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"I am she who absorbs life. She who saves people from their suffering via death. I am one of the Four Horsemen feared by humans and Devils alike. Pleased to make your acquaintance. My name is Famine Devil! Please call me Fami!"
Fami (キガ Kiga?) is the Famine Devil (
After failing to stop her eldest sister from enacting her plans, Fami is brainwashed into serving her and is commanded to plunge humanity into an abyss of terror alongside the Fake Chainsaw Man.
Appearance[]
Fami's current form resembles that of a humanoid woman with long unkempt hair that falls in uneven layers and strands. Some of her strands stick out, with bangs across her forehead and sides that reach her ears, and a pair of longer bangs that loosely reach her collarbones. Like the rest of her sisters, the Famine Devil possesses multiple-ringed eyes and wears the standard Fourth East High uniform, similar to other Horsemen Devils attending the school. In most of her appearances, she wears a nervous expression on her face and is usually shown crying.[1][2]
Personality[]
From what has been seen so far, Fami appears to have a meek and taciturn demeanor and is very outwardly emotional, in stark contrast with her sisters. She was nervous when introducing herself to students of Fourth East High School, crying throughout her entire introduction and openly bawling when she sees that nobody was paying attention to her. At the same time, she appears to have somewhat of a high opinion of herself, refusing to take out the trash because it would be a waste of her superior talents. Despite this, when she's chastised by a student for her behavior and told to go "crush ants", she actually goes outside to do so. When she's easily dispatched by the Fake Chainsaw Man, she immediately resorts to begging for her life by offering him a meager 2,000¥ from her wallet, demonstrating an overt cowardice that her sisters lack.
Fami appears to pity humanity and arrives claiming to save them with her special powers. Her notion of salvation seems to be releasing humans from their suffering through death. Although she does not display the same bravado as Devils like Makima and Yoru and can be argued to be benevolent, Fami is still deeply fatalistic, as seen in her method to "save" humanity: in order to mend her injuries, she spares no thought to an innocent student who wanted to help her and immediately steals his life force. Despite this, her pleading for Death to kill herself does display that she, in her own warped sense, ultimately sides with humanity over Devils.
Fami appears to have a high degree of confidence in her combat skills, and contrary to her usual personality is relatively calm and collected in an encounter against a formidable foe. She utilizes basic hand-to-hand combat in attempts to battle with the physically imposing Fake Chainsaw Man, analyzes his fighting style, and boldly claims to be capable of defeating him in mere seconds despite being rapidly dismembered by him a moment prior. It can be inferred from her genuine shock at being bested that she may have been a much more powerful fighter at a previous point but has been dramatically weakened to the state she's in at the time of her appearance.
Relationships[]
Pochita[]
The Four Horsemen are said to have previously engaged in a brutal fight against Chainsaw Man in Hell,[3] with the Famine Devil's degree of involvement being unknown.
Abilities[]
Fami battling the Fake Chainsaw Man using her martial arts prowess.
Fami possesses some level of martial arts prowess and knowledge, though the extent of which is questionable. Although her attacks dealt little damage to the Fake Chainsaw Man, she was nonetheless shown to be somewhat athletic in combat. Accurate or not, she also analyzes multiple supposed weaknesses in Fake Chainsaw Man's attacks and fighting style with just a sparse few demonstrations of his abilities. However, she was easily bested by him all the same in their brief clashes despite insisting it would only take three seconds to eliminate him.[4]
The Famine Devil can be assumed to hold all standard Devil abilities, such as regeneration, forming Contracts, etc.
Devil Powers[]
- Life Absorption: The Famine Devil has the ability to absorb the life of those she comes into physical contact with, draining them and reducing them to withered corpses. While the full extent of this ability is currently unknown, it can be used on Devils, humans and animals.
- Enhanced Healing: The Famine Devil can use the absorbed energy to heal herself from even mortal wounds, as shown when she drained one of the Festival Committee's students to revive herself when she clashed with the Fake Chainsaw Man.[5].
- Durability: Unlike many other Devils, the Famine Devil is able to live past mortal injuries, such as getting her body cut to pieces, and can still talk while her head is detached from her body.
Chapter Appearances[]
Public Safety Saga[]
| 80. A Dog's Feelings | Absent |
| 81. Paw | Absent |
| 82. Always Eat A Hearty Breakfast | Absent |
| 83. Death, Resurrection, Chainsaw | Absent |
| 84. Hero Of Hell | Mentioned |
| 85. Bloody Good Gut Feeling | Absent |
| 86. Date Chainsaw | Absent |
| 87. Chainsaw Man vs. the Horrifying Weapon Humans | Absent |
| 88. Star Chainsaw | Absent |
| 89. Go Get 'Em, Chainsaw Man | Absent |
| 90. Super Power | Absent |
| 91. Power, Power, Power | Absent |
| 92. Vanilla Sky | Absent |
| 93. You & Crappy Movies | Absent |
| 94. Chainsaw Man vs. the Weapon Humans | Absent |
| 95. Chainsaw Man vs. Control Devil | Absent |
| 96. This Kind of Taste | Absent |
| 97. I, Love, Chainsaw | Absent |
Academy Saga[]
| 191. Cuz I'm a Devil | Absent |
| 192. How Devils Play | Absent |
| 193. Burning Kiss | Absent |
| 194. Fun School Festival | Absent |
| 195. Kill Me Tears | Debut |
| 196. Chainsaw Man to the Rescue! | Appears |
| 197. 3 Seconds | Appears |
| 198. It's Fami! | Appears |
| 199. Enjoy Your Food | Appears |
| 200. Toxic Couple | Absent |
| 201. Terror Looks Like This! | Appears |
| 202. Devil Combination | Absent |
| 203. Human Shield | Appears |
| 204. With One Life | Absent |
| 205. Who? | Absent |
| 206. Chest, Woman, Apology | Absent |
Trivia[]
- Fami embodies the Ypositismosphobia (from Greek υποσιτισμός: "malnutrition"), the fear of hunger or starvation.
- "Fami" is only used in the English and German translation. Every other version, except the Polish one, uses "kiga" like in the original. Interestingly, the German translation points out that Fami is an English word and in it Fami is the devil of hunger rather than famine.
- Fami'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.
- 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 the Death Devil (under the alias of Kiga) appears shortly after.
References[]
- ↑ Chainsaw Man Manga: Chapter 146, Page 13
- ↑ Chainsaw Man Manga: Chapter 195, Pages 14-15
- ↑ Chainsaw Man Manga: Chapter 87, Pages 1-2
- ↑ Chainsaw Man Manga: Chapter 197
- ↑ Chainsaw Man Manga: Chapter 197, Pages 9-11