It is a yonkoma (four-panel comic) series originally published in the manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday.

An English-language translation of the first two volumes of Heartbroken Angels was published by Viz Media, which also serialized the series in its manga magazine Pulp.

The series covers a range of subjects using satire and toilet humour, including manga narrative conventions and genre tropes, otaku culture, yakuza, and lolita complexes.

[2] During its initial serialization in Pulp, Warren Ellis cited Heartbroken Angels as "amongst the best things currently being published in the English language".

[9] The use of "fap" in the English-language translation of Heartbroken Angels directly inspired the term's use in the 1999 webcomic The Thin H Line, which subsequently gained popularity as an internet meme.