Long post about something I noticed with the very interesting and clearly deliberate evolution of Azz's hairstyle in Irumafia
(spoilers for Irumafia's Alice arc)
As a child, he's got bangs covering his entire forehead (more or less)
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2. After the beatdown with Eito, Eito uses his own bloody palm to sweep the hair back on his left side. After that, he seems to consistently maintain that style, all through school, rookie training and even when he joins Babyls undercover as a made-man.
All the way to the 3-way confrontation between Alice, Eito and Iruma, and Alice and Eito's conversation in the safehouse afterwards:
3. He loses the swept-back bangs when Eito slams him into the table, and then stays that way for all of the showdown during Urara's auction.
This is pretty clearly deliberate too, we see a flashback panel next to 'present' Azz and you can see the deliberate sweep back
Until he sweeps the hair back himself during That Scene
Then of course we have bandaged Azz for a while, whose entire bangs are covered/pushed back due to bandages. Once he's back in action with an eyepatch, it's weirdly over the bangs, such that you can tell the bangs are still down. Even though it would definitely make so much more sense to have the hair pushed back away from the patch!
4. Then we get the scene where Iruma grooms Azz and Clara's hair during the Sagra arc, and here Iruma braids back Azz's left side hair to stay away from his burn:
5. And then the next time we see Alice after this arc, he's finally healed enough to lose the patch. But! he still keeps the braid and I don't think we have seen him without this hairstyle since:
(PS: I love the attention to detail and continuity in this manga's art. During the explosion with Eito, you could see that Azz's ear was bloody and the outline was sorta irregular too. Notice in the final full image - his ear also has a notch from that injury. This is clearly not a major focus of the narrative, and yet something that was paid attention to!)
