It kind of weirds me out to see "Pokémon" written that way because while the Japanese ke is pronounced like that, we don't usually attach that accent to any other loan words from Japanese that use e sounds
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wait it's not "pokey-mon" in English? I swear I've always heard it like that
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It's how people tend to say it, but I think there was pushback from the brand. Certainly the famous theme song from the cartoon says "Poke-ay-mon"
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