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** [=S1E7=], "Vegetrouble" = "vegetable" and "trouble". The episode is about Fat Doc thinking Lamput is hidden in some pumpkins, a kind of vegetable.
** [=S3E37=], "Jamput" = "Lamput" and "jam". The episode is about Fat Doc taking a jar of orange jam, sticking fake eyeballs into it, and claiming it's Lamput.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' ("Digital Monsters")
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' ("Pocket Monsters"; the Japanese name is literally just that, but the international releases went for the portmanteau approach to avoid a trademark dispute with the "Monster in My Pocket" brand of toys)
* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' - "Hetalia" is a portmanteau of the Japanese words for "hopeless" (hetare) and "Italy" (Italia).

* ''Anime/NyanpireTheAnimation'': "Nyan" (meow) + "vampire"
* ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'': "Idol" + "katsudou" (activities)
* ''Precure'': ''[[Anime/PrettyCure Pretty]]'' + ''[[Anime/PrettyCure Cure]]''

* ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'' Is a combination of the two lead characters (Hori and Miyamura).

* ''Aggressive Retsuko'' gets [[OfficiallyShortenedTitle shortened]] to ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'' for its English release.
* "Harukana" in ''Manga/HarukanaReceive'' is a portmanteau of Haruka and Kanata's names.
* ''Manga/{{Hinamatsuri}}'', a combination of Hina--the name of one of the main characters--and "matsuri" (festival). [[NeverTrustATitle It has nothing to do with festivals]]. Also doubles as a PunBasedTitle, since the holiday Hinamatsuri is a coming-of-age day for young girls, just as the manga is partially a ComingOfAgeStory for Hina.
* ''Manga/MashleMagicAndMuscles'': "Mash" ([[ProtagonistTitle the main character's name]], but also "hit with brute force") + "Muscle"
* ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'' has a multilingual PunBasedTitle based on the concept of TigerVersusDragon: The main characters' names are "Taiga", [[GratuitousEnglish which sounds like the English word "tiger"]], and "Ryuuji", which contains the Japanese word "ryu (dragon)". Flip the languages around and you get "Tora" and "Dora(gon)".

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' = Bionic [[note]]itself a portmanteau of "biological" and "electronic" [[/note]] + Chronicle

* The ''VideoGame/RPGMaker'' series was originally titled in Japan ''RPG Tsukūru''[[note]]RPGツクール when written in Japanese[[/note]], a combination of the verb ''tsukuru''[[note]]造る, to create[[/note]] and the Japanese transliteration of the English word "tool"[[note]]ツール[[/note]]. The official romanization of the title is "RPG Tkool", although the title sometimes gets misinterpreted as "RPG School".

* Famicom (Japanese version of the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]]) = "Family Computer" (which is actually the console's official name)

* ''Nyanpi'' (a game by Creator/{{Compile}} for the {{UsefulNotes/MSX}}) = ''nyan'' ("meow") + ''anpi'' ("safety")

* UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, which was named that in order to sound futuristic in light of the approaching third millennium (tying in with this trope's [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture heavy sci-fi association]]).

* UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube, picked due to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the very obvious fact]] that it's a game console that's (almost) in the shape of a cube.

* The first book of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', ''Literature/StormFront'', was almost called ''Semiautomagic''.

* Music/{{Microdisney}}, who were once known as Micro-Disney, which was a nickname for a poorly run theme park in Ireland.

* ''WebVideo/{{Gnoggin}}'', = ''Game"" + "Noggin".

* The online event [=NaNoWriMo=], for UsefulNotes/NationalNovelWritingMonth.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Llanargollen}}'' = "Llangollen" (a Welsh city) and "ar goll" (lost in Welsh). Uses dashes for the PunBasedTitle to be understood better.

*** Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}} - [[CaptainObvious Un + Encyclopedia]]