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While rewatching _The Flowers of Evil_ , I noticed this character in episode
2:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/odeSj.png)

The character on the left struck me as very odd - she's wearing braids (which
would normally suggest a female character), but she also has sideburns, which
seem to be more or less only something men wear. (I'm assuming the character
is female from the voice actor who plays at that moment.) Moreover, if the
character _weren't_ female, it would be odd for a school to allow him to wear
braids.

[Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1c8gw3/spoilers_aku_no_hana_episode_2_discussion/)
suggests that this character also appears in the manga, so is this just
intentional character design, rather than an error in the art? If so, who is
this character, and is there anything (e.g. personality traits) that might
explain this odd hairstyle? (I have not read the manga yet, and so can't
easily look this up.)

**Update:** I remembered seeing some video footage of the live-action filming
that the rotoscoped animation was apparently from on YouTube, so I might try
to dig that out to see if I can get a better idea of what's going on here. On
a second glance the braids struck me as a bit odd in terms of the shaping of
their ends (one usually expects the hair to thin out somewhat and possibly
curve a bit), so it occurred to me that this might be useful.

**Update 2:** After reading the entire manga, I couldn't find a character with
identical design. (From the uniform -- notice that the character here wears a
bow, instead of a tie -- it seems certain that they're probably female.)
However, I did notice a presumably female character with very short hair (for
a girl) that was in the corresponding chapater of the manga. I don't remember
if the character was wearing a female uniform but will look it up later when I
have time.


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Is this an animation error, or just bizarre character design?


As mentioned in my comment, this doesn't seem to be an animation error. Aku No
Hana is [rotoscoped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping), which is
essentially drawing over live action sequences. Here's a shot from before it
was animated:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4LV43.jpg)

I suppose it was intentional if they had this character dressed up like that.
I haven't seen the animated show, but the character definitely doesn't appear
in the manga, having read it myself also.

Just a guess, but perhaps it was to exaggurate ugliness of a character because
the animators couldn't do it that easily with the technique?

So, yes it does seem to just be bizarre character design. Especially as the
character barely appears in the anime and only has a single line.


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I think I found her, it's on the chapter 13 [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RH7Td.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/RH7Td.png)


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