Sailor Moon , IQ Score 117/200
Sailor Moon has an IQ Score of 117/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.
Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Naoko Takeuchi's 1992 shōjo manga adapted by Toei Animation into a 200-episode anime that ran through 1997. The structural argument is that adolescent female friendship can carry the weight of cosmic-scale moral stakes, an argument shōjo storytelling had not made at that scale before.
The monster-of-the-week formula limits the cognitive ceiling, but the serialized arcs about identity loss (the R season's amnesia, the Stars season's deaths) earn a Competent ranking. The character design and Takanori Arisawa's score set the template every magical-girl series since has reckoned with.
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