TV Asahi has announced that Science Saru will develop an anime adaptation of A Witch’s Life in Mongol. The series will be titled Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia in English.
Science Saru recently created a highly successful adaptation of DAN DA DAN. The studio has also worked on Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. It’s next anime adaptations in development are Ghost in the Shell and A Witch’s Life in Mongol. Check out the teaser trailer for the upcoming series below:
Yen Press will begin publishing volumes of A Witch’s Life in Mongol in May 2025. It describes the manga as follows:
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…
The anime adaptation of A Witch’s Life in Mongol, titled Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, is currently in development at Science Saru. The studio’s next project, DAN DA DAN season 2, will air on July 3.
