senu Dr Stone senu ishigami is a scientific genius who was able to rebuild modern civilization from zero if you believe knowledge is strength then senu is Goku he has an Unholy amount of scientific knowledge and even if there is a gap in that knowledge he can fill in the gaps with his own reasoning and thanks to his knowledge and reasoning he can create just about anything need communication he'll build a cell phone from raw materials need medicine he'll make some antibiotics need electricity he'll create it using copper and zinc senu is also a brilliant teacher he can break down complex science into simple steps that not only the characters but even us viewers can easily understand this is an important point because not all scientific Geniuses are created equally for example Dr genus from one punch man or maudi from Stein's gate are the kind of scientific Geniuses who get lost in their own complex theories and fail to communicate them effectively that's right even though s brain works like a supercomputer he can work with other people he's pretty down to earth as for his most impressive Feats I'd say that sequence of him counting seconds with a consistent pace for 3700 years straight is by far one of the hardest Feats in anime history the level of mental resilience is downright incomprehensible of course he also took Humanity from Sticks and Stones back to Rockets and the internet and then ultimately even the time machine Louch code guos Louch V brtan represents strategic genius at its most theatrical and Grand scale even before obtaining his guos Louch was well known for his tactical genius he could defeat nobility and Military Officers in chess while being a student and more importantly his mind was sharp enough to keep himself and Nali hidden from britania for years with just a small group of rebels he repeatedly outdid britania Superior forces yep he transformed a terrorist group into a legitimate Army that went on to challenge the world strongest Empire and then during the zero requium he made the entire world hate him on purpose and then leveraged that hatred as a tool for World Peace he predicted and manipulated every major faction on earth into exactly the positions he needed them in this is what I mean when I say that Louch represents strategic genius at its most theatrical and Grand scale another example is how even when things went wrong during the special administrative Zone Massacre he had the mental capacity to turn that tragedy into a victory by putting the blame on euphemia and reinforcing himself as the symbol of rebellion against the empire the idea of zero itself was also brilliant to be honest he created a Persona that became a symbol of Hope for the oppressed it's crazy to think about how he started off with just a small group of rebels and not only managed to win against the holy britanian Empire he also succeeded in creating a new better world for his sister and everyone sure guos played its part in all of this but let's not forget that guos manifests uniquely in everyone's mind you get the power that best suits your personality and goals Lou's guas gives him the power of absolute obedience because he sees Life as a chessboard he's the king and anyone he uses his guos on is just another Pawn in his game Johan leeat monster Yohan leead represents the darkest form of Genius in anime you see his intelligence isn't about making stuff or winning battles of strategy it's about understanding the human mind so deeply that he can break it to give you just a few few examples his Feats include convicting an entire orphanage of children to community mass suicide and he did that without even being there guys Johan Lieber manipulated an entire group of Orphans into committing suicide by simply provoking them and their instructors into causing chaos all of them died by either killing each other or burning alive unlike light who simply wanted to become the god of the new world Johan was working towards the end of human society itself he wanted to become the the last human alive at the end of the world using his cold calculative genius he murdered his foster parents the leels In Cold Blood and then proceeded to manipulate Anna into shooting him he is a manipulative psychopath who treats manipulation like an art the fact that he manipulated his own sister into shooting him in the head goes to show how far he has gone to the deep end now Johan is also a master of disguises he was shown to live entire lives as different people this must have required an extreme form of psychological intelligence because he adapts personality so perfectly that no one questions who he is this is the thing about Yohan he understands human nature too well Eisen bleach soske eizen might be the most brilliant manipulator in anime history and he is so good at it that he was able to orchestrate over A Century of events exactly as he planned for over 100 years he maintained a perfect facade as a gentle scholarly captain of the 13 court guard Squad not a single person in Soul Society suspected his true nature one of his greatest Feats was manipulating the entire timeline of Soul society's recent history he was the one behind the holic incident that forced urah and the visards into Exile he engineered Rukia kuchiki's execution to extract the hogyoku he even claimed to have secretly planned Ichigo kisaki's entire life story it's as they say every major event every minor event even some random nonsense it's all a part of eisen's plan he is a scientist tactician strategist and manipulator all inone and he is better than your best guy at all of them I mean let's talk about his understanding of psychology he knows exactly how to push people's buttons how to exploit their weaknesses and how to make them dance to his tune without realizing they're being manipulated he turned Momo's admiration into a weapon used toshido protective instincts against him and even predicted and accounted for gin ichim adu's eventual the trail years before it happened if we're talking