Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Anime Reveals Queen Bee’s “Hoshi” Ending Theme Ahead of July 4 Premiere

If you have ever felt that certain stories arrive like a caravan at dusk—slow, purposeful, and impossible to ignore—then Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia is lining up to be that kind of anime for you, now confirmed to close each episode with Queen Bee’s ending theme, “Hoshi” (Star), a song that feels less like a full stop and more like the last glow on the horizon.

Music that frames the story like starlight

The new promotional video not only reveals the ending song “Hoshi” by Queen Bee, but also gives you a clearer sense of the show’s rhythm—measured, emotional, and quietly intense—while the opening theme, “Stella” by SEKAI NO OWARI, sets the tone like a banner lifted in the wind.

I still remember the first time I realized how much an ending theme can change your pulse—how you sit through credits not out of obligation, but because the music is gently holding your wrist—so if you’re the kind of viewer who lingers, this pairing may land with you in that same lingering way.

Release schedule, screenings, and where you can watch

The TV anime of Tomato Soup’s manga A Witch's Life in Mongol (Tenmaku no Jādūgar) premieres on July 4 at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT) within TV Asahi’s IMAnimation W block, spanning TV Asahi plus 23 affiliated channels, and also airing on BS Asahi; notably, you’re getting the first two episodes as a one-hour special, which is a small statistic with a big implication: the show wants to pull you in before you can casually look away.

If you watch week-to-week outside Japan, Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs, so you won’t have to chase it like a rumor passing between towns.

Festival momentum: from early screenings to international stages

Before the broadcast premiere, the first three episodes had a world premiere screening on June 13 at United Cinemas Aqua City Odaiba, and the series also screened in competition at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, in the TV Films category—one of those signals that, even if you don’t follow festivals closely, tells you the industry is watching.

In the U.S., Anime Expo will host a premiere screening on July 3, with Naoko Yamada and Abel Góngora attending, and if you’ve ever been in a room where a creator walks onstage and the whole crowd subtly leans forward at once, you know that kind of presence can make a preview feel like an event rather than a clip.

Creative team and the story you’re stepping into

The series is being made at Science SARU, with Naoko Yamada serving as chief director and Abel Góngora directing; Kenichi Yoshida handles character design and serves as animation chief, Kanichi Katō oversees the series scripts, and Kōshirō Hino composes the music—names that, even if you don’t memorize credits, you may recognize as the kind that tend to leave a distinct fingerprint on pacing and mood.

As for the story, you’re headed to the 13th century, into Yeke Mongol Ulus, where Fatima, arriving from Persia with medical technique and scientific knowledge, enters the Mongol palace and finds herself under the wing of Töregene, the sixth wife of Ögedei, the second Great Khan; the premise places two women at the axle of shifting power, and the feeling is less “court drama as spectacle” and more “history as a door you open quietly, only to realize it leads into a storm.”

On the manga side, the serialization began on Akita Shoten’s Souffle website in September 2021, later also running simultaneously in Mystery Bonita starting March 2025; it was bimonthly until last summer, paused for Tomato Soup’s maternity leave, and returned on March 25, with the sixth compiled volume scheduled for July 15.

And if you like a quick measure of how a title is resonating beyond your own timeline, the manga topped Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 for female readers, ranked #11 in 2024 for the same demographic, earned nominations for the 16th Manga Taisho Awards (2023) and again in 2024, picked up a nomination for Best New Manga at the second American Manga Awards, and recently won the grand prize in the Comic division of the 55th Japan Cartoonists Association Awards—a chain of recognition that suggests you won’t be watching alone, even if you’re sitting alone.