Falling Devil in Chainsaw Man is a Primal Fear devil who embodies the fear of falling and serves humans as dishes to the residents of Hell. Falling Devil arrives on Earth in Part 2 as the main antagonist of the Falling Devil Arc, and Falling Devil works as a subordinate of the Death Devil. According to Shueisha, Tatsuki Fujimoto wrote and illustrated Chainsaw Man.
The table below records 15 core attributes of Falling Devil, with each attribute in the first column and the value of the attribute in the second column.
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Falling Devil (落下の悪魔, Rakka no Akuma) |
| Also Known As | The Primal Fear of Falling; the chef of Hell |
| Species | Devil; one of the Primal Fear devils |
| Gender | Female in presentation; the manga presents Falling Devil as a feminine figure |
| Master | Death Devil; summoned and directed on Earth by Fami |
| Allegiance | The residents of Hell, for whom Falling Devil cooks; the Four Horsemen through the Death Devil |
| First Mention | Chapter 121, “Theory of Happiness” |
| First Appearance | Chapter 122, “The Prophecies” |
| Main Arc | The Falling Devil Arc, Chapter 121 to Chapter 131, covered in the guide to Chainsaw Man arcs in order |
| Later Arc | The War Devil Arc, returning in Chapter 198 |
| Signature Dishes | Hors d’oeuvre, La Root Vonla; De Root Atelanta; Asa Root Yoru; Blood-Sauteed Human and Giraffe |
| Voice Actor (JP) | Unknown; Falling Devil has not appeared in the anime adaptation |
| Voice Actor (EN) | Unknown; Falling Devil has not appeared in the anime adaptation |
| Popularity Poll | 30th place in the Third Popularity Poll with 2,675 votes |
| Status | Alive; defeated by Yoru in the War Devil Arc and transformed into a set of clothes for Yoru |
Spoiler warning: This guide covers the complete story of Falling Devil, including the Falling Devil Arc of Part 2, the attempted serving of Asa Mitaka to the residents of Hell, the death of the Justice Devil, and the defeat of Falling Devil by Yoru in the War Devil Arc. Readers who have not finished Part 2 will encounter full spoilers in every section.
Who Is Falling Devil?
Falling Devil is a Primal Fear devil who embodies the concept of falling, in both the physical act of falling down and the mental act of falling into depression. Falling Devil belongs to the highest tier of devils, the Primal Fears, a group that includes the Darkness Devil and the Death Devil. Falling Devil draws power from basophobia, the fear of falling, a fear described as one of the two fears all humans are born with.
Falling Devil matters to Chainsaw Man because Falling Devil forces Asa Mitaka to confront the question of whether Asa wants to live. Falling Devil does not simply attack the body of Asa. Falling Devil attacks the will of Asa to live, magnifying the despair of Asa until Asa accepts death willingly.
Falling Devil serves a master rather than acting alone. Falling Devil describes her own purpose as cooking at the request of the residents of Hell, and Falling Devil obeys the Death Devil, apologising to the Death Devil after each failure. Falling Devil also answers to Fami on Earth, and Fami can order Falling Devil to “return”, shrinking Falling Devil into a miniature figurine.
What Does Falling Devil Look Like?
Falling Devil looks like a large, feminine, headless humanoid assembled from mangled human corpses, dressed in a white chef uniform. Falling Devil builds the body from the corpses of people who fell to their deaths, and Falling Devil uses hands in place of feet. Falling Devil covers the groin with a pointed tendril.
Falling Devil has 8 limbs in total. Falling Devil has 2 multi-jointed arms, a pair of scythe-like limbs resembling featherless wings, and 2 more pairs of arms sprouting from the back of Falling Devil. One pair of arms holds a decapitated head with a black ponytail, and blood drips endlessly from the closed eyes, the nostrils, and the mouth of the head.
