It happens when a word is written with a given kanji because of the kanji's meaning, that is, originally the word would be written with other kanji, or without kanji, but it was written with those kanji instead because of their meanings, effectively giving the kanji an unusual (artificial) reading.
Standard Gikun
For example: tabako タバコ, "tobacco," "cigarette," is a so it wouldn't have kanji, but it's sometimes written with the kanji for "smoke," kemuri 煙, and "grass," kusa 草. Smoke grass #420, tabako 煙草.Since it's a gikun you can't divide the kanji in the word and get separate taba 煙 ko 草 or ta 煙 bako 草, because those kanji can't be read that way, those readings aren't official, standard, they aren't in the dictionary.
It's only when both kanji are used at once, tabako 煙草, that the gikun is applies, because then it refers to the word associated with the "smoke grass" meaning, the "tobacco." This is also called a , and there are jukujikun like this that aren't gikun, for example, kyou 今日, "today," the kanji are only read as kyou when they're together..
Words like tabako are sorta official gikun, because people would recognize it if it were written with the kanji for "smoke grass." Besides these, there are also gikun that's made up by authors, specially of manga and light novels, that nobody would recognize normally, it'd be recognized only by readers of the work.
Made-up Gikun
In manga, anime, light novels, games, songs, etc. it's possible to create any gikun by simply writing whatever in the reading aid.This normally happens because authors like to use -approved names for skills, techniques, organizations, places, items, and stuff. That is, mostly kanji is just more Japanese-looking, the authors use those foreign words as gikun of kanji of similar meaning.
For example, hiiro ヒーロー comes from the English "hero." But yuusha 勇者 also means "hero," literally "brave person." So a made-up gikun would be reading the word yuusha as if it were hiiro, or writing hiiro as if it were yuusha, whichever makes more sense to you: hiiroo 勇者.
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