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A vast fortified concrete detention facility with a communications tower and a domed hall stands under an orange dusk sky as a lone searchlight beam sweeps the empty gravel yard.
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Tokyo Devil Detention Center

Character

A heavily fortified prison somewhere in Tokyo built to hold devils and the people they have warped. Only the most dangerous captives end up here, and before the Aging Devil arc no inmate had ever walked out alive. Denji is locked in its basement after defying Public Safety's orders.

Type: Detention Center
Kanji: 東京悪魔収容
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Services: Public Security
Manga Debut: Chapter 156
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Appearance

The compound reads as an enormous, military-grade structure, its outer walls striped with wide rectangular panels. Inside run long stretches of corridor patrolled by armed staff, and most of the visible rooms serve as cells for inmates such as a cluster of Pseudo-Chainsaw People or the captured Devil Hunter Club members. According to Fami, Chainsaw Man himself is kept three floors down in the basement.

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History

Little is recorded about the facility beyond its grim purpose: devils judged too dangerous for anywhere else are sent here, and since it opened not one had survived to leave. In the Aging Devil arc, Denji is sedated for a week and brought in to be taken apart after transforming against Public Safety's wishes. Asa Mitaka, Yoru, and Fami break in to free Chainsaw Man, picking up allies along the way including the Devil Hunter Club trio, Katana Man, and the Nail Fiend. They reach him only to find the surgeons have already cut him to pieces, and once reassembled his true identity is exposed as Denji. The veteran Quanxi then corners the group under orders to keep them from leaving, overpowering them but relenting at the sight of Denji's severed head. Her companion Takagi is devoured by his own Pseudo-Chainsaw wife, and Yoru beheads Quanxi at the veteran's own request before the group finishes rebuilding Denji and slips out to recover at Fami's apartment.

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Abilities

The building is engineered to stop break-ins as surely as escapes. Sensors near the entrance flag anyone slipping inside and feed a control room, whose operators can open up with mounted gun turrets to cut down intruders. Backed by the roaming armed guards, those defenses make unauthorized passage in either direction a deadly proposition.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Tokyo Devil Detention Center in Chainsaw Man?

The Tokyo Devil Detention Center is a heavily fortified prison somewhere in Tokyo built to hold devils and the people they have warped. Only the most dangerous captives end up here.

Why is Denji held at the Tokyo Devil Detention Center?

In the Aging Devil arc, Denji is sedated for a week and brought to the center to be taken apart after transforming against Public Safety's wishes. He is kept three floors down in the basement.

Who breaks into the Tokyo Devil Detention Center?

Asa Mitaka, Yoru, and Fami break in to free Chainsaw Man, picking up allies along the way including the Devil Hunter Club trio, Katana Man, and the Nail Fiend.

What defenses does the Tokyo Devil Detention Center have?

Sensors near the entrance flag anyone slipping inside and feed a control room, whose operators can open up with mounted gun turrets. Roaming armed guards back up those defenses.

Had anyone ever escaped the Tokyo Devil Detention Center?

Before the Aging Devil arc, no inmate had ever walked out of the Tokyo Devil Detention Center alive.

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