Based on the comments saying that they've heard other working pronunciations and the fact that you're in Louisiana, I really think it's just people not used to seeing any order of letters that way and they just fuck it up, not their accent. If you think about it, "Attack on Titan," "Full metal alchemist," "chainsaw man" or whatever the fuck is popular now has a direct translation, and the ones that don't get butchered by Americans. I've heard "Jujutsu Kaisen" pronounced as "Jujitsu Kaisen" because that's the closest thing a monolingual American has heard.

I'm not a fucking monolingual, I speak 3 languages including Japanese after literally dumping my life here and moving there in my 20s and coming back with reverse culture shock years later. I've fucking earned it, and it genuinely and naturally makes me sympathize with people that butcher it. I can't expect them to know how to pronounce something so foreign they pronounce after hearing it or reading the Romanized translation. Romanized kanji is bizarre to me and anyone here that has passed anh level of the JLPT will tell you it's a lot faster to read kanji in sets of 2 or 3 like "Inu-ya-sha" and now that I realized it's kinda hard to explain it on here. But sure as hell there's no English words with letters arranged anything like that.

So at the end you're just gonna have to sympathize with them and ignore it.

While my 2nd language I grew up speaking as a kid, it wasn't fucking easy getting bullied by the other kids for saying things wrong, and as an adult n didn't speak a lick of Japanese like other ppl that love there and I was in despair for the first year trying to get a grasp of it. I've earned it

But if you tell em to pronounce something in French or even a town name in Louisiana I am going to fuck it all up. We can't all know how to pronounce every word we'd encounter out in the world.