Once Upon a Witch’s Death (2025) - S01E01 (01)

aka Aru Majo ga Shinu Made

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B0NES - Web 1080p AV1 AAC Multi-Subs - ✅ Sonarr ✅ Jellyfin ✅ Plex ✅ Emby

TVDB	TMDB	IMDB	LiveChart	MAL	aniDB	aniList	Kitsu

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Meg Raspberry is just an apprentice witch celebrating her 17th birthday. That is, until Faust, her magic teacher and Perennial Witch of the Seven Sages, suddenly reveals she is going to die. To stop the Death Sentence curse, Meg must create the Seed of Life using tears of joy from 1,000 people. Join Meg on her travels as she collects the happy tears from everyone she meets to gain eternal life!

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Mediainfo	Codec	Specs	Language	Source	Default
Video	AV1	1080p @ 1203 Kbps		CR / VARYG	✅
Audio 1	AAC	2.0 @ 128 Kbps	Japanese - 日本語	CR	✅
Subtitle 1	ASS		English	CR	✅
Subtitle 2	ASS		Spanish - Español (América Latina)
Subtitle 3	ASS		Spanish - Español (España)
Subtitle 4	ASS		Portuguese - Português (Brasil)
Subtitle 5	ASS		French - Français
Subtitle 6	ASS		Italian - Italiano
Subtitle 7	ASS		German - Deutsch
Subtitle 8	ASS		Russian - Русский
Subtitle 9	ASS		Arabic - العربية (Saudi Arabia)
Chapters	✅			B0NES

Screenshots

Quality Metric Scores

Source vs Encode comparison via VShip

Type	Average	σ	Score Legend
ssimulacra2	88.089	3.092	✅ Excellent
Butteraugli 3Norm	0.5055	0.1	✅ Visually Lossless

Note: Metrics are done on final encode release with added film-grain, which negatively affects scores, especially SSIMU2. Visual perceptual quality is higher than listed scores.

Encoding Settings

SVT-AV1-PSY via Av1an with DEAD

Av1an: --photon-noise 2

SVT-AV1-PSY v2.3.0-B

--crf 24 --preset -1 --lp 5 --progress 2 --input-depth 10 --film-grain-denoise 0 --sharpness 1 --irefresh-type 2 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 9 --chroma-qm-min 10 --chroma-qm-max 15 --keyint -1 --scd 0 --enable-tf 2 --enable-dlf 2 --enable-cdef 1 --kf-tf-strength 1 --qp-scale-compress-strength 3 --tune 2 --aq-mode 2 --psy-rd 0.7 --spy-rd 1 --variance-boost-strength 2 --variance-octile 5 --color-primaries 1 --transfer-characteristics 1 --matrix-coefficients 1

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