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| “ | 13 years ago... There was a time when people the world over tried to make a living using guns to kill devils. During that time, incidents and internal rebellions fueled by guns increased. And every country's media actively featured guns. And right around the time when guns started being even more feared around the world. A large terror attack using guns happened in America. | „ |
| ~ Makima's story about Gun Devil. |
The Gun Devil is the secondary antagonist of Chainsaw Man Part 1: Public Safety Arc. It is a devil that embodies the fear of firearms and is responsible for the massive amount of casualties it had caused 13 years ago. Denji would later be tasked by Makima to collect all of the fragments of the Gun Devil, under the assumption that some of its followers like Akane Sawatari and Reze were tasked to obtain Denji's heart under the Gun Devil's name.
It was eventually revealed that the Gun Devil himself was already defeated and confined in a conscious state with his fragments being possessed by other devils and superpower countries. It would later be revealed to be a child of the War Devil as well.
Appearance[]
As he made his first appearance in Chapter 75, the Gun Devil himself can be described as an enormous devil that has a gun-like head and arms that forms like a sniper rifle. His body can be also described as a skeletal one with screaming faces forms as an outfit to cover his skeletal body. He also has several gun bullets that acts like it's tentacles. By the time it possessed one of Denji's companions, Aki Hayakawa he assumes his appearance. Aki's iconic top knot on his hair is undone and his long hair is now kept loose. He also gets his missing right arm replaced by a large M4A1 Carbine. Much like the base form of the Gun Devil, he also has the cannon of a gun protruding from his head, which now completely covers Aki's eyes.
Personality[]
Not much is known about the Gun Devil but it is stated that he is the devil obsessed with obtaining Denji's heart and sent his followers to finish the job while also seemingly ordering the massacre towards the Devil Hunter.
However, by the time it makes his appearance, it was revealed to be nothing but a force of nature who becomes a former shell of himself and ended up being tied in a contract with the American President in order to defeat the real evil that has plaguing the world in the history of mankind: Makima. And to that end, the Gun Devil ended up having no choice but commit a huge massacre in order to defeat Makima once and for all.
By the time he possessed Aki, the latter then ended up having his mind becoming warped and was reduced into a former shell of himself, reminiscing about his childhood that he desperately wants to come back into to no avail as his family was killed during the massacre of the Gun Devil.
Biography[]
The Gun Devil caused extreme destruction in Japan.
The Gun devil is presumed to have existed since the beginning of the weapons creation and the many battles and wars it was used in, with the War Devil referring to them as her "child" either being the offspring of the former or due to close association. Mentioned first in Chapter 12 by Makima, she then tells the story towards Denji about the history of the Gun Devil that appeared 13 years ago in 1984, in America as this was the same time where people used guns to kill devils which resulted on incidents and internal rebellions fueled by gun increased and because guns becoming feared around the world, a large terror attack using guns happened in America which resulted on the Gun Devil appeared and committing a horrific mass murder which culminates the casualties to be estimated around 1.2 million people in a span of 5 minutes with Aki and the Three Brothers' families being victims of the casualties caused by the Gun Devil.
After telling the story, it was revealed that Denji will be given a huge reward by Makima if he succeeded in the mission on collecting the fragments of the Gun Devil so that the Devil Hunter could trace their whereabouts by finding several of the Gun Devil fragments possessed by the Devil. Throughout the story, the Gun Devil was seemingly designed as the real main threat as he sends his followers by the likes of Reze and Akane in order to obtain Denji's heart while also revealed that he ordered the massacre towards the members of the Devil Hunter organization including Makima herself.
However, in Chapter 73, it is revealed that the Gun Devil himself was already confined much to Aki and Denji's surprise after appearing in Soviet Union and was in an unconscious state with 20% of his fragment possessed by America, 28% by Soviets, 11% by China, 4% by other countries and 37% were possessed by other devils while also revealing that the Gun Devil followers that were killing Aki's companions were using the guns made by men despite manufacturing guns are strictly controlled by the International Law.
At the same time, however, every government in every country manages to use the loopholes that the International Law had by circulating guns by having them manufactured and also trafficking them in secret under the pretense they made a contract with the gun devil. As a result, Makima decides to go into an all-out war with other countries by taking all of the fragments of the gun devil that they had possessed so that she will keep all of the fragments for the Japanese government in order to get the upper advantage over other countries as the fear of the Gun Devil will also make the Gun Devil stronger.
