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Power
The Blood Fiend, loud, dishonest and entirely unrepentant about both. She sells Denji out inside a day of meeting him and spends the rest of the series slowly working out what having a friend involves.
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Makima
Makima ran Public Safety Division 4 and, underneath it, most of Japan's devil policy. She was the Control Devil, and every kindness she showed Denji was a leash being fitted. Denji ate her.
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Pochita
The original Chainsaw Man, and the reason there is a story at all. He was the devil that other devils feared, capable of erasing a concept from the world permanently by eating it. He gave Denji his heart for a very small price: an ordinary life.
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Future Devil
The devil of the future, kept in a Public Safety basement and bored by everyone who visits. It reads Aki Hayakawa's death, finds it the best thing it has seen, and signs on the spot to watch it arrive.
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Fox Devil
The devil of foxes, and one of the few that works with hunters willingly. Aki summons its head through a doorway to bite things in half, until the contract ends badly for both of them.
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Ghost Devil
The devil of ghosts. Himeno's contract pays in body parts, and when Katana Man forces the issue she gives it everything she has left.
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Tomato Devil
The devil of tomatoes, and one of the first things Denji and Pochita kill on screen. Its head is worth pocket change.
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Eternity Devil
The devil of eternity, and the reason Division 4 spends three days on the same hotel floor. It folds the eighth storey into a loop and offers one exit: hand over Denji's corpse. Denji settles it from the inside.
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Bat Devil
The devil of bats, and the first real fight of Denji's career. It takes Power's cat hostage to force her into feeding it a human, and Denji takes it apart over a Tokyo rooftop.
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Curse Devil
The devil of curses. Its contract is one of the harshest available: the user drives a nail into a target and pays with years of their own life for a kill that cannot be dodged.
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Leech Devil
The devil of leeches, and the Bat Devil's partner in the deal that nearly gets Denji eaten.
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Sea Cucumber Devil
The devil of sea cucumbers, one of the early hunts on Denji's record.
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Zombie Devil
The devil of zombies, and the first thing Chainsaw Man ever killed. It turned Denji's yakuza employers into corpses that walk, then made the mistake of putting Denji in a bin with his own chainsaw dog.
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Snake Devil
The devil of snakes. Summoned by contract to swallow targets whole.
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Accident Devil
Born from the fear of accidents. A manga-only devil, killed by Yoru during the Academy Saga.
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Aging Devil
One of the Primal Fears, drawn from humanity's dread of growing old, and the antagonist its own arc is named for. Primal Fears cannot be permanently killed while the fear survives.
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Angel Devil
Angel is the devil of angels and a hunter in Tokyo Special Division 4, which makes him an unusual case: a devil paid to kill devils. His touch drains human lifespan, so he keeps his hands to himself and does as little as he can get away with.
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Bitterness Devil
The devil of bitterness, appearing only in the manga. Killed during the Aging Devil arc.
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Bucky
The Chicken Devil, kept as a pet rather than hunted. Small enough to be carried and about as threatening as the name suggests.
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Carpenter Bee Devil
An oversized carpenter bee with too many eyes and a mouth full of jagged teeth. It appears briefly and does not survive the encounter.
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Centipede Devil
The devil of centipedes, and a hunter with Public Safety's Tokyo Special Division 6. Killed during the Aging Devil arc.
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Claw Devil
The devil of claws. Its power passes to contract holders as retractable blades, which is a cheap contract by devil standards and correspondingly popular.
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Cockroach Devil
The devil of cockroaches, a minor player in the Justice Devil arc. Fear of cockroaches is common enough to make it stronger than its size suggests.
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Control Devil
The devil of control, and the single most dangerous entity in the series. Makima held the position first; after her death it reincarnated as Nayuta.
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Darkness Devil
A Primal Fear born from the dark and everything unseen inside it. When it comes up from Hell it removes limbs from a room full of elite hunters in seconds, without appearing to try.
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Death Devil
The eldest of the Four Horsemen and, by the manga's own accounting, the strongest devil alive. Death is the fear nothing else outranks, which is exactly why it is that strong.
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Doll Devil
The devil of dolls. Its contract turns people into mannequins, which is convenient for an assassin and unpleasant for everyone else.
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Ear Devil
The devil of ears and a Division 5 hunter, appearing as an antagonist in the Aging Devil arc.
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Falling Devil
A Primal Fear covering both meanings of falling, the drop and the collapse. It arrives to hunt Chainsaw Man and leaves most of the people who see it dead or unrecognisable.
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Fami
Fami is the Famine Devil and one of the Four Horsemen, working the Academy Saga through manipulation rather than force. She is starvation as a strategy, applied to people rather than to food.
