TV Asahi has confirmed that Tomato Soup’s Tenmaku no Jaduugar (A Witch’s Life in Mongol) manga has been green-lit for a TV anime adaptation produced by Science SARU. It’s also been confirmed that the anime’s English title will be Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia.
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In celebration of the anime adaptation news, Tomato Soup released the illustration below.
Tomato Soup started the manga in September 2021 on Akita Shoten’s Souffle website, and Akita Shoten published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in August 2022. The manga’s fifth volume was released on April 16th, 2025.
Yen Press will publish the manga in English under the name A Witch’s Life in Mongol, and it will release the manga’s first volume on May 27th, 2025. It describes the manga below:
In the harem of the Khan, wisdom is beauty.
The time: the thirteenth century. The place: Yeke Mongol Ulus, the greatest empire the world has ever known. The woman: Fatima, hailing from Persia, where medical technique and scientific knowledge have been perfected beyond all precedent. Fatima’s desire for a stage where she can put her knowledge to work has brought her to the palace of the Mongols, where she falls under the wing of Töregene, the sixth wife of Ögedei, the second Great Khan—a mighty woman with complicated feelings about the direction of the empire. These two women are the axel upon which the politics of the palace, and soon the very world, will turn…