about his scientific genius he created his own version of the hogyoku before urahara mastered the process of holic and developed ways to create and modify aunar he even created specialized aunar designed to counter specific threats like engineering wonderwise specifically to nullify head captain yamamoto's Powers even his zako kiyoka Su jetsu reflects his nature as a manipulator its perfect hypnosis ability doesn't just create Illusions it controls all five senses so completely that even knowing you're under its effect doesn't help you break free he once made an entire army fight empty air while he walked away casually even yabok of all people was caught off guard by his kiyoka Su jetsu there's always layers upon layers when it comes to his plans every scheme has backup schemes every plot has hidden meanings and even apparent defeats often turn out to be part of his larger strategy the only person Eisen ever acknowledged as intellectually Superior was K UR and even then Eisen often stayed several steps ahead he understood secrets about the soul King the true nature of the world and even the incoming Quincy threat before anyone saw them coming heck even you watching this video it's all a part of eisen's brilliant plan Light Yagami Death Note Light Yagami is by far the most prominent calculating genius in the anime medium keep in mind that even before he got the death note this kid solved complex criminal cases while still being the top student student at his high school of course it becomes a different story when he gets to death note I mean imagine being so brilliant that you join the task force that is supposed to be hunting you down all the while working alongside the world's greatest detective now L is also a genius of the same level as light in fact many fans argue that L's overall intelligence surpasses light's intelligence so why are we talking about light in this video and not L that's because we're only doing one genius character per anime in this video If this video does well we can do a part two where characters like Al and urahara are part of the list instead of light and eizen anyways let's break down just how methodical light really was from day one with the death note he established precise patterns for killing criminals he spaced out deaths to different times of day used different causes of death and created false trails that made it impossible to pinpoint his location there was clear intent behind every move even if that move involves sending a competent young FBI lady to to her death sure his ego got the better of him and played right into El's hands but then he temporarily gave up the death note literally erased his own memories and convinced everyone of his innocence all while having a backup plan to regain his memories later then there's how he handled the yotsuba investigation he was literally helping to catch Kira while being Kira and he used this position to direct suspicion away from himself his manipulation skills are insane he could read people instantly and tell them exact exactly what they needed to hear he played the grieving son when El died the dedicated police officer to his father and the concerned citizen to the public the way he eliminated L can be considered plot convenience but let me point out that even if you think L is superior light's plan still deserves praise he planned events so perfectly that he eliminated not just L but also REM he turned L's suspicions about the 13-day rule against him and manipulated rem's love for Misa and just like that he cleared his own name and got rid of of two enemies in one move in the end his pride and ego were indeed his downfall just like how L's loss didn't diminish L's genius light's pathetic end also doesn't invalidate all of his intellectual Feats he was just a high schooler and yet he triggered Global skill changes and outsmarted the world's greatest detective he also maintained perfect grades a perfect social life and a perfect Public Image that is crazy Shikamaru Naruto Shikamaru Nara is probably the laziest genius in anime or at least that's how he starts off he'd rather watch clouds than finish an exam and for what it's worth the teachers actually thought that he was just a below average student until assuma figured out what's up the kid had an IQ over 200 but was too lazy to pick up his pencil during tests during his fight with tamari he was able to come up with 200 different ways to win and yet he still gave up because he didn't feel like winning forget about two steps or three steps he is always 10 steps ahead now as lazy as he used to be he becomes a different Beast the moment it becomes personal I mean you do not want a fully locked in Shikamaru as your enemy just ask hdan despite the fact that hdan was Immortal he cooked him up and buried him deep into the Earth as Toby said this level of intelligence was almost wasted because Shikamaru was a good guy the thing about Shikamaru is that he can think 10 steps ahead and create hundreds of strategies in a matter of seconds during the fourth great ninja war shik aru served as Chief strategist and currently in boruto he is serving as the eighth Hokage Ayan aoji classroom of the elite kokata ayanokoji is a different kind of Genius one that thrives in invisibility he scored exactly 50% on every entrance exam simply because he wanted to appear average but when you think about it isn't it harder to hit the same score across every subject than actually trying to Ace the exam his intelligence is terrifying L practical he sees through every human interaction as if it's a mathematical equation he can spot lies in casual conversations manipulate entire class Dynamics and even predict betrayals before they happen this kind of thought process does make sense when you realize that he is a lone survivor of a lab facility where every child was made to go through all sorts of superhuman training his father knew that he would be the greatest in the world he has Perfect Memory which allows him to remember every