Makima — Chainsaw Man

The manga reveals that Makima is the Control Devil, a devil embodying the fear of control and domination. Her apparent humanity conceals a power to control individuals she regards as beneath herself. Her influence over other beings and the access she has to their abilities illuminate earlier incidents that looked like ordinary government operations or unexplained supernatural feats.

She also has a contract with Japan's prime minister: attacks on her are transferred into injuries or illnesses suffered by Japanese citizens. This protection explains why straightforward attempts to kill her do not bring her campaign to an end. It is a specific contractual mechanism, not unconditional immortality.

Makima's true fascination is not Denji as an individual but the Chainsaw Devil, Pochita, whose ability to erase devils from existence can also erase the concepts associated with them. She hopes to bring Chainsaw Man under her control and remove calamities such as war, hunger, and death, imposing her vision of a better world. She even describes being devoured by Chainsaw Man as an acceptable outcome for a devoted admirer.

The ambition exposes the contradiction at the center of her ideal: a world without certain forms of suffering would be achieved through one person's absolute authority over what is allowed to exist. Her apparent concern for humanity cannot be separated from the coercive methods by which she pursues it.

During the international struggle over the Gun Devil, the president of the United States directs it to attack Makima. She responds with powers and beings under her command. Aki is killed in the confrontation, and the Gun Devil takes possession of his corpse, producing the Gun Fiend. Makima then sends this fiend to Denji, who is forced to fight and destroy the body of his friend. She uses the resulting grief to undermine the ordinary happiness Denji had begun to build.

Makima admits that she constructed a semblance of family and ordinary happiness around Denji so she could destroy it and break his contract with Pochita. With Denji already devastated by the Gun Fiend tragedy, she kills Power in front of him after inviting her to arrive with a birthday cake. Her admission exposes the rescue, praise, and promises that Denji trusted as elements of a long-running plan.

Her attempt to break Denji's will has a specific purpose: to bring forth the true Chainsaw Man rather than the young human who has been living with Pochita as his heart. The revelations transform an apparently personal bond into the mechanism of her larger plan.

Kishibe's anti-Makima operation fails to eliminate her. Chainsaw Man manifests in his more terrifying form, and Makima pursues a confrontation involving controlled fighters, including weapon hybrids. She seeks to defeat and command the Chainsaw Devil, but the battle does not unfold as she expects.

She repeatedly mistakes the object of her obsession for Denji himself. Her reverence for Chainsaw Man leads her to overlook the person whose ordinary desires and attachments she has treated as disposable; that failure of recognition becomes decisive.

With help from Power's blood, Denji launches a surprise attack after Makima believes she has overcome Chainsaw Man. The combatant she had been fighting was a decoy involving Pochita, while Denji himself approached undetected. Denji reasons that Makima recognizes people principally by scent and never cared enough about him personally to distinguish him from Chainsaw Man.

Denji subsequently cooks and eats Makima’s body. He insists that becoming one with her was an act of love, not an attack; Kishibe suggests that this distinction may have allowed him to evade the prime minister’s contract. The manga does not establish a general formula for circumventing that protection. Makima does not revive as the same individual, and her defeat closes the conflict of Part 1.

The Control Devil reincarnates as a girl named Nayuta, whom Kishibe brings to Denji after finding her in China. She is not Makima with restored personal memories. Pochita explains that the Control Devil had wanted genuine closeness and something like a family, yet Makima could only seek those things through domination. He asks Denji to give Nayuta the affection and care that Makima could not sustain.

The final chapter of the manga, released in March 2026, shows a rewritten version of Denji’s beginnings following Pochita’s reality-altering act. Nayuta takes a guardian-like role there, and Power reenters Denji’s life in a different way. Makima is not shown or given a clear individual outcome in the available account of that altered scenario. Her established death in the original Part 1 narrative should not be mistaken for a confirmed account of her circumstances in the rewritten world.