Chapter Summary: Witness the titular Punpun - who is depicted as a tiny, caricatured bird in an otherwise normal human setting - as he copes with his dysfunctional family and friends, his love interest, his oncoming adolescence and his hyperactive mind. In his short career as a manga artist, Inio Asano has tackled various formats and genres: short existential vignettes, twenty-something dramas, mind-bending psycho-horror, with a delicate emotional touch and a willingness to break stodgy storytelling rules. The mood of the manga swings between slapstick and nightmarish but never fails to be striking and evocative.