I think there's a lot of interest in German culture in Japan. You see German characters and phrases fairly often in anime, pronounced just as badly as English in anime.

The popular anime Frieren names all its characters on-the-nose German words. Plot twists get spoiled for German speakers, for example one of the characters is called "Lügner", Liar:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MeaningfulName/Friere...