Chainsaw Man manga (half 1) has a number of layers. And consider it or not, most of them are simply Makima.
I imply, if we peel away the fast-paced motion and the protagonist’s degeneracy-oriented objectives, we’re met with a extra mature and complicated theme, in addition to a plot that kind of hinges on Makima’s actions.
So far as I do know, Makima was presupposed to be the mysterious satan.
With that mentioned, let’s flip our focus to Makima’s dying. There are a number of questions all of us have concerning the character’s dying, and most of them go like this: DID MAKIMA REALLY DIE? And a few go like this: DID DENJI JUST EAT MAKIMA? After which there’s: HOW THE HELL DID MAKIMA DIE?
Or possibly I used to be the one one with these questions.
She left us confused when she was alive, and she or he left us confused in her dying. There are lots of issues that appeared misplaced once we first witnessed the best way Makima died.
We all know for certain that she was untouchable and that she had a contract that protected her from any hurt. So what precisely occurred right here? Properly, the reply to the query lies in a small loophole within the contract that acted as Makima’s protect.
With that in thoughts, I might prefer to elaborate a little bit extra on what occurred and the way precisely Makima died in Chainsaw Man.
Makima’s Dying Defined: How Did She Die?
To provide you a shorter model of the reply: Makima died after Denji minimize her into items, cooked her and ate her.
Denji took a cue from Makima and got here up with (additionally unhealthy) top-of-the-line distractions in Chainsaw Man half 1.
He ripped a chunk of Pochita from his coronary heart and created a Chainsaw Satan to combat Makima and her lackeys. Makima managed to defeat this satan and took possession of Pochita.
Considering she has received the combat, the Management Satan lowers her defenses and strikes Denji with a chainsaw she has produced from Energy’s blood.
As a result of Makima was all the time centered on the Chainsaw Satan and by no means on Denji, she did not see him and his ruse.
As soon as he had her, Denji went to chop her up with Kishibe. Apparently the job wasn’t straightforward, as we see later within the chapter, the skilled Satan Hunter complains about his again.
In spite of everything was mentioned and carried out, Denji cooked Makima and ate her. Recipe? Anybody?
But when the reply is so easy, why did I promote Makima’s dying a lot within the intro? For starters, Makima had a contract with the Prime Minister of Japan that made her almost immortal.
And by utilizing the phrases of this contract, she managed to flee hell a number of occasions. If she had such a hack up her sleeve, how may Denji kill Makima? Why did not she simply rise from the boiling pot once more?
Properly, that definitely wasn’t as a result of Makima’s contract expired at a really handy time.
Right here the complexity of Denji’s grasp plan turns into clear and a loophole in Makima’s contract is uncovered.
Why did Denji eat Makima? How did it kill her?
Denji ate Makima as a result of he needed to turn out to be one along with her. He didn’t eat her with the intention of attacking or killing her, however out of pure love.
This took benefit of a loophole within the contract the Management Satan had with the Prime Minister of Japan. And that is precisely why Makima died when Denji ate her.
In accordance with Makima’s contract with the Prime Minister, solely assaults – not her dying, not her accidents, solely assaults aimed toward her – are transferred to different individuals.
I am not making a random assumption right here, Makima mentions all of this to Kishibe in chapter 84.
To raised perceive what occurred, let’s break down your entire strategy of killing Makima into two elements:
- Minimize Makima into items and prepare dinner
- Makima meals
The reducing and cooking undoubtedly counts as an assault, and whereas Denji and Kishibe have been at it, numerous harmless individuals died due to Makima’s contract being in impact. Kishibe himself mentions it.
Certainly, a excessive worth has been paid to get the management satan on the desk, allow us to not neglect that.
This proves that the contract was nonetheless lively even when Makima was minimize into items. The one cause she did not regenerate was as a result of Energy’s blood was messing along with her physique and hindering the method.
This gave Denji and Kishibe sufficient time to hold out their actions.
Nevertheless, not like the slicing, the second half doesn’t depend as an assault on Makima in any respect.
As Denji himself states, he nonetheless beloved her from the underside of his coronary heart, even after every part Makima did to him. He was prepared to bear the burden of all her sins along with her.
You see, he did not imply to kill Makima, he simply needed to be along with her.
Dying along with her was out of the query, as she was actually untouchable. So the one possibility left was to turn out to be one along with her, and by cooking her up and consuming her, that’s precisely what Denji achieved.
So regardless that Makima’s contract was intact, it did not work on this explicit state of affairs. Denji consuming her did not depend as an assault, it counted as an act of affection. A wierd and twisted love!!
Apparently sufficient, Denji’s emotions for Makima mirror her personal obsession with Chainsaw Man, with each of them going to excessive measures to realize their desired union. She lends her instance and all that, !
Denji’s act of consuming Makima and her subsequent dying has additionally led to numerous different theories and questions within the fandom.
Let’s check out the potential penalties of consuming Makima, if any.
Why hasn’t the Management Satan been eliminated?
The primary and most essential misunderstanding or query I wish to clear up is why the existence of the idea of management has not been erased.
It’s common information amongst manga readers by now that when Chainsaw Man eats a satan, their names are erased from existence. So, how did the Management Satan spawn – as Nayuta.
Properly, the reply is sort of easy. It was Denji who ate Makima and never the Chainsaw Satan. Since they’re a hybrid, each Denji and the Chainsaw Satan have their very own separate existence inside the physique.
That is evident from the truth that Makima tried to interrupt the contract between Denji and Pochita so as to take away the human Denji from the equation and resurrect the Chainsaw Satan.
Because it was Denji, in his human type, who consumed Makima, he solely ended up killing her and never erasing her existence fully. That is why the Management Satan nonetheless exists and was reborn into the world as Nayuta.
Contemplating how rapidly she got here again to Earth, you may’t assist however surprise who killed her in Hell. And in an extremely quick time too (except the idea of time in Hell is totally different).
I might place the accountability for the homicide on the Satan of Darkness for now, however oh nicely, that dialogue is for one more time.
There are actually additionally readers who’ve give you theories that Makima’s dying was the set off for the occasions in Chainsaw Man Half 2.
When you think about that her objectives embody eradicating the devils Conflict, Famine, and Dying, it is laborious to utterly ignore that assumption.
Makima may have been a counterforce that stored the riders at bay. Now that Denji had taken her out of the image, he gave the three an open discipline to hold out their plans.
This might in all probability be the explanation why the Conflict Satan appeared in Chainsaw Man half 2. Apparently sufficient, Fami additionally took the initiative to create Chainsaw Satan!
What do you consider Makima’s dying? Do you continue to have nagging questions on it? Let me know within the feedback beneath and I will attempt to reply them!!
