Makima

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Makima
Japanese	マキマ
Romaji	Makima
Biological Information
Species	Devil
Gender	Female
Status	Deceased
Professional Information
Occupation	Devil Hunter
Affiliation	Four Horsemen Public Safety Devil Hunters Head of the Tokyo Special Division 4 Head of the Tokyo Special Division 5
Relatives	Tiramisu (pet) Custard (pet) Cream Puff (pet) Unnamed four dogs (pet) Nayuta (reincarnation)
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 1
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Tomori Kusunoki

"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."

"I want to use Chainsaw Man... to create a better world."

Makima (マキマ, Makima^?) is a high-ranking Public Safety Devil Hunter, who took Denji as her human pet. She is later revealed to be the Control Devil (支し配はいの悪あく魔ま, Shihai no Akuma^?) which embodies the fear of control or conquest. She is the main antagonist of the Public Safety Saga.

Appearance

Makima is a beautiful woman who appears to be in her mid-twenties. Her hair colour is a light red, 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.

Personality

Makima is extremely cunning and manipulative. She controls Denji through the promise of a romantic and sexual relationship while also threatening him with 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 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.

Abilities

Makima is one of the strongest individuals in the world of the 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 also increased her powers as a devil. According the President of the United States, other countries beside America already given up to fight against her.

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 and shatter his chainsaws with her strikes.

Enhanced 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.

Supernatural Abilities

Domination: As she 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. It seems as though once placed under her control, the victim subsequently loses their memory. This ability works on humans, animals, devils, fiends and hybrids. 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.

• She borrows the hearing of rats, birds, and other lower life forms she controls to hear conversations remotely, seemingly anywhere on the planet and possibly extending into Hell itself. She was able to spy on Denji's 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.
• She has shown to transmit her voice in others by placing her hand on his or her 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 just before realizing something is wrong, leaving only a splatter of blood behind and their clothes. While she is using this ability, the people around herself close their eyes with a black cloth. She used this ability once from Kyoto to kill the 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 damage Darkness Devil who is a Primal Devil heavily, kill Power in instant and send empowered Chainsaw Man to outer space even though 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.

Makima using her ability to crush an enemy.

Makima using her ability to cause damage through her index finger.

Makima using her halo to summon variety of devils.

Makima controlling many rats to teleport.

Makima using the temple to use her skills

Contract Creation: As a devil, the Control Devil can bestow contracts upon humans for a price. Thanks to her ability to control humans, she can force them to make a contract with herself. The Control Devil has a contract with the Prime Minister of Japan in exchange of working for Japan.

• As a result of her contract with the Prime Minister, any fatal damage inflicted to Makima is 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 a bullet, however, 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 has been killed by Gun Devil after it fires a gunshot through her head. It is confirmed that she has been killed twenty-six times up until the attack of Gun Devil. Later on, she is also killed by Pochita several times during their final confrontation. However, Denji, who loves Makima, found a way to bypass this condition of the contract by interrupting her regenerative abilities through the Blood Devil`s blood and eating her piece by piece.

Blood Consumption: As a devil, the Control Devil should be able to restore its health by consuming blood. However, she does not need to consume blood to regenerate due to her contract with the Prime Minister which allowed her to regenerate and avoid death several times.

Revival: As a devil, the Control Devil will revive in Hell after being killed effectively making it immortal. After she has been eaten by Denji, she returned to Hell and subsequently reincarnated in China as Nayuta.

Other Abilities

High Alcohol Tolerance: Makima has an exceedingly high tolerance for drinking alcohol; able to out-drink both Aki and Himeno without showing any signs of being debilitated by the vast quantities of drink.

