was warned by Kishibe about if she ended up losing the battle against the Chainsaw Man and getting eaten by him, Makima doesn't care as she wouldn't mind getting eaten by him and become a part of him while considering it as a greater privilege in the world as the Chainsaw Man returns from hell and eradicates the Hell Devil itself. As Kishibe attempts to shoot Makima, she then holds a katana and orders him to hold back before trying to lure Chainsaw Man into the building where she's standing alongside Kishibe. Seemingly attempted to fight against the Chainsaw Man, Makima's body was brutally dismembered by him with Makima having an apathetic look as she smiles as Kishibe was spared in the end with him standing still seeing Makima's dismembered body before the Chainsaw Man went into the Hamburger Restaurant, the Family Burger, to eat some food there. In the next chapter, after the Chainsaw Man manages to fulfill his desires after eating a hamburger in the Family Burger restaurant and manages to having a date with the waitress who was taken as a hostage, revealed to be the former devil hunter, Kobeni, Denji then returns to the battlefield and noticing that Makima is alive all along despite the Chainsaw Man dismembers her in the previous chapter. After being discovered, Makima then brought several reinforcements and some of them are revealed to be the people that Denji knew in previous chapters such as Quanxi, Reze and Samurai Sword, who were enthralled by Makima's mind control powers after most of them were being defeated by her to the point that they fell in love and become fanatically devoted towards her as Makima orders them to defeat the Chainsaw Man under the pretense that they will go on date with her after the deed is done. As the Hybrids and Makima attempts to fight against the Chainsaw Man, Makima then tells the story about The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse and Weapon Devil fighting against the Chainsaw Man who ate the concept demon for the hybrids to the point he was vanished in the battle while Makima and the rest of the demons having a hard time to finding him. After telling the story, Makima then become overjoyed with her reunion and then continue the fight until the end as Chainsaw Man was confused on what's going on. Ordering her reinforcements who is now known as Public Safety Devil Extermination Special Division 5 to attack Chainsaw Man, they then turn themselves into their hybrid form: Crossbow Devil (Quanxi), Bomb Devil (Reze), Katana Devil (Samurai Sword), Sword Devil, Whip Devil, Flamethrower Devil and Spear Devil. However, during the fight, all of the devil was thrown off from the building easier by the Chainsaw Man as Bomb Devil, Spear Devil, Whip Devil and Flamethrower Devil were flung into the sky while the Chainsaw Man fought against the Crossbow Devil, Katana Devil and Sword Devil. However, the fight was one sided despite Katana Devil's efforts to defeat him as both Crossbow Devil, Katana Devil and Sword Devil were brutally murdered by Chainsaw Man. Makima, who observes the fight, calmly concludes that the fight is unwinnable in the end. In the next chapter, as the Hybrids attempts to put their effort on defeating Chainsaw Man to no avail with the Whip Devil was thrown out from the building and Reze was brutally decapitated by Chainsaw Man, Makima then steps in and uses her psychic finger gun power power to shoot Chainsaw Man several times, sending him to an orbit while observing about how Chainsaw Man hold his breath for a long time in space. As Chainsaw Man removed and threw his heart from space for regeneration purposes, he then uses his vine-like power to tie both Makima and the rest of the hybrids with Makima looking seemingly happy being tied as Chainsaw Man began to dismember their body in the end. After the fight against Makima and the Hybrid Devil was seemingly over, Chainsaw Man then resumes his date with Kobeni as he watches her dancing in the Dance-Dance Revolution arcade game tirelessly, getting a perfect score. As Kobeni finished dancing and asking herself why she did that, the resurrected Makima then appears, watching both Chainsaw Man and Kobeni from the balcony. Makima then asks why Chainsaw Man didn't eat her body despite killing her 26 times, assuming that her body is unappetizing to him. After the conversation, Makima then chaiined several innocent people with her chain leash that came out from near the part of her womb as Kobeni becomes panic, wanting to have no involvement with Chainsaw Man and Makima's affairs. However, Makima then says that Kobeni was also involved due to suspecting that her fear with Chainsaw Man was weakened while also revealing herself that she clearly love humans but she compared the relationship in the same way as humans were fond of dogs as humans according to Makima are loyal, easily handled, clever and stupid as watching their act is a rather fun thing to experience with Makima herself embracing the adoration and praise that the human had for her. In addition to all of this, it was then revealed that Makima is the one who set the fight with Chainsaw Man against Aki who was transformed into a gun fiend while also knowing about Denji's accomplishment as Chainsaw Man so that it could be broadcasted to the news as people across the world began to chant his name. Revealing that the fear of the Devils empowered Chainsaw Man, it was all revealed that Makima also pulled a gambit by making people across the world adore him which resulted in him being weakened. After this, Makima then uses the power of the men she had chained as she summoned Angel Devil to form a halo of brain matter in order to summon the Spear of Longinus 1.000 year usage that Angel has in order to attack Kobeni as she is aware that Chainsaw Man had enough strength to avoid her attacks. However, as Makima attempts to attack Kobeni with the Spear of Longinus, Chainsaw Man then attempts to protect her which causes him to gravely wounded much to Makima's disappointment. In the next chapter, as Power was resurrected in her Blood Devil form with the help of Pochita, she then manages to impale Makima and her slaves as Makima retaliates as she attempts to attack her with the 100 years old weapon. However, Power manages to intercept her attack which causes Makima to be impaled again, gloating about how powerful she is compared to Makima. Furious, Makima then summons the Zombie Devil and zombifies her own slaves to attack Power as Makima also attacks her with her psychic finger gun power. Surprised on seeing Power alive despite killing her merciy, Power instead attempts to took Chainsaw Man's body for herself in which Makima responded by shooting her again with her psychic finger gun power. As Makima then orders Power to hand over Chainsaw Man under the pretense that she won't kill her and becoming her pet, Power decides to betray the Chainsaw Man and then having his body being given to Makima under the pretense he captured him as Makima praises her deeds to do so much to Pochita's disappointment. As Power attempts to give Makima the Chainsaw Man's body, the former then suddenly reminisces about the good times that she had with Denji which causes her to defy Makima and attacked her, running away with Denji's body while evading her brainwashed armies that attacked Power in order to save Denji as she retreats to a nearby dumpster. After Denji was revived and was given another purpose in life with the help of Power making a pact with Denji to find the Blood Devil in hell and befriend her, Denji then met with Kishibe as he promises Denji to free him from Makima's influence if he was truly Denji as the latter decides to make truce by holding a V-sign towards Kishibe. As Denji, Kishibe and Kobeni were hiding together from Makima's clutches, suddenly Denji become starstruck with his newfound fame after seeing his accomplishments as Chainsaw Man were reported by the news. This resulted in Denji begging to Kishibe that he wanted to become a Chainsaw Man again with new dreams in motion: Eating tons of steaks every morning and having a harem of 10 girlfriends as he have sex together with them. This causes Kishibe reprimanding Denji that if he drew lots of attention, Makima has an extraordinary hearing ability as she has no hesitations to kill Denji once he turns into Chainsaw Man. As both Kishibe and Kobeni were sleeping, Denji then contemplates about his doubts on killing Makima because of the fact that she is the enemy that should not be underestimated willy-nilly and even after the horrific things she had done to him, Denji still likes Makima inside his heart which causes him perceiving himself as a terrible person. As the morning hits, Pochita, who was initially perceived as Denji in his Chainsaw Man form, then meets Makima in a huge cemetery as squatted in one of the crosses with her controlling tons of her personal army to fight Pochita. Before the fight, Pochita and Makima had a chat together as the latter perceiving Pochita a lot weaker than before while asking him if he wants to die by her own hands. The conversation culminates into a philosophical chat about bad movies as Pochita asks Makima if her ideal world would have bad movies in it, alluding to Pochita asking her plans on wanting to erase every bad things that happened for the human race in order to make themselves better just for a selfish reason and also alluding to their date in a movie theater. Makima then responded by saying that the world would be better if bad movies cease to exists while also become puzzled on why the Chainsaw Man ended up turning back into Denji's form. This causes on Pochita has no choice but to kill Makima and her army while also perceiving Denji as unworthy of being Chainsaw Man because of his appearance and the things that he says as she prepared to fight against him. As Pochita began to fight against Makima and her soldiers, Makima then summons the Zombie Devil again in order to stall Pochita until he manages to retaliate using his powers to throw it towards Makima and her soldiers. However, he was stopped by several hybrid devils including Samurai Sword, Reze and Quanxi and despite knocking some of them, Pochita was then buried by pile of zombies that attacked him. When Makima was told by the Flamethrower Devil that Pochita was significantly weaker than before, Makima then tells him by saying that the Chainsaw Man has been weakened because he was turned into a merchandised character for consumption while also telling him that there's no need to fear the Chainsaw Man. After the conversation, the Flamethrower Devil then began to make his move by burning the Zombies and Pochita. However, Pochita then emerges from the pile of ashes and manages to knock the Flamethrower Devil only to be knocked out together with Quanxi who attacks him. As Makima saw Pochita lying in the ground, she then decides to revive Denji for pragmatic reason to fight him one-on-one until one of them was defeated as she shoots her hand with her psychic gun finger power which causes a small wound on her hand as she gave her blood towards Pochita in the end. After managing to reviving Pochita, Makima then uses the remaining devil hunter who ended up becoming her slaves while saying "Rise and Shine" before fighting against Pochita. As both Pochita and Makima fight with each other, both of them were brutally wounded as Makima regenerates as her slaves took a huge blow after fighting against Pochita due to her reflection contract. As Makima manage to win a hand-to-hand combat against Pochita, she then attempts to take his heart while telling him that he was not the real Chainsaw Man as she tried to figure out how to make Pochita, disguising as Denji, giving up from the world and turning Pochita back into Chainsaw Man. This resulted in Pochita spits at Makima in which she responded in a tranquil fury, saying that Pochita doesn't fit her criteria for Chainsaw Man as he wore some clothes, talks a lot and didn't perform several chaotic acts as she was also still disappointed to see Pochita still chooses Denji at the end of the day while sending him a death threats because he is in their way to reunite while brutally ripping Pochita's heart out, causing him to weaken and vomiting blood. After taking Pochita's heart, Makima then tries to starts smoking in which she coughs as she talks to the Chainsaw Man's heart, contemplating about the things that they will do in the future and wanting to live happily with Chainsaw Man by eating and sleeping a lot together. Suddenly, the real Denji, who is revived by Power's blood, emerges from Makima's slaves's dead body and then began to brutally cuts her body with Chainsaw, seemingly expressing a relief that he managed to attack Makima when she was distracted. As Makima was startled about Denji managing to overpowered her as he took his heart back, Denji then tells her about the fight where Pochita took his heart out in order to regenerate despite he vaguely remembers her mind. It was then revealed that the Chainsaw that Denji used to defeat Makima is infused by Power's blood as Denji lets her blood corrupted inside Makima's body, which hindered her regeneration's ability. As the Ambulance comes to pick them up, Denji has no choice but to kill Makima with his chainsaw, seemingly expressing his regret to do so as Makima sweats before being killed. After Makima is seemingly killed, Denji and Kishibe then have conversations together about innocent people being sacrificed, heavily implied that Power's corruption towards Makima's body and her contract with the prime minister that is still intact to be the cause of it. Before Kishibe left, he then tells Denji that he needs to be careful as his method to kill Makima won't kill her fully and there is a huge possibility that he will die as a result. After Kishibe left, Denji then becomes hungry and then cooking food for himself while contemplating that at the end of the day, he still likes Makima despite the things that she had done in the past but at the same time, acknowledged that people who died from her actions won't forgive her. In order to burden her sins together, Denji initially thought of double suicide alongside Makima by strapping a bomb and blow themselves off but decided not to do so because physical attacks won't work against Makima. As a result, Denji then come with an idea of becoming one with her by eating her in the end, which is the method in order to end Makima's life faster, as Denji made a ginger-fried meat and onions from her remains while contemplating by saying that her meat tastes good. After eating the ginger-fried meat, Denji then made a variations of food to eat from Makima's remains such as patties, fried-cutlet, nuggets, miso stew, meat only curries, meatballs, sushi, steak, sashimi, hot-pot, meat buns, mystery meat pot, extreme juice and spaghetti. After eating, Denji then brought Power's cat, Nyako, and Makima's dog, as they were revealed to survive Kishibe's SWAT Team attacks, for a walk in the park as he meet with Kishibe to discuss some things about Makima as the children in the park are playing with the dogs. As Denji and Kishibe were discussing together about Makima, Denji then told Kishibe that he ate all of Makima's remains while saying that she didn't even revive from either his stomach or from his poop much to his surprise. In addition, when Kishibe asks about Denji's method on murdering Makima despite the attacks doesn't work against her as she was simply untouchable, Denji then tells Kishibe that he doesn't intend to hurt Makima as he ate her to fulfill his twisted way of love as he become one with her. This resulted in Kishibe perceiving that Denji's plan on eating Makima severs her contract with the prime minister. When asked again by Kishibe about how Denji manages to attack Makima despite her powers could make her noticing Denji's existence, Denji then tells Kishibe that Makima doesn't remember individual faces as she perceives other people with a powerful scent and only remembers the scent of the people that she has interest in. This resulted in Denji making a gamble to defeat Makima by letting Pochita attacking her as she never saw Denji even once from the start, much to Denji's sorrow. As the children are done playing with the dogs, Denji then notices a girl who patted one of Makima's dogs as Denji tries to drive her out because of the important discussion that he had with Kishibe. This resulted in the child biting Denji's finger, which causes him to remember the bite that Makima had given to him in the past as he ended up perceiving the girl being Makima all along. After this, Kishibe then tells Denji that he founded the girl in China while also revealing that she is another incarnation of Control Devil without Makima's past memories as the real Makima is dead. In addition, Kishibe also tells Denji that he entrusts the girl to be taken care by Denji as if the government manages to find out about the girl existence and raising her, she would become another Makima again. After Kishibe left, the girl then tells Denji that she wants to ride one of Makima's dog and despite Denji's refusal, he decided to let her ride the dog anyways. When she climbs on the dog and began to lay down, Denji then asks her name in which she answers his question by saying Nayuta. When asking about a thing that she wants to eat, Nayuta then tells Denji that she wants to eat bread as the two went home together and eating together. When Denji was sleeping, he then met with Pochita in the dream world as he tells Denji about Makima's motivations to create a world where she can create equal relationships with others while also yearning for family despite the wrong method she had done. This resulted in Pochita telling Denji to fulfill her dream by embracing her and giving her lots of hugs as Denji hugged Nayuta in her sleep at the end to comfort her.

