Witch Hat Atelier is a great anime:

After watching the first two episodes of Witch Hat Atelier, I'm convinced this will go on to become a great anime.  I gave it the ranking of #180.  To make room I combined Demons Crest with SAO, since it's the same damn story -- kids playing a VRMMO get stuck in it and now it's like real life -- written by the same author.  At that point it may as well be the same franchise.

Now all my ranked anime have properly actually aired, which is how it should be.  Mao and Witch Hat Atelier have been spectacular and are sure to make the spring season enjoyable.  None of the other debuting series this spring have impressed me.  Nigetsuri is the only other watchable one.  The rest of the good series this spring are all continuations.

I made Coco, the heroine, a wonderful character and gave her the theme song of Star-Stealing Girl.  It's extremely fitting since the first thing she did was 'steal' the knowledge of how to create magic.

The art and animation of Witch Hat Atelier is top notch.  The way she moves is so natural, and I love how many small movements there are per frame.  You can tell the makers of this work wanted it to sparkle, like Kimetsu no Yaiba sparkles.

Spring season series are still debuting, but I don't have much hope for any of the remainder.  I'll go on trying and seeing though.

If I keep up the good work, I'll complete Miya's master skill training tomorrow.  I'm also making good progress on Isuzu's master skill training, but I don't have any spare shards for her even when it unlocks.  Similar to Gig Mode, I've now acquired all the available loot in the Clock Tower.  I did Hell Mode up to the point there was no further point, which is the same as completely clearing Hell Mode.

Israel is still bombing Lebanon and the strait of Hormuz is still closed, so it looks like the ceasefire has already failed.  It never made sense for there to be a ceasefire in the first place, as the two sides can't possibly come to an accommodation they hate each other so much.  Either Iran or Israel must cease to exist, because the Islamic Republic of Iran is too fanatical to accept any other result.  Israel needs to nuke Iran into submission.  This has always been the obvious solution from the beginning.  None of these talks will ever get anywhere until Iran fears Israel.  And nothing America or Israel is currently doing scares Iran in the least.  Therefore no talks can possibly succeed.