The upcoming Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia TV anime has received a teaser trailer and teaser visual, as well as a July 2026 premiere window announcement.
The newly revealed staff credits for the Science SARU production include Naoko Yamada (The Heike Story, A Silent Voice and K-ON! director) as chief director, Abel Gongora (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, DAN DA DAN Season 2 co-director) as director, Kenichi Yoshida (Eureka Seven character designer) as character designer and animation chief, Kanichi Kato (The Eminence in Shadow) as series composer, and Koshiro Hino as music composer.
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 Shoten. Yen Press describes the manga’s synopsis as such:
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…
©Tomato Soup(AKITASHOTEN)/Jaadugar Committee
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.
Source: @anime_jaadugar
