Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Reveals Pre-Broadcast PV and Ziyoou-vachi Ending Theme Ahead of July 4 Debut

What was announced

The official account for Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia released a pre-broadcast PV on June 29, the final trailer before the series airs. The post confirmed that the rock band Ziyoou-vachi (女王蜂) performs the ending theme, a song titled "Hoshi" (星, "Star"). According to the announcement, the anime premieres on Saturday, July 4 at 11:00 p.m. JST with a one-hour special pairing its first two episodes, then settles into a weekly Saturday slot at 11:30 p.m. in the "IMAnimation" block on TV Asahi and its national affiliates, with additional broadcast on BS Asahi.

Crunchyroll, which announced the series back in June, is streaming Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia for audiences outside Japan, also from July 4.

The team behind it

The series is produced at Science SARU, with Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice, The Heike Story, The Colors Within) serving as chief director and Abel Góngora directing, according to reporting from Anime News Network and Crunchyroll. Those outlets credit Kenichi Yoshida with character designs and animation direction, Kanichi Kato with series composition, and Koshiro Hino with the music. The opening theme is "Stella," a song that SEKAI NO OWARI wrote for the anime, pairing with Ziyoou-vachi's newly revealed ending theme to round out the show's music.

What the series is about

The anime adapts Tomato Soup's manga, which has run on Akita Shoten's Souffle service since 2021. It is set in the thirteenth century at the height of the Mongol Empire, the largest the world had yet seen. Our catalog describes a story driven by women navigating palace politics: Sitara, a girl who learns that knowledge can be its own kind of power, and Töregene, a wife of the Great Khan Ögedei with complicated feelings about the empire's direction. Medicine, scholarship, and intrigue brought from Persia collide with the politics of the Mongol court in a drama where learning, rather than sorcery, is the magic the title promises.

Festival recognition and a U.S. premiere