A girl cuts a rude guy's hair out of spite. Two episodes later, you understand why she'd do anything for him. The still frames linger on small moments, hands almost touching, a careful word choice, the weight of finally being seen by someone, because this show knows that romance lives in the spaces between dialogue, not in the grand gestures. If you've read the manga, this hits like a perfectly composed love letter to those chapters. If you haven't, you'll spend half the runtime confused about what you're missing, then spend the other half unable to look away from how genuinely they fall into each other.

Tsubaki spends her mornings styling her younger sister's hair with care, yet keeps her own look plain because she feels those styles do not suit her. On the first day of high school, she misses out on being the top student who gives the opening ceremony speech, only to find herself seated next to Kyouta, the actual top first-year and a complete jerk. When he says nasty things to her, Tsubaki deliberately cuts his hair. Kyouta demands she repay him "with her body," but instead she fixes his hair, making it even shorter than before. Then he surprises her with a kiss and vows to make her his. Adapted from Minami Kanan's manga, this two-episode OVA is a romantic drama about two people who got off to the worst possible start.