Character · Mob Psycho 100
Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s IQ — what the methodology actually says.
"Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s IQ" is a popular search. TV Intelligentsia doesn't invent IQ numbers for fictional characters. Here's the honest answer — the show's IQ Score, and what it tells you about how seriously the work treats his mind.
The honest answer
TVI scores shows and films, not characters. Assigning an IQ to a fictional character would be fabrication — we don't have a methodology for that. What we do have: a 0–200 rating of the work's structural intellectual quality, and that score tells you something real about how seriously Mob Psycho 100 treats Mob (Shigeo Kageyama)'s mind.
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 his 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.
Read the full methodology
How TV Intelligentsia scores intellectual quality — the rubric, the dimensions, the published framework.
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