The chef uniform of Falling Devil consists of 5 pieces: a tall toque, a white chef jacket, a black waist apron, black leggings, and long black gloves. Falling Devil creates the uniform with her own power after noticing that Falling Devil is naked.
What Is Falling Devil’s Personality?
Falling Devil has a polite, courteous, and professional personality, paired with extreme cruelty toward victims and guests. Falling Devil greets victims like a restaurant host, announces each course, and apologises for failures. Falling Devil speaks respectfully to devils and humans alike.
Falling Devil prefers to break victims emotionally rather than kill victims directly. Falling Devil forces victims to relive traumatic memories, magnifies the negative feelings of victims, and waits for victims to choose suicide. Falling Devil kills only when a victim is needed as an ingredient or when a guest insults the cooking of Falling Devil.
Falling Devil remains calm under attack because Falling Devil cannot be killed by any means humanity possesses. Falling Devil treats attackers as mere inconveniences, shows only mild irritation at being torn apart. Falling Devil loses composure only over food, exploding with anger when the Justice Devil vomits up Denji and Asa and disgraces the dish.
What Are Falling Devil’s Powers?
Falling Devil has 8 main powers: nigh-absolute immortality, an immense healing factor, a Hell connection, gravity manipulation, an energy beam, thought manipulation, body control, and object creation. Falling Devil also possesses immense strength, immense speed, and an enhanced sense of smell. The arrival of Falling Devil on Earth causes gravitational anomalies, earthquakes, and landslides around the world.
Nigh-absolute immortality defines Falling Devil as a Primal Fear. Primal Fear devils never experience death, because no force in the world can kill a Primal Fear, and Primal Fear devils never undergo reincarnation. Falling Devil states directly that humanity possesses no means of attack capable of killing a Primal Fear.
The healing factor of Falling Devil works automatically and instantly. Falling Devil regenerates from sustained sniper fire in the next moment, with clothes intact, and Falling Devil reconstitutes in 1 second after being shredded and eaten by Denji in Chainsaw Man form. The reconstitution rips Denji apart from within, which shows that destroying the body of Falling Devil harms the attacker more than Falling Devil.
Gravity manipulation is the signature power of Falling Devil. Falling Devil changes the strength and direction of gravity by pointing a finger, and Falling Devil applies the power to herself, to single objects, to groups of people, or to an entire area. Falling Devil lifts an entire apartment building into the air and launches the building at Denji and Asa.
Traumatic anti-gravity links the gravity power of Falling Devil to the trauma of each victim. Falling Devil inverts gravity on a person, and the person falls upward into the sky toward a door to Hell. The force of the reversed gravity grows with the trauma of the victim, so people with little trauma barely feel the pull, while people carrying heavy trauma fall fast.
Thought manipulation and emotion manipulation prepare victims for the fall. Falling Devil forces victims to relive traumatic memories in vivid detail, and Falling Devil draws out and magnifies the negative feelings of victims. Denji proves that the power has 1 clear limit: Denji slices his own brain apart during the fall, and the brain damage stops the power of Falling Devil from controlling Denji.
The Hell connection, the energy beam, body control, and object creation complete the power set of Falling Devil. Falling Devil manifests floating doors between Earth and Hell and sends victims through the doors to be devoured. Falling Devil summons an energy beam from the sky at a pointing gesture and uses the beam to kill the Justice Devil instantly.
Falling Devil has 1 weakness: low durability of the body. Gunfire and chainsaws shred the body of Falling Devil with ease, and the destruction leaves Falling Devil temporarily incapacitated while regenerating.
What Dishes Does Falling Devil Cook?
Falling Devil cooks 4 named dishes, and every dish name carries the word “root”, from the Japanese character 根 (ne), meaning root or essence.
Hors d’oeuvre, La Root Vonla is the appetizer. Falling Devil sends random people falling upward through doors to Hell, and the people become the appetizer for the residents of Hell.
