Four bonus episodes spread across two and a half years, bundled with specific manga volumes instead of broadcast as a season — this was never going to move like a real continuation, and it doesn't. The first three episodes work through smaller-scale material in the same register as the TV series, giving side characters like Oboro, the Miyazaki family, Koyuzu, and Yaya moments of their own. That's a workable structure for bonus content. The final episode breaks it. It skips ahead by dozens of chapters, drops in new characters without introducing them, and hangs its entire premise on a curse that won't lift until Kogarashi has seen twelve pairs of underwear. Anyone who's only seen the anime gets no footing here. It plays less like a continuation than a highlight reel assembled to move the last volume off shelves. The formula barely varies: put a cast member in a stripped-down scenario, then hang a flimsy comic complication on it. That's the ceiling for most of the runtime, and the show rarely pretends otherwise. The Oboro/Miyazaki-family episode and a subplot built around Nonko's manga deadline are the exceptions — both carve out a little real characterization before the fanservice reasserts itself — which only makes it clearer the writers could do more when they bothered to. Outside those pockets, this doesn't claim to be anything beyond manga-bonus filler. The quality split lines up exactly with the credits. Xebec handled the first three episodes, matching the slightly stiff character art of the 2018 TV series, then shut down the following year. Signal.MD — which had already absorbed part of Xebec's old production pipeline — took over the final episode, and the jump is visible: cleaner models, more confident linework. That upgrade shows up almost entirely in the fanservice shots, which is clearly where the extra budget went. Everywhere else, general movement and action staging stay firmly average for the whole run. Tomoki Kikuya scores all four episodes, which keeps the soundtrack consistent, but there's no new opening or ending for any of them — just cues recycled from the TV series. Competent, forgettable. Yuuki Ono anchors Kogarashi with the same dependable delivery as the main series, and the returning cast — Miyuri Shimabukuro, Rie Takahashi, Eri Suzuki, Ai Kakuma, Yui Ogura, Anzu Haruno, and Mikako Komatsu among them — keep even the weaker episodes watchable on line reads alone. Judged strictly on its own execution, this is a step down from the TV series in nearly every category except its best individual visual moments. The pacing is disjointed by design, the writing leans entirely on premise instead of building anything, and the final episode's chapter-skip actively punishes anyone who hasn't kept up with the manga. Fans of the specific arcs being adapted get exactly what they came for. Anyone hoping for a meaningful continuation of the story won't find one here.