When the Gun Devil appeared in Chapter 75, it was revealed that the American President made a contract with the Gun Devil in order to kill Makima to liberate themselves and the other countries from her grasp which in exchange, also resulting the President sacrificing the one year of the life spans of the American people. When the Gun Devil attempts to kill Makima, it was revealed that the latter goaded it to do so which resulted in the city of Nikaho in Akita prefecture including its citizens being brutally decimated by the Gun Devil and also resulted in Aki's death. However, at the same time, using her ultimate powers, the Gun Devil was eventually defeated as Makima summoned several devils from the former devil hunters to defeat him.
Denji killing the Gun Fiend.
By the time the Gun Devil was defeated, it was revealed that he then possesses Aki's corpse as Makima warns Denji about what was going to happen in their apartment. Initially ignoring Makima's warnings about Aki ringing the doorbell of the apartment due to him suspecting it was a prank by Makima, Denji ended up encountering the possessed Aki whose mind become warped by the Gun Devil as he ended up reminiscing about his childhood days by having a snowball fight towards the child version of Denji and Power, reflecting his childhood days about having a snowball fight with his brother before meeting his impending doom by the Gun Devil.
This resulted on severe collateral damage and innocents being killed while Denji was fatally wounded. However, Denji himself was given several blood by the civilians in hopes he can rescue them and this also resulted on him having no choice but to kill Aki in the end who still reminiscing about his childhood. After his death, it was revealed that Aki saved a lot of money so that Denji and Power survive in later future while also giving his money to the families of his dead companions. At the same time, it was also revealed that Denji also feels some kind of guilt because how he killed Aki in the end. Roughly two years later, The Gun Devil was turned into a weapon by The War devil to fight off Chainsaw man.
Powers and Abilities[]
The Gun Devil's unloading its barrage of bullets into a church, not only killing its occupants, but innumerable people outside it.
- Firearm protrusions: The Gun Devil has various gun cannon protrusions coming out of several parts of his body, such as his arms and his head. The shots produced by the guns are extremely strong and are shown to cause a path of destruction where it hits and kill thousands of people in one second. After possessing Aki Hayakawa's body, a large AK-47 gun grows out of the original body's missing right arm.
- Fragments: Whenever the Gun Devil moves, bullet-shaped pieces of his body burn off and are left behind. These pieces can then be given to other Devils to eat, which gives them a considerable power boost. These fragments also have magnetic properties against other fragments, which can be used to attract and localize other fragments of the Gun Devil. The more fragments there are in a pile, the strongest its magnetic field towards the original Devil's body is.
- Fear empowerment: The Gun Devil is empowered by humanity's fears, of guns and firearms, which due to it being a rather common fear in the manga's universe,made him one of the strongest devils in the world(without counting the primordial devils)
The fragments of the Gun Devil attracting each other.
- Contract creation: Much like all Devils, the Gun Devil can create contracts with humans in order to hand them his powers in exchange for something out of them. The Gun Devil has a contract with the President of United States and several other world leaders, who give them years of their population's lifespan in exchange for protection, and the president of united states in one time, tried to make the gun devil kill Makima in exchange for 1 year of life of the USA population of those years(which according to estimates, it will be that the devil will have 272 million years, considering the population of USA in 1997)
- Corpse possession: As a Devil, the Gun Devil is able to possess corpses and turn himself into a fiend. This is showcased when he possesses Aki Hayakawa's body as a last resort to escape Makima's attack.
- Regeneration: The Gun Devil is able to regenerate or heal himself by drinking blood and, because this, he can sustain all kinds of lethal injuries.
- Immortality: The Gun Devil cannot die of old age and will live on pretty much forever if given the chance. However, he can still be killed by external factors, which can cause him to revive in Hell.
- Reincarnation: If the Gun Devil is killed on Earth, he will reincarnate in Hell, making him essentially immortal. The Gun Devil can return to Earth, if he is killed in Hell, which causes him to reincarnate to the human world, now with a completely different appearance and without any of his prior memories.
Trivia[]
- In an interview, Fujimoto said Aki was named after the AK Gun, foreshadowing his eventual fate as the Gun Fiend.
- Aki's top hair knot also resembles a firing hammer from a pistol.
- In the scene where the Gun Devil targets people based on their month of birth, they normally spare people born in the months of April, July, and October. This is a joke in the numerical order these months come in in relation to their Japanese pronunciation, as when put together ("4" sounding like the Japanese word for "death", "7" sounding like the Japanese word for "not", and "10" sounding like the Japanese word for "gun", they make the phrase "death not gun", or "Not dead, because the gun doesn't work."
- The Gun Devil has the highest kill count in the entire series, having caused 1.2 million deaths across the world.
External Links[]
- Gun Devil on the Chainsaw Man Wiki
