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Myther-16 chapters

A sci-fi manga which is not only peak but also has a bit of SCD potential. The smartest character is either Vanitas of Yuri, and they both scale to around the middle-upper end of low tier. Yeah the verse doesn't scale that high but the manga is so good so I wanted yall to read it

Doll the Hotel Detective-17 chapters

An 80's manga without a long overarching plot between chapters, every chapter is isolated. The main character Doll does have some really good reasoning but she also has moments where she knowingly walks into dangerous situations just for the plot to have more stakes, still her reasoning is really good. Still a D3rLord3 victim though

Bakuchi Gui-70 chapters, but not all are translated

Out of everyone in all these mangas, the main character of BG scales the highest. In just the 1st arc he had a multi-layered strategy and several good feats of reasoning, eq and manipulation. Sadly I couldn't find an english translation for the manga past chapter 20, which is in the 2nd arc of the manga. However just from what I've read of the translated chapters, the main character Bull scales to mid tier

Series: Pyramid Game

Some context first. Doa is the daughter of a hospital's director and the hospital has experienced protests from people demanding compensation for medical malpractice. Now the hospital director, Doa's father, would not compensate the protestors as it would ruin the hospital's image.

One day however, Doa is attacked by one of the protestors, who demands that they bring back her child. Doa gets punched by her in a fit of rage.

Doa later convinces her father to compensate the protesters, which he does. However the protestor who punched her doesn't stop even after getting the compensation money. Social media starts to slowly spread the image of the hospital director being a saint who could compensate even his child's attacker and how the protestors is just being greedy and trying to get more money

And so the hospital improves its reputation and stops the protest

Now for this feat to be possible it would mean Doa formed a psychological profile of the protestor after just one encounter, realizing she holds a deep vendetta against the hospital which wouldn't go away with just money compensation

She then manipulated the public into seeing the hospital as kind and virtuous and the woman as greedy, while also getting rid of the other protestors who had received their wanted compensation, making a 1 person protest which couldn't possibly do anything

So without going into spoilers, what you need to know is that Harin Baek is part of a rich family and goes to Love High School and she wants to get revenge on a girl called Jaeun, however she can't bully her directly as that would cause quite an uproar if ever exposed due to her status. So she comes up with the idea of the Pyramid Game

The Pyramid Game is played by Harin Baek's entire class and it's rules are simple. Everyone has 5 votes which they can give to anyone in the class aside from themselves and they can't give the same person multiple votes. The game is held near the end of every month. Depending on how many votes you get, you'll get assigned a rank, the highest being A and the lowest, the person who gets 0 votes, gets assigned F

When this game was played for the first time, Harin gets the highest number of votes. Over time, the social hierarchy created by the Pyramid Game caused the lower ranking students to be treated worse than the higher ranking students, relationships became more transactional as people would become friends with others just go get more votes instead of a genuine desire for friendship. This all culminated in the F rank student being bullied by anyone in the class and they couldn't fight back.

So when Jaeun got assigned the F rank, this meant she was bullied relentlessly by others, which is exactly what Harin wanted.

Now with the setup out of the way, let's get into the analysis

-Harin foresaw how the class would be affected by the Pyramid Game, which includes the transactional relationships, the bullying of the lower ranks and so on

-With the Pyramid Game in place nobody would snitch, guaranteeing the continuation of this bullying of F rank

-Using her social status as an A rank Harin could easily make sure that Jaeun gets 0 votes, which would make it impossible for her to get out of F rank

-She knew Jaeun herself wouldn't talk about the bullying either due to her >!being Harin's sister and caring about her!<

-This all created a situation where Jaeun couldn't escape from bullying and suffering and there was no possibility of the bullying being exposed and Harin achieved this all through just a game

Some great foresight, social intelligence, strategy and mass manipulation

Episode 4 wins due to her showcasing the ability to speak, which means she comprehends language, a feat of intellect which Episode 3 Fukunaga has not shown

Episode 4 no diffs via long term iq