Makima mouse pads for the desk

These Makima mouse pads and desk mats are original designs built around Makima of Chainsaw Man, each one printed edge to edge on a 3 mm neoprene pad that has a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. There are eight sizes in the range, from an 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad for a mouse to a 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm) mat that covers a desk, and each one is printed only after you place your order.

This page sits under Chainsaw Man and holds the designs built around Makima alone. Power, Aki, the devils, the Reze film and the rest of Fujimoto's series are on the Chainsaw Man page, and Denji has a page of his own.

Who Makima is

Makima runs Public Safety's Special Division 4. She is the one who finds Denji at the end of the first chapter and gives him a job, a home and a reason to keep going. She is polite, patient and always composed, and she seems to know more than anyone around her. Fujimoto keeps her motives hidden for most of Part 1, and this page keeps them hidden too: everything below is about her look, not her secrets.

That restraint is what makes her such good desk art. A Makima design doesn't need a fight, a weapon or a splash of blood to work. A face, a pair of eyes or a figure in a coat is enough.

The ringed eyes

Makima's eyes are gold, with rings circling the pupil like a target or the growth rings of a tree, and they are the one detail every Makima design depends on. A close crop across the face suits the long M size, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm): enlarge the face enough and the eyes sit on either side of a compact keyboard, with the bridge of the nose under the space bar.

Where the eyes go matters more than with most characters. Along the top edge, just under the monitor, they look back at you every time you glance down, which some people enjoy and others find unnerving. At the far end of the mat, past the mouse, they become a quieter presence you notice now and then. Decide which you want before you pick a design.

A braid and an unreadable smile

Makima wears her reddish hair in a single long braid, with loose bangs around her face, and she almost always wears the same faint smile that gives nothing away. Her silhouette is simple: a slim figure in a long coat, the braid falling down her back. That simplicity holds up at any scale, from a small portrait in the corner of a pad to a full standing figure running along the side of a 4XL.

A braid on its own is also a surprisingly strong motif. A single red plait curving across a white or black ground is abstract enough for a work desk and still recognizable to anyone who has read the series.

Dressed for the office

Makima's clothes are a work uniform: white shirt, black tie and a long dark coat. In a series full of horns, blood and chainsaws, she is the one character who looks like she belongs behind a desk, and that makes her designs easy to place on one. A Makima pad in white, black and a touch of red sits comfortably beside a laptop dock, a white keyboard or a monochrome setup.

On a video call, an office-style Makima reads as a stylish illustration rather than gaming gear. If you work from home and game on the same desk, she is a good way to keep the series in view without explaining it to every coworker who sees your camera.

The first deal

When Makima meets Denji, she gives him a choice: be killed as a devil, or be kept by her as her dog. He answers with a bark. That exchange sets the tone for everything between them, and it gives designers a motif that needs no portrait at all.

A dog sitting obediently at the feet of a figure in a long coat says Makima to anyone who remembers that first chapter, and it says very little to anyone who doesn't. It is one of the subtler ways to put her on a small pad or a shared desk.

A day at the movies

One of Makima's quieter chapters is a date: she takes Denji to the cinema, and they watch film after film all day, most of them forgettable, until one finally moves them both. It shows a side of her the fights never do, and it echoes Fujimoto's own love of film, which runs through all of his work.

A cinema theme suits a desk built for watching as much as working: rows of red seats, the glow of a screen, a strip of film frames running along the bottom edge of a long mat. On a desk where you also stream shows or edit video, a design like that fits better than a battle scene, and it is one of the few Makima ideas that feels warm.

Ink Makima and screen Makima

In the manga, Makima is drawn with clean, sparing lines and very little shading on her face, which makes her expression even harder to read. MAPPA's anime gives her soft, realistic lighting, a muted palette and slow, deliberate movement, so she seems calm in every scene, even the tense ones.

Manga-style Makima designs are black and white with the eyes as the only color, a strong graphic for a white desk or a black one. Anime-style designs are softer and more painterly, with warm light on her hair, and they suit a cozy setup with a desk lamp more than a room lit by RGB.

