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Meirin Kanzaki

Voiced by: Saeko Chiba

By day, your typical teenage girl who has a few good friends and is hopelessly in love with her Victorious Childhood Friend, Asuka. She loves feng shui divination, and seems pretty good at it. Sometimes, she's able to use it to help out her friends. By night, however, she's Dr. Rin, an online fortune-telling wonder who gets tons of e-mails and is driving her father's business into ruin. Things begin to become weird when a strange evil spirit seems intent on stealing her "power," although what this power could be, she has no idea. Her only protections are her loyal True Companions and her magic hakke crystal, which protects her from harm.


  • Love Freak: Just about every other line out of her mouth, even if it isn't relating to Asuka is about true love.
  • Mad Love: Her affections for Asuka look like this at first, but it's easy enough to tell that he returns her affections a few episodes in.

Asuka Yuuki

Voiced by: Takayuki Sorita
Meirin's childhood friend and next-door neighbor. Asuka is largely a skeptic on all matters of the occult and also trying to maintain a normal middle school life at the same time. Needless to say, the appearance of evil forces out to take away his best friend throw him out of that rut pretty quickly. He holds up pretty well, despite being one of the few members of the cast not to have magic powers. He plays on the soccer team along with Tokiwa and Shinagawa. He often winds up playing the Straight Man foil to... just about everyone else in the cast.
  • Giving Up on Logic: When Meirin and Asuka first meet Nanao, a small, talking kitsune and Meirin gets surprised and excited, Asuka simply comments that seeing these sorts of things when he's around Meirin simply doesn't surprise him anymore.

Takashi Tokiwa

Voiced by: Yuuto Kazama
An Onmyoji from a local shrine, he transfers to Meirin's school at the beginning of the series and immediately sets his sights on her, declaring Asuka his rival and trying to burn down the school while she's in it just so that he can rescue her from it. Later on, he immediately goes about showing a much nicer personality that, while still narcissistic and hopelessly flirty, