>>2531599I think anti-style is a good way to put it. But like
>>2531599 says, she's getting it cut and is not just sporting long feral hair, so some styling is going on even if she's not really keeping it up.
Also It does look similar to Yui's, so I'm guessing the 'style' part comes from Gendo, and the 'anti' part comes from Rei just not keeping it up. In fact little Rei's hair is even more similar to Yui's since it's longer than the older Rei's and it shows her forehead.
So you could say that the younger she was Gendo had more of a say of how she looked, but as she got older more of her personal choices showed through.
But Rei being Rei her's was a very subtle teenage rebellion over very minor details; even shorter hair, not parting it down the middle, even the black socks now that I think about it.
>inb4 overthinking 