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Famine Devil
The Horseman of famine, appearing in the manga as Fami. Hunger as an instrument, patient and entirely deliberate.
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Fire Devil
The devil of fire, used as an instrument by the Death Devil in the Academy Saga after taking the Justice Devil's name in an earlier arc.
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Fish Devil
The devil of fish, a minor appearance with no lasting role.
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Four Horsemen
Control, War, Famine and Death: four devils drawn from the fears the Book of Revelation names, each of them near the top of the hierarchy. Death is the eldest and the strongest thing in the series.
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Frog Devil
The devil of frogs, appearing briefly with no significant role.
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Grape Devil
Possibly the devil of grapes, though the series never confirms it. One of the few entries the source material leaves genuinely open.
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Guillotine Devil
The devil of guillotines, one of many pawns operating under the Death Devil's control in the manga.
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Gun Devil
The devil of firearms, and the reason most of Public Safety's hunters signed up. It killed over a million people in a few minutes of existence, then vanished, leaving governments to carve its remains into political leverage.
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Hell Devil
The devil of Hell itself, capable of dragging whole rooms of people out of the world on request. Whoever it takes does not come back in one piece.
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House Devil
The devil of houses, the antagonist of the first Buddy Stories chapter.
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Justice Devil
The devil of justice. The Fire Devil borrowed its name for the arc that carries it, which says something about how much the title is worth.
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Knife Devil
The devil of knives. A common contract, cheap and easy to feed.
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Legs Devil
The devil of legs. Its contract is straightforward and its ambitions are not large.
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Lion Devil
The devil of lions, appearing as a summon rather than a character in its own right.
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Locust Devil
The devil of locusts and infestation on a scale that ruins harvests. A minor antagonist in the War Devil arc.
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Mannequin Devil
The devil of mannequins, antagonist of the second Buddy Stories chapter.
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Mantis Devil
The devil of mantises, seen in passing during the Public Safety Saga.
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Marshmallow Devil
The devil of marshmallows, which is as weak as it sounds. Nobody is afraid of marshmallows, and devils are only as strong as the fear behind them.
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Mold Devil
The devil of mold. Slow, unglamorous, and difficult to be rid of once it has taken hold.
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Moray Eel Devil
The devil of moray eels, erased along with much else when the timeline changed.
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Mouth Devil
The devil of mouths, killed during the Public Safety Saga.
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Muscle Devil
The devil of muscles, one of the early jobs Denji handles before the plot gets hold of him.
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Nayuta
The Control Devil reborn after Makima's death. Kishibe hands her to Denji to raise on the theory that the last one turned out the way she did because nobody ever loved her.
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Needle Devil
The devil of needles. A small fear, and a correspondingly small devil.
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Nuclear Weapons Devil
The devil of nuclear weapons, and one of the strongest things in the setting by simple arithmetic: almost everyone alive is afraid of it.
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Octopus Devil
The devil of octopuses, contracted for ink and grappling limbs.
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Pillbug Devil
The devil of pillbugs and a Division 6 hunter, appearing as a minor antagonist in the Aging Devil arc.
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Princi
The Spider Devil, working as a hunter in Tokyo Special Division 4. Fights on the ceiling and is calmer about it than anyone else in the room.
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Punishment Devil
The devil of punishment. The series leaves its fate unstated.
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Skin Devil
The devil of skin. Its contract is used for disguise, which makes it more dangerous than the concept suggests.
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Snow Devil
The devil of snow, killed during the Public Safety Saga.
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Stag Beetle Devil
The devil of stag beetles, and a hunter with Public Safety's Tokyo Special Division 6.
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STD Devil
The devil of sexually transmitted disease. Alive, and unlikely to run short of fear to feed on.
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Stone Devil
The devil of stone, killed in an early Public Safety operation.
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Tank Devil
The devil of tanks. Contract holders can pull an armoured hull out of nothing, which is as effective as it sounds and correspondingly expensive.
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Teeth Devil
The devil of teeth. Alive, and one of the more common contracts among low-ranking hunters.
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Typhoon Devil
The devil of typhoons, the secondary antagonist of the Bomb Girl arc. Weather as a fear, which makes it considerably stronger than the animal devils.
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Weapon Devils
Seven devils who served the Four Horsemen, each one drawn from a different kind of weapon. All seven are accounted for by the time the manga catches up with them.
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World War II Devil
The devil of the Second World War, erased when the timeline shifted. A fear that specific and that widely held made it enormously powerful.
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Yoru
The War Devil, one of the Four Horsemen, sharing Asa Mitaka's body after taking it in the Academy Saga. She turns things she owns into weapons, and treats Asa as one of them.