De Root Atelanta is the soup course. Falling Devil makes a potage from the ears, the nose, and the tongue of several Devil Hunters, and Falling Devil adds 1 living Devil Hunter to the soup. Falling Devil delivers the soup and the living hunter to Hell, where the Justice Devil devours both.
Asa Root Yoru is the failed main course of the Falling Devil Arc. Falling Devil plans to serve Asa Mitaka and Yoru, fused as a human and War Devil dish, to the residents of Hell. Falling Devil gathers the sauce ingredients in person: apples from a supermarket, a man’s head, 10 eyes, and 4 ears taken from passersby. Denji rescues Asa before any devil eats the dish, so Asa Root Yoru never reaches the table.
Blood-Sauteed Human and Giraffe is the dish of the War Devil Arc. Falling Devil cooks the dish under the direct orders of the Death Devil, using the decapitated heads of several humans, the head of a giraffe, the Famine Devil, and the Fake Chainsaw Man.
What Happens in the Falling Devil Arc?
The Falling Devil Arc runs from Chapter 121 to Chapter 131, and the arc ends in failure for Falling Devil, with Asa rescued and Falling Devil recalled into a figurine. The arc is the third arc of the Academy Saga and the eleventh arc of Chainsaw Man overall.
Falling Devil arrives at the Tamano Apartments in the East District. Falling Devil begins influencing the residents of the apartments into suicide, and Asa Mitaka walks into the effect while returning home sad after 2 rejections in 1 day. Yoru takes over the body of Asa and saves Asa from harming herself, and Yoru watches the residents of the apartments stare down from their doors.
Falling Devil claps her hands and starts the meal. The clap triggers a traumatic flashback in Asa, in which the orphanage caretaker pressures Asa to give up Crambon, the cat Asa saved at the cost of the life of the mother of Asa. Asa wakes screaming, loses control of the body to Yoru, and grabs a railing while falling upside down. Countless people fly upward into floating doors to Hell at the same moment.
Falling Devil tears through the town collecting ingredients, takes 10 eyes and 4 ears from humans, and buys apples at a supermarket to pair with the flesh. Snipers destroy the body of Falling Devil, and Falling Devil regenerates instantly, stating that no means of attack humanity possesses can kill Falling Devil.
Denji ambushes Falling Devil and tears through the body of Falling Devil, and Falling Devil recovers and defeats Denji. Falling Devil returns to Asa face to face, makes Asa fall, and remarks that the attachment of Asa to life is weak. Falling Devil tells Asa to close her eyes for a peaceful fall, and Asa complies. Denji catches Asa mid-fall, and both fall into Hell together.
Denji carries the unconscious Asa toward a door out of Hell, gets decapitated by another devil on the way, and reassembles himself to continue the escape. Falling Devil blocks the door and demands that Denji put Asa down, and a Chainsaw Man look-alike impales Falling Devil from behind at that moment. The look-alike holds Falling Devil down while Denji and Asa escape through the door.
Falling Devil throws an entire apartment building at the escaping pair. Denji and Asa cut through the building on a motorcycle, and Asa turns the motorcycle into a Super Chainsaw Man Motorcycle. The Justice Devil knocks the pair off the vehicle and eats both, and Nayuta forces the Justice Devil to vomit the pair back up. Falling Devil destroys the Justice Devil with the energy beam in rage at the disgraced dish.
Fami ends the arc by ordering Falling Devil to “return”. Falling Devil bows to Fami, apologises for the failure, and shrinks into a miniature figurine that Fami retrieves. The attack of Falling Devil still leaves a global mark, since news reports in Chapter 132 put the dead and missing from the incident at 2,000 people, and gravitational anomalies spread natural disasters around the world.
What Happens to Falling Devil in the War Devil Arc?
