MAKIMA

During her first appearance, she was portrayed as an ally in the manga, even managing to save Denji from his hellish life and trying to make him happy by coddling him and even making a companion just for him to form a rather big and strong family that were integrated together while Makima acts as a motherly figure or an actual ideal girlfriend towards Denji. Her motherly figure can be shown when Makima attempts to cheer up Denji by either inviting him on a date to watch movies together or letting him stay at her home when he fell asleep on the park bench. Makima also shows herself to be a dog person as she owns several dogs in her own apartment.

It is also stated that she is on the side of humanity, claiming that she attempts to save humanity from the devils that were plaguing the world. Despite some of her ruthless behavior, she does not hesitate to call out several yakuza about justifying themselves being a necessary evil as she needed their cooperation to further her own plans seemingly saving humanity. In addition, Makima also shows a bit of a glimpse of the humanity in her when she cried during her time with Denji watching the third film about a man seemingly reconciling with his lost friend.

Makima is also shown to be a serious and calm person on her job as she made herself a no-nonsense authority figure for the Devil Hunter bureau itself while mostly spending her time as a person who has limited emotions throughout the story. Despite this, Makima is shown to be a respected figure by the Devil Hunters as according to one of them, Hayakawa, he owed Makima deeply because Makima saved her life from a dark and troubled past while another one, Madoka, also respected Makima due to her respecting the decision to quit the bureau after the massacre towards the Devil Hunters happened.

However, at the same time, Makima is shown to be ruthless in her job, having no hesitation to threaten Denji by euthanizing him or treat him like a devil if he decides to disobey her orders after he already made him her pet while also showing her ruthlessness nature towards people who were against her such as the assailant that nearly kills her or Denji or the aforementioned Yakuza by brutally wounding or killing them. In addition, Makima shows herself to be a rather shady figure as she conspires with other members of the bureau in order to further the goals of the Japanese Government, especially the mission to obtain several Gun Devil fragments.

In addition, Makima's accomplice and the strongest devil hunter who ever lived, Kishibe, also suspects Makima is a compulsive liar as he suspects that Makima disguises her true intentions under the guise of being a benevolent savior of humanity. Makima can also be considered a jingoistic person, willingly following her superior orders in order to obtain the fragment for the Gun Devil to ensure Japan becomes a superpower country trumping the likes of America, the Soviet Union, or China, even having no hesitation to start a war with other countries just to get the gun devil fragments to control the Gun Devil for their nefarious purposes.

At the same time, Makima is also shown to perform sketchy and inhumane behavior across the manga due to her seemingly immortal nature, being able to control other animal life itself to perform her bidding, managing to wound one of the Primordial Devils and also had a rather creepy Orwellian approach to increase her knowledge towards other surroundings which makes her rather frightening for a good reason.

In truth, all of the inhuman and ruthless things she had done foreshadowed to reveal that there was something worse about her: It was revealed that she is actually the ancient Control Devil who is a powerful and omniscient devil old as the history of humanity. She was also feared across the world by humans and devils alike with the intention of bringing the worst kind of peace into the world. Her true personality was revealed to be that of a compulsive liar and manipulative sociopath who is willing to use other people and devils as mere pawns in order to further her own goals while in addition, revealing herself to be a sadist and revealing the fact that Makima groomed him to have a happy life at first, before crushing it all to pieces as she gaslights him for all the seemingly terrible things she had done so that she could sever the pact between Denji and Pochita.

It was then revealed that all of the atrocities that she committed were for her own agenda alongside the Japanese Prime Minister to bring a better world towards humanity to flourish which clearly correlates with her earlier personality's seemingly care towards humanity as she attempts to use the power of the Chainsaw Man in order to get rid all of the devils including the powerful ones that had plagued the existence of humanity and was feared by them. It was also revealed that she also admires Chainsaw Man to the point it's a borderline obsession for her, blatantly saying that she was a number one fan of him, due to its powers being able to make a devil cease to exist as this was proven by several people forgetting tragedies or fears that the devil possesses such as Nazi, World War II, nuclear weapons, Four Fates besides death, stars that break children's minds and so on. Her obsession with Chainsaw Man was also shown in Chapter 87 as she becomes overjoyed on reuniting again with him after the big battle that she had in the past and attempts to settle the long fight that they had.

Makima is also shown to possess an omniscient level of memory as it was shown that she is aware of the tragedies and fears that happened in the past despite humanity forgetting about it due to the powers of the Chainsaw Man that made the devils cease to exist. In addition to all of this, she also possesses a rather calm, collected demeanor and a shrewd mind, if she fails to do something or loses against someone in the battle, Makima uses several backup plans as she attempts to win in the end as her calm and collected behavior was also shown during her battle as while she knew full well she will lose the battle against Chainsaw Man with the hybrids, Makima stays very calm as she uses her backup plan by shooting Chainsaw Man to the space when her plan to defeat him by using Hybrid Devils that she had brainwashed seemingly failed while fully aware that she could possibly lose the battle against Chainsaw Man.

However, at the same time, it was revealed that Makima is nothing but a tragic figure herself who still wants to create a utopian world in her own way by creating a world where she can be equal to others and also yearning for a familial relationship that she never has despite building the relationship through fear and trying to create said world with the wrong methods. This is due to the fact that she was never taught to feel love and empathy as she was raised to be a cold, ruthless, and no-nonsense woman that leads the Public Safety Division in order to exterminate devils and bring a better world for humans which in turns shows her distaste with the members of the Government and the Bureau itself.