Makima

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH DUMP TRUCK ASSSSSSSS MOMMY URGE TO COOOOOOOM RISING AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof bark bark bark bark bark bark bark pant pant pant pant pant pant SNAAAAAAAAAAAAARL WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK WOOF BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOBA BOOBA OOGA BOOGA BOOGA AWULWAUWLAUWLAUWLAUWLAUWLAWUL pant pant pant pant pant SLURP SLURURULRULRLLURRRRRRP pant pant pant pant pant pant pant pant pant pant pant pant AUURUURGHRGHRUGHRGRRGHH

Profile
Makima is one of the main characters from Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga series Chainsaw Man. The anime adaptation, which is produced by studio MAPPA, is expected to be released in the Fall 2022 season.

In the series, Makima is one of the higher-ups involved in hunting devils and maintaining the safety of the public. She is introduced offering the titular protagonist Denji a job as a devil hunter, and gives him many of the things he needed like food, shelter, and promises of a romantic / sexual relationship. This makes her the primary object of Denji's affections. Of course, being a very popular series with many spoilers, there's more to Makima than meets the eye.

More than meets the Eye Makima is eventually revealed as the actual main antagonist over the course of the manga's first part titled the Public Safety Arc. Her true identity is the "Control Devil", a powerful creature who feeds off of people's fear of being controlled / dominated. Besides exhibiting the obvious manipulative and cunning traits, she possesses many abilities that make her near-impossible to defeat, such as when fatal damage inflicted on her body gets transferred into a random Japanese citizen instead. Makima's stated goal is to control the Chainsaw Devil that lives within Denji, who has the ability to erase the names of the devils he defeats, in order to remove all of the ills from this world.

The red-haired devil is directly responsible for killing the series' two other popular female characters: Reze the Bomb Devil and Power the Blood Devil. Reze was assassinated by Makima after the latter learns of her involvement with Denji, while Power gets "killed" when she visits Makima's apartment to greet Denji with a birthday cake, but as she opens the door, her torso gets obliterated by Makima's finger gun in front of a horrified Denji. Fortunately, Power recovers from the attack a few chapters later.

Near the end of the series' first arc, Makima engages in a fight with the Chainsaw Man. However, this Chainsaw Man is actually a distraction devised by Denji, exploiting her reliance of her sense of smell to hide among her minions. She was then killed by Denji's surprise attack, and a few chapters later, all of her body parts were cooked and eaten by the titular protagonist. Although Makima as we know it ceases to exist by this point, the Control Devil is reincarnated in the form of a young girl named Nayuta, whose appearance resembles Reze with Makima's eyes, and immediately forms an attachment to the devil hunter.

In the CSM fandom, Makima is associated with dogs; she keeps many dogs in her home, and she herself exhibits several traits associated with the animal, such as loyalty, obedience, and a keen sense of smell. Her fans are notorious online for their tendency to literally bark rabidly whenever a Makima fan art or cosplay shows up.

As Chainsaw Man emerged as a wildly popular action series (in the same vein as Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer) due to its spectacular plot and cinematography, the anime adaptation carries extremely high expectations, especially because MAPPA, a studio known for excellent animation, voluntarily decided to adapt the manga. Once the anime releases, its characters are expected to become massive favorites in whatever character popularity tournaments they happen to join because of their large vocal fanbase.

Navigation
Beware of spoilers, pop-ups and advertisements.
 * CSM Wikia
 * MyAnimeList
 * Baike Baidu (Chinese)
 * Moegirl (Chinese)
 * NamuWiki (Korean)