The production team behind the television anime Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia — based on Tomato Soup’s manga Tenmaku no Jādūgar (A Witch’s Life in Mongol) — released a new promotional video on Monday. The video’s main reveal is the ending theme song “Hoshi” (Star), performed by rock band Queen Bee, which receives its first preview in the clip.
Premieres and Festival Screenings
The anime held its world premiere on June 13 at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba in Tokyo, where the first three episodes were screened. The series has also been selected to screen in competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France this year, in the TV Films category.
The U.S. premiere is set for July 3 at Anime Expo, with chief director Naoko Yamada and director Abel Góngora confirmed to attend.
Cast
- Miyu Irino as Shira
- Jun Saitō as Muhammad
- Akira Sekine as Shitara (Sitara)
- Houko Kuwashima as Fatima
- Ryōta Suzuki as Tolui
- Kenji Nojima as Jochi
- Ami Koshimizu as Töregene
- Hiro Shimono as Ögedei
- Daisuke Namikawa as Chagatai
- Mongolian sumo wrestler Ichirō Tamawashi as Genghis Khan
- Mongolian sumo wrestler Manpei Tamashōhō as Mongol Soldier
Staff
Naoko Yamada (The Heike Story, A Silent Voice, The Colors Within) serves as chief director, while Abel Góngora (DAN DA DAN season 2, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off) directs the anime at studio Science SARU. Kenichi Yoshida (Eureka Seven, Gundam: Reconguista in G) is handling character design and animation direction, Kanichi Katō (Black Clover, The Eminence in Shadow) is overseeing series scripts, and Kōshirō Hino is composing the score.
- Technical Director Chief: Takuya Fujikura
- Art Director: Yuri Kabasawa
- Color Key Artist: Narumi Konno
- Compositing Director of Photography: Naoki Takahashi
- Editing: Kiyoshi Hirose
- Sound Director: Noriyoshi Konuma
SEKAI NO OWARI performs the opening theme “Stella.”
Story
Set in 13th-century Yeke Mongol Ulus — the greatest empire the world has ever seen — the story follows Fatima, a Persian woman with unparalleled medical and scientific knowledge, who travels to the Mongol court seeking a stage worthy of her talents. There she comes under the wing of Töregene, the sixth wife of Ögedei, the second Great Khan — a formidable woman with complicated views on the empire’s future. Together, these two women become the pivot around which palace politics, and ultimately the world itself, will turn.
About the Manga
Tomato Soup launched the manga on Akita Shoten’s Souffle website in September 2021. From March 2025, it also began simultaneous serialization in Akita Shoten’s Mystery Bonita magazine. The series went on hiatus for the author’s maternity leave before returning on March 25. The sixth compiled volume is due out on July 15.
The manga topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 rankings for female readers, placed 11th in 2024, received Manga Taisho Award nominations in both 2023 and 2024, was nominated for Best New Manga at the second American Manga Awards, and most recently won the grand prize in the Comic division of the 55th Japan Cartoonists Association Awards. Yen Press publishes the manga in English.
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