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先輩は、嫌味なくらいの完璧超人でしたからね。だから逆にその「癖」は先輩の可愛げ・・・というか、チャームポイントでしたよ。

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先輩 嫌味な くらい 完璧 超人 でした から だから その 先輩 可愛げ という チャーム ポイント でした

English Translation

You were always a perfect 'superhuman' to an infuriating extent, and so that 'habit' was actually one of your cute, or rather charming, attributes.

Furigana

先輩(せんぱい)は、嫌味(いやみ)なくらいの完璧(かんぺき)超人(ちょうじん)でしたからね。だから(ぎゃく)にその「(くせ)」は先輩(せんぱい)可愛(かわい)げ・・・というか、チャームポイントでしたよ。

Romanji

Senpai wa, iyamina kurai no kanpeki chōjin deshita kara ne. dakara gyaku ni sono" kuse" wa senpai no kawaige toiu ka, cha-mu pointo deshita yo.

Words

先輩 (せんぱい)
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
()
topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
嫌味 (いやみ)
disagreeableness; disagreeability; gaudiness; sarcasm
くらい (くらい、ぐらい)
approximately; about; around; or so; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; so ... that ...; at least; as ... as ...; like
()
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
完璧 (かんぺき、かんべき)
perfect; complete; flawless
超人 (ちょうじん)
superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (e.g. Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman
デス (デス)
death
から (から)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since
(ね、ねえ)
indicates emphasis, agreement, request for confirmation, etc.; is it so; hey; come on; listen; not
だから (だから)
so; therefore
(ぎゃく)
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
()
at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although
其の (その)
that (something or someone distant from the speaker, close to the listener; actions of the listener, or ideas expressed or understood by the listener); the; um...; er...; uh...
(くせ、へき)
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; mannerism; crease; wrinkle; curl; kink
(なかぽち)
middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)
と言う (という、とゆう)
called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X
()
indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way
チャーム (チャーム)
charm
ポイント (ポイント)
point; points (of a railway); switch
()
indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.; used when calling out to someone; used to catch one's breath or get someone's attention; yo!

Kanji

Readings: セン、 さき、 ま.ず
Meanings: before, ahead, previous, future, precedence
Readings: ハイ、 -ばら、 やから、 やかい、 ともがら
Meanings: comrade, fellow, people, companions
Readings: ケン、 ゲン、 きら.う、 きら.い、 いや
Meanings: dislike, detest, hate
Readings: ミ、 あじ、 あじ.わう
Meanings: flavor, taste
Reading: カン
Meanings: perfect, completion, end
Readings: ヘキ、 たま
Meanings: sphere, ball
Readings: チョウ、 こ.える、 こ.す
Meanings: transcend, super-, ultra-
Readings: ジン、 ニン、 ひと、 -り、 -と
Meaning: person
Readings: ギャク、 ゲキ、 さか、 さか.さ、 さか.らう
Meanings: inverted, reverse, opposite, wicked
Readings: ヘキ、 くせ、 くせ.に
Meanings: mannerism, habit, vice, trait, fault, kink
Readings: カ、 コク、 -べ.き、 -べ.し
Meanings: can, passable, mustn't, should not, do not
Readings: アイ、 いと.しい、 かな.しい、 め.でる、 お.しむ、 まな
Meanings: love, affection, favourite