The official website for the Tenmaku no Jaaduugar (Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia/天幕のジャードゥーガル) TV anime has revealed the anime’s second promotional video, a key visual, and confirmed that the anime will have a one-hour premiere on July 4th, 2026.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBHYXPp1lt8]
The anime will debut on July 4th at 11:00 p.m. JST on TV Asahi and 23 of its affiliated channels, as well as on the BS Asahi channel. The anime will premiere with its first two episodes as a one-hour special.
Yamada Naoko will be acting as the chief director, and Abel Gongora is directing the anime at Science SARU studios. The anime will star:
- Irino Myu as Shira
- Saitou Jun as Muhammad
- Sekine Akira as Shitara
- Kuwashima Houko as Fatima
- Suzuki Ryouta as Tolui
The newley confirmed cast members are listed below:
- Nojima Kenji as Jochi
- Koshimizu Ami as Toregene
- Shimono Hiro as Ogedei
- Namikawa Daisuke as Chagatai
The anime is based on Tomato Soup’s Tenmaku no Jaaduugar manga. 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 in April 2025, and the sixth volume will be released on July 15th, 2026.
Yen Press publishes the manga in English under the name A Witch’s Life in Mongol, and it will release the manga’s third volume on July 28th, 2026. Yen Press 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…”
