Looking for a story about an incredibly smart kid, smart enough be called a genius or a prodigy. Not just a quick-minded or clever kid - I mean a real bonafide GENIUS. The kind that would have a humongous IQ score and could attend university as a pre-teen if s/he wanted to. The kind of intelligence that adults notice and immediately label as being of a genius level, no matter how young the child is. That order of intelligence.

Please ONLY recommend manga where:

-| The main character is a kid under 16.

-| The kid is a genius/prodigy but NOT just a sports prodigy. (Sorry!) Has to be really smart in a NERDY way. 😀 (The only exceptions would be nerdy sports, like chess or something that emphasizes mental prowess only.)

-| The kid is either a one-subject genius (e.g. specialized in music or maths or science or art), or an all-round genius-at-everything kid. There should be at least one area where the kid is super-gifted or in the top 1% or something.

-| The main plot/story is inspired by, based on is only made possible by this kid's immense intelligence. So it should NOT be a manga where the genius of the kid plays a side role - it has to be the main force behind the plot.

-| The kid is a genuine kid, not an adult-becomes-child scenario or an alien-child-that-is-really-400-years-old scenario or child-demon scenario or child-angel scenario or vampire-child-that-lives-forever kind of scenario. Nope! Just a plain little kid. Who happens to be a massive genius. 😀

-| One-shots are ok. Doesn't have to be a whole manga or a whole series.

-| Any genre except hentai is ok. Ecchi manga or lightly shota-ish/loli-ish romances are actually ok, but NO HENTAI plz. 😔 The only reason I'm even allowing ecchi at all is because child geniuses are so hard to find in manga... Seriously, where the heck are they? Maybe I haven't been able to find them because I haven't been looking for the perverted or "precocious" ones? Lol.

I'm very excited about this! Let's see what people suggest!

Historie: highly recommend this one.
Dr. Rabbit: oneshot.

I would add Pani Poni, but I'm not sure if she's actually under 16 or just looks that young. O_O And the plot doesn't really focus on her being a genius...

Edit~ I might as well add Mahou Sensei Negima! since I know someone else will mention it eventually. XD

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Old: Hikaru no go... Well a genius ghost did help him out. But somewhere in the end the ghost finally realise how genius the kid is... And theres another kid that is just plain genius
new: the world god only know... Pure genius 😀
i hope these help
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uhm she might be around 16 acctually anyway because i wanna help:

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Aha! I was right - it was because I was avoiding ecchi that I wasn't finding many child geniuses. 🤣

Thank you so much, everyone. Still favoring the non-ecchi ones, here, but will read anything with a child genius in it at this point. EDIT: As long as the main plot is focused on the genius nature of the kid and the things s/he achieves with it! Would Mahou Sensei Negima still count? Am curious, because I always thought the kid's "intelligence" was just an excuse to have a boy in the middle of a lot of attractive older women... Not so much a thing of worth in and of itself. But I'd be very happy if my first impression was wrong! Plz to be correcting me. 😃

EDIT #2: I think "Hikaru no Go" doesn't actually have a genius protagonist of the kind I'm looking for (as you said, he had supernatural assistance), but since the other main chara is a bonafide kid genius (Akira), that'll still fly. 😀 Thanks!

Yasha. Though when he's young he kinda hid the fact that he's a genius.

The World God Only Knows (TWGOK). Hosts an intelligent main character with a specialty in gaming.

Q.E.D., but the main chara is in high school, even though he graduated from M.I.T. So I think he's around 16 year old (I never paid attention how old Touma is 😕 ) .

C.M.B. suits more, but it's not yet scanlated into english (the raws are floating on eMule, btw).

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Give Gash Bell! a chance maybe. The genius main character grows physically and mentally after some volumes and continues the trend.

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Would Mahou Sensei Negima still count? Am curious, because I always thought the kid's "intelligence" was just an excuse to have a boy in the middle of a lot of attractive older women... Not so much a thing of worth in and of itself. But I'd be very happy if my first impression was wrong! Plz to be correcting me. 😃

Then I don't think you would like Negima so much, since that's exactly what it is. Granted, I did drop the series, but from where I left off his "geniusness" wasn't pointed out that much. It is kind of similar to Pani Poni in that aspect since her child-prodigy self was basically an excuse to have her in the middle of such a chaotic classroom; the mangaka didn't really focus much on her being a prodigy, neither for character or plot development.

And I would suggest both Tensai Family Company and Grand Sun, but I think both geniuses are 17 years old. O_o

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piano no mori - beautiful story about child pianists

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Aha! I was right - it was because I was avoiding ecchi that I wasn't finding many child geniuses. 🤣

Thank you so much, everyone. Still favoring the non-ecchi ones, here, but will read anything with a child genius in it at this point. EDIT: As long as the main plot is focused on the genius nature of the kid and the things s/he achieves with it! Would Mahou Sensei Negima still count? Am curious, because I always thought the kid's "intelligence" was just an excuse to have a boy in the middle of a lot of attractive older women... Not so much a thing of worth in and of itself. But I'd be very happy if my first impression was wrong! Plz to be correcting me. 😃

EDIT #2: I think "Hikaru no Go" doesn't actually have a genius protagonist of the kind I'm looking for (as you said, he had supernatural assistance), but since the other main chara is a bonafide kid genius (Akira), that'll still fly. 😀 Thanks!

He only has the ghost help him out at first. Since he had no idea how to play. But trust me, later on, the kid can outplay the ghost at Go.

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EDIT #2: I think "Hikaru no Go" doesn't actually have a genius protagonist of the kind I'm looking for (as you said, he had supernatural assistance), but since the other main chara is a bonafide kid genius (Akira), that'll still fly. 😀 Thanks!

He only has the ghost help him out at first. Since he had no idea how to play. But trust me, later on, the kid can outplay the ghost at Go.

^ that's what i said b4. The main character become a genius even more than the ghost, which was totally awsome and sad somehow.

Hatsumei Princess should classify cos she's a prodigal inventor who's 16?
And..Shion no Ou probably. She's pretty darn good at Shougi anyway. No idea how old she is but I'm guessing it's under 16. 😃

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