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Tenmaku no Jaadugar. Seriously go watch it right now, it's a fictionalized biography about a (real, she has a Wikipedia page) Persian woman who gets forcibly taken to Mongolia during the Mongol conquests of the early 13th century. I could technically describe it as a court drama, but it's much more human than that.

Selling points:

-Nuanced and human takes on difficult topics like slavery and conquest; it has a way of making you have strong mixed feelings (in a good way) about characters who would be either whitewashed or made comically evil in lesser works. This extends to the court politics, and you get to see the human motivation behind what everybody is doing.
-An impressive depiction of the emotional struggles of the protagonist trying to process a new and difficult situation; you really feel the confusion she has about what she's supposed to feel alongside her conviction.
-A whole cast of realistic, strong and independent female characters. Helped partially by the setting (Mongolia was somewhat egalitarian for the time period), you get a feel of how they'd act to get their way in a position where they for the most part have little formal authority.
-A wonderfully historical depiction of, well, basically everything. The author has clearly done their research, making it alongside everything else a very informative experience about how the Mongols of that period actually lived. This also gives grounding that makes everything else hit that much harder.

If you like it, you should then try Apothecary Diaries and Orb: On the Movement of the Earth, which are both amazing recent additions to the historical fiction genre, though they both take more liberties than Jaadugar.

Okay obligatory shilling over. There's actually an ongoing faithful anime series adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell manga, so you should probably watch that if you aren't already. There's also an ongoing adaptation of a manga by the author of Full Metal Alchemist, so ditto for that. They're respectively The Ghost in the Shell and Daemons of the Shadow Realm.

Who’s this guy?

Bro really pinned it on the one court in Protestant Reformation Europe that didn't execute people for witchcraft like it was candy. Fun fact about this: The safest places on Europe to be from witchcraft persecution, aside from Orthodox areas where that nonsense never caught on, was Spain and Portugal. This is specifically because in those places the inquisition ran all witchcraft trials and did so with something resembling professional rigor. They also preferred encouraging repentance—the traditional sentence for witchcraft and heresy—over execution. All in all, while there's plenty of reason to shit on Catholic inquisitions, this ain't it.

Contrary to popular perception, "heretic" isn't short for disagreeing with the church.

Well that's gonna be embarrassing if this ends up as an anime.

where letters aren't supposed to be formed.

I think you'd have a "fun" time with Arabic (CTRL+F "Pharyngeal" for the fun).

It is, final volume came out in English last year.

I know LN readers can be annoying when they say this, but you're seriously missing out by not reading the novels. They're on a completely different level, and probably would be even if the anime got a Frieren-level budget, which it almost certainly won't.

Let's just hope it gets a decent budget, or at least enough for twelve episodes stares at season 3.

*Until rich fucks gobble up all the newly cheap houses again. You can't win with capitalism.