Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Originally posted by: relevasius
I'm happy to see this get animated. Kanonji cracks me up, but anyways i'd hesitate to say this is filler, it was in the manga, granted the back pages and a side chapter, but never-the-less not true filler.
Ah, suddenly it all became clear how this "filler" was pretty good.
Because it succeeded in using existing characters and not putting them out-of-character, as well as being very fun to watch.

Don Kan'onji rules. I just love his voice actor (also voices Buggy in One Piece). So fun voice.

Btw the vice captain of this week's ending (guy with glasses) looks like a fun guy too (just look at the tattoo on his back lol)
This episode is a lot like Buggy returning in the one piece anime at random times. None of that is filler but rather mini stories done at the beginning or ending of various chapters. In this case this story was at the end of a ton of manga chapters and then concluded in a 4 page mini story at the end of a volume.

So as filler is only something that was created outside of the manga this is actually part of the story given a random part.