I am a degenerate, so i am anything i need to be to bask in Nature's Gifts beauty.
I just love these extra chapters, they are the extra step most authors dont take that makes the world feel truly alive, all the action and adventure is fun and all but it is these little mundane moments were the life of the world can be truly felt.
And Sao Satoru art is JUST perfect for this story, one petty peeve i have with most depictions of demihuman is that they most of the time look only like humans with some animal characteristics, but Sao-sensei make all the demihumans bodies so amazingly detailed and creative, they have fur, different skin even some differences in their anatomy, they look amazing.
I dont think i would like this series as much if it wasn't for the amazing art of the manga, i have no doubt that the LN has amazing writing but books dont give me the same feeling as a "comic" and the anime... well, ignoring the writing in the anime, the art to be as bland, the same plastic texture i see in many and all the care was only focused in the main cast looks, here all the world around them receive the same careful attention and detail.