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They've nicknamed the girl who almost always gets a perfect score, "tensai" (genius).
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"tensai" and "dere" is that Medaka is, in the words of the manga, "so smart she went back to being stupid".
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Or is that just the way you happen to prefer doing it? tensai on March 4th, 2009 11: 23 pm
Planet Ubuntu 2009
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So he started a 100-day "tensai sit-down protest" which he would spend developing his game in a room locked and barricaded from the outside.
Kotaku 2009
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Instead, Sougi Takamasa (who became a tensai CP at 19) and his shikabane hime Yamagami Itsuki masquerade as a PE teacher and transfer student respectively to keep an eye on Ouri.
One Fused Life 2009
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But our tensai is not about to let the new status quo stand and plots to wrench his life back to the idyllic track it was destined for.
Anime Nano! 2009
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The tensai-dere seems to overlap quite a lot with the ojou-sama archetype, specifically the haughty, queenly sorts, since the friendlier varieties have their own personality templates.
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While Sakura (or MoriSaku) can't properly be equated with the algebra-spouting tensai Himuro-keiji with mathematical inevitability (she herself admits the difference between true brilliance and an awesome memory), it's still her deductive powers that lead to cracking their cases.
Anime Nano! 2008
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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, if you have, by some freakish chance, never read any of the other posts in this blog before) can be considered to be tensai-dere: she's certainly tensai, but it seems more like an incidental part to her personality switches compared to Medaka and Ayako.
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