Science SARU Adapts 'Tanmaku no Jaadugar' Manga for TV Anime

Television station TV Asahi announced a television anime adaptation of Tomato Soup's Tanmaku no Jaadugar (A Witch's Life in Mongol) produced by Science SARU on Monday and revealed a illustration (shown above) drawn by Tomato Soup to commemorate the announcement.

Tomato Soup began serializing the historical manga in Souffle magazine in September 2021, before being transferred to Mystery Bonita on March 6. Akita Shoten shipped the fourth volume in August 2024, and the fifth is scheduled to go on sale on April 16. Yen Press licensed the manga in English in October 2024 and will release the first volume on May 27.

Tanmaku no Jaadugar ranked first in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 rankings in the Female Readers' Top 20 and 11th in the 2024 edition. The manga was also nominated for a Manga Taisho Award in 2024.

Synopsis
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… (Source: Yen Press)

Announcement


Official manga site: https://souffle.life/author/tenmaku-no-ja-dougal/

Source: Comic Natalie

Tenmaku no Jaadugar on MAL