Flickering Circles

In manga and anime, circles or sweat droplets drawn flickering erratically around a character's head mean that they're panicking, flustered, or agitated.

They're specially used when the character is worrying about something, or trying to explain something hard to explain to someone, or when they're caught red-handed doing something and someone is currently angrily walking toward them.

Character: Hiraga Saito 平賀才人
Anime: The Familiar of Zero, Zero no Tsukaima ゼロの使い魔 (Episode 3)

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