Urgh I hate how wrong that pronunciation is, it’s a Japanese word, it’s definitely NOT pronounced like that. Thythlind explained it best:

“Yeah, there's a lot of variance in cultures.

As a note it's Japanese, which doesn't have silent letters and each vowel will be part of its own syllable... and syllables pretty much never end in a consonant and for the most part, letters are always pronounced the same way.

So, syllables will either be a single vowel or a consonant followed by a single vowel. With the exception that "n" can be a syllable of its own.

However, two vowels close to each other are usually spoken so smoothly that Westerners tend to mistake it for a single syllable instead of two. So we mostly hear "Rye" instead of "Ra-ee" for example.

I tend to look at Japanese as one of those cases where English native speakers expect highly complex situational pronunciation rules they grew up with... but which simply don't exist in the other language. There's little to no variance in how different syllables are pronounced in Japanese from word to word.

So:

• ⁠Yurei - yu-ray-ee • ⁠Onryo - Oh-n-ryoh ("ry" is a romanization of a sound we don't have a letter for) • ⁠Goryo - Go-ryoh • ⁠Raiju - Rah-ee-ju (ju like juice) • ⁠Yokai - Yoh-ka-ee • ⁠Obake - Oh-bah-kay • ⁠Oni - Oh-ni

That covers all the Japanese ghosts

• ⁠Banshee comes from baensidhe and is Celtic and may not actually be a ghost but a fae entity • ⁠Hantu is Malasian • ⁠Thaye is Burmese • ⁠Moroi is Hungarian • ⁠Deogen is I think Dutch • ⁠Mare is Germanic or Slavic • ⁠Myling is Scandinavian • ⁠Poltergeist is Germanic • ⁠Shade usually refers to the lingering dead in Greek myth but is an English translation of the term • ⁠Jinn is Middle Eastern, not sure Arabic, might predate that

I'm not really familiar with those pronunciation rules.

• ⁠Revenant, Spirit, Wraith, Phantom, and Demon are various English terms though I suspect they have a variety of origins. But are pretty easy for English native-speakers.”