Pugi is a small pig character from the Monster Hunter series who appears in the anime MonHun Nikki Girigiri Airū-mura G, continuing a role established in the earlier anime installment of the same franchise. In the Monster Hunter games, this character, known in English as Poogie, is a pig companion that can be befriended and kept in a hunter's home, and the anime carries that creature into the felyne village where the stories take place. Pugi is almost always seen at the side of Nyami, a felyne villager, and this constant pairing defines its place in the story. Pugi's personality is self-serving and calculating, and it regards everyone else in the village as servants rather than companions. Its interactions with the rest of the cast are therefore marked by condescension, which becomes a recurring source of humor in the short episodes. Pugi's most important relationship is with Nyami, while its dealings with the other villagers reflect its dismissive attitude. Within the series, Pugi functions as a dependable supporting presence whose defining qualities are its haughty personality and its unwavering attachment to Nyami.