User blog comment:JapaneseOPfan/Lesson 12 or something (Pronunciation)/@comment-1595565-20150813214305

Does emphasizing every syllable always apply? I ask this mainly in regard to words that have "uk" + vowel. I haven't heard it emphasized the way you're describing all the time. For instance, in subs I've heard "Akatsuki" pronounced "A-kat-ski". Same goes for names like Sasuke, Asuka, and Itsuki. I've heard them pronounced "Sas-kay", "Ahska", and "Eet-ski" with the "u" seemingly smoothed over. Is that a dialect or accent thing? While I have heard subs where words like that are fully pronounced, more often than not, I've found cases of the former.