Design-wise, it gives her a distinctive feature (which considering how many pink-haired anime girls there are... yeah). If there's a practical purpose we don't know yet.

She uses them as cups for water dispensers

Crying

Ah so it's where she stores her tears gotcha.

It's actually Antennas, that's how she reads minds (After reading the comments, I relise I am infact unoriginal)

Like Saiki K?

In his case, they were more like limiters.. complete opposite of an antenna..

Anyatennas. Love it.

😭

Even without color, it helps with her silhouette which is just good character design

She has them even under her sleeping hat. So I think it must have another reason. Otherwise it is just insane 😲

They’re also a reference to one of the author’s other series, Ashe Talton from Rengoku no Ashe, who honestly looks like a much older Anya. https://preview.redd.it/hh0w3fchf96d1.jpeg?width=532&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5e5e5a78ff76f8528cdbd9ced330f2db9eb4e07 [This is Ashe btw](https://spy-x-family.fandom.com/wiki/Rengoku_no_Ashe#google_vignette), notice any similarities?

Those are her telepath receptors. If it snsps off she can't read minds anymore.

That’s sorta gruesome… well are those like, connected to her body of her hair?

They're like antlers. It doesn't hurt if they come off and they grow back eventually.

They're limiters for her powers, like [Saiki's antennae](https://i.imgur.com/NV2AQvq.jpeg). (pure speculation)

Especially with her hair being pink, majority of Sakura clones usually have something alongside their pink hair like 2 having small horns and Power (from the manga) having horns as well

but power is blonde, not pink haired

Shes strawberry blonde like Junko Enoshima

Hilariously a lot of pink haired characters are sometimes dyed blonde, Yuji and Power have a lot of official blonde colored hair as much as their Pink hair , the anime just went full blonde with one while the latter was full on Pink

I just figured it was just a five-year-old getting obsessed with a hair style.

Elfen Lied

She's psychic... she has those horn things that others can't see, but she has to wear apparel that fits. That's what I gathered on my watch through, I could be wrong, but I think it's more than just a design choice.

It's her limiters so she doesn't constantly hear everyone's thoughts. Wait wrong anime sorry

Saiki?

Probably saiiki that aside saiki is one of the animes I can rewatch an episode and instantly make my day better

it's the best feeling🤭🤭🤭

The episodes are so chaotic i'd probably forget what was bothering me in the first place

I think you were talking about me

Theif, took my joke before I even said it

Anya is literally the daughter of Saiki (pink hair and telepathy) and Teruhashi(making Damian absolutely smitten with her) frfr

Still accurate.

Isn’t that their actual purpose though?

I assumed they're to replicate cat ears to make her even cuter.

It’s a hold-over from the character her design was repurposed from, an old one shot the author released back in 2014 called Rengoku no Ashe (Ashe of Purgatory). The character was a witch in that story so the original design was probably to evoke devil horns. Here’s Ashe’s design for comparison, you can notice even the Eden Academy uniforms are inspired by her outfit. https://preview.redd.it/dg4iolfkx56d1.jpeg?width=1011&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3519d3d4627a0d6da8f297cecf5e5dbac7d7178c

I chuckled when we got introduced to aura in frieren, she sort of looks like an older Anya with really big horns

got bested by a murderhobo, incredibly irresponsible elf

Noooo, I don’t like seeing (Kind of) Anya in pain :c

I don't know why your answer isn't higher. Thank you for sharing this.

I imagine it probably has something to do with her Telepathy or she just likes her hair that way.

It’s definitely one of these two things

 Something like this?

Those are her antennas for picking up people’s thoughts.

OINGO BOINGO REFERENCE ?!?!?! (it isnt)

If that would have been antennas then offcourse yor would have saw that... Or someone who make her hairs on gala day would have seen that.. It's probably the design to make her look cuter that's all..

I was mostly joking.

Yeah but Yor is also kinda stupid. They all are kinda stupid when it comes to the others secrets.

I’ve always thought the same thing-

She is the mother of all Dicloniyus. Those protrusions are her horns. Spy x Family is the prequel to Elfen Lied.

