There’s nothing phonotactically wrong with puryo, perfectly cromulent Japanese :) I’d just expect it to end up as Puraiotora regardless of its (English) pronunciation.

I haven’t seen that movie in a couple of years, but it is cutesy enough to be Ponyo-related :p

Well, I just had an interesting conversation with my mother about various things, and one of the topics covered wound up being how “Pryotra” would be pronounced.

Pyo-to-ra is the more likely form. Pu-ri-o-to-ra is also possible. Pu-ryo-to-ra is not since the pu-ryo combination is too awkward to say (and doesn’t occur in Japanese, as far as my mother can recall).

My mother’s reaction was really funny when I said “puryo” by the way. She just looked at me like I’d grown a third head and said “What?”

Also, Pyo-to-ra comes out to mean something like “(bird sound) tiger”, so Pryotra, you shall forever be a chirping tiger in my mind.