## Overview

Initially acting as a helpful ally towards the protagonist, Denji, by taking him under her wing and making him a pet, she is also the leader of the Public Safety Devil Hunter organization and tried her best to make Denji's life happy to the point he tried to find another purpose in life and becoming a happier person compared to what he is in the past due to the suffering that he had endured during his childhood days. In spite of this, however, Makima has done some morally ambiguous things over the course of the story for the sake of the greater good such as having no hesitation to hurt Denji if he disobeyed, using blackmail to get what she wants, and so on while also possessing several inhuman traits such as resurrecting herself from her assailant even if she was murdered or managing to overpower a primal devil by just wounding him. As the story progressed, she turns out to be something worse. Around Chapter 75, it was revealed that Makima herself is a powerful and omniscient devil as old as the history of humanity known as the **Control Devil** who was feared by human beings for several centuries as several other nations, including the United States, attempts to escape from her grasp to prevent her bringing the worst kind of peace towards the world. In addition, it was revealed that her personality of being a kind figure that Denji respected is not what it seems. By the time Chapter 84 hits, it was then revealed that she is a number one admirer of the Chainsaw Man, the entity that was sealed on Denji's body, and plans to use his powers to eradicate all of the devils including the formidable ones that has been plagued humanity for years in order to bring a better world for humanity, fulfilling the hopes of her contractor, The Japanese Prime Minister. During Chapter 87, It is possible, however, that Makima herself is heavily implied to be one of the members of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse that holds the moniker of Conquest as she was also involved in the battle with Chainsaw Man before he went missing which resulted in her attempting to find her whereabouts. At the end of the day, it was revealed that Makima is nothing but an insane, obsessed control freak who views her making a better world as a secondary objective for her as she attempts to have Pochita for herself while planning to live together happily ever after. In the end, she was then defeated after she severely underestimated the person whom she views as an obstacle to her plans at worst and a mere lapdog at best. However, at the same time, in Chapter 97, she can be perceived as a tragic character who only wants to feel love and empathy as she attempts to create a world where everyone is equal to her footing so that she could build a familial relationship due to the fact that she was never shown one as the government raises her to be a ruthless, cold and no-nonsense woman that leads the Public Safety to exterminate devils and bring world peace in the present day. After her death, she is reincarnated as a child named **Nayuta**, who is a docile and weaker version of herself with no memories of her past.

## Powers And Abilities

* Makima is one of the strongest individuals in the world of Chainsaw Man thanks to her physical and supernatural abilities as a Devil, along with her cunning and manipulative personality. She is feared by humans, Fiends and Devils all around the world, which increases her powers as a Devil. According to the President of the United States, other countries besides America have already given up trying to fight her. As a Devil, Makima possesses all of the standard Devil abilities. These include the ability to make contracts with humans. Thanks to her ability to control humans, she is also able to force them to make a contract with herself. Makima made a contract with the Prime Minister of Japan in return for working for the Japanese government. As a result of this contract, any fatal attacks inflicted to Makima are transferred into an appropriate illness or ailment affecting a random citizen of Japan. She was shown to have been shot in the back of the head and seemingly killed, only to stand up later with no visible wounds. She stated that she was merely grazed by the bullet, but this is unlikely given the placement of the gun when it was fired, as well as the location of the blood from the exit wound. Later, she was killed by the Gun Devil after it fired a bullet through her head, though it did not finish her off. It is confirmed that she had been killed twenty-six times up until the attack of the Gun Devil. Later on, she gets killed by Pochita several times during their final confrontation. However, Denji found a way to bypass the conditions of her contract with the Prime Minister of Japan by killing her in order to end her misery, which he viewed as a form of love rather than an attack. After being eaten by him, she returned to Hell and subsequently reincarnated in China as Nayuta due to the revival ability of Devils.
* Holding the title Control Devil and being one of the most powerful demons in the stories, Makima has several powers on her disposal:

### Physical Abilities

* **Immense Strength**: Makima possesses a great deal of physical strength allowing her to fight effectively in hand-to-hand combat without relying on any of her subordinates. Her strength was great enough to overwhelm Pochita's weakened form and shatter his chainsaws with her strikes.
* **Enhanced Strong Senses Of Smell**: According to Denji, Makima primarily differentiates others through smell. In their first encounter, she was able to detect that Pochita still existed within Denji through his scent. However, she cannot differentiate between humans through sight, similar to how we cannot differentiate between dogs by their faces. According to Denji, Makima has a rather strong sense of smell as she perceives other people or devils with their stench even if she doesn't remember their faces. This was further lampshaded in Chapter 2 where she says that she can tell that Denji is telling the truth due to her strong sense of smell. The power in question was used to Denji's advantage in order to defeat Makima as despite her perceiving people or other devils despite their strong sense of smell, she never saw him once even from the start.

### Supernatural Abilities

* **Domination**: As Makima embodies the fear of control or conquest/domination, her abilities reflects this nature. Besides her manipulative way of thinking and acting, she is able to control any being who she believes is inferior to her, even being able to force them into making contracts with her or another Devil. If Makima is not fully convinced that she is superior to somebody, such as Reze, she can best them in a fight to prove their inferiority to herself. It seems as though once placed under her control, the victim subsequently loses their memory of anything that happened immediately before they were controlled and anything they did while being controlled. This ability works on any being, regardless of the number of humans, animals, Devils, Fiends and Hybrids she controls. She can channel the power of her victims by summoning them through a chain connected to her body. It has been shown that she can use the abilities of Angel Devil, Future Devil, Snake Devil, Punishment Devil, Spider Devil and Zombie Devil. Even deceased individuals can be controlled in this manner. Makima was able to form a squad of weapon Hybrids, three of which (Reze, Quanxi and Katana Man) were former enemies who now behaved affectionately towards her. This suggests Makima can control individuals outright as well as changing their personalities in subtle ways. Makima's control can be broken as seen with Angel Devil.
* She borrows the hearing of rats, birds and other small animals she controls to hear conversations remotely, seemingly anywhere on the planet and possibly extending into Hell itself. She was able to spy on Denji and Reze's conversation and was listening in on Kishibe's conversation with Quanxi. This ability can be circumvented by communicating nonverbally such as writing on a piece of paper.
* She has been shown to control a large number of rats which allow her to travel around using them. These rats can then cluster together to form the shape of a human and thus allow for Makima to be transported to that location instantly. Makima is also able to summoned through Princi's zipper, which can move her from Earth to hell or wherever the Spider Devil happens to be.
* She has demonstrated the ability to make others hear her voice by placing her hand on their head even if the person is dead. She uses this to command the Devils that the person is currently contracted with.
* **Force Manipulation**: Makima has been shown to offensively manipulate an invisible force in a variety of way similar to Darkness Devil. This force can be used to damage her weak targets internally by simply staring at them. Depending on the situation, she can use this power in other various way such as:
* She has shown to cause her target to be crushed by an invisible force from over long distances. In order to use this technique, Makima appears to require a higher place such as a shrine, the name of a target and a human sacrifice. Makima forms a symbol with her hands and instructs the sacrifice whose eyes closed by a white cloth to utter the name of the target. The sacrifice then dies and target subsequently is crushed, preceded by a brief sense of "wrongness". This attack completely destroys the target's body but causes no damage to adjacent people or objects, even the target's clothes. While she is using this ability, the sacrificial people around herself are blindfolded with a cloth. She used this ability once from Kyoto to kill the goons of Sawatari's gang.
* She has been shown to inflict damage by projecting an invisible force to targets she points at with her index finger which is strong enough to heavily damage Darkness Devil, who is a Primal Devil, kill Power instantly and send an empowered Chainsaw Man high into the atmosphere when she used it repetitively against him. She usually says "**Bang!** (バン！)" while using this ability.
* She has been shown to remove the heads of her targets in the vicinity from a short-to-mid range by using a sword; similar to her ability to crush her targets remotely, the people around her close their eyes with a black cloth.

