While background stories like this are all well and good, they're things that I'd rather see done by Gene Ha himself as his style and design is half the draw of this series. I'd rather see him skip a month rather than do this. Paulina Ganucheau and Sally Jane Thompson do some fun stuff with their respective stories but it really is falling into that dreaded filler category when it shouldn't. Moreso for the opening story as it's so long and does so little. Then again, I've seen thirty-minute anime episodes that essentially do the same so it's not exactly unheard of. Not a swing and a miss but something that shouldn't have been swung at in the first place. Read Full Review