Miyabi Pufferfish: the tiny, round, grumpy meme blowing up Zenless Zone Zero

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Miyabi Pufferfish: the tiny, round, grumpy meme blowing up Zenless Zone Zero

Someone found a palm-sized Miyabi with the body of a pufferfish, and the internet has not been the same since.

Tiny Miyabi pufferfish meme - a chibi grumpy Hoshimi Miyabi with a round pufferfish body resting in cupped hands at the beach
The Miyabi pufferfish, poked gently by a finger. — source: TikTok

So what is the Miyabi pufferfish?

It is exactly what it sounds like. Fans of Zenless Zone Zero are obsessed with Hoshimi Miyabi, the stern, sword-wielding Section 6 chief — her dark bob, fox ears and permanently unimpressed red eyes. The joke takes all of that and squashes it into the roundest possible shape: a tiny chibi figure with a pufferfish body, held in a pair of cupped hands by a shallow tide pool.

A finger comes in and pokes the little blob. It does not react. That is the entire bit, and it is perfect.

The clip started as a TikTok captioned “I found tiny miyabi pufferfish” and spread across YouTube Shorts and the ZZZ subreddits, where the round grumpy face became a ready-made reaction image.

Why it works

The character’s whole appeal is menace and discipline, so flattening her into a harmless, inedible little pufferfish is a perfect visual gag. It joins a long tradition of memes — from chubby cat blobs to pufferfish plushies — that turn a serious character into something you want to gently poke.

Miyabi pufferfish is now the mood for every situation that is 10% anger and 90% round. Grumpy at work? Send the pufferfish. Forced to do one more pull for a character? The pufferfish understands.

Source clip: “I found tiny miyabi pufferfish” by @galletudoo on TikTok. Character © HoYoverse (Zenless Zone Zero). Meme used here for commentary and fun.

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