A Persian slave girl schooled in medicine navigates thirteenth-century Mongol court politics in this animated historical series, set inside a palace household that turns out to be a center of real power.
What is Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia about?
Sitara, a Persian slave girl raised by a family of scholars in Tus who takes the name Fatima after the Mongol conquest, enters the palace of Ogedei Khan and forms an alliance with Toregene, the sixth wife of the Khan, in a court where medicine and diplomacy sit closer together than either woman expected. The series treats the palace not as a backdrop but as the actual stage where palace politics play out, with Fatima's medical standing giving her a kind of access that pure rank could not buy on its own. Their partnership ripples outward from the palace walls, tying two women's decisions to events that reach well beyond the court they occupy.
About the cast
The Japanese voice cast includes Akira Sekine as Sitara, Ami Koshimizu as Toregene, Houko Kuwashima as the scholar Fatima, Jun Saito as Muhammad, Hiro Shimono as Ogedei, Ryota Suzuki as Tolui, Miyu Irino as Shira and Daisuke Namikawa, giving the two central roles and the surrounding court figures a full ensemble behind them. Abel Gongora directs the series at Science SARU with Naoko Yamada as chief director, while Shawn Gann directs the English dub, pairing an animation approach with a historical setting that spans thirteenth-century Mongolia and the wider Persian world Fatima comes from.
Context & significance
History-adjacent animation set at the Mongol court is a less crowded lane than the usual fantasy or school settings, and this series leans into that: Genghis Khan's empire connected Persia to East Asia in ways that rarely make it onto screen, and a Persian woman of learning inside Ogedei Khan's palace is a genuinely specific entry point into that world. Each episode runs a brisk 24 minutes, which keeps the political maneuvering tight rather than sprawling it across long arcs.
Watching Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia on Ktime
Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia streams free on K-Time with an account login, no purchase required. It carries Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow Fatima's story, itself rooted in a Persian character at a foreign court, in their own language on a platform built for Farsi-speaking audiences abroad.