A Witch’s Life in Mongol Manga Goes on a Break
The November issue of Akita Shoten’s Mystery Bonita revealed on Monday that Tomato Soup’s acclaimed manga A Witch’s Life in Mongol is taking a break. The series, which had been running on a bimonthly schedule, is pausing for the creator’s maternity leave and is planned to return next year.
It is a happy reason for a hiatus, and one fans will surely understand, especially with so much else going right for the series.
The story is a richly historical one. Set in the thirteenth century within the vast Mongol Empire, it follows Fatima, a woman from Persia whose deep knowledge of medicine and science leads her to the Mongol palace. There she comes under the wing of Töregene, a powerful imperial wife with her own complicated feelings about where the empire is headed, and the two women come to sit at the center of palace politics.
Tomato Soup launched the manga in 2021, and it has earned real acclaim since, topping the Kono Manga ga Sugoi guidebook’s ranking for female readers and earning repeated Manga Taisho Award nominations. Yen Press publishes it in English.
It is also heading to the screen, with Science SARU producing a television anime under the English title Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia.
My take: First and foremost, congratulations and rest well to the creator. This is one of the most intelligent historical manga around, and with an anime on the way, it is absolutely worth the wait.
