The upcoming Science SARU-produced Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia TV anime has received a “super teaser visual.” It was also revealed that the show will premiere in 2026.
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia is based on Tomato Soup’s A Witch’s Life in Mongol manga, which is currently serialized in Souffle by Akita Publishing. Yen Press describes the manga’s premise:
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…
A Witch’s Life in Mongol started serialization in 2021 and has five volumes as of April 2025. It was the number one title in the female reader category of the This Manga is Amazing! category and the top historical fiction manga in Apple Books Store’s 2022 Best Manga list. At the time of writing, A Witch’s Life in Mongol‘s fifth volume is Amazon Japan’s top-selling shojo manga title.
Source: @anime_jaadugar (via Comic Natalie)