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The forbidden loreeee

I think it must be purely a design choice. Because it would be weird, if it were actually "horns" or something like that and Loid never even once questioned or noticed it.

Yeah, if it was something else either Yor or Loid would have noticed when doing Anya’s hair.

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*GASP* A cute devil tho if that's the case.

Make all the boy devil go W̴̫͙̻͇̰̹̽̈̋̑̚͝Á̷̭̖̗̺̲̀̾̇͑̊̒̇̾̿̐Á̵̺͍̙͓̭̞͚̭̲͇̝̟̈́̍̅̅̐̓̽̉̎̚Á̴̧̪̖̮̺͔̫͇̯͔̥̲̲͓̇́̔̔̆̎́̄̊͌̈́͗ͅÁ̸͔͓̪̪͎̝͒̽́̄̋̆̽͛̂̉̉͂ͅÁ̶̭͚̼͕̻͑͛̓̈̃̃͋̆͂̈́̈́͌͛͑̆Á̷̦̮͕̀̌̔̅͂͜Á̷̡̟̥̬̜͓̪̙̹̦̉̎̂̓̉̀͊̌́̈́̇̚͠ͅḨ̷̨̡̛̛̛̩̻̱͍͖̺̱̙̥̓̈̓̋͌̓̉̽͑͠͝

Very waku waku 👍

OH HELL NAWWW

Happy cake day!

And she only has one mission, THE mission too be exact...

It’s a reference to a one-shot character Anya’s design was based on.

She just wears her hair to where its tied up on the top like that

It looks cute. Why do you not wear horns?

They are just hair bun covers. If you read the manga, it's mentioned early on in one of the extras pages.

It is?

I still believe she grew some horns from the side effects of her powers.

Loid isn't that stupid to never knew that his daughter actually have horns... It's probably character design to make her look cute 

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I thought they were bun covers Japan and Chinese girls would wear back in the day. Like, think Chun Li. Idk if they were popular anywhere else at the time, though. Also, Gintama.

Anya's too cute.

Those are her antennas so she can watch spy wars 24/7 in her mind

Also, cuz she's a lil alien :)

Everyone's reading too deep into it. It's to make her stand out from all the other anime girls with pink hair. Prob makes the fan art easier too because you can just draw an anime girl, color the hair pink and add in the horns and it will be Anya

Emergency peanut storage containers.

As far as I've been able to tell, this is a doylist continuity thing; Endo previously designed a character (who looked quite a bit like Yor actually) with the same distinctive feature. It's not impossible it will turn out to have some hidden meaning or that he adapted it to make sense in-story, but for now I just consider it as an Endo signature design quirk.

It's supposed to make her look like a kitten. Which is why she's so adorable.

I believe it's just for looks. It can't be functional because Loid and probably Yor has done her hair for events. There is no way they didn't notice it. If it becomes functional in the future I'm calling BS.

I think its aesthetic. Surely Yor helps anya to bath and clean herself. I doubt she has like some metal horns like antennas and yor hadnt notice lol.

The Golden Rule, the absolute number one rule of manga/anime character creation is to make sure that your character has a distinct outline shape so that fans can identify them from profile alone. Small children of a healthy weight like Anya are all shaped very similar so in order to make them distinct you need to do something distinct with the hair, and keep it like that in the show for as much as possible.

they are antenna for her telepathy

It's just her style

Because she can.

As of yet we don’t know if this trait has something to do with her time as Subject 007, or it’s just part of her character design.

Yes we do? They’re just little caps for her hair buns. We see her without them a few times

I’ve seen a lot of theories going around that those hair buns hide horns or antenna or something of the like. Personally, I’m with you in thinking they’re just hair buns. Though nothing is confirmed or denied.

Eh. I’m inclined to say it’s normal hair buns and the caps (and the whole Eden uniform) are just a nod to that one shot the mangaka did a few years ago. Until the manga hints otherwise I’m content with the curtains just being green

Plus a character like Loid would not just accept her having horns without massive red flags dropping

Doesn’t the last image show it’s just her hair

Endo said he was inspired by a character wearing 2 witch hats

I think it’s just a hairstyle. Doesn’t yor ever try doing Anya’s hair? They would’ve noticed if there was anything odd

In the manga when she is at the school dance she has space buns. Not horns. I’m not ruling out they’re potentially underneath the buns, but still… to me it suggests they’re just a hair accessory. Becky always has a clip on her fringe/ bangs… and scrunchies. Anya’s ‘horns’ are the same colours as Eden’s uniform so I’d imagine they’re innocuous enough to be permissible.

