![]() Azumanga Daioh: Chiyo is a Child Prodigy who was smart enough to skip several grades and start the first year of high school at ten years old.The inversion is Book Dumb, the Overdosed Trope. ![]() It can overlap with Brilliant, but Lazy if the character is not particularly studious but gets good grades without much effort. Often tends to overlap with Bookworm and Go-Getter Girl. Super-Trope to Academic Athlete, which is this plus athleticism, Academic Alpha Bitch which is this plus Competition Freak attitude, Badass Bookworm, which is this plus fighting abilities, Ditzy Genius, which is this plus lack of common sense, Gentleman and a Scholar, which is this plus politeness, and Teen Genius, which is this played to the extreme. In a Tomboy and Girly Girl duo, it depends on the media: in Anime and Manga, the Book Smart character is often the Girly Girl, but in Western media, it can be either. In a Sensitive Guy and Manly Man duo, the Book Smart character tends to be the Sensitive Guy. That can be the case with characters to whom this trope applies, but it isn't a prerequisite. In common parlance, the phrase "book smart" tends to imply that a person is sheltered or lacking in street smarts. When more than one character who is Book Smart is at the same school, a competition of who gets the best test scores is pretty much inevitable.Īlmost always seen in family shows, which usually feature at least one book smart sibling with a Book Dumb sibling as a foil, typically in Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling and The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry dynamics. Other times, it's more to showcase their diligence, at studying in particular. Often it's a way to quickly establish them as so intelligent in general that they are able to master the academia without effort. A character is shown as getting really good grades in school, and being all around academically competent.
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