### Other Abilities

* **High Alcohol Tolerance**: Makima has an exceedingly high tolerance for drinking alcohol; able to out-drink both Aki Hayakawa and Himeno without showing any signs of being debilitated by the vast quantities of liquor/ethanol. However, due to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, it is likely that any damage her excessive drinking would have caused was redirected to a random Japanese citizen. Throughout the series, Makima is shown to be able to tolerate alcohol as she is unable to get drunk despite drinking lots of alcohol in several chapters unlike other people such as Aki, Kishibe or Himeno.
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat**: Makima is very a proficient combatant, despite not usually being seen fighting. She was capable of defeating a weakened Pochita by herself and only using her fighting skills, she even managed to rip Pochita's heart from his body by restraining him after she defeated him. Being the leader of the Public Safety Devil Hunter organization, Makima is surprisingly well versed in hand-to-hand combat despite being a devil that tends to use manipulation and other people to fight against her enemies. This was shown during Chapter 95 where she brutally sends a No-Holds Barred Beatdown towards Denji in his Chainsaw Man form despite sometimes using her devil hunters to recover from her losses which ends with Makima knocking out Denji as she brutally rips Pochita out from Denji in order to fulfill her goal reviving Chainsaw Man again.
* **Immortality and Durability:** For a Control Devil that exists as long as the human history to the point that they even feared Makima, she herself is an absolutely immortal being as no matter how devils or humans tried to kill or harm her, she is capable of bouncing back with her miraculously recover. It is also shown that Makima's body is extremely durable as when she was wounded, she seemingly doesn't feel a thing. This was shown during her fight against the Gun Devil when she was seemingly shot by it, instead of being wounded, a halo of brain matter emerges from her wound and was used to fight back against the Gun Devil or when she was shot by her assailant, Makima miraculously recovers from her death as if the shot that killed her feels like a small wound that she can be easily recovered with or when Chainsaw Man revived, as she was dismembered by Chainsaw Man himself, she revived normally like she feels nothing at all. It is stated that Makima had died 33 times in a row during the main story (She was also revealed to be attacked and killed by Chainsaw Man 26 times). Despite this, however, her immortality could run out if Chainsaw Man eats her, severing her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, eradicating all of the population of Japan or at the very least, killing the Prime Minister to make Makima seemingly mortal.
* **Reflection and Conversion:** It is stated by Makima herself that after making a contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, any attacks that will be inflicted by Makima herself will be converted into some kind of illness for the Japanese people or at the very least, having their deaths dismissed as accidents. This is best shown due to the casualties of the Gun Devil or Denji's assailant getting brutally murdered as a result of their actions attacking Makima.
* **Manipulation:** Being the Control Devil, this is one of the core parts of her character as she uses her charisma and other abilities such as brainwashing in order to get what she wants and treating other people as tools for her to further her own plans. She was also shown to be able to manipulate people with her own brainwashing powers or just a simple manipulation trick. Her manipulation powers can be exemplified in her relationship with Denji as she attempts to groom him at first glance by giving him happiness that he never had by coddling him at first to the point Denji respected her and attempts to find a purpose by making a goal based on her. However, in the end, all of the sweetness that she had shown towards Denji was an act all along to further her own plans which broke Denji even further.
* **Brainwashing and Memory Manipulation:** Makima uses her brainwashing powers in order to subjugate her people easier in order for them to be easy to control or at least make them a deal with her contract. She is also shown to be able to tamper with a person's memories as well by either making them forget something horrible that had happened or making them think that she was their savior. This was shown when she uses brainwashing powers towards the Angel Devil when she regains his own memories about his real past in order to prevent him from killing her or tampering with Aki's memories about how he ended up loving her to the point she owed her his life despite he didn't know about the reason on why he was devoted towards Makima in the first place. However, her brainwashing powers also have a drawback: She is only able to brainwash other creatures if they were lower-lifeforms compared to her and unable to control the lifeforms that are stronger or higher than her. In order to overcome her drawbacks, she must defeat the demons with higher lifeforms in order to make them subservient. This was shown when she is unable to defeat Chainsaw Man because of how formidable a devil he is, earning the moniker of the most feared devil due to his ability to erase them from existence by just eating them, but is able to control the likes of Reze, Quanxi, and Samurai Sword after the former two were revived by Makima because due to the fact that Makima kills the former two and the latter was defeated by Denji but still sitting on the lower tier of the food chain compared to Makima herself.
* **Authority:** Being one of the highest members of the Devil Hunter Organization, Makima is able to assert her own authority towards the other Devil Hunter either through charisma or fear befitting her title as the Control Devil due to her brainwashing powers and manipulation. She even has no hesitations to dispose of the Devilmen once they ended up quitting or violating the rules and also has no hesitation to use blackmail or threats to coerce people to do her dirty job as was shown in her attempt to threaten Denji by euthanizing him if he didn't do his job or successfully manages to subjugate one of the Yakuza families to work with her by giving them the body parts of their loved ones.
* **Charisma:** Despite her reputation of being feared as the Control Devil, Makima is also capable of using her charisma in the earlier chapters of the manga, even capable of building several relationships that really benefit her. This was shown in her interactions with one of the Devil Hunters, Makoto, when she seemingly respected his decision to quit the Devil Hunter during the massacre or using her charisma just to trick Denji to do her bidding. Despite Kishibe's suspicions towards Makima to the point he desired to kill her, he decides not to interfere with her business due to her siding with humanity at first glance.
* **Psychic Powers:** Makima has rather strong psychic powers that could be used to brutally kill other people as if they were killed by an invisible force as she forms several symbols on her hands to do so and is able to brutally crush people on the inside out or just murdering them by looking at the target and using her psychic power or just pointing her index finger in a gun like motion to defeat her enemies. Her brutal physic powers were shown when she performed the ritual in a shrine to kill Denji's assailants or crushed a Yakuza inside out that made him bleed. Her power was also shown to be capable to wound the Darkness Devil and she was also shown to kill Power with the same psychic gun powers that she used towards the Darkness Devil itself. In addition, she uses her psychic gun again during her fight in Chapter 88 as her psychic gun is so powerful to the point she manages to send Chainsaw Man into space.
* **High Intelligence**: Makima has shown to be a highly intelligent individual. Even without using her Devil powers, she is very cunning and manipulative. A fine example is the way she controls Denji throughout most of Part 1's story. Makima knows what exactly to say, move and how to react in order to make Denji her pet. Being aware of Denji's desires, she often interferes by making him feel that he is a person, and behind the scenes, she is pulling the strings in order to achieve her goal. Just like she helps him feel love and happiness, she also attacks and makes her move to destroy his personal relationships in order to make him feel desperate and guilty over the losses he suffers. Being one of the strongest devils in existence and having lived for years, Makima possesses a rather great level of knowledge and intellect. This is because her powers use low-life creatures such as rats or birds across the planet by borrowing their ears or eyes in order to gather more information. Her knowledge-gaining powers can be shown during her attempt at listening to both Quanxi and Kishibe on their conversation or knowing the names of the criminals that assaulted Denji. However, her power also has a drawback as the person who could potentially become a victim of her surveillance and omniscient powers can circumvent her powers by using papers to communicate or at the very least, communicating in other places where rats and birds are unable to see. In addition, Makima is unable to control any entity that has a higher rank than her and decides to defeat them in a fight in order to make them easier to control. Her high level of knowledge and memory was also shown further in Chapter 84 as she is aware of the tragedies that were erased from human history thanks to the Chainsaw Man eating the devils that cause them to cease to exist and humanity forgetting about the fears that they had possessed. As Kishibe confirms it in Chapter 93, is also shown that Makima possesses an extraordinary hearing sense which shows how she is able to control nature itself just to hear people's thoughts while also using it to find her potential victims.
* **Healing:** After the fight with the Darkness Devil many people were left maimed and killed even after Makima brought back everyone to Earth. Power suffered from many injuries from the encounter even if they weren’t lethal. Somehow, unlike everyone else, only Power managed to return to normal while everyone else stayed injured or dead. While not outright confirmed, it can be assumed Makima restored Power back to normal health so that she can let her live longer so that she can end up killing Power herself for her further plan.
* **Teleportation:** Makima is able to teleport anywhere by controlling a number of rats so that she could be transformed into the location faster than before. This was shown during her encounter with Reze where Makima manifests herself after the rats brought her to the location where Reze is standing before meeting her last moments.
* **Controlling the Dead:** While not a necromancer by any means, Makima is capable on transmit her voice to other people and controlling them whether they are still alive or dead so that she could use their contract devils to control them in order to defeat her own enemies. Her abilities can be shown when she attempts to fight the Gun Devil which resulted in Makima using several contracts of the Devil Hunters who some of them are already dead.
* **Contract Making:** Despite it being stated by Aki that devils are unable to form a contract, it is shown that Makima is capable to made a contract with other devils so that they could do her bidding to fight against their enemies. However, it is shown that she also needs to use her chains to enslave several people in order to make the contract making to happen. This was shown during the fight against the Gun Devil as after making several contracts with them, she then uses the stolen devils and then teleports them to the Gun Devil to destroy Gun Devil once and for all. Furthermore, her contract-making abilities can be shown during Chapter 89 where she enslaves several men and also Angel Devil using her chain that came out from near the part of her womb in order to summon the Spear of Longinus to attack Kobeni and Chainsaw Man.

## Relationships

### Chainsaw Man/Pochita

The Chainsaw Devil is perhaps the only individual Makima has ever shown genuine interest or affection towards. Furthermore, Pochita is one of the only people who she does not believe to be beneath her due to his legendary status and power. So deep was Makima's admiration for Pochita that she devised an elaborate plan to break Pochita's contract with Denji by psychologically breaking Denji's spirit and force him to give up on his dreams. She planned to defeat Chainsaw Man to have her submit to him, but Makima admitted that she would be ok if her plan failed and she was consumed by Pochita, viewing it as an honor.

However, for all the atrocities that she had committed towards Denji, it was then revealed that Makima herself had grown an infatuation towards the entity that was sealed in Denji's body, the Chainsaw Man, by admitting that she was a huge admirer of the entity and it's power and tries her best to make the entity release itself from Denji's body. This is due to the fact that Makima herself is aware of the Chainsaw Man's powers on making the devils cease to exist by just simply killing them as Makima is also aware about the human tragedies, fear and atrocities that were erased from human minds after the Chainsaw Man devours the devils that personified their fear towards something. The power that Chainsaw Man possesses resulted in Makima attempting to harness the Chainsaw Man's powers in order to bring a whole new better world for humanity and she doesn't really mind if she loses the battle against Chainsaw Man and getting eaten by it, claiming it was a great privilege to be eaten by the Chainsaw Man himself as she attempts to become a part of him. By the time Chapter 87 hits, it is shown that she become overjoyed to be reunited with the Chainsaw Man himself after the long battle that she had with him in the past alongside the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Weapons Devils while also developing a sadomasochistic tendency towards him, seemingly happy as she was tied and will become dismembered by Chainsaw Man during the fight. Makima can also be considered a low-key Yandere towards Chainsaw Man due to her obsession and persistence towards him trying to eat her while also experiencing a disappointment when Chainsaw Man refuses to eat her body despite being killed by him 26 times while suspecting her body isn't edible enough. Her low-key Yandere moments can also be shown when she attempts to attack Kobeni with the Spear of Longinus summoned with the power of Angel Devil itself because of the fact that Chainsaw Man hangs around with Kobeni while also expressing disappointment after seeing Chainsaw Man attempting to protect Kobeni from her attack which causes him to be gravely wounded. Her yandere-ish attitude was further amplified in the final battle against Pochita who was disguised as Denji where she acts as a condescending person towards him as she views him to not fulfilling her criteria of what makes him the real Chainsaw Man in her books while trying to brutally rip his heart out. This Yandere behavior bites her in the back as Denji uses the moment where she was distracted admiring Chainsaw Man's heart in order to defeat her in the end. In the end of the manga, it was then revealed that Pochita knew about Makima's own ambitions and goals to create a better world so that she could stand equal with other humans and form a familial relationship in the end due to her harsh upbringing with the Japanese government while seeing Pochita was the only entity that is on equal footing as her which in turn forming a rather toxic fanaticism towards him and trying to have a lovely life together by eating and sleeping together. However, in the end, Pochita ended up finding Makima's methods on building her ideal world to be wrong and as a result, he decided to have a philosophical chat with Makima about movies before going to battle and after Makima was defeated and reincarnated, Pochita then entrusts Denji to fulfill Makima's goal by embracing her with hugs a lot so that her ideal world can be realized.