Gold, red and black

Makima's palette is short: gold eyes, red hair, a black tie and coat, a white shirt. On a desk, that maps onto lighting in a simple way. Warm white or amber light brings out the gold and the red; cool light makes the shirt crisp and sharpens the contrast between gold and white.

Red RGB suits the darker designs, where she stands against a red ground, but keep it to one color so the eyes stay the brightest thing on the mat. Rainbow lighting cycling under a Makima pad works against her: she is a character defined by stillness.

Light Makima, dark Makima

Makima art splits into two moods. The light version is the office Makima: daylight, paperwork, a smile and a pale background. The dark version leans into the menace the story hints at from the start: deep red backgrounds, shadows across the face, the eyes glowing out of the gloom.

The first suits a bright room and a study or work desk. The second suits a gaming setup in a dark room, where the monitor is the main light and the red of the mat picks up whatever the screen is showing. If the pad is a gift and you don't know the room, the light version is the easier choice.

Makima and Denji together

Most Makima designs are solo, but a pairing with Denji tells her story in a single image. On an XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), put Makima at the left end, standing, and Denji at the right, looking up at her. The keyboard lands in the space between them, which suits a relationship built on distance. Denji's own designs, from the broke teenager to the chainsaw form, are on his page.

Which way she faces

A standing Makima looks in one direction, and on a long mat that direction matters. Placed at the left end and facing right, she looks across the keyboard toward your mouse hand, as if she were watching you work. Placed at the right end and facing out, past the edge of the desk, she seems to be watching something you can't see, which suits her better than it suits most characters.

Either way, keep her off the center. The middle of an XL or a 4XL spends its life under a keyboard, and a figure as slim as Makima disappears there completely.

Small-pad symbols

On the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, your palm covers the lower half, so a symbol near the top works better than a full portrait. Makima has several that need no face: ringed gold eyes on black, a red braid curving across a white ground, a black tie on a white shirt, or a dog's silhouette. Each one says Makima to people who know the series and passes for a plain graphic with people who don't.

Makima at work and at play

Whatever the design, the pad underneath is the same: a smooth fabric top for steady aim, a non-slip base that keeps the mat in place when you flick, and stitched edges that hold up under a resting wrist. A dark Makima design hides everyday wear on a desk used for hours at a time. For study, a calm, office-style Makima under a laptop stays quiet through a long evening of notes, and the cushioned surface is comfortable to write on.

Sizes for a Makima desk

Check a design's product page for the sizes it is offered in. The sizes below suit Makima designs in particular.

Setup	Size	Good for
Just the mouse	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	Ringed eyes or a red braid
Beside a laptop	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A half-length office portrait
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	A crop across the eyes
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Makima and Denji at opposite ends
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	A cinema scene above the keyboard
Whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	A full standing figure along one side

On a desk with width to spare but little depth, look at L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), or 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm).

Gifts for a Makima fan

A Makima pad suits someone who still argues about her motives long after finishing Part 1, someone who works at a desk all day and wants a design that looks stylish rather than loud, or someone who first met her in MAPPA's anime. Choose light or dark by the room they work in. No idea how big their desk is? The XL holds a full keyboard and a mouse on nearly any of them.

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Keeping the white shirt white

Light Makima designs have large white areas, and the spot under your wrist is the first to dull. Wipe it with a damp cloth once a week. Every so often, wash the whole pad by hand in lukewarm water with a little mild soap, rinse the soap out, blot the water away between two towels and lay the pad flat until it is dry. The washing machine, the dryer and the iron are all off limits; treated this way, the gold of the eyes stays sharp.

A note on names

Makima, Chainsaw Man and the names of other characters are mentioned only to describe the inspiration behind our designs. Padrift has no affiliation with Tatsuki Fujimoto, Shueisha, MAPPA or Viz Media, and none of them sponsors or endorses these pads.