What’s great about this book is actually all of the ‘filler’. I’m not sure if the anime I saw was totally hacked to bits (which is likely) but I appreciate all of this side story happening in the first volume. Also, I’ve been noticing that I can hear the voices of the characters in my head as I read. Even the voice-acting in the Japanese of the anime is so exaggerated that the voices are totally memorable. Heh!