Chronophage

Chronophage
Kanji	時喰み
Rōmaji	Tokihami
Additional Information
Notable Ability	Time Consumption
Located In	Sakura Cosmos
Debut
Manga Debut	Chapter 11
Anime Debut	Episode 6

Chronophage (時喰み Tokihami, lit. "Time Eater") are space creatures that feast on a planet's time. They are typically viewed as a great cosmic evil for the chaos their actions inflict.

Appearance

Chronophages are large black ethereal beasts seemingly without solid form. They are serpent-like in shape and are typically large enough to swallow a planet whole.

Synopsis

History

At some point, a Chronophage devoured Norma, eating 50 years of the planet's time. Weisz and many other Normans managed to escape the planet beforehand.

Guilst arc

A Chronophage consumes countless planets, among the planet on its path is Guilst. Witch detects its ultra-high concentration of Ether which she warns Shiki's group. When the Chronophage arrives, it consumes 1,200 years of the planet's time, erasing countless lives while also ironically turning the crime-filled world back into a natural paradise; the disaster would come to be known as "the day of Guilst's cleansing". According to Creed, less than 10% of Guilst's population managed to escape before the Chronophage consumed the planet's 1,200 years of its time.

Powers and Abilities

Time Consumption: Chronophages can consume a planet's time, causing the planet's history to be permanently rewound to an earlier state. This effectively creates a new "reality" that turns the planet's past into its present, which also prevents any time paradoxes that may otherwise occur.

• Existence Erasure: By rewinding time, Chronophages erase the existence of anyone that wasn't on the target planet in the past. Witch describes this process as being unavoidable.

Spaceflight: Chronophages are able to fly through space at high speed, allowing them to easily travel from world to world.

Trivia

• The name "Chronophage" and its Japanese equivalent (時食み Tokihami) loosely mean "time eater", with the former coming from the Greek words χρόνος (chronos, "time") and φαγεῖν (phagein, "to eat").