### Denji

Initially, Makima appeared to be extremely generous towards Denji, giving him a job as a Devil Hunter, letting him live with Power and Aki to create a familial bond with them, and allowing him to have some limited freedom. She would often grant Denji's wishes to help him achieve his goals and desires. However, that was all an elaborate plan to give Denji happiness only to later plunge him into despair in order to break the contract Denji had made with Pochita and give Pochita control of his body again. Makima had never once held any sort of affection or sentiment towards Denji, and had no interest of him as she never memorized Denji's scent.

When Denji first met her, he initially had a rather high opinion of her at first glance because Makima is the first person who shows him true kindness. Despite Denji was treated like a dog and has no hesitation to euthanize him when he rebelled against Makima's order which resulted in Denji's opinion of Makima plummeting at first due to Makima's threat, his opinion on Makima bounces back because Makima still ended up showing a kindness towards Denji after he had done his job despite, she would treat him like any other devils if he decides to rebel or quitting. As the chapter went by, Denji always looks upon Makima in a rather positive light as Makima coddled him by inviting him on a date or giving him what he wants, protecting him from dangers that he will face and even giving him a reason to live his life to the fullest when he was down or treating him well, even giving him several true companions along the way. When he ended up falling into his greatest despair around Chapter 80, Denji then decides to free himself from the burdened thoughts of killing his friend and wishing himself as Makima's dog at the end of the day. However, in the end, all of the great relationships that she built with Denji for over the course of the manga were revealed to be an act all along. As it was revealed that Makima had groomed him into her perfect pawn and after his companions were murdered by Makima, it was revealed that she is nothing more than an abusive person towards Denji, even mentally abusing him by gaslighting him for the past sins he had done which resulted in him living in a miserable life while also confessing towards Denji that she is a type of a person who will make someone having a happy life at first, only to destroy it at a later time. The reason why Makima did this is not only to amuse herself, but she also did this in order to destroy the bond Denji had formed with Pochita during the earliest chapters in order to make him break the contract with Pochita. At the end, Denji ended up becoming a broken slave who is a former shell of himself under Makima's control after Makima kills all that everything he loved just to get Denji and Pochita to break the contract. During Chapter 93, when Denji revives back into his older self, it was then revealed that despite every horrific thing that she had done towards him, Denji couldn't help himself but still like her, even having conflicted feelings on whether he should kill her after all the things they had done together. As Denji prepares to fight against Makima and her personal army in a cemetery, Denji's resolve on killing Makima becomes clear after he asks her about the existence of bad movies in her own ideal world, alluding to their date that they had in the movie theater as they watch movies together, in which she responded by saying that she has no hesitations to purge any bad movies from existence. It is also shown that Makima has an elitist view of Denji, perceiving him as nothing but an obstacle to meeting Chainsaw Man while also perceiving him as unworthy of the title as she judges from the way he talks, his mannerisms and his appearance. Despite defeating Makima in the end, Denji still tries to express his own twisted love towards her in his own way by eating all of the remains of her deceased body so that he could become one with her in the end to burden her own sins despite being aware that the people who died from her actions won't forgive her. In Chapter 97, her dislike towards Denji was further cemented during his discussion with Kishibe as he told him that she never cared towards him in the first place even if she uses her strong sense of smell ability in order to track him. After Makima's death and subsequent reincarnation as Nayuta with her past memories as Makima gone, Denji initially perceives her as just another annoying kid until he discovered that he was the reincarnation of Makima as Kishibe entrust him to take care of her. After hearing Pochita's wishes to fulfill Makima's dreams to feel empathy, Denji decides to mellow down towards her as he tried his best to realize her dream by embracing her and giving her tons of hugs, and raising her so that Nayuta will not become the monster Makima was.

### Aki Hayakawa

Makima appeared to respect Aki's judgement and abilities, assigning him to take care of Denji and Power in his apartment because she trusted him more than anyone else. However, in reality, she was only seeing him as another pawn.

In the earliest chapters, it is stated that Aki had shown nothing but respect towards Makima, even saying that he would owe him his life to Makima because she is a benevolent person that also helps him through hardships after he became a Devil Hunter due to his family was tragically murdered by the Gun Devil. While initially was disappointed about his pairing with Denji, with the help of Makima, he ended up accepting it and becoming one of Denji's true companions. Her seeming kindness towards Aki was also shown when Makima ordered Denji and Power to visit him at the hospital after the fight against Samurai Sword and Akane for the first time or having Kurose or Tendo guide Aki in order to gain a stronger devil for the future fights. However, in the end, it was also revealed that Aki is also one of the victims of Makima's brainwashing as when the Angel Devil asked about why he loved Makima so much, it is stated that he didn't even remember a single thing. In the end, Aki himself was also ended up becoming a victim of Makima after he become desperate in order to save both Denji and Power from harm's way so that they couldn't experience the same fate that his brother had after he knew that his end is near as he was nothing but a mere puppet for Makima to use and then throw it away when the deed is done, using his death so that she could guilt-trip Denji for all the seemingly horrific things he had done in the past. It was also revealed that Makima also lied towards Aki several times about the Gun Devil's whereabouts and the mission to defeat it until she revealed the truth towards Aki about the nature of the mission while also callously dismissing Aki's pleas on having Division 4 withdraw from the mission slaying the Gun Devil for the sake of the safety for Denji and Power. By the time Chapter 89 hits, it was then revealed that Makima intentionally sacrifices Aki in order to broadcast the fight in the news in order to weaken Chainsaw Man by having the humans adoring him.

### Kishibe

Despite their seemingly cordial relationship together as Kishibe was willing to act as Denji and Power's mentor to get them into shape with Makima's suggestion, Kishibe is one of the characters that realizes Makima is not what she seems to be. At one point after he finished training Denji and Power, Kishibe suspected that Makima is a liar when she attempts to justify herself by trying to save innocent people from devils as he also suspected her being somewhat responsible of the massacre of the Devil Hunters and other inhuman acts she had done, in which Makima responded with a smile on her face. It was also revealed that Kishibe also had a plan to kill Makima for the greater good by asking his former partner, Quanxi, to join his cause while knowing that Makima is listening to every conversation that he had. When Makima ruthlessly murders Quanxi and two of her girlfriends, Kishibe prefers not to open his blindfold to prevent himself from witnessing the horror Makima has inflicted towards them. Despite this, Kishibe also prefers to not interfere with Makima's business so long as she is on the humanity side even if she commits several inhuman things that she will do to other people or animals. During Chapter 83, Kishibe then ends up deciding to kill Makima for the greater good and then executes his plans by summoning the Hell Devil to no avail as she used Denji to defeat it. Even if Makima reveals her goal towards Kishibe that her goal is to make the world a better place for humanity by eradicating all of the devils, Kishibe still acts suspicious towards Makima, claiming that she tried to use the Chainsaw Man's powers to distort the world even further. Although Kishibe dislikes Makima, he is aware that some of her nasty behavior come from nurture itself as it was revealed that she was raised by the government to be a ruthless, stern and no-nonsense woman in order to lead the Public Safety Bureau to exterminate devils and brought a better world for humans. After discovering that the reincarnation of Makima is in China during his trip there with her past memories being erased, Kishibe decides to take her to Japan and entrust her to be nurtured by Denji so that another Makima won't resurface ever again.

### Santa Claus

When Santa Claus first appeared, it is stated by Makima that she found them to be the most dangerous of all assassins that targeted Denji or his heart as they managed to unleash their devils towards other Devil Hunters and Makima, it's all over for them as they were also going to inflict a potentially large number of deaths. This was proven to be true as Santa Claus themselves turned innocent civilians into mindless attacking dolls to do their own bidding while also revealing themselves that they had made a contract with a lot of devils including the formidable primal devil, Darkness Devil while also transporting several people in the department store into hell. As Santa Claus reveals her true identity, it was revealed that she holds a deep seed of hatred towards Makima as she attempts to murder her which resulted in Santa Claus dealing with the Darkness Devil to gain ultimate power. It was revealed that both Santa Claus and Makima are both archenemies and are competing towards an unknown goal.

### Other Devil Hunters

Most of the Devil Hunters work for Makima under respect and fear. The latter personality can be shown when some of the Devil Hunters in Kyoto Division, Kurose and Tendo, were absolutely terrified and nervous when it comes to talking with Makima herself or the former devil hunter turned into mercenary for the Gun Devil, Akane Sawatari, expresses her fear with Makima and her powers after seeing Makima brutally murdered her accomplices with her own devilish powers and even warning his other accomplice, Samurai Sword, as there is no way for them to run against Makima. She does, however, show a bit of a soft spot towards one of the Devil Hunters, Madoka, who ended up quitting after surviving the Devil Hunter massacre that was committed by the Gun Devil followers by giving him a paycheck when he quits the job. However, at the same time, she also shows a bit of ruthlessness towards the former devil hunter turned mercenary who ended up targeting Denji, Quanxi, as she decapitates both Quanxi and her girlfriend mercilessly despite her attempt to surrender and asks Makima to spare her girlfriends so that they could have better lives which resulted in Kishibe having no choice but to blindfold himself to prevent seeing the horror Makima will inflict. In later chapters, however, it was then revealed that all of the devil hunters were revealed to be her pawns to be used to further her own plans at the end such as intentionally arranging the fight against Aki and Denji in order to make humanity support for Chainsaw Man even stronger than before as an attempt to weaken him. In addition, she has no hesitations to dispose of everyone who gets in her way such as Kobeni as she found out that Kobeni hung around with Chainsaw Man which resulted in her attempting to attack Kobeni with the Spear of Longinus she had summoned before Chainsaw Man attempts to protect her and resulted in him gravely wounded, much to Makima's disappointment. Her personality seeing them as nothing but things to dispose of was shown during the final battle as she uses their bodies in order to defend herself against Chainsaw Man's attacks and regenerate her bodies.

