21 INTJ Anime Characters (A full list)

In this brief guide, we will discuss 21 INTJ anime characters, as well as some INTJ personality traits.

List of INTJ Anime characters

Here is a list of 21 great INTJ anime characters

• Kurisu Makise
• Kyoko Kirgiri
• L
• Akihiko Kiyaba
• Shougo Makishima
• Kyubey
• Shirley Fenette
• Emiya Kiritsugu
• Near
• Mello
• Masayuki Hori
• Junpei Hyuga
• Houtaru Oreki
• Tsumugu Kihara
• Angel (Kanade Tachibana)
• Kirei Kotomine
• Keima Katsuragi
• Itaru Hashida
• Heinrich Lunge
• Misaki Ayuzawa
• Yuri Nakamura

What is an INTJ personality?

INTJ personality type is a personality given by the Myers Briggs classification which is based on the Jungian theories of personality traits.

INTJ stands for Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging, and this group is also referred to as the Architect, due to their love for detailed work and precision.

These are thoughtful and tactful individuals, who love the idea of perfection in the details of life, and they often apply creativity and rationality to everything they do. 

Due to their traits of introversion and intuitiveness, their inner world is often exceedingly private and complex, which most of the time only they are privy to.

INTJ individuals might have awesome strong reactions to rules, restrictions, and traditions, as they are of the opinion that things must be questioned and reviewed, and not accepted before this process has been completed.

In addition, they can often be innovative and unique, and they prefer to work alone or accomplish things alone, even if they are in the public eye or interacting with people in the course of their day to day life.

The major decision making and judgment process, which is the dominant function in INTJs, and they are also unlikely to wait for others to catch up.

They may come across as cold or distant sometimes due to their introverted tendencies and the high importance they place on their own decisions, but these people can be very empathetic and kind as well, although that may be reserved for those in their immediate circle rather than everyone they meet, like with an extrovert.

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INTJ Anime Characters

Kurisu Makise

Kurisu Makise appears on the show Stein’s gate and makes for a good example of an INTJ anime character.

She is shown to be a sensible, serious, and mature young woman, who is usually calm and collected even in the face of someone being tense around her. 

Perhaps the most INTJ like a trait in Kurisu is the fact that she is extremely practical and a realist, so much so that she does not believe in concepts and things that she cannot test and see for herself.

The INTJ trait of wanting to test and review things before blindly believing in them is a major one that may be seen in Kurisu, in addition to the sarcasm she sometimes engages in, and her fine attention to details when she is reviewing something.

Kyoko Kirgiri

Kyoko Kirgiri is an INTj anime character on the show Danganronpa.

She shows INTj traits such as being stoic, intelligent and appearing as a somewhat mysterious person who does not like to discuss her feelings often.

INTJs are dominated by thinking, intuition, and sensing processes, and they are therefore quite reluctant to place too much premium in emotions, both in their experience as well as expression.

She also has a calm demeanor and tends to be completely unfrazzled in the face of challenges or other things that may bring people down otherwise.

L

L is an INTJ anime character on the show Death Note.

L is very secretive, which may be indicative of a seriously introverted personality, and he is very intelligent, albeit a tad disheveled.

He also has great powers of deduction, which also may be seen in many INTJ anime characters as well as persons with this personality type.

He is also quite meticulous and analytical which suggests a dominant thinking function.

Akihiko Kiyaba

Akihiko Kiyaba is an INTJ anime character on the show Sword Art.

Akihiko is usually a very calm and soft-spoken person who is shown as having a cool demeanor. 

Like many INTJs, Akihiko is also very sincere and thoughtful and has some amazingly innovative and creative ideas.

Shougo Makishima

Shougo Makishima is a character on the show Psycho-Pass and he shows some INTJ traits, though he may often be seen in other personality types as well, which only drives home the point of how fluctuating the personality traits in anime characters tend to be, due to their frequently changing storylines.

Shougo is believable as an INTJ anime character due to traits such as the ability to manipulate people to do his bidding, fulfilling his desires with his charisma, and his gift for persuasive speech. 

He can also be somewhat cruel about the things he wants to achieve and sometimes doesn’t care about who stands in the way of his goals and what he needs to do in order to bypass them.

Kyubey

Kyubey appears on the show The Puella Magi, and while it is not technically a human, it does show some INTJ traits.

It may be called a metaphorical INTJ anime character, for displaying INTJ traits like not being extremely in touch with emotions, and rising over challenges as nothing happened and moving on towards their goals.

Additionally, Kyubey might also seem somewhat cold and insensitive due to the emotionlessness, but the fact is that it simply does not have an understanding of emotions, quite similar to INTjs, who are not necessarily too invested in emotions, but rather logic and intuition.

Shirley Fenette

Shirley Fenette is an INTJ anime character on the show Code Geass.

Though she has a sunny disposition and tends to be cheerful most of the time, she also shows traits like being cultured and intelligent, which are things one might find in an INTJ personality.

She can also be rather thoughtful and detail-driven at times, which may also indicate an INTJ personality.

Emiya Kiritsugu

Emiya Kiritsugu makes a good INTJ anime character due to his brooding and thoughtful tendencies.

One might find this character on the show Fate/stay Night, where he wants to be a hero of justice and shows INTJ traits like wanting to review things before he believes them and working in a collected and methodical manner.

Kirigitsu has also been discussed under different personality types but that is owing to the nature of this theory of personality, where traits are seen more along a continuum than a black and white division, and anime characters tend to show radically different traits depending on their storyline sometimes.

