This is what you put on between rewatches when you want the cast without the geopolitics. Five chibi shorts, dropped monthly on the NBCUniversal Anime/Music channel through late 2021 as a countdown to the January premiere, and later tucked onto the Blu-ray where they belong. Tooru Toba wrote them himself, which is why they feel less like studio filler and more like the author letting his own characters clock out: a festival, a bit about the shadow food casts on culture, Halloween cosplay, and yes, an episode built on Labor Thanksgiving Day. No stakes, no debt ledgers, no spectacle. Just super-deformed proportions and holiday-calendar gags, three or four minutes at a time. If you fell for Natra's court because of how the cast talks to each other rather than what they conquer, this is the low-stakes dessert course you didn't know shipped with the disc.

Before the main series arrives, meet the cast through five standalone vignettes that show the characters in bite-sized moments. The shorts arrive monthly through late 2021, from August to December, giving you a taste of these personalities before the full story begins. Drawn in a super-deformed chibi style and written by Tooru Toba, the episodes cover a festival, food and culture, Halloween cosplay, Labor Thanksgiving Day and an attempt to catch Santa Claus. These are light character snapshots rather than plot-heavy episodes, first posted online and later included on the series' Blu-ray release.