@GeePawHill I was going to think it weird but then I remembered that it originated from Japan.
(I have a lot of casual exposure to Japanese phoneme rules through anime (and manga), since sooner or later one winds up trying to understand how non-Japanese words wind up being pronounced the way they are in the Japanese dialog. Sometimes this leads to comedy with translating into/back to English, as people try to work out the correct English/Latin-alphabet version of some non-Japanese name.)