Jaadugar Review: Boraqchin Outmaneuvers Sitara as Empire Plot Collapses
The review positions Boraqchin, not Sitara, as the series' central force, with the collapse of Sitara's plan marking the story's real turning point.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Anime News Network's review of episodes 8-10 of Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia finds Sitara's scheme to collapse the Mongolian Empire in ruins. Her partner Töregene has gone quiet, and Boraqchin, the Great Kha'tun, turns Sitara's own warnings against Tolui, engineering his death under the guise of an exorcism. The reviewer calls Boraqchin the series' most interesting change-up so far.
Community scores for the three episodes sit at 4.4, 4.5, and 4.5. The review's focus is Boraqchin, the senior wife who has spent years consuming a toxic substance in the belief it will make her immortal, and who reads Sitara's warnings about Tolui as an opening to remove him. The exorcism sequence that kills Tolui is described as beautiful, with his spirit willingly taking on the burden of death from his brother. Sitara is left in service to Boraqchin, separated from her one ally, with the man who took everything from her dead and no sense of fulfillment.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Episodes 8-10