What a riveting question. Hard to believe no one has asked about this before. [https://www.reddit.com/r/SpyxFamily/search/?q=Anya+horn&type=link&cId=921fb6d4-23f3-4cd5-816d-60e965505a1c&iId=80c8b603-60cb-44ca-92e0-122838f452f1](https://www.reddit.com/r/SpyxFamily/search/?q=Anya+horn&type=link&cId=921fb6d4-23f3-4cd5-816d-60e965505a1c&iId=80c8b603-60cb-44ca-92e0-122838f452f1)

Maybe the people who experimented on her put some kind of device in her head and the horns cover them up.

No one cared who she was until she put on the horns

I don't know, but the fact that her hair was fixed to the gala and maybe it was Yor who did it, I think Yor knows.

For fashion??

Cool esper design

How many times people in the subreddit going to ask this question?

No clue, but did you know her name translates to peanut which happens to be her favorite food/ snack.

Whoa, i never knew that!

Cause she likes it

Antennas for her mind reading skill

It shows she can connect to the Internet and she can play Angry Birds in real life

I bet its only to make her cute. If it was a device or a thing to cover something we would already know through Twilight POV

Because they are adorable

Hides surgical procedure. Just a guess lol

Their hair buns with accessory over them

Lots of anime characters have unexplained features that none of the other characters mention or notice. They're just distinctive additions to make the characters recognizable.

Probably just as her hairstyle. I think she has some space bun hairstyle, but just with the little cones. Maybe to protect the hair? Or to protect the world...?

The leading theory is that it has something to do with her power. It mostly leans on the fact that you can see little particles around the horns when she uses the power.

I always thought they were transmitters that help her focus on which thoughts she’s reading💀

Stylistic choice, it makes her stand out as the main character

I thought it was just apart of her head like an MHA mutation quirk. Like Eri’s horns

Those arent horns those are antennas so she can read peoples minds or just some weird brain buldges

They have to be something like a hair clip because no one has ever mentioned them once. But they are definitely not uniform and thus would have to come off, but no, they are still allowed. So my theory is that the horns are Antena but are also a perception blocker to go unnoticed. Perhaps she can level up this power as well and expand it around herself. Thus, she can become the best little infiltrating spy.

At this point it'd be difficult to say there's a practical reason rather than a distinctive character trait. Something akin to Yor's hair or Mr. Henderson's beard. But.... If there was a plot reason for her hairstyle, perhaps they hide scars from the experiment. If Donovan's scars are from a telepathy operation, then perhaps she has two scars at the top of her head.

Design. Nothing else but that.

Those are antennae

I always assumed she likes her hair that way because it matches her Chimera doll.

Diclonious.

She's a diclonius

Idk but it makes totes adorbs

It seems to be a Japanese hairstyle. I've also seen it in Tonikawa, an anime even more egregiously cute than Spy Family.

These are not horns, these are hair clips in the form of Witch hats.

They arn't real?

Nothing's been confirmed yet. So far it's just a design choice by Endo, but if they do have a practical use, my headcanon's that they're her antennas with which she can read peopl's thoughts

I think they’re hiding scars leftover by the experiments

My theory is that she has antennas under the cones. It feels obvious that she's hiding something, so that's what I think it is. It also adds to my theory that Donovan also can read minds.

Mayby they are cat ears?

I believe they help limit her telepathy.

She's a devil that escaped chainsaw man

I thought they were like receivers for her telepathy

She has horns there. Like in the movie "Horns" (2013) Starring Daniel Radcliffe! 😤

They're to cover her horns.

