A blue-haired girl leaves the wilds outside her village for a city crowded with trolls, elves, and things that live in the walls in Hilda, the animated adventure series built around Luke Pearson's world.
What is Hilda about?
Hilda grows up on the edge of civilization, more comfortable talking to giants and tiny invisible spirits than to other children. When her family relocates to Trolberg, a fog-bound city ringed by a wall meant to keep the wilderness out, she has to trade open moors for crowded streets, and her mother has to trade a quiet life for one interrupted by whatever her daughter drags home. Trolberg turns out to be less orderly than its wall suggests: sparrow-sized deer nest in apartment corners, a secret society tracks paranormal activity beneath the streets, and old folklore keeps intruding on modern city life. Hilda's instinct is always to investigate rather than retreat, and the show follows her and her friends chasing down one strange civic mystery after another, episode by episode, as the city's hidden rules reveal themselves.
About the cast
Bella Ramsey voices Hilda, with Daisy Haggard as her mother Johanna, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo as her friend Frida, and Rasmus Hardiker and Oliver Nelson rounding out the Trolberg cast. Luke Pearson, who created the original graphic novels, directs the adaptation, keeping the show's tone close to the books' mix of everyday city life and folklore.
Context & significance
Hilda is a UK-Canada co-production made for a family audience, built on genre staples familiar to animation fans: a curious young lead, a city with hidden layers, and creatures drawn from Nordic and British folklore rather than invented from scratch. Each episode runs short, closer to a bedtime chapter than a full-length feature, which makes it an easy series to pick up in small sittings.
Watching Hilda on Ktime
Hilda is available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles on K-Time, so families can watch in Farsi or with original English audio and Farsi text. The show streams for logged-in K-Time accounts, and creating one is free; the page itself is open to read without logging in first.