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How good or how bad this anime will be will greatly depend on what you expect from it. For people expecting action and resolutions, there won't be much. Expect more of a "slice of life" genre from these episodes. For people who have little to zero knowledge of The King of Fighters games, stories, and characters, this will probably be the worst anime you've ever watched. There's no character development and no story progression, its run time is barely that of 2 actual 24 minute anime episodes as a large portion of it is the ending credits and the post credit descriptions of what's happening. ... The anime is meant to be a filler for the moments in between the games, so this anime itself doesn't stand very well alone.

With that said, for fans of The King of Fighters series, this WILL be a pretty interesting watch. You can consider this canon, or most likely, not. Some of our favorite characters show up but the timeline is not in tact with ANY KoF timelines. The show starts off by showing us Alba, suggesting that the show most likely takes place in the Maximum Impact timeline (a separate continuity from the main series), while the fact that Rock Howard is living with Terry despite his father Geese's death would suggest that it is in the Fatal Fury Timeline (as Rock's father Geese Howard is still alive in the KoF main timeline). Then, the existence of Ash, along with Iori losing his flames suggests that this anime takes part between KoF XI (at the end Ash steals Iori's magatama) and KoF XIII. Problem is, in K''s episode, it's shown that Whip and Kula were operating with K' and Maxima. In the main timeline, Whip joined K' after learning of her origins in 2000, Kula joins K' in 2001 after he saves her, Kula gets left behind in 2003, by 2004 (KoF XI) when K' and Kula officially becomes a team, Whip has already returned to her old squad the Ikari Warriors Team.

In short, in the main timeline, there's no way that this "Another Day" could have happened where Ash is in his bad guy period, Iori has his flames stolen, Geese Howard is dead, and Whip and Kula are both in K' and Maxima's team. It's as if they didn't know the timeline at all and tried to merge the events to Maximum Impact, Fatal Fury, and King of Fighters together all at once.

However, with that said, ignoring those details, if you want to consider this a not very lore friendly canonical forced entry in between KoF XI and KoF XIII, you can. At least, I would want to. There are some good scenes, most notably Terry Bogard's doting towards Rock Howard and Rock's undying faith to not follow his father's path and embrace his attachment to Terry. Being able to see the caring but dysfunctional family of K' with his cloned older sister, weird but powerful and worrying icy little sister, and a ballsy friendly big cyborg was pretty heart warming too albeit it only happens for the length of few seconds.

Is it worth a watch? For non-KoF fans or people who don't care about it at all, no, not at all. For people who are interested in the lore of show, somewhat yeah. For fans of KoF, yeah, definitely worth a watch. It's a super short and sweet. Just don't expect too much from it and take away from it whatever you want to.