Character · Mob Psycho 100
Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s IQ, and what Mob Psycho 100's IQ Score actually reveals.
How smart is Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)? Smart enough that "Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s IQ" is one of the most searched questions about Mob Psycho 100. Here is the defensible read of the mind the show actually builds, the 143/200 IQ Score behind it, and why no invented number does it justice.
The answer
Mob (Shigeo Kageyama) anchors Mob Psycho 100 as one of its central intelligences, and the show earns a 143/200 IQ Score (Stimulating tier) for how seriously it builds that mind. That score is the real, measurable answer the search is circling. The specific IQ figures floating around online are invented; no clinical IQ test applies to a fictional character, and TVI does not fabricate one. We rate the work, not the character, on a published 0 to 200 rubric.
Who Mob (Shigeo Kageyama) is, and what kind of intelligence the show actually depicts
Mob (Shigeo Kageyama) (Setsuo Itō (Japanese)) is middle-school student with extreme psychic abilities and his approach to using them as little as possible, Bones Studio's adaptation of ONE's manga, the structural sibling to One Punch Man. The character's intellectual signature in the show is the cognition of someone whose extraordinary power is paired with a deliberate commitment to ordinary self-development, intelligence-as-emotional-regulation-applied-against-overwhelming-capacity, the rare anime protagonist whose specific psychological work the show treats as the actual subject.
This is the part of the question "what is Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s IQ" that the search engine flattens. The real question, the one viewers are circling, is whether the show treats Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s mind seriously. That's the question TVI can actually answer.
What the IQ Score reveals about the portrayal
Mob Psycho 100 scores 143/200 (Stimulating tier) and Mob is the canonical reason the show is widely cited as one of the medium's most-emotionally-disciplined recent anime. The structural commitment to letting Mob's emotional-regulation work (the 'percentage meter' tracking his emotional intensity, his commitment to growing his ordinary muscles rather than just his psychic ones, his deliberate disinterest in his own power) be the actual subject is rare power-anime work.
For the full score breakdown, Cognitive Stimulation, Educational Value, Craft & Quality, and the rationale, see Mob Psycho 100 on TV Intelligentsia. Or read what an IQ Score is and how it's calculated.
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