Near

Near appears on the show Death Note and makes for a good INTJ anime character study.

He is shown to be very intelligent and has an obsession with solving complex problems, which may be seen as the iNTJ tendency to delve into fine details.

In addition, Near also has low social knowledge and is bad at interacting with others. 

One of his descriptions reads, “he is only able to display his true deductive powers when he has the support of his members.”, which drives home the fact that he does indeed have INTJ traits.

Mello

Mello is another INTJ anime character from the manga and anime Death Note.

He is extremely obsessed with being number one and shows great ambition.

His drive and determination towards his goal, and his tendency to think things through well maybe some good INTJ traits.

In addition, he may also not have great recognition of emotions and he also tends to function more according to thinking rather than feeling, which may also be indicative of an INTJ personality type.

Masayuki Hori

Masayuki Hori is an INTJ anime character on the show Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun.

He is diligent and hardworking, and sometimes may have a short temper and get angry rather quickly, which may sometimes be seen in INTJ personality types.

However, he is also mature and polite but may sometimes show a childish side and like a true INTj, he has a great appreciation for the arts and crafts, getting extremely engrossed in watching plays and giving everything every time he acts.

Junpei Hyuga

Junpei Hyuga appears on the show Kiuruko no Basuke and makes for a good addition to the list of INTJ anime characters.

Despite his occasional rudeness, Hyuga can be a rather calm and collected individual. 

He is also a sensible and dependable leader and his approach to challenges is quite calculated and serious, like a typical INTJ.

Houtaru Oreki

Houtaru Oreki is an INTJ anime character on the show Kyouka.

He can come across as an apathetic, cynical, and calm person, which may sometimes be seen in INTJ individuals.

He also tends to have a passive demeanor and does not get unnecessarily excited about anything, to conserve energy.

He also does not talk very much and is not great at expressing emotions, which as discussed before, is something that INTJs may often struggle with.

Tsumugu Kihara

Tsumugu Kihara appears on the show Nagi no Asu Kara.

He is known for his calm demeanor and tendency to be stoic.

Like a true INTJ, he has some difficulty in showing emotions on his face and therefore may be perceived as somewhat blunt. 

He prefers to listen rather than speak and in a typical INTJ manner, he is also very intuitive though and mature for his age. 

Angel (Kanade Tachibana)

Angel (Kanade Tachibana) appears on the show Angel Beats, and she shows some rather typical INTJ anime character traits.

She is noticeable for her lack of detectable emotion, which may sometimes make it somewhat difficult to understand what she is thinking.

She is also very intelligent and methodical, and she uses clever ways to make herself more undefeatable, by using the programs and means available to her.

Kirei Kotomine

Kirei Kotomine is an INTJ anime character on the show Fate/stay night and other related movies and manga.

He has a defective mind, according to his backstory, and he is better seen more as a metaphor for an INTJ rather than implying that INTJ traits are wrong or defective in any way.

He shows traits such as the inability to accept accomplishments as such and not being satisfied with the bare minimum.

He is also not a big fan of showing emotion and prefers to move forward on the bases of thinking a lot and planning clear judgments rather than other things.

Keima Katsuragi

Keima Katsuragi is the protagonist of the series The World God Only Knows.

He is completely invested in games and does not show interest in much else.

This is suggestive of him being an INTJ anime character due to the fact that they may tend to be attracted to things that involve a lot of decision making and attention to details, the way video games do.

He is also seen as cold and distant due to a lack of emotion, which is also something a lot of INTjs get accused of. 

Itaru Hashida

Itaru Hashida is an INTJ anime character on the show Stein’s Gate, and show many typical traits of this personality type.

He is obsessed with detail-oriented things that demand logic and judgment, like computers and programs, and he is also great at them.

He is also very innovative and creative in naming his programs and has INTJ traits like being able to solve complex programs by dwelling on them and working through them in a methodical manner.

Heinrich Lunge

Heinrich Lunge is an INTJ anime character on the show Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, where he is a detective.

Heinrich’s typical INTJ personality is seen in the following quote where he talks about what being a detective or investigator involves:

“You have to calmly dissect and scrutinize everything. Dig up the truth as rationally as you can, even if you have to sacrifice your own happiness in the process.”

This shows the kind of thinking process one might see in an INTJ person, and Heinrich is cold, ruthless, and efficient in a similar vein.

He is also tenacious and hardworking, which may also make him a great INTJ anime character.

Misaki Ayuzawa

Misaki Ayuzawa appears on the show Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama!

She sees men as bad people since her dad left her family, but before that she was gentle and kind.

She is extremely hardworking and becomes president of the student body in order to help her fellow students, which may also be suggestive of an INTj personality type.

She doesn’t let other people get in her path and she can be rather fierce and determined about what she wants, which also makes her a great INTJ anime character.

Yuri Nakamura

Yuri Nakamura is another INTJ anime character from the show Angel Beats.

She has the ability to stay calm in the most dangerous situations and she can be very determined about what she wants, which also makes her a rather charismatic leader.

She also thinks well on her feet and she is not afraid to make the necessary sacrifices in the face of challenges, which also shows how she uses thinking and logic to make decisions rather than be driven by emotion or feelings.

Conclusion

In this brief guide, we discussed 21 INTJ anime characters, as well as some INTJ personality traits. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or suggestions.

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Citations 

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