Excellent review! I enjoyed the first volume of this a great deal too, although I do wish Yen Press had gotten the LN out first given it takes place beforehand.
It’s definitely good timing to have the spin-off coming out now either way, since the Sasaki and Miyano relationship is in a good place and watching Hirano and Kagiura struggle through the early stages of figuring it out is going to be more refreshing than it would have been had both series been in a similar situation.
