The main problem with this show its bc the original source material is a Light Novel. The oryginal has soooooooo many pages of content, while the anime has a chance of only 12 ish episodes to contain as much as possible. But nonetheless its still awesome to see it animated
Easier way to pronounce his name is to separate each syllables, A-ya-no-ko-ji. Japanese pronounciation has no accents, mean 'BA' sounds literally 'BA'. Hope that helps.