interaction and every detail even from back when he was an infant the way his intelligence works is more like artificial intelligence than just natural human genius in fact his plans aren't as crazy as they appear to be it's just that he is the only one who has the indifference and will to carry them out during the island survival exam he was able to outsmart both class 1 a and class 1 C without either of them realizing it he figured out their plans he knew what they were going to do and so he simply let them move around like pieces on a chessboard well he thinks of people as nothing but tools after all yuii katagiri Tomodachi game yuii katagi is a master of emotional intelligence his IQ is also good it's assumed to be around 140 to 150 but the real deal is his ability to understand the weakness of one's heart yes when it comes to reading and manipulating people he is a monster naturally his genius shows best Under Pressure because that's when the human heart is the most vulnerable and of course in the Tomodachi game where friendships break and betrayal is common uichi thrives he is ruthless he doesn't hesitate to threaten manipulate or destroy his opponent psychologically it doesn't matter if it's one's weakness fear or insecurity you bet he's definitely going to use it against them he predicts what people will do he understands why they'll do it he sees through lies he spots betrayal before it happens he knows what his opponents will do before they decide to do it the reason why he is so good at psychoanalysis is because he was somewhat raised by a master swindler named taen Sheba that man taught him a lot of psychoanalytic techniques and mental tricks like the special method this history between him his father figure and adoptive mother is kind of complicated especially because he killed them but let's just say that while this Father Figure taught him the ugly side of humans his adopted mother taught him the good side of humans he is someone who evolved into a master of emotional intelligence thanks to his troubled upbringing as for his most chilling feet it's revealed that the one who created the Tomodachi game is he himself kaii kaii Ultimate Survivor out of all the genius characters on this list eok kaii is the closest to you and me this is because there is nothing special about him he's just a normal cowardly guy struggling to survive in the modern-day capitalistic societ however his ability to continuously survive and overcome extreme near-death situations despite having every odd stacked against them is masterful both intelligence and survival come down to one's ability to adapt and this is where Ki excels even when faced with rigged systems even when faced with death itself he can somehow in some way find a solution he can see through deception he sees patterns that others Miss through pure observation and skills he can find flaws in the most perfectly rigged game and just like that he wins for example he beat the rigged Pachinko machine by slowly replacing maintenance tools with larger ones over time all the while making sure that the ones in charge don't notice it's kind of amusing how the more desperate the situation the more intelligent he becomes but watching him struggle is definitely not good for your heart after all his greatest strength the source of his intelligence is his resilience it doesn't matter how much life drags him into the ground he somehow always manages to find his way out maruem Hunter Hunter maruem is the most unique genius on this list because the nature of his intelligence is evolutionary he is born as the ultimate biological weapon and shortly after his birth he realizes supergenius levels of intellect he evolves from Pure predatory instinct to deep emotional intelligence and then also philosophical wisdom he died 40 days after his birth but those 40 days were full of intellectual growth he far surpassed the level of ordinary humans and despite his predatory nature he began to question everything he even acquired empathy and an understanding of human emotions thanks to kugi I'd say considering how he was able to completely reconstruct his worldview after reaching a new understanding of things you can say that he perfectly represents the simplest form of intelligence the ability to adapt to change within days he mastered chess shogi and go and proceeded to defeat national champions one after the other his mind evolved with each mastery now even when he gained the ability to think of thousands of strategies at once he was still never able to defeat kogi but then again it was thanks to his losses against her that he himself began to show human emotions at one point he also tears off his own arm in apology for disrespecting her in the game there is something intrinsically beautiful about a pure predatory Beast with super intelligence eventually becom Inc capable of feeling human emotions thanks to the evolutionary nature of his intelligence will make some different from other characters on this list is how his intelligence takes him to the most basic thing about humans their ability to fuel empathy he also showed great respect and admiration for netro and even called him the very Pinnacle of human capabilities I also love how while gon became a complete monster a complete monster like maruan became human how very poetic Armen Attack on Titan Armen arert is a master of deduction he never misses even the most minor detail of course there are also other Geniuses in attack on Titan like Zeke Irwin or huni but here we'll go with Armen because he is the most prominent genius character in the story he can be a whim but his genius always comes through whenever they are in a crisis take the Battle of trust for example while everyone was panicking about running out of gas Armen came up with a plan to defeat the Titans guarding the Supply Depot or when he gave a convincing argument for Aaron being a potential weapon against the Titans he was also the one who proposed a boulder plan to seal the gates of the Tross