History ADogNamedDog / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/BlackButler:'' [[spoiler:Angela is an AngelUnaware.]]

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'':

* In ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', Ryuuji's parakeet is named "Inko-chan". "Inko" happens to be Japanese for "parakeet".

* In ''Anime/YokaiWatch'', all yo-kai go by their species names. In the games they can be nicknamed but the anime opts out of this. We know thatJibanyan's name was "Rudy" in life, but he strictly goes by "Jibanyan" as a yo-kai.

** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'' has an andromorphic Barbary Falcon of the ''Falco pelegrinoides '''''babylon'''''''icus'' genus named '''Babylon'''.

** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'' has an andromorphic Barbary Falcon of the ''Falco pelegrinoides '''''babylon''''''icus'' genus named '''Babylon'''.

* This is how the animal characters are named in ''Anime/JackAndTheWitch'', an anime movie released by Toei i the 1960s[[note]]Only the dub released by American International Pictures gives them actual names (such as the mouse being called "Squeaker".[[/note]]

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'' has Nobita creating three mythological animals using Doraemon's Instant Life Kit, being a {{Pegasus}} named Pega, a [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent Gryphon]] named Gri, and a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]] named Draco. Justified since, well, it's ''Nobita'' who did the naming.

* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'' has some examples that overlap with ALizardNamedLiz, since they're PettingZooPeople rather than actual animals:

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'' has Nobita creating three mythological animals using Doraemon's Instant Life Kit, being a {{Pegasus}} named Pega, a [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent Gryphon]] named Gri, and a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragon]] named Draco.

* ''Franchise/YuGiOh:'' The majority of monsters are just named after what they are, and only less than half of them have proper names, such as Osiris/[[DubNameChange Slifer]], Raviel, Wisel, Kibou'ou Hope/[[DubNameChange Utopia]] or Kali Yuga. For example Black/Dark Magician is always called Black/Dark Magician (even though Mahad might be a valid name for him) and Blue-Eyes White Dragon is always called Blue-Eyes White Dragon (or simply Blue-Eyes for short). This trope is particularly common with Dragon-Type monsters, with only a handful of those having proper names, e.g. Blaster, Ultimaya Tzolkin or Ignister. Most characters in the various anime and manga series shorten the names of the "nameless" dragons by simply leaving out "Dragon" or other words, for example "Blue-Eyes" for Blue-Eyes White Dragon, "Ultimate Dragon" for Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, "Red-Eyes" for Red-Eyes Black Dragon, "Stardust" for Stardust Dragon, "Shooting Star" for Shooting Star Dragon, "Ancient Fairy" for Ancient Fairy Dragon, "Red Daemon's" for Red Daemon's Dragon, "Odd-Eyes" for Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, "Odd-Eyes Rebellion" or "Haohkokuryuu" for [[OverlyLongName Haohkokuryuu - Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon]], or "Starve Venom" for Starve Venom Fusion Dragon. Those shorten names are always used as if they are actual names.

** This is almost omnipresent in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]]. While the species names are either PokemonSpeak or VerbalTicName, it seems a little weird that nearly every pet Pokémon is named after its species. This is most likely due to marketing reasons (viewers would get confused and think that the given nickname is what the whole species is called). The number of nicknamed owned by main characters can be counted on one hand: Misty's Luvdisc named Casrein, James's Growlithe named Growlie and Lillie's Vulpix named Shiron/Snowy. Apart from that, nicknamed Pokémon are mostly owned by very minor or one-shot characters.

* One strip in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' reveals that Tomo has a pet hamster named Ham-chan; next to the dog named "Kuro" ("Black," after its fur color) and the girl from Osaka nicknamed "Osaka", it demonstrates how uncreative Tomo is. Some translations though change the pets and their names.

** Oddly, in ''Anime/TheBigO'', there was a ''cat'' named Perro.[[note]]Though, in Japanese, "pero" is also the onomatopoeia used for cats licking themselves (Japanese has no double-R), giving an alternate explanation for the name.[[/note]]

* One strip in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' reveals that Tomo has a pet hamster named Ham-chan; next to the dog named "Kuro" ("Black," after its fur color) and the girl from Osaka nicknamed "Osaka", it demonstrates how chronically uncreative Tomo is. Some translations though change the pets and their names.