The Tent's Jadugar Producer Kazuki Endo Speaks At Mongolia's ANIMO Festival
The production's decision to send staff to the story's actual setting and fold what they saw into the animation gives the Mongolia panel a concrete production detail rather than a promotional appearance.
Reporting from 1 source: Nijimen.
Kazuki Endo, the TV Asahi producer on The Tent's Jadugar, appeared at ANIMO Festival 2026 in Ulaanbaatar on Saturday, September 12. The event screened a comment video from director Abel Gongora, making-of footage, and Acts 1 through 3. Endo said he felt the work had to value local atmosphere, and that main staff adjusted schedules to visit Mongolia and took details from a ger homestay into the visuals.
Endo told the panel that the main staff adjusted their schedules to travel to Mongolia, and that a homestay in a ger where nomads live was the most memorable part of the trip. Details from inside the ger were adopted into the visuals. Director Abel Gongora did not attend in person; a comment video from him was screened, along with making-of footage and a screening of Acts 1 through 3 that drew a large round of applause. Nomadia Pictures producer Naranbat.B and manga artist Erdenebayar.N also spoke, with Erdenebayar saying the work properly researches Mongolian history.
- Kazuki Endo: TV Asahi producer on the anime
- Naranbat.B: Producer at Nomadia Pictures
- Erdenebayar.N: Manga artist
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