District he figured out that and was the female Titan and later he also figured out that Riner and bertol are her accomplices as the armored and colossal Titans he was also the one who later proposed using Titan hardening to seal wal Maria during the return to shuna Armen realized that rer was hiding in the walls next he sacrificed himself as bait and gave Aaron the opening he needed to defeat the Colossal Titan these are just the major moments there are also plenty more where armen's deduction skills save the day naturally this includes the plan to attack lubero the T no Jitsu with Zeke and the ending sequence with Aaron not to mention the peace talks after Aaron's death the memes have been harsh to our boy but when it comes to actual intelligence Feats he is a genius strategist and a master of deduction Bulma Dragon Ball Bulma is a technological genius who can turn her talents to almost any field at just 16 she built the dragon radar there were already Global Dragon Radars that could give you a rough idea of where a Dragon Ball might be but bma's Dragon radar was re evolutionary because it could track exactly where a Dragon Ball was she has also repeatedly shown us that she can understand alien technology almost effortlessly she was able to fix the scouter immediately she learned the Saiyan language and the namekian language and she also improved the traditional Saiyan battle armor by creating variants that could withstand the physical stress of Super Saiyan Transformations you know we don't really think about it that much because Dragon Ball is more about fights and Aura moments but balma is crazy it's insane how she can just upgrade Advanced alien technology without any manual or guide whatsoever the thing about balma is how practical her genius is now this doesn't mean that she's just some plot device that makes whatever the gang needs she may be a technological genius but she still needs knowledge and understanding right well back when she was a child she was able to study various pieces of alien technology from jao spaceship this allowed her to easily understand rit's scouter and the nameless namekian spaceship she was from familiar with Dr jro's work and was able to restore Android 16 plus her own father is also a rich scientist which means that she always had the physical and intellectual resources right at home of course her greatest achievement is the time machine that she created in the future timeline aside from her the only other person or group of people who created a time machine were from Universe 12 this made her a uniquely intelligent individual in the Multiverse as a whole because despite the vast amount of alien technology and life forms all over the Multiverse only balma and those guys in Universe 12 were able to produce the time machine it gets crazier when you realize that she did it in a postapocalyptic world with limited resources plus the notes she left behind were so comprehensive that the present day balma was able to replicate the same technology Dr Vega Punk one piece Dr Vega Punk is the Einstein Newton Tesla and Oppenheimer of the one piece World his inct is so vast and ever increasing that he couldn't handle it with just one body and so he ended up splitting himself into six other bodies just to manage all his research efficiently each of these bodies are satellites that can work on different projects simultaneously now Vega Punk was always a genius which is pretty clear if you go and visit his hometown like Frankie but he then also ate the brain brain fruit which allowed his brain to store an indefinite amount of information while also being able to recall anything he has ever learn this devil fruit increased his mental efficiency and allowed him to make significant scientific breakthroughs in many different fields it is said that his technological achievements are 500 years ahead of the current one piece world he created fully conscious robots engineered living dragons in Laboratories and developed ways to replicate Supernatural devil fruit Powers through science he explained that devilfruit powers are actually a manifestation of people's dreams and also discovered how to transfer these devil fruit Powers into inanimate objects he developed green blood a substance that can replicate paramia type abilities he even succeeded in creating an artificial copy of kaido's mythical zoan devil fruit the only other scientist who has come close to doing something remotely similar is Caesar but we all know that Caesar's devil fruits are not even Walmart level when compared with Vega Punk's basically perfect artificial copies other than devil fruits Vega Punk has contributed to the world in other ways as well for example he solved major world problems like crossing the Comm belt by developing sea Stone line ships he created islandwide climate control Cloud plants and mother flame mother flame is an artificial undying flame that was developed to be a source of unlimited free energy for the entire world but unfortunately it was stolen and used to power an ancient weapon speaking of weapons vegapunk has advanced the world government's military capabilities by creating an army of powerful cyborgs and then he also one uped himself by creating the seraphim we're talking about artificial humans strong enough to replace the seven warlord system Vega Punk's medical knowledge is crazy he mastered organ cultivation stem cell therapy and advanced cybernetics I mean his understanding of human biology is so complete that he successfully removed significant portions of his own brain to optimize his thinking capacity he cured Bonnie's incurable disease and he may even end up somehow Reviving Bartholomew Kuma finally there's the part where he conducted forbidden research right under the world government surveillance for over 20 years he studied the void century and revealed all that he knew to the entire world I'd say if there's one man who changed the one piece world to the same level as Goldie Roger then that man is Dr Vega punkk