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Just as the title asks, why does Super Sonico always wear those headphones? Is
there a reason behind it, or is this just the design Nitroplus came up with?


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Why does Super Sonico always wear headphones?


I believe this is an example of the [Never
Bareheaded](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverBareheaded) trope
in combination with the [Nice
Hat](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceHat) trope.

> **Never Bareheaded:** A character always appears wearing a headdress of some
> kind, and never, ever takes it off. It doesn't have to be a hat, any kind of
> headgear is fine. Furthermore, it doesn't always have to be the same
> headgear, the point is that this character is never seen bare-headed. This
> gives him a certain mystique, since while it might just be that he wears the
> hat because he feels like it, the fact remains that we never learn what his
> hatless head looks like.
>
> **Nice Hat:** To show that you mean business, it's important to have style.
> Enter: the nice hat. It may actually have utility — even conveying special
> powers — but more often than not it just looks cool, **or even just sexy.**

Considering that Super Sonic is pretty much a half-naked model for Nitroplus,
the Nice Hat trope _" sexy"_ part does most certainly fit this description.


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  1. Character design distinction. Remove the headphones and she'll be any anime character with pink long hair and yeah, large oppai.

  2. Conceal ears. Idk, I haven't probably seen an ear of a long haired female character.

  3. Her headphones can be also sold as a character product so yeah, more $$$.

This is just my opinion though.


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She could be deaf and those headphones serve to help her hear, I mean if it is
never addressed then it should be assumed that the information is common
knowledge in that universe, maybe they serve to let her hear

I see them in a similar way as a blind man's shades, only with the augmenting
ability that they let her hear


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I discovered an interesting piece of information to add to Dimitri mx's answer
while I was researching my answer to [Why is Super Sonico
famous?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/23711/7579). It turns out that
Super Sonico was originally designed as the mascot for Nitroplus's music
festival, Nitro Super Sonico, as documented on [Super Sonico
Wiki](http://super-sonico.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Sonico_Wiki) and
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus). Nitroplus, though
primarily a visual novel company, had apparently held this music festival for
several years before they introduced Super Sonico as its mascot in 2006. In-
universe, Super Sonico is a singer (and gravure model, of course); she had
some very out-of-universe albums and singles released, which may have set off
the tidal rush of Super Sonico love that resulted in the manga, visual novel,
and anime.

So it made sense, when Super Sonico was first designed, to give her a pair of
headphones: she was the mascot for a music festival, after all, and a singer
herself. Dimitri mx's answer explains why she almost never takes them off.


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Sonico is a robot, pretty much. If you take the headphones off, she breaks.
See this link:

<http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/01/22-1/super-sonico-child-
version-figure-previewed>


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In the game Sonicomi, there is a secret ending (ending 18), where if you touch
Sonico's headphones she will say "- the demonic signal will be released and
something terrible will happen! Everyone will die! So you can't touch them!".
Touching them will result in a zombie apocalypse
(<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROcp5DJQBu4>). Not sure if this answers the
question though.


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Maybe Super Sonico has hearing problems and the headphones are hearing aids.
In the anime she uses 4 alarm clocks to wake up.


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