Nobody expects a one-shot OVA anthology to land harder than shows with ten times the budget. Thirty-one disconnected stories about broken hearts, each one a perfect gut-punch in four panels, refuse to overstay their welcome. The live-action segments stop you cold, they're not spectacle, they're confession. This is what happens when you trust the silence between jokes to do the real work.

Heartbroken Angels is a single comedy OVA with ecchi content, built from thirty-one short stories adapted from Masahiko Kikuni's four-panel manga strips, which ran in Young Sunday magazine. The collection switches between two formats: eighteen of the stories are animated, while the remaining thirteen are presented in live action. The result is a mixed-media sketch anthology that draws its material from comic strip gags.