Chapter Appearances

Intro arc
1. Dog & Chainsaw	Debut
2. The Place Where Pochita Is	Appears
3. Arrival in Tokyo	Appears
4. Power	Appears

Bat Devil arc
5. A Way to Touch Some Boobs	Appears
6. Service	Appears
7. Meowy's Whereabouts	Absent
8. Chainsaw vs. Bat	Absent
9. Rescue	Absent
10. Kon	Absent
11. Compromise	Appears
12. Squeeze	Appears
13. Gun Devil	Appears

Eternity Devil arc
14. French Kiss	Flashback
15. Endless 8th Floor	Absent
16. The First Taste	Absent
17. Kill Denji	Absent
18. Chainsaw vs. Eternity	Absent
19. Nobel Prize	Absent
20. Drinking	Appears
21. Taste of a Kiss	Appears
22. Cola-Flavor Chupa Chups	Appears

Katana Man arc
23. Gunfire	Absent
24. Curse	Absent
25. Ghost, Snake, Chainsaw	Absent
26. The Gun is Mightier	Appears
27. From Kyoto	Appears
28. Secrets & Lies	Appears
29. Perfect Score	Appears
30. Bruised & Battered	Absent
31. The Future Rules	Absent
32. Over and Over Again	Appears
33. Mission Start	Appears
34. Full Team	Absent
35. Minor	Absent
36. Katana vs. Chainsaw	Absent
37. Train, Head, Chainsaw	Absent
38. Easy Revenge!	Appears
39. Tearjerker	Appears

Bomb Girl arc
40. Love, Flower, Chainsaw	Flashback
41. Before the Storm	Flashback
42. Teach Me How to Swim	Flashback
43. Jane Fell Asleep in the Church	Mentioned
44. Boom Boom Boom	Absent
45. A Fine Day for Explosions	Mentioned
46. The Melody of a Massacre	Absent
47. Luck With Women	Absent
48. Kaboom Kaboom Kaboom	Absent
49. Shark Hurricane	Absent
50. Sharknado	Absent
51. Dark Diving	Absent
52. Lost Love, Flower, Chainsaw	Appears

International Assassins arc
53. In a Dream	Appears
54. To Go to Enoshima	Appears
55. Let's Go	Flashback
56. A Curse and A Fist	Mentioned
57. Suddenly	Absent
58. Yutaro Kurose	Absent
59. Mess	Appears
60. Quanxi and Fiends' 49-Person Massacre	Absent
61. News Reporter	Mentioned
62. Super Mess	Absent
63. Trip To Hell	Absent
64. Welcome To Hell	Absent
65. The Darkness Devil	Absent
66. Woof!	Appears
67. The First Devil Hunter	Appears
68. Dark Power	Absent
69. Shining Power	Absent
70. Pinch	Appears
71. Bath	Flashback

Gun Devil arc
72. All Together	Absent
73. Everyday Life No More	Appears
74. What the Waves Say	Appears
75. 9,12	Appears
76. Don't Open It	Appears
77. Ring Ring Ring	Appears
78. Snowball Fight	Absent
79. Play Catch	Absent

Control Devil arc
80. A Dog's Feelings	Appears
81. Paw	Appears
82. Always Eat A Hearty Breakfast	Appears
83. Death, Resurrection, Chainsaw	Appears
84. Hero Of Hell	Appears
85. Bloody Good Gut Feeling	Appears
86. Date Chainsaw	Appears
87. Chainsaw Man vs. the Horrifying Weapon Humans	Appears
88. Star Chainsaw	Appears
89. Go Get 'Em, Chainsaw Man	Appears
90. Super Power	Appears
91. Power, Power, Power	Appears
92. Zombie, Blood, Chainsaw	Mentioned
93. You & Crappy Movies	Appears
94. Chainsaw Man vs. the Weapon Humans	Appears
95. Chainsaw Man vs. Control Devil	Appears
96. This Kind of Taste	Appears
97. I, Love, Chainsaw	Appears

Etymology

• Makima’s name is written in katakana (マキマ) thought it seems to have no special meaning to it but if you take the “maki”(マキ) in her name its comes from “Makita” a Japanese manufacturer of power tools that creates chainsaws Noting her idolization of chainsaw man. 

Trivia

• Makima's ranking 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 serialised 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 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 Ma-ki-ma'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.
• 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.
• Makima's final battle at the end with Chainsaw Man was inspired by the Shinobu vs. Araragi 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.