Kiga

*“Any human should be capable of abandoning their morality when they're starving. I'll create the right stage for you.”*

— Kiga

## Kiga

### Affiliation

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Devils

Fourth East High School

Devil Hunter Club

Chainsaw Man Church

### Family

Makima (sister, deceased)
Nayuta (sister)

Yoru (sister)

Death Devil (sister)

### Status

Alive

**Kiga**, also known as the **Famine Devil**, is a member of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the main antagonist of *Chainsaw Man* Part 2: *Academy Saga*. She is the second antagonist of the series.

She poses as a student at Fourth East High School and acts as the leader of the Chainsaw Man Church along with Barem Bridge, all as a means to an end to make the War Devil and Chainsaw Devil supremely powerful in order to destroy her eldest sister, Death. Throughout the *Academy Saga* she instigates many acts of chaos with the Fire Devil to get the public afraid of chainsaws and war to boost their strength.

As the Famine Devil, she is able to make those who are starving her pawns, including the likes of Primal Devils.

## Physical Appearance

Kiga takes on the appearance of a young woman who wears a high school uniform and a black cap from the Devil Hunter Club. She is tall, has grayish mountbatten pink colored neck-length hair, and has several moles on her face. Similar to the other Horsemen, she has piercing, multiple-ringed eyes. On a colored manga cover her eyes are shown to be pink. Her ears feature four earrings, two of which are beads on her right and the other two are unusually long and have a triangular shape at the end.

### Occasional Appearances

In *Something Important to Asa*, in Kiga's first appearance, she wears a black hat mostly associated with students at Fourth East High School.

Hat Kiga
## History

In the "After School Devil Hunters" arc, Fami, also known as the Famine Devil, makes her debut after Asa's sword attack gravely wounds Yuko. Offering to bring Yuko back to life, Kiga claims Asa as her little sister and performs a revival that results in Yuko becoming gigantic in size. She disappears just before Denji arrives on the scene.

During the "Infinite Aquarium" arc, Kiga reappears after Yuko's death, accompanied by the rest of the Devil Hunter Club. At the Tanashi Aquarium, she introduces herself as the Famine Devil and hints at her inability to turn Denji into a weapon until he loses his morality. Kiga suddenly disappears and traps Asa and Denji inside the aquarium.

In the subsequent "Falling Devil" arc, Yoshida, a Devil Hunter, meets with Kiga at a coffee shop and reveals his knowledge of her identity as the Famine Devil. He confronts her about an urban legend concerning Nostradamus' prophecy of humanity's end in July 1999 and its potential connection to her plans. Yoshida coerces Kiga into revealing the name and location of a primal devil recently appearing on Earth.

Later, during the Falling Devil's attack, Kiga orchestrates the assault with the intention of starving and enslaving Yoru, the devil sharing Asa's body. The Falling Devil's failure to feed Asa to a devil prompts Fami's arrival, where she discloses her involvement and sinister plans. She attempts to recruit Nayuta, but Nayuta declines due to her studies.

In the "Chainswa Man War" arc, Kiga arranges for Haruka to appear on a public talk show, where he faces humiliation. Backstage, she explains that the purpose was to subject Haruka to ridicule and instructs him not to dwell on it. A mysterious figure appears, emphasizing Haruka's role as the "face" of the Chainsaw Man Church, while Kiga operates as the "brains."

## Powers & Abilities

As a Devil, Kiga possesses all of the standard Devil abilities. While her powers and their extent are still unclear, she seems to be able to influence the power of Devils in some way. She was able to temporarily separate Yoru from Asa, leaving Asa, her power to turn people and objects into weapons and communicate with her at a distance despite her being trapped in another Devil's pocket dimension.

### Supernatural Abilities

* **Enhancing Healing**: Kiga has shown the ability to heal others, causing the healed person to gain great strength and size. This ability was used on Yuko after she was fatally injured by Asa Mitaka's weapon.
* **Enslavement**: As Kiga embodies the fear of famine or starvation, her ability reflects this nature. She's able to turn any being experiencing hunger/starvation into her pawn to do her bidding. This ability works even on Primal Fears. Furthermore, she can turn those whom she put under her control into miniature figurines of themselves to transport them easily.
	+ **Falling Devil:** As shown, one of the devils that she has successfully enslaved into becoming her subordinate is the Primal Fear, Falling Devil. As shown, Kiga possesses a powerful control over this devil despite her immense power, as shown when she obediently follows her orders without question.
* **Teleportation**: Kiga can seemingly appear anywhere she chooses at any moment. She snapped her fingers to teleport out of the aquarium and later suddenly appeared next to Yoru and Asa who noted that the door was locked so there was no way she could have gotten in.

## Personality

Kiga has a very mysterious personality and shows little outward emotion. She is always calm, cold, and composed and also seems to be very good at reading others, as she accurately describes both Asa's and Denji's characters. Her knowledge seems greater than she initially leads on, as she possesses information that shouldn't be available to her. Kiga doesn't care if someone discovers her true identity and therefore puts little to no effort into her alias. What's more is that she doesn't necessarily seem to be as outwardly malicious as her brethren, even informing Public Safety officials such as Yoshida about more dangerous Devils, albeit after being threatened first. Despite being intelligent, she underestimates people, believing that Asa, like most people, would be willing to do anything to survive if forced to, which gets proven wrong.

## Age

Kiga's true age is unknown, as she is a Devil and takes the appearance of a young woman, but her age likely exceeds over 100.

### Part 2: Academy Saga

* Chapter 11: Something Important to Asa
* Chapter 15: Between Cat and Criminal
* Chapter 16: I Wanna See Penguins!
* Chapter 20: Penguin and Weapon
* Chapter 25: The Prophecies
* Chapter 34: The Taste of Crap
* Chapter 35: Protection
* Chapter 39: Sentimental Drive
* Chapter 49: Chainsaw Man War (mentioned)

## Trivia

* Kiga's name is written entirely in katakana (キガ), showcasing no semantic meanings. However, her name is a play on the number of syllables of the word Famine to the amount of mora the Hepburn romanization "kiga" has.
* Kiga's earrings are a reference to the Horseman of Famine's depiction in the Book of Revelation, where he is depicted holding scales for weighing food. Famine is also sometimes interpreted as the "Lord as a Law-Giver".
	+ Both Famine and Justice are often represented by scales, which can be connected to how Asa originally speculated that Kiga was the Justice Devil.
	+ Kiga's head is nearly always tilted to her left (like an unbalanced scale)
* Like with Santa Claus, Fujimoto likely gave Kiga a few facial moles because he finds that the more moles a character has, the better they look.
* In Japanese, the word "kiga" has the same homophone as the Japanese word for "penguin". So, in the Japanese language, there was meant to be a double comedic effect of how Denji wanted to see penguins and Kiga appears shortly after.