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Makima
A guide to Makima from Chainsaw Man, covering the character's story, defining traits, abilities, relationships, and role in the series.
Makima is a senior Public Safety officer, the Control Devil, and the principal antagonist of the Public Safety Saga in Chainsaw Man. She recruits Denji after his fusion with Pochita and builds a relationship designed to make his obedience feel like affection.
Overview
Makima represents control exercised through institutions, contracts, admiration, and fear. She presents herself as calm and protective while arranging events that isolate Denji and bring Chainsaw Man under her authority.
| Profile | Detail |
|---|---|
| Species | Devil |
| Identity | Control Devil |
| Occupation | Public Safety Devil Hunter |
| Affiliation | Tokyo Special Division 4 |
| Japanese voice | Tomori Kusunoki |
Appearance
Makima appears as a young woman with long red hair worn in a braid and yellow eyes marked by concentric rings. She normally wears a white shirt, black tie, and Public Safety suit. Her restrained expression and formal clothing make her supernatural nature easy to underestimate.
Personality
Makima is patient, observant, and almost always composed. She studies what people want, then offers approval, security, or intimacy in exchange for obedience. Her kindness is therefore inseparable from manipulation.
She admires Chainsaw Man as an ideal capable of erasing devils and the concepts associated with them. That devotion does not extend to Denji as an equal person; she treats his emotional needs as tools for reaching Pochita.
History
Makima finds Denji after his transformation into the Chainsaw hybrid and gives him a place in Public Safety. She promises food, shelter, and romantic possibility while keeping his freedom conditional.
As Special Division 4 faces increasingly coordinated attacks, Makima reveals powers far beyond those of an ordinary hunter. She gathers humans, fiends, hybrids, and contracted devils under her influence while concealing her identity as the Control Devil.
Her long-term plan requires breaking Denji's contract with Pochita by destroying the ordinary life he has built. The final conflict tests whether Denji can recognize the difference between being loved and being possessed.
Abilities and Fighting Style
| Ability | Application |
|---|---|
| Domination | Controls beings she considers beneath her. |
| Contract use | Accesses abilities belonging to people and devils under her control. |
| Remote force | Crushes or wounds targets from a distance under specific conditions. |
| Enhanced senses | Identifies individuals primarily through scent. |
| Government contract | Redirects fatal damage to Japanese citizens. |
Makima rarely relies on a fair fight. Her strength comes from preparation, disposable intermediaries, political authority, and a network of controlled powers whose full limits are difficult to measure.
Relationships
Denji
Makima becomes the center of Denji's aspirations by supplying the care he has never received. She then weaponizes that dependence, treating him as a route to Chainsaw Man rather than a person whose affection she reciprocates.
Pochita
Makima worships the legendary Chainsaw Man embodied by Pochita. She wants to use his erasure ability to create what she considers a better world.
Public Safety hunters
Aki, Angel, and many other hunters operate within Makima's system. Their loyalty ranges from professional obedience to supernatural compulsion, making the institution an extension of her power.
Trivia
- Makima is one of the Four Horsemen devils.
- Her ringed eyes visually identify her with the Control Devil's nature.
- She distinguishes people by scent more reliably than by face.
- Her stated ideal world depends on removing concepts she judges harmful.
- Tomori Kusunoki voices Makima in Japanese.