To pass the time I'm gonna ask for some more recommendations.

What I'm looking for today is a story about someone who is a pure genius at something, be it academics, sports, fighting, whatever.
The catch is that he is unmotivated to use his ability, like he tries to hide it or no one is worth the effort.
Or a genius who is a total slacker, someone who can perform incredibly without any effort at all.

I'm willing to go with any demographic short of shoujo-ai/shounen-ai or yuri/yaoi.

Examples would be
Tijikun, Majeh, Koukaku no regios and in a way wolf guy (although those are all the fighting sort)

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Do but despise reason and science,
The highest of all human gifts -
Then you have surrendered to the Devil
And must surely perish. - J.W. von Goethe

Violet Blossoms, to an extent. It's about a girl that's an amazing artist but burns all of her drawings. She really does it more because she's ridiculously motivated - she only wants to keep the drawing that is the pinnacle of her abilities - than because she's unmotivated, though.

Still, I like this request, so I'm bumping it.

how about a "she"?

nodame cantabile

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Help! I'm looking for... manga with dangerous guys http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=39874&pa ge=1#post594033

Thanks, but those are not quite what I had in mind.
I don't mind shoujos or anything, but the characters aren't quite as unmotivated or big a slacker as I'd like them to be.
So if anyone can thing of anything, please let me know.

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Do but despise reason and science,
The highest of all human gifts -
Then you have surrendered to the Devil
And must surely perish. - J.W. von Goethe

What about...
Ransetsuki - the main guy doesn't like to use his sword even though he's really good with it.
Shibutani-kun Tomo no Kai - Range seems to be good at everything but also not serious about anything.
Beauty Pop - shoujo but the main girl isn't motivated.

Hope that helps

This might be a little out of your request but One is manga about a musical genius that at first doesn't want to stand out. But as the manga continues he does get wrapped up music but in an unsatisfactory fashion, as a pop idol lipsynching. It is really interesting how he overcomes the challenges and his final resolution.

This is more like it, thanks.
Now I just need one that has a bit more of an academics approach and everything will be good.

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Do but despise reason and science,
The highest of all human gifts -
Then you have surrendered to the Devil
And must surely perish. - J.W. von Goethe

Special A
GTO there are some characters but not the main.

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maybe Kami no mizu shiru sekai. the main character keima is a big gamer who doesnt really care abut anything else. by coincidence he gets a conyract saying that he has to maqke girls fall in love with him so some evil spirits can get out of their hearts. he really doesnt want to but he is going to die if he doesnt. keima is cold calculating and a genius

Those are some great series again, thanks a bunch.
And how could I forget about the world god only knows?
That is a great example, although he isn't really recognised as a genius. What I'm looking for is one where people know he/she is a genius.

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Do but despise reason and science,
The highest of all human gifts -
Then you have surrendered to the Devil
And must surely perish. - J.W. von Goethe

Liar Game is sorta... :3 At first... @_@

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May the Chocolates of Heaven be on your side.

i know one of the series where the main character is like slip in the time dimension and went back to the ancient china time... " the tale of dragon son" or something like that..

Ping Pong
G Senjou Heaven's Door

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Touch He's lazy and unmotivated, but he gets motivated later on~
There is gantz, the guy is very self centered at first and doesn't know he's powerfull until later~


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Usui from Kaichou wa Maid-sama! shows many amazing talents that never get used other than to help Misaki

Naruse Kazuki from di(e)ce is very good at athletics but prefers to spend his time getting high scores on arcade games

The young Sima clan head from The Ravages of Time was first portrayed as lazy and only interested in making profit (and was rejected by water mirror as a pupil because of that)...not that he stayed like it for long