### Japanese Government or Bureau Members

In the earlier chapters of the manga, it is shown that Makima was working with the upper echelons of the bureau which is revealed to be the Japanese government by reporting the mission for hunting the Gun Devil and it's setbacks such as the intense relations between the other countries and Japan in order to gain more fragment to be stored by the Government. Later chapters shows that she is dedicated to her mission to make Japan the most powerful country on Earth by gaining several gun-devil fragments even if she's going to wage war against the other country. At one point, she also reported the incident regarding Samurai Sword and Akane Sawatari and the members of the Yakuza that were involved in the incident. In later chapters, it is shown that her relationship with the government were much more deeper than that as it was revealed that Makima made a contract with the Japanese Prime Minister as both of them had an intertwined agenda with each other: Become humanity's savior by using the Chainsaw Man's powers in order to eradicate all of the devils from the existence of the human world which would get rid of all of the fear, tragedies or atrocities that plagued humanity for all the entirety of its history. However, due to the contract that Prime Minister had made, if Makima was attacked, the Japanese civilians will be inflicted by illness or have their death dismissed as nothing but accidents. Despite their professional relationships, Makima is shown to intensely dislike them. This was justified due to her upbringing by the Japanese government to become a ruthless, cold and no-nonsense woman to become the leader of the Public Safety Bureau in order to exterminate all of the devils in the world and bring a better world for humans to live. This resulted in Makima trying to make a world where she is equal with other people and yearning for something like a familial relationship while also developing a rather toxic obsession towards Chainsaw Man himself to reach that further goal. Her dislike towards the members of the Japanese government or the bureau can be traced back in Chapter 22 where Makima expresses her displeasure meeting with the Kyoto Bigwigs as she perceives them as scary while wanting to eat her food peacefully. In the end, Makima was just a mere pawn of the Japanese Prime Minister to be used to suit his own ends.

### Other Devils

Most of the other devils in the manga either feared her or respected her as this was revealed that some of the devils who managed to work with her after they were managed to be captured by Makima were either doing this on their own volition such as Power who attempts to save her cat or was forced to work due to the brainwashing that she inflicts towards them. This is because Makima is their antithesis in terms of personality with Makima emphasizing her lawful evil personality with the devil mostly tends to be chaotic evil. However, at the same time, she also holds a grudge towards them and has the intention to get rid of the bigger Devils such as Death, Famine and War by using the Chainsaw Man in order to bring a better world for its people and fulfill the request of the Japanese Prime Minister. To further her own goals, she also has no hesitation to kill other devils or brainwash other devils to do her bidding. Her ruthlessness in killing other devils to further her own plans was best shown when she mercilessly kills Power with her psychic gun powers who tries to bring a birthday cake for Denji to Makima's apartment in order to celebrate his birthday in order to make Denji suffer and experiencing a BSOD as she attempts to destroy Denji's life just to summon Chainsaw Man itself. Her brainwashing abilities towards a devil were best shown towards the Angel Devil when she ordered him to massacre the people from the village where he resides while also attempting to seal the memories for good to make him easier to control and when the Angel Devil manages to regain his memories, Makima then brainwashes him as a last resort for damage control purposes. Another example of how she manages to brainwash other people is when she manages to revive Reze and Quanxi and then brainwashes them to join her side, the same can be said of the still alive Samurai Sword as they were forced to join Makima's new division alongside other hybrid devils just to defeat Chainsaw Man. This is due to the fact that Makima's brainwashing abilities work towards the creatures that she considered beneath her. At one point, it is also revealed that she is aware of the Devils whose names are based on the hierarchy of Biblical Angels as she used them to protect Denji as they waited for the Day of Rebirth. In the end, if some of the Devils decided to quit or go against her, she has no hesitation to treat them like other devils by murdering them in the end. It is also shown that when she manages to control Chainsaw Man, she plans to make the world a better place by getting rid of Death, War and Hunger from the face of the workers who were implied to be the Horsemen of Apocalypse themselves. It is shown that Makima strongly dislikes them as she views them as a hurdle to creating a perfect world in the end. Posthumously, Makima is revealed to be the "sibling" of the other horsemen (War, Famine, and Death), as Nayuta refers to Fami as her "sis." In spite of their familial connection, Makima appears to hold little affection for them, planning to use Chainsaw Man to wipe them out from existence altogether.

### Humanity itself

Makima views herself as a kindhearted savior towards humanity, even telling Kishibe that all of the bad deeds that she had done was on the best interests of humanity itself as she attempts to save humans from the devils that attempt to attack them which rings true despite Kishibe viewing her as a liar due to the events of Chapter 84 as her goal was intertwined by the Japanese Prime Minister to whom she made a contract with as she attempts to defeat the Chainsaw Man in order to harness his power to eradicate all of the devils from the existence of the human world which would get rid of all of the fear, tragedies or atrocities that plagued humanity for all the entirety of its history. However, it was revealed that Makima also holds rather sociopathic tendencies in terms of her relationship with humanity as it was revealed that she views her love for humans as similar to humans' fondness for dogs, ever perceiving them as one because of their loyal, easily handled, clever and stupid behavior which amuses Makima. In addition, Makima also basks in humanity's adoration and praises her as if she was a goddess which made her happy. At the same time, however, Makima's goal of building a better world for all of humanity is still genuine because of the fact that she wants to build a world where she is equal with others and at the very least, wants to experience a familial bond towards other people due to her rather harsh upbringing from the Japanese government itself who never teach her love and compassion in the first place and molds her into a monster that she is today. Although her goal is well-intentioned, in the end, she was feared by humanity itself ever since the earliest history of mankind due to her concept devil embodying the loss of free will.

## Victims

* Any Japanese person who was inflicted by sickness or having their death dismissed as an accident after her assailant attacked her.
* The Gun Devil's followers (brutally murdered by Makima's ritual, with few exceptions)
	+ Her 3 assailants (brutally murdered in a train with huge holes shown from their bodies)
	+ An unnamed accomplice of Samurai Sword and Akane.
	+ A Person from Team E
	+ Mishima Shuuzou
	+ Inoue Takahashi
	+ Another unnamed accomplice of Samurai Sword and Akane, who took a girl hostage
	+ Other unnamed 25 people that meet their ends
* 30 life-sentenced criminals who died during her ritual
* Countless Devil Hunters from different divisions (heavily implied)
	+ Her accomplice that accompanies her on the train
	+ Hirokazu Akai
* Yakuza members loved ones and their relatives (had their eyes gouged out in order to bribe the hard-headed yakuza leader)
* Reze (impaled by Angel Devil from her orders, revived as one of Makima's brainwashed slaves)
* Santa Claus's dolls
* Quanxi (revived as Makima's brainwashed slave)
* Tsugihagi
* Cosmo
* Any citizens of Nikaho who got caught in the crossfire with the Gun Devil vs Makima as she goaded the former to do so
* Aki Hayakawa
* Power
* Hell Devil (from controlling Denji)
* All of her slaves during the fight against Denji

## Etymology

* Makima's name is written in katakana (マキマ), though it seems to have no special meaning to it. However, the "maki" (マキ) in her name seems to be from "Makita", which is the name of a Japanese manufacturer of power tools that also creates chainsaws (noting her idolization of Chainsaw Man).

## Memes

Being one of the most popular characters in Chainsaw Man, Makima has several memes under her belt. Here is the list of the memes that were spawned by Makima herself:

### Bark For Me/Becoming Makima's Dog

The meme "Bark for Me/Becoming Makima's Dog" is a phenomenon where several people from Chainsaw Man that adored Makima or anyone who jumped on the bandwagon decided to bark towards Makima every time she makes her appearance and calling themselves "Woofers". This can be explained due to the fact that Makima herself is a dog lover as shown in Chapter 80 where she has 7 dogs in her apartment and also seeing Denji as nothing but a pet dog for her to use. This also resulted in Denji becoming submissive towards Makima after his companions died which causes her to manipulate his mind easier. Her domineering attitude and the fact that she also loved humans as if she loved them like dogs due to their stupid and loyal behavior and her obsession with Chainsaw Man which was revealed to be Pochita that took a puppy form also becomes a contributing factor on why people barked for her. Inevitably, several cosplayers with the famous one being this twitter account utilized the popularity of Makima and her domineering personality in order to attract several users to bark for them in the comment section. Eventually, the meme also faced several criticisms as several content creators on several social media feels the displeasure on some of the fans' toxicity such as Pegasus who at times expresses his displeasure seeing the meme although some creator such as Chibi Reviews reacted with humour after seeing several people barking every time Makima. However, the toxicity reaches its zenith where Makima fans raided the chats during MAPPA's anniversary event stream that showcase Chainsaw Man which also causes some Japanese people become increasingly uncomfortable with the actions of rabid Makima fans barking during MAPPA's anniversary event.

### Makima's Beautiful Peach

The meme "Makima's Beautiful Peach or is as known as Makima's nice booty" is one of Chainsaw Man's popular memes where several of her fans became attracted with one of Makima's most valuable asset: Which is revealed to be her nice booty or peach that she had. This was showcased during Chapter 74, 75 and Chapter 94 where Makima's nice posterior was shown in a very protruding way especially when Makima gave her blood in an attempt to revive Chainsaw Man for pragmatic reasons after being beaten by her goons during a very brutal fight so that she could beat Chainsaw Man in hand-to-hand combat and murder him. Eventually, this attract several fans or other people that were interested with her peach to the point some of the fanarts of her accentuate how big her peach is due to how nice her body posterior is and at one point, using it as an excuse to defend her horrible actions.

### Makima Portrayed as Food

The meme "Makima Portrayed as a Food" is a meme where Makima herself is already depicted as food to consume. The meme spawned due to Makima's eventual horrific fate in Chapter 96 after she was defeated and was turned into kinds of food by Denji as her meat was stored inside of a tupperware such as Hamburger, Miso Soup, Curry, Meatball, Spaghetti, Sashimi, Meat Buns and so on due to the fact that her regeneration power that was bestowed by her contract which potentially killed several innocents, several Japanese people slowed down thanks to Power's blood. In addition to all of this, Makima's desire of wanting to be eaten by Chainsaw Man which would erase her from existence also plays as a contributing factor to the seemingly popularity of this meme. Due to the black comedy and the disturbing nature of the scene where Denji eats Makima and due to her willingness to be eaten by the Chainsaw Man in order to erase her trace from existence, several people memed her nasty fate of becoming a food as several fans see her as good food to be eaten or viewing her as tasty. The meme also resulted in her drawing comparisons with another character known from Genshin Impact known as Paimon due to the fact that several characters from Genshin such as the Traveler and Xiangling views Paimon as food with the Traveler joking that Paimon is an emergency food that accompanied them. Due to Makima's nasty fate of becoming food for Denji and her adamancy of wanting to be eaten by Chainsaw Man and the reaction of some characters towards Paimon as they perceive her as food which caused the Genshin community memeing her as one, both Paimon and Makima drew a parallel with each other to a certain degree.

