Jaadugar Production Notes Detail Mongolia Scouting Trip and Cultural Advisors
The production notes frame Jaadugar as a rare TV anime effort where historical and cultural accuracy shaped pre-production, from a physical scouting trip to casting native speakers.
Reporting from 1 source: Sakuga Blog.
Sakuga Blog published production notes for Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, detailing the team's location trip to Mongolia, the hiring of two Mongolian sumo wrestlers as voice actors, and the presence of several cultural advisors. Chief director Naoko Yamada and series director Abel Gongora led the scouting trip, grounding the story in physical realities.
The production team behind Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia traveled to the actual location where most of the story takes place, according to production notes published by Sakuga Blog. Chief director Naoko Yamada and series director Abel Gongora made the trip, with Yamada stating that stories must be grounded in people's actual lives and environments, whether fantastical or historical.
Gongora emphasized the need to experience daily routines, struggles, smells, tastes, and the vast steppe first-hand, things that cannot be learned from books. The series also hired two Mongolian sumo wrestlers as voice actors to capture authentic speech, and relied on several cultural advisors, a process that increased approval back-and-forths. The team conducted remote research for both 13th-century Persia and modern-day Iran before the trip.
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