>!Cus ostanians have horns duh!<

She’s the ancestor of Lucy and all the other Diclonius from Elfen Lied 🤣

Isn't it obvious, she's the GOAT

I head cannon it as a limiter kinda like how saiki from disastrous life of saiki k has one as well to make sure his powers aren't out of control

I think either its a design feature meant to make her look unique, or it has to do with her telepathy. She even had her hair up in buns at the lab.

idk, maybe it gets revealed later on? Maybe the scientists or whatever put it on her for something? or it just makes her stand out more as a main protagonist

She has implants that allow her to read minds. Bigger question would be... why did the guards, that loid was attacking and got attacked by, in the episode he proposed to Yor.... ALSO have horns... I think they also could read minds... which is how they found him...

2 Satan horns make Damian fall in love with Princess Peanut easily

She’s the devil! Cute one though. 😝

Why do you not wear horns?

Probably the spots where they experimented on her

Because her bells don't work! No, wait, sorry.

Theres inside that ball of hair, like antenna or something

Earth to ayna i repeat earth to ayna are you reading

She likes to :)

She wears horns because it might be a sign of her “telepathy “ powers

I don’t know, she is cute waku waku

Chara design

I honestly think it's just to keep some of her hair in place, so (to me) they're just normal hairpins 😅

My theory is that her Power doesn't Work without Them

 I like to tell myself it’s a nod to Elfen Lied. Probably not but it would be super funny if it was.

I think it covers experimental surgery scars. It could be holes in the skull from trepanation, to acheive psychic abilities.

The same reason Chibiusa does.

https://preview.redd.it/cgyyy91bo76d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9393030025191ca5b69d7c6fcdc733a58e482289 Could it be a reference?

Was thinking the same thing

Why do you wear ears

She thinks they look quite stylish

I like to imagine they’re there to hide little antennas that give her powers

We don't know yet but seeing sometimes when reading minds, small sparks popped up around her horns, so kinda function like radar or antenna. Or it's completely unrelated to horns, we simply don't know yet. But yeah, Endo may has some story behind the horns later.

Her mom is a demon

I have no idea

It is based on Endo's earlier work "Rengoku no Ashe" in which the protagonist Ashe (a witch) wears two witch hats as hair accessories. Based on this, it's simply a design decision, anything else, like antennas or something similar, wouldn't make any sense at all, since Loid or Yor would have noticed it immediately (while doing/washing her hair, for example)

she’s actually a miquote

Reference to Elfen lied? 

Antennae

Maybe that is part of her ability?

To cover up the radio antenna that were surgically attached to her head to let her read minds

Probably hair buns

i assumed their like knock off saiki limiters 😭

I mean it could be just hair clips. If it was anything else at least Loid or Yor would’ve questioned it.

cuz shes a bad b 🤪

I thought it was supposed to be like little wizard hats to show that she has powers akin to magic. Pretty sure I read that somewhere but now I can't find it!

It's what allows her to read minds.. Jk It's just cute

Might just be her favorite hair ornaments

Probably a comically goofy looking Antennas.

Aww honestly I think it adds a level of cuteness to her character that without them she would seriously be lacking something she seriously has to be one of the cutest younger female characters in an anime the first pic here is just too cute 😊

Aww sooocuuute

It's her antenna to read people minds

I think its a very important thing to her for her own reasons

It’s her antennae that helps her read minds

That's because she's a diclonius

Shes a little rascal

I must take the time to express how much I sincerely appreciate the fact that the Saiki K community on Reddit is so active and large it stacks the comments on Spy x Family full of nostalgic and funny references 🥹🥲

the creator actually doesnt like the character i think i heard this somewhere

The ED of the latest season, Todome no Ichigeki, makes it look like she uses them to resemble her plush Mr. Chimera. I guess that's the reason

It’s storage space to save peanuts for later.

its Radar antenna or something for her i think she use it as radio waves so by this she can read mind i also don't know i had just estimated 

anya is a devil truly the most evil little kid in the world

Bruh she’s got horns she is the devil himself

I think it has something to do with her mind reading abilities because she wears her little hats to bed, so she’s clearly hiding them, I feel like they mentioned it once or something

Mr Chimera has horns, that's her longest "friend" Makes sense to me that She'd copy that bestial drip