### Makima's Gunshot

The meme "Makima's Gunshot" is a moment where Makima uses her psychic gun powers to shoot something in order to either injure her enemy or brutally killed them. One of the most infamous moments of Makima using her psychic gun power is when she brutally kills Power with her psychic gun mercilessly during Chapter 81 to the point it was also used to gaslight Denji to think that he murdered his friends in cold blood. Due to how infamous the scene is and the chapter afterwards which resulted in several people getting either traumatized and depressed, several people made this into a meme to the point a Facebook page about Makima shooting several characters was made and said Facebook page has a sizable following. In addition to all of this, one of her most famous moments when she uses her psychic gun power is during Chapter 89 where she uses it to shoot Chainsaw Man which causes him to be thrown into space. Her usage of her psychic gun ability also makes her compared to the likes of Hiro Shishigami from Inuyashiki and Yuu Matsumoto from Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita or better known as Wataten. Hiro Shishigami himself is a cold-hearted sociopath who is able to use a psychic gun power to kill several innocent people just like Makima while Yuu herself, while not a psychopath and came from a lighthearted anime with no violence, is famous for her finger gun pose and saying "Bang!" which sometimes caused her to be memed as a psychopath by the fans who killed several innocent people.

### Makima Meets Miss Kobayashi

The meme "Makima Meets Miss Kobayashi" is a meme where Makima meets the main character of the anime *Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid*, Kobayashi. It all sparked due to the fanart made by Dumbocow where they were portrayed as sitting with each other with a dragon behind their back. Eventually, after the fanart was posted, several memes began to explode, comparing them side by side due to their similarities in appearance as both Makima and Kobayashi are depicted as women with red hair and also wearing white business suits and a tie. Due to the seeming popularity of this meme, one video about them meeting with each other eventually reached a million views even with several viewers startled with the crossover in question.

## Her Evil Ranking

### What Make Her Close to Being Pure Evil?

* Has any Japanese citizen take the hit for any fatal hit that can occur to her, leading to countless dying.
* Introducing Denji, to Power and Aki so that they can build a familial bond between each other, and once they have outlived their usefulness, she kills both of them to psychologically break Denji enough to summon Chainsaw Man.
* She spends most of her time manipulating Denji into believing she's interested in him to keep Denji under her control and to ensure that he'd be even more broken once she revealed the truth.
* She kills several of the attackers of Division 4 using prisoners as sacrifices. Though the prisoners were criminals who'd been sentenced to life in prison, the manner she kills them is very ruthless.
* It is very likely that she had Sawatari killed by the Snake Devil to prevent her from revealing the truth about the Gun Devil.
* When meeting with the Yakuza, she gives them the eyes of all their loved ones and forces them to cooperate under the threat of not returning their eyeballs back.
* She fabricated the Angel Devil's memories after she wiped out the entire village that raised him.
* Killed Reze before she was gonna meet Denji in the café as promised to each other in order to assert her control over Denji's life.
* She is aware that Denji and several other devil hunters are under the assault of the Darkness Devil, which is one of the most powerful Devils on earth. She does nothing to help until the Darkness Devil bids her to come and save them.
* When Quanxi attempts to surrender and asks two of her surviving girlfriends to be spared, she rudely refers to one of them as a corpse and decides to ruthlessly decapitate Quanxi and her last two girlfriends.
* After Aki confessed that he wanted to protect both Power and Denji from danger, she heartlessly uses her powers on him to serve as her pawn.
* Used her powers on Angel Devil when he realizes her true nature and attempts to turn on her, using him as a pawn for her plans.
* Although she defeated the Gun Devil, she only did so that she could use the Gun Devil to traumatize Denji, not out of any altruistic reasons.
* Transforming Aki's corpse into the Gun Devil fiend in order to force Denji to kill Aki Hayakawa, his best friend, when he transforms into the Gun Devil fiend.
* She kills Power right in front of Denji's eyes when it was his birthday. When Denji couldn't believe what he was seeing and convinced himself it was all a dream, she began laughing hysterically, stating that's a funny joke.
* She gaslighted Denji and destroyed his mind, stating that whatever happiness he had, she will destroy it no matter what it is. All the while, she blames him for the deaths of his father, Power, and Aki, so she can have him break his contract with Pochita.
* Reviving and brainwashing Quanxi, Katana Man, Reze, and all the other devilmen, who were previously killed, in order to defeat Chainsaw Man. This made them all become a former shell of themselves as Makima manipulated their minds to make them serve her.
* Nearly killed Kobeni, one of the last survivors of the main characters, to weaken Chainsaw Man into saving her.
* While fighting Denji in Chainsaw Mode, she tried to kill Denji by pulling out Denji's heart for being in his way between them.
* If Chainsaw Man refuses to join her, she would allow him to eat her and erase her from existence, knowing this will doom humanity as a result due to the loss of control and order.
* Ultimately seeks to place all of humanity under her tyrannical control in her goal to create a "better world" which while genuinely well-intentioned, what she deems the world is better without is of her own subjective opinion than anything objective as shown when Pochita asks if she would erase all she deems as bad movies, showing how dangerous Makima's plans for control will be for humanity as a whole to usher in as the President of the United States calls, the worst kind of peace.
* When Pochita tricks her by assuming Denji's form, she tries to kill him anyway, showing that her supposed love for Pochita is only superficial as she didn't realize she was attacking Pochita himself this time.
* Overall, majority of the death and devastation plaguing all across Part 1 are all organized by her, with countless lives wasted as collateral damage for her destructive scheme to control humanity. Even after finally killing her, Denji still has post-traumatic stress disorder from how Makima tore down his life and the emotional abuse he suffered from her as a result.

### What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?

* She's ultimately a tragic figure. Her evil stems from having been raised without love as a weapon for the government, genuinely wanting to build a family-like relationship on an equal footing with others, and the reason she likes dogs is that she likes her relationships one-sidedly, showing an insecure side of her. Ultimately, however, the story makes it clear that this isn't to absolve Makima's deplorable crimes and that there are some limits to the sympathy as well, with Denji taking in to raise her reincarnation Nayuta to specifically ensure she never ends up as depraved as Makima ever was.
* Although it's very extreme, ruthless, and uses unjustifiable means, she stays true to her word of wanting to make the world better despite her heinous actions, making her a genuine well-intentioned extremist. To even further point out how evidentially true it is, Pochita also explicitly states that her actions were to truly build an equal relationship with others and manages to see through Makima's real intentions deep down. However, even with that, Makima's genuine good intentions have been laced with shades of narcissism with her own biases factoring, additionally she was more than willing to harm and use those she was supposed to protect, making this another minor prevention.

## What Makes Her Magnificent?

* Is the direct organizer of Part 1's events, with nearly every character one way or another being a pawn that she exploits taking advantage over their strengths and weaknesses to be the one who had been advancing no matter what all was the outcome.
* Is a tragic villain who herself had been raised through emotional exploitation by the government who lovelessly used her as a mere weapon for them to exact their supremacy, leading to her longing for a genuine familial connection with the others which she feels she will eb able to achieve on her utopia which is her dream. This is demonstrated through her has a genuine admiration for dogs for being loving her one-sidedly. Kishibe notes that Makima was only as ruthless because she was as ruthlessly raised when finding her reincarnation Nayuta, and even Pochita deep down does sympathizes with Makima and wants Denji help achieve her dream by raising Nayuta with love albeit be far from as ruthless as Makima was.
	+ This gives her huge advantages over many villains like most of the non-humanoid, non-Fiend devils who are villains that lack any sort of redeeming qualities, the Yakuza members that include Hate Sinks like the Debt Collector & his grandson Samurai Sword, who she herself performs an Eviler than Thou on, and her purely evil rival, Santa Claus, who serves as a darker foil that is an even bigger sadist than Makima who also has her own, even more disgusting niche while lacking anything remotely redeeming about her at all.
* While ruthless and factors in her own personal, subjective biases, she is a genuine well-intentioned extremist who wants to create a utopia when the world is under her control, where the innumerable flaws she believes the world has is fixed using the Chainsaw Devil by convincing or controlling the Chainsaw Devil to join her crusade and use his abilities to delete concepts from reality.
* Through her contract with the Prime Minister, she is essentially immortal with any sort of fatal hit she can transfer to a random Japanese citizen, most who were displayed to have been convicts, in the form of illness or accidents.
* Recruits Denji to her Public Safety Division under promises of food and residence to keep a closer watch on him.
* Teamed Denji up with Aki Hayakawa, a Devil Hunter who fiercely hates Devils due to the Gun Devil's attack, and Power, the Blood Fiend to lower Denji's guard and to use them to (according to the Government) retrieve the Gun Devil's part for Japan, but actually to traumatize Denji into accepting her plans.
* Having either been the one that hired Akane Sawatari or simply anticipating her attack, she uses her as her pawn to weaken the Divisions of Public Safety to strengthen her control over the Division.
* When Sawatari ends up attacking her, Makima mops the floor with her assassins effortlessly, and with the names she gets from the Yakuza, uses a ritual to decimate Sawatari's team.
* Having approached the Yakuza, when they smugly refuse her demands for the names of all Sawatari hired for her operation by self-righteously proclaiming themselves 'a necessary evil', Makima performs a Eviler than Thou on them and force the Yakuza leaders to cow down to her while she shows who the real necessary evil is and rightfully mocks them for being cheap imitations using excuses to commit their crimes.
* Has frequently strengthened the control over the lives Denji and the fiends and clear out any potential wrinkle such as when Denji's other love interest, Reze, existence prompts Denji to consider running away from Public Safety.
* Having anticipated the arrival of a wave of dangerous international assassins out for Denji, Makima has multiple bodyguards present to successfully protect her most prized asset while dealing with her rival on ambitions for world domination, the purely evil Santa Claus.
* By taking control of animals such as rats and birds, she was able to bug nearly all of Japan to force all of her enemies to a corner.
* Upon the Gun Devil's arrival, she uses the abilities of all the Devils & Fiends, as well as of all the humans & the contracts with other Devils they possess, that were all under her control to strategically defeat one of the most powerful devils on Earth, the Gun Devil by transforming him into the Gun Fiend, even being able to exploit the contracts of deceased humans like Sawatari, Yutaro Kurose and Michiko Tendo, while tipping Denji on the Gun Fiend's arrival to manipulate him into killing the Fiend for good.
* Is able to manipulate Denji to be fully taken control over her, and break his contract with Pochita despite admitting how hard the task was due to how content Denji was even at the terrible life he had forced to work for the Yakuza.
* Ran a propaganda displaying Chainsaw Man as a hero. Although Denji thought she did it out of gratefulness, she was actually doing this so that humans will fear chainsaws less and less, biding her time that the Chainsaw Man becomes weak enough for her plan.
* Using the Chainsaw Devil, Pochita, as her own ace in her sleeve, she thwarts an otherwise brilliant trap by Kishibe, showing who the biggest planner of the series really is.
* Has a skewed admiration over Pochita as a worthy enemy due to being her uncontrolled polar opposite that is the only one immune to her powers, and so enwraps him on a Xanatos Gambit, in which she either takes control over him for his goals or he joins her, or that Pochita devours her instead, either way succeeding in building some sort of connection to her and winning either way.
* Is able to defeat Pochita in a fair fight, and then resurrects him due to her being skeptical of her worthy enemy be that able to be taken down so easily, to which she ends up defeating him again.
* Is such a tight planner that Makima was nearing total victory over her ambitions, Denji was only able to defeat her through an unexpected ambush by taking a huge gamble on if she really did memorize his scent.