Falling Devil returns in the War Devil Arc as the enforcer and chef of the Death Devil, and Falling Devil suffers the first true defeat of her story at the hands of Yoru. Falling Devil reappears in Chapter 198, after the Death Devil reveals that the “Fami” seen so far was the Famine Devil in disguise. The real Death Devil arrives, uses Falling Devil to subdue Fami and the Fake Chainsaw Man, and orders the Blood-Sauteed Human and Giraffe dish.
Falling Devil fights Yoru and Denji across Chapter 201 to Chapter 210. Falling Devil lifts the building holding Denji and Yoru, prepares to drop the building onto civilians, and watches Yoru turn the building into the Building Sword. Falling Devil overpowers Yoru at first and buries Yoru under the remains of a skyscraper, then attacks Denji with a psychic illusion of the twin brother of the Fake Chainsaw Man.
The guilt sends Denji falling upward, and Asa grabs the leg of Denji and pulls Denji down slowly. Yoru loads the Right Gun Gauntlet with every weapon Yoru has stockpiled, using the power of the Tank Devil, and fires the full arsenal at Falling Devil. Falling Devil survives the barrage, gives chase, and hurls the weapons of Yoru back at Denji and Yoru. Yoru then remembers something long forgotten, defeats Falling Devil in combat, and transforms Falling Devil into a new set of clothes.
Falling Devil’s Relationships With Other Characters
Death Devil: The Death Devil is the master of Falling Devil and the source of the authority behind every dish Falling Devil cooks. Falling Devil obeys the Death Devil without question, apologises to the Death Devil after failures, and cooks the Blood-Sauteed Human and Giraffe dish on the direct orders of the Death Devil.
Fami (Famine Devil): Fami is the handler of Falling Devil on Earth and the devil who orders Falling Devil to “return” into figurine form. Fami reveals the name of Falling Devil to Yoshida, retrieves the figurine of Falling Devil after the failure of the Falling Devil Arc, and later works beside Falling Devil on the mission to spread terror.
Asa Mitaka and Yoru: Asa Mitaka and Yoru are the intended main course of Falling Devil, the dish named Asa Root Yoru. Falling Devil targets Asa because the despair of Asa makes Asa an ideal ingredient, and Falling Devil remarks on the weak attachment of Asa to life while making Asa fall. Yoru flees from Falling Devil at first, fights Falling Devil across the War Devil Arc, and finally defeats Falling Devil by transforming Falling Devil into clothes.
Denji (Chainsaw Man): Denji is the rescuer who ruins the main course of Falling Devil twice. Denji tears through the body of Falling Devil in the Falling Devil Arc, carries Asa out of Hell, and escapes through the door while the Fake Chainsaw Man holds Falling Devil down. Falling Devil later attacks Denji through guilt over the twin brother of the Fake Chainsaw Man.
Justice Devil: The Justice Devil is both a guest and a victim of Falling Devil. Falling Devil serves De Root Atelanta to the Justice Devil in Hell, and the Justice Devil devours the soup and the living hunter inside the soup. Falling Devil later kills the Justice Devil with an energy beam after the Justice Devil vomits up Denji and Asa and disgraces the dish.
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Summary of Falling Devil in Chainsaw Man
Falling Devil in Chainsaw Man is a Primal Fear devil embodying the fear of falling, in both the physical act of falling down and the mental act of falling into depression. Falling Devil debuts in Chapter 122, builds a body from the corpses of people who fell to their deaths, and dresses the body in a white chef uniform with a tall toque.
Falling Devil announces herself as the chef of the night at the request of the residents of Hell, and Falling Devil warns that guests who do not finish their food will taste death. Falling Devil cooks 4 named dishes, manipulates gravity based on the trauma of each victim, forces victims to relive painful memories, opens doors to Hell, and regenerates instantly from any damage.
Falling Devil fails to serve Asa in the Falling Devil Arc, returns as the chef of the Death Devil in the War Devil Arc, and suffers defeat when Yoru transforms Falling Devil into a set of clothes. Falling Devil never dies, since no means of attack humanity possesses can kill a Primal Fear.
