Science Saru Posts Making-Of Video For Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia
The making-of video is a public window into how Science Saru adapted the manga's distinctive hand-drawn quality, showing techniques like erasing outline lines to keep the original artwork's loose feel.
Reporting from 1 source: Cartoon Brew.
Science Saru released a 25-minute making-of video for Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, the series based on Tomato Soup's manga A Witch's Life in Mongol. The video features director Naoko Yamada, director Abel Gongora, and character designer Kenichi Yoshida discussing how they translated the manga's artwork and pacing into animation.
The studio posted the behind-the-scenes film on the same day the series airs in Japan on TV Asahi. It documents the production team's research trip to Mongolia, where they studied landscapes and nomadic culture. Development artwork, animation materials, and recording sessions appear alongside comparisons between the manga and finished episodes.
Yamada explains in the video how the team pondered conveying the flow of time that existed inside the manga panels. Cast members Akira Sekine, Ami Koshimizu, and Jun Saito, who voice Sitara, Töregene, and Muhammad, also appear in interviews. Jaadugar streams internationally through Crunchyroll.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.