## What Makes Her a Baddie?

* Sacrificing or endangering countless lives as collateral damage to further her plans, with loads of people having been harmed when whatever hit dealt to her is transferred to a random Japanese citizen as an illness or accident as a result of her contract.
* Has Angel Devil use his powers to wipe out the village that raised him in order to test the full effectiveness of his powers.
* While she trumped the Yakuza and gives them deserved karma for their atrocities, for that she has an eye removed from their loved ones, who were probably innocent, to intimidate them into giving her the information she needed.
* Was heavily implied to be the one that hired Akane Sawatari for her terrorist attack, or is at the least confirmed to have known Sawatari's plans and allowed her attack, to sabotage Public Safety to strengthen her control over it.
* "Kills" Reze when Denji plans on running away with her to strengthen her control over Denji's life, before placing her under her control.
* Mocks Quanxi as a corpse when she surrenders herself for her Fiend girlfriend's safety and "kills" them all to absorb their powers for her to control.
* Emotionally exploits a vulnerable teenager like Denji, building his happiness to only tear it down and make him suffer so that she can break his will and thus his contract with Pochita, and in order to do so she turns his brother figure (Aki) into the Gun Fiend and forces Denji to kill him to save numerous innocents, or killing his sister figure (Power) in front of him and laugh while revealing the truth that he killed his abusive father to further gaslight Denji.
* Sought to use the Chainsaw Devil to erase devils all across the world as well as the concepts of which fear they embody to rid the world of things she feels the world is better of in her own subjective opinion, as she enforces a totalitarian rule to the entire world.

## Trivia

* Makima's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
	+ Makima ranked 2nd in the First Popularity Poll with 27,224 votes.
	+ Makima ranked 2nd in the Second Popularity Poll with 76,733 votes.
* Makima smokes "hi-fight"s, likely a reference to the Japanese tobacco brand "hi-lite."
* Makima was the first character Fujimoto had a solid image of as she is a character in "Breath of The Stars", one of the serialized works in Fujimoto's head, out of many fantasy stories he imagined in Junior High.
* Makima was partially based on "Benten", a character in "The Eccentric Family" that Fujimoto liked, for she is an unfathomable higher being, with her own sadness that we lowly humans can't comprehend—something Fujimoto wanted to convey in Makima.
* Fujimoto has mentioned FLCL as a source of inspiration for the girls of Chainsaw Man, and Makima is likely based on Haruko from FLCL who is a manipulative, unpredictable being.
* According to Fujimoto, if you remove the "ki" from Makima's name, you're left with "Mama", which ties in with Denji, who has always been pursuing maternal things since the death of his mother at a young age.
	+ The most common spelling of Makima in Japanese is 牧間, which can be read, as a play on 人間/"human", as "shepherd". Which can go with how she essentially can make people into her "sheeple."
	+ The two kana that form her name are homophones for "ma (魔)" and "ki (鬼)", both different words for "demon".
* Makima's Japanese Devil Name, Shihai *(支配)*, uses the same kanji as the Japanese translation for the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Christian mythology. Given Makima's status as a member of the group, her name could also be interpreted as the **Conquest Devil**.
	+ In Japanese the word Shihai is an umbrella term for several similar concepts relating to control, conquest, rulership and domination .etc. So while in Japanese it was already clear what type of Devil she was as well as being a horseman upon the first time her Devil type was revealed, the umbrella term would be lost in translation and thus different languages would come up with different variations such as Control Devil and Domination Devil being the most notable examples.
* Makima's final battle at the end with Chainsaw Man was inspired by the Shinobu vs. Koyomi fight in the Kizumonogatari III movie according to a tweet by Fujimoto.
* In Makima's apartment (shown in Chapter 81), there is a painting showing "*The Fall of Lucifer*", similar to Gustave Doré's illustration for John Milton's poem Paradise Lost.

"*The Fall of Lucifer*" shown as a painting in Makima's apartment in Chapter 81.

* In both the anime and the manga, Makima is often seen with pests and parasites.
	+ In the opening theme "*Kick Back*", Makima is allegorically represented by two animals: the jade wasp (*Ampulex compressa*) and *Leucochloridium paradoxum*, both parasites that control the actions of their host.
	+ Her association with pests could be reflective of how the Conquest Horseman is often interpreted as the Horseman of Pestilence. The reason for the Conquest Horseman being changed to Pestilence in some interpretations is because scholars found Conquest to be too similar to War. Pestilence was an easy change because at the time, bows and arrows were laced with poisons and toxins and the Conquest Horseman held a bow and arrow. Even though Makima's hands are in a more gun-like position, her "Bang!" ability can also be comparable to shots from an arrow.
* Makima's gut halo is often seen as being symbolic of the crown that the Conquest Horseman would wear.

* Ironically, before her true color was revealed, Makima was originally marketed and advertised as the main heroine of *Chainsaw Man,* possibly in order to avoid spoilers.
* Due to her actions in Chapter 81-82, Makima cemented herself as one of the evilest villains ever graced in Shonen Jump history to the point that even most of the people comparing her to the likes of Sōsuke Aizen from *Bleach* or Griffith from *Berserk*. Her actions are so awful and nerve-wrecking to the point that the author of *Kuzu no Honkai*/*Scum's Wish*, Mengo Yokoyari, who is a fan of *Chainsaw Man*, being shocked by her heinous deeds so much she took a break temporarily from social media following Power's demise.
* Makima is the first character to successfully kill two of the other three main characters, in this case, she is the one responsible for the death of Aki in Chapter 79 due to the indirect murder from Denji and Power in Chapter 81.

* During Chapter 61, as Kishibe and Quanxi were having a nice chat together, Kishibe then tells Quanxi that "Makima is Listening". This alludes to the quote from the George Orwell novel *1984*: "Big Brother is Watching You!". Big Brother himself is the main antagonist of said novel and is described as a powerful figure from Oceania who constantly surveyed his population so that he could easily control them into submission and if people decided to rebel, a very harsh punishment will surely be inflicted towards them. Big Brother's traits literally fit Makima's true nature as she is revealed to be the Control Devil representing the humanity's fear of being controlled by other governments as Makima would bring the worst kind of peace in the end, an almost-Orwellian dystopia.
* Makima was ranked at the second of all ten characters in Chainsaw Man's popularity poll with 27.244 votes, only to be beaten by Power in the end with 35.268 votes.
* Makima's name herself in Kanji is "牧間", which can also be read as a play on the word 人間/human or 牧人/shepherd. The word "Human" itself can be applied on Makima's appearance being the most human of all the devils and being the most sketchy and inhuman of all the characters as her behavior contradicts itself of what it means to be a human because even the devils and other humans were terrified of her while the word "Shepherd" befits her title as the Control Devil who will control other people or devils for her own ends.
* According to this twitter post, it is heavily implied that the creator of *Chainsaw Man*, Tatsuki Fujimoto, has a fetish towards oppressive and unreasonable woman as at one point, he become overjoyed towards the woman he encountered in the university who overturned his bike and laughed at him. This possibly explain Makima's oppressive and abusive actions towards Denji in the series which reduced him into nothing but a broken trainwreck.
* There are several foreshadowing moments especially the sketchy attitude she had committed that shows that Makima isn't what she seems to be:
	+ Her character design itself possesses strange golden eyes that almost looks like a cats' with swirly pupils accompanied by it. This is due to the fact that swirl itself are indicated as a form of shape that were usually uses to hypnotize other people, this correlates with her personality as a manipulative control freak who uses her hypnotizing powers or good looks in order to get what she wants.
	+ In Chapter 1, after Denji meets Makima for the first time, Makima then attempts to make Denji her pet, as otherwise he would be killed. In addition, she also manages to return Denji to his normal self by simply hugging him.
	+ In Chapter 2, Makima has no hesitation in euthanising Denji if he rebelled against Makima while in the next Chapter, she also has no hesitation in treating Denji like any other devis if he rebelled or quit.
	+ In Chapter 26, she miraculously revives herself even after being killed by her assailants in the train while also brutally murdering them mercilessly.
	+ In Chapter 32, Kishibe suspects that Makima is not what she seems and that she is involved with the massacre of the Devil Hunters, and coming to Makima with these suspicions, she only responds with an unsettling grin.
	+ In Chapter 33, she does several morally ambiguous behaviors despite her well intentions such as gouging the eye out of the Yakuza members' loved ones to be used as a bribe so that she could coerce the Yakuza into cooperating while also brutally injuring a Yakuza who attacks her.
	+ In Chapter 52, she uses rats to teleport to the location where Reze stands in order to kill Reze after Reze decides to form a bond with Denji.
	+ In Chapter 61, it was revealed that Kishibe is aware that Makima is listening to his and Quanxi's conversation while expressing his intentions towards Quanxi to kill Makima and he asks Quanxi for help.
	+ In Chapter 66, Makima is able to wound the Darkness Devil with ease by just pointing a finger at it.
	+ In Chapter 67, it was revealed that according to Yoshida during his conversation with Kishibe, Santa Claus seems to hold a rivalry towards Makima as they compete towards an unknown goal while also suspecting that protecting Denji was never her goal in the first place. At the same time, it was also revealed that Makima is able to use lower life forms to listen to other people's conversations.
	+ In Chapter 70, instead of hearing Quanxi's request to spare her girlfriends as she attempts to surrender gracefully, Makima decides to decapitate all of them mercilessly, all with a sick grin on her face.
* It is also possible that the seven dogs that she had in Chapter 80 foreshadows the fact that she controls 7 hybrids to defeat Chainsaw Man around Chapter 86 onwards. This is due to the fact that Makima had 3 white dogs and 4 black dogs in her apartment which parallels the hybrids in Chapter 86 as most of them have black hair (Samurai Sword, The Sword Devil, Reze and the Flamethrower devil) and the rest have white hair such as Quanxi, the Whip Devil and the Spear Devil.
* On the cover of Chapter 71, Makima herself was hugged by Denji in his Chainsaw Man form which alludes to a certain panel in Chapter 83 where she asks Chainsaw Man for help in reviving her and defeat her enemies after Makima was killed by the SWAT Team sent by Kishibe.
* In addition to all the foreshadowing above, Makima's personality can be compared to Santa Claus due to the latter's manipulative relationship with Tolka which would serve as a foreshadowing for Makima as both of them use several men and manipulate their psyche in order to get what they want. She can also be compared to Reze, due to them both being seductive Femme Fatales that try to manipulate the protagonist to get what they want and both have a similarly tragic backstory as they were used by their respective governments with Reze being used by the Soviet Union government and Makima being used by the Japanese government.
* One of the only people who are seemingly genuinely loyal to Makima is the Spider Devil, named Princi, who is her crony. She seems to be very obedient to her and actually cares about her well being. As a humanoid Devil like her, she is friendly and is very polite. Even if she had objections against Makima putting herself in danger if Makima said that she wanted her to teleport her to the situation then Princi would listen. Even with her polite and docile personality Princi would still head into a fight if needed to.
	+ Princi being described as an example of how friendlier Devils can take on a human form can be some of the earliest foreshadowing that can give hints of Makima potentially being a Devil.
	+ There is a theory that the reason Makima asks her to collect the bodies of fallen devil hunters and people is so that more fiends can be created but this remains unconfirmed and is only speculative.
	+ Another theory is that Princi never shows what could be her true personality because she was under the mind control of Makima. Kishibe says that even though Princi is a friendlier Devil she would kill people just for looking at her the wrong way, this seems to be a very informed trait as she shows no behavior like this. This leads to the vagueness of if Kishibe was simply speaking out of hatred for Devils or if he actually saw what she was like when she wasn’t under control.
		- Even if Princi was under Makima’s control or not, she was said to be a nicer Devil who was said to genuinely be loyal and protective over Chainsaw Man. From what is seen, Princi seems to have thought Makima was nicer than she really was and was basically duped and betrayed by Makima. Which if Princi was truly loyal to Makima and liked and cared for her in some way, this makes it even more tragic and cruel that Makima decided to push one of the only people who was truly loyal to her aside.

