The short stories in this collection are often fun and enjoyable, but it's hard too get too excited about a short story collection when you want to see the main story move forward. The La Pucelle/Stella Lulu story starts to stretch the believability of how characters from the first book wound up meeting characters from later books. Hell Survival and the story with 7753 and Tepsekemei are fun, though.
Yet another book of side stories filled with characters we already know the fate of so it's hard to get invested. However, there were some that had me laughing and some that was just excuses for some really cool fights so it would be a lie to say I didn't enjoy some of it
It's always nice to see more of the characters who were killed off, both to expand their development, and to make it extra painful that they're dead. The short stories nicely filled in the cracks in my day.