Jaadugar making-of traces Science SARU's Mongolia research and its stripped-line visual method
A full production making-of released on August 23 has Yamada, Góngora and character-design and sakuga chief Kenichi Yoshida explain how the staff translated the manga's passage of time, including experiments that remove lines outside characters' primary outlines. Anime Corner also reports that the directors researched landscapes and nomadic life on location in Mongolia and brought those observations into the setting; the documentary supports the attributed process, not a claim that every historical detail is independently verified.
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