* Makima is very similar to **Silene**/**Sirene** from the *Devilman* series. Silene is a demon whose motivations against the protagonist, Akira, was because he was a human fused with the demon she either admired or was in love with (depending on the version), Amon. She only lured Akira so that she can kill him herself because she wanted Amon, just like how Makima only lured Denji because he was fused with the real Chainsaw Man, Pochita. The difference between them is that Silene was originally, until she became more popular, just a very minor antagonist whereas Makima was always planned to be a major character from the start and is later revealed to be a major antagonist.
	+ In the original Devilman manga, Sirene had two demons who assisted her called Ghelmer and Agwel who had water and intangibility powers respectively. Two of Makima's subordinates, Beam and Princi, are both Devils with intangibility powers and Beam is a Shark Fiend and sharks are aquatic animals with his intangibility being his own way of representing sharks swimming.
* There are several biblical references and allusions surrounding Makima and the world of *Chainsaw Man* such as:
	+ In Chapter 76, Makima is seen standing at the sea with other six people, most of them deceased, those being Princi the Spider Devil, Akane Sawatari, Aki Hayakawa, Angel Devil, Yutaro Kurose, and Michiko Tendo). The panel itself reflects the biblical text regarding Revelation 13:1-10 about a vision regarding the beast emerging from the sea, Therion. According to the texts, Therion itself is described with seven heads, ten crowns on its horns, and resembles a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The Beast itself attempts to assert its authority for forty-two months to other tribes, people, languages, and nations to wage war against God's holy people in order to conquer them. The story of the Beast befits the nature of Makima as the control devil and her sitting on the seas in order to combat the Gun Devil who was contracted by the American president in order to liberate themselves from her grasp.
	+ In Chapter 81, it is shown that Makima herself put a painting of Lucifer from *Paradise Lost* being banished from heaven on her wall. *Paradise Lost* is a poem by John Milton that retells the third Chapter of Genesis and the war between Satan and Angels while also showing the Fall of Men while they attempted to reconcile free will with God's Omnipotence. The picture itself could heavily imply that Makima is revealed to be the leader of all devils, Lucifer, all along.
	+ In Chapter 83, as both Denji and Makima prepares to go somewhere else, Makima introduces Denji to the demons that she brainwashed just to protect Denji as their names were revealed to be based on the hierarchy of the biblical angels: Seraphim, Cherubim (Beam) and Galgalim from the First Sphere; Dominion, Virtue and Power from the Second Sphere; Principalities (Princi) and Angel from the Third Sphere. Most of the biblically accurate angels are depicted as Lovecraftian eldritch creatures such as Seraphim who are depicted as having six wings with two of them used for flying, two of them for covering its face and two of them for covering its feet befitting the bug theme surrounding the devil with the aforementioned name, Galgalim whose depicted as interlocking gold wheels with eyes surrounding it befitting the Violence Devil who has 4 eyes and Cherubim whose depicted as human-animal hybrid befitting Beam's theme which correlates with the eldritch devils appearing in the manga.
	+ In Chapter 89, Makima then summons a holy spear that has the usage of one thousand years with the help of the men she enslaved and Angel Devil to spitefully attacks Kobeni. The Holy Spear itself can be described as the Spear of Longinus that is mentioned in Gospel of John (19:31-37) that was used by the Romans to execute Jesus by piercing him on the side to make sure he was dead after he was crucified. This also correlates with Chainsaw Man being seen as messianic figure for the humans during the same chapter Makima attempts to attack Kobeni as he was weakened by the humanity's praise of him while also being accidentally pierced as a punishment which causes him to be defeated by Makima.
	+ In Chapter 94, as Makima wounded herself in order to revive Denji, it could be interpreted that her wound which leaves a hole in her hand parallels Jesus's hands after being crucified. The hole in Jesus's hands are called Stigmata which is the wound marks of Jesus after he was wounded and sometimes were associated with Roman Catholicism.
* It is implied that Makima herself is a member of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse as stated by this fact:
	+ During Chapter 84, Makima herself mentions getting rid of devils such as War, Death and Famine in order to bring world peace. War, Death and Famine are the names that the three Horsemen of Apocalypse holds alongside Conquest in biblical theology.
	+ Her involvement in the battle against Chainsaw Man during Chapter 87 also involved the members of the Horsemen of Apocalypse.
	+ Her name itself as the moniker of "Control Devil" can be translated as Conquest which is one of the members of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse who is the rider of the white horse with a crown that was given to him and who wields a bow. This must allude that Makima herself is the Conquest Horsemen due to the fact that Conquest itself can be interpreted as either Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Antichrist or the Roman Empire Prosperity. Makima herself holds a parallel towards the Conquest Horseman due to her abilities of power and manipulation, her charisma and the fact that she also possesses a halo of brain matter in Chapter 76 that looks like a crown. It could be possible that Makima's title could hold a more sinister meaning; that perhaps she is this manga's version of the Antichrist.

* In Chapter 89, there is a scene where Makima has chains coming out from near the area of her womb, enslaving multiple devil hunters. The scene can be considered an allegory for a domineering mother who can control her own child even after they reach their adulthood. However, several people interpret this scene as Makima having her chains coming out from her clitoris which can be interpreted as an allegory of lust itself, as men end up being attracted by beautiful and attractive women to the point that the men themselves throw their own dignity and soul away and willingly enslave themselves to these women.
* During Chapter 93, when Denji asks Makima if there will be bad movies in her ideal utopian world, she then answers that she will eradicate all bad movies in her world as she believes the world would be better if bad movies ceased to exist which causes Denji to have no hesitations to kill her. This references her and Denji's date in the movie theater around Chapter 39 when they talk about good and bad movies which also can be interpreted as a philosophical talk about how life works as without anything bad that balanced the good, life itself would become a lot more boring and it would destroy anything that makes human special. It can also be interpreted as Denji calling out Makima using her so-called well-intentioned goals just to fulfill her selfish desires.
* There are two theories on why the Control Devil reincarnated so quickly, one being that the incarnation between Makima and Nayuta was spawn killed (presumably by the Darkness Devil) another being that there was no incarnation between them and Makima was born in Hell due to her clear memories of Hell and fighting in Hell. It is also not impossible for one to traverse between Earth and Hell, such as using the Hell Devil, so it could also be possible for her to be born in Earth and go to Hell. There has yet to be a confirmation for any of these theories.

* It is stated by Fujimoto himself that *Chainsaw Man* is heavily inspired by *FLCL* to the point he call it the evil version of it. Makima's character then seems to take inspiration from *FLCL*s true main antagonist, Haruko Haruhara as both of them share several similarities with them both being manipulative people who have no hesitation to manipulate both of the protagonists in order to further their own selfish goals even if it means hurting, murdering or betraying them. In addition to all of this, both of them also had a fanatical relationship towards the entity that was sealed in the protagonist's body and plan to harness their powers with Haruko's being the Pirate King Atomsk and Makima being the Chainsaw Man, not only for their power, but because they are madly in love with them.
* Makima's defeat in Chapter 96 and her Karmic Fate is heavily foreshadowed by these signs:
	+ Chainsaw Man's first cover for Shonen Jump: It depicts Denji and Pochita both wurg a seemingly evil grin while holding a Chainsaw with Makima's startled reflection seen in the Chainsaw. Fast forward to Chapter 96, she was defeated by Denji with the same pose minus Pochita being on Denji's side and Denji wearing a suit.
	+ In one of Makima's lines in Chapter 1 after she seemingly rescues Denji, she promises to give Denji food everyday if he becomes her obedient lap dog. This statement takes on a darker meaning after Makima's flesh ends up being eaten by Denji.
	+ In Chapter 12, Denji and Makima's have a conversation about sensual things, where she states sex feels better if one knows their partner well, biting Denji's finger to memorize it was her. Paralleled in Chapter 96 where Denji still laments that he likes her as he ate her despite all of the things she had done to him.
	+ Makima's desire to be eaten by Chainsaw Man so that she could become one and being erased from existence for the sake of a better world which alludes to the part where Denji wants to become one with her in order to carry the burden of her sins.
	+ Denji's wishes to eat a huge steak in Chapter 93 and this parallels Chapter 96 where Denji eats Makima with ginger-fried meat and onions.
	+ Fujimoto's interest in food such as Parfait in the mangaka comments of the week of Shonen Jump reflects Denji eating Makima in the end of Chapter 96.

* Makima's defeat and Chainsaw Man as a whole feels similar to Harlan Ellison's story and its film adaptation of the same name, "A Boy and His Dog" which tells the story of Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, as they travel through the wastelands of post nuclear war America. Vic is a person who has no parents, AN education or morality as the only thing that Vic care for are food and sex, trying to avoid mutants and fiends in the pursuit of these goals, reflecting Denji and Pochita's relationship really well. In the movie, Vic also encounters with a girl named Quilla June Holmes, revealed to be a manipulative, scheming femme fatale who wants to gain ultimate power, reflecting Makima's personality as well. Towards the end of the movie, Quilla and Vic discover Blood starved near to death, with Quilla pleading Vic to abandon Blood as she seemingly proclaims her love towards him. This results in Vic deciding to pledge his loyalty towards Blood as he kills her offscreen as Vic feeds the meat of Quilla to Blood, reflecting the scene where after Denji defeats Makima whom she views as nothing but a dog and an obstacle for her obsession with Pochita, he decides to eat her as a delicious steak.

* According to Fujimoto himself in this interview, it is stated that Makima symbolizes domination. As she is the first character he created for *Chainsaw Man*, he had a solid image of both her inside and outside. At the same time, it is also stated by Fujimoto that she was based on Benten from *The Eccentric Family* due to the fact that she is an unfathomable being higher than humans that has several tragic layers underneath her femme-fatale personality as the people that she perceive as lower lifeforms than her can't be there to comfort her.
* In the same interview with Fujimoto, he states that the "ki" part of Makima's name means tree and as chainsaws were used to cut trees, one can cut the "Ki" part of her name and it will become "Mama" as a result. This makes sense in context as Denji is portrayed as a child who tries to search for a maternal figure that is absent from his life and Makima is the person who manages to give him a maternal relationship due to her motherly nature despite it being revealed to be a ruse in the end.

* According to a tweet by Fujimoto--under the guise of Nagayama Koharu--he states that the final battle against Makima is heavily inspired by the battle between Koyomi Araragi and Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, better known as Shinobu Oshino, in *Kizumonogatari III* where both Araragi and Kiss-shot give brutal beatdowns to each other.
* According to this tweet, during Fujimoto's conversation with his editor, Shihei Rin, in the Jump Festa festival, Fujimoto stated that Makima is the hardest character to draw because Fujimoto claimed to be a messy artist as he tried his best to draw Makima beautifully with extreme care being put on to the drawing.

## External Links

* Makima on the *Chainsaw Man* Wiki
* The Control Devil on The Heroes Wiki
* Makima on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki