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A Witch's Life in Mongol Manga Gets Simultaneous Serialization in Mystery Bonita Magazine

The March issue of Akita Shoten's Mystery Bonita magazine revealed on February 6 that Tomato Soup's A Witch's Life in Mongol (Tenmaku no Jadūgal: A Witch's Life in Mongol) manga will have a simultaneous serialization in the magazine beginning in the magazine's next issue on March 6, in addition to the manga's main serialization on Akita Shoten's Souffle manga website. The serialization will begin from the latest chapter on Souffle.

Yen Press will release the manga's first volume on May 27. Yen Press describes the manga:

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…

Tomato Soup launched the manga in Souffle in September 2021. Akita Shoten published the manga's fourth compiled book volume in August 2024, and will publish the fifth volume on April 16.

The manga topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2023 rankings for female readers, and ranked #11 in the 2024 rankings for female readers. The manga was nominated for the 16th Manga Taisho Awards in 2023, and was nominated once again for the Manga Taisho Awards the following year in 2024.

Source: Mystery Bonita March issue

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