What is Tokyo Ghoul's IQ Score?

Tokyo Ghoul has an IQ Score of 119/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 41/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 5/50 Educational Value, and 46/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Tokyo Ghoul educational?

Tokyo Ghoul is low on educational value, 5/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Tokyo Ghoul , IQ Score 119/200

Tokyo Ghoul has an IQ Score of 119/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-24·Methodology

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119/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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The Verdict

Best forDark-fantasy anime fans who want body horror welded to identity crisis

Skip ifGraphic violence wears on you, or you want the existential questions actually answered

Use it asA mood watch for the border between human and monster appetites

Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Dark urban fantasy exploring human-monster coexistence; existential questions about identity and morality

People & Production Shuhei Morita · Studio Pierrot · Tokyo MX 15 connections