Tenmaku no Jaadugar
A Witch's Life in Mongol

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If you like historical fiction you may enjoy this. I have learned that some of the religious aspects are not accurate, but religion and historical accuracy at least *seem* important to the author, and you will genuinely learn some things about being both a persian/muslim, and a step nomad, during the reign of Ghengis Kahn. It's a culture shock at times! This isn't a standard anime plot, it's a historical political drama. It is ongoing but I can't imagine it going for tooooo much longer, plot wise.

There are lots of large time skips in service of the history. The main plot is a power struggle ... between the main descendants of Ghengis Kahn after he dies, while the main character does what she can to encite further division and conflict to hopefully cause a collapse of the empire.

I picked this up because I've liked a lot of the middle eastern and oriental mangas I've read, but this one was very different in its attempt to depict the regions more accurately and with less romanticization. I'm sure some romanticization and flattening exists, but I am not part of the culture depicted and therefore can't tell, so everything with a grain of salt.

I also decided to read it because I love witch mangas! However, this is very much a traditional eastern interpretation of a witch, not the western fantasy witch you may be expecting.

All in all, it wasn't particularly "for me" but it wasn't difficult to keep reading and I definitely learned about the region and it's history and culture in a way that I wouldn't have retained the same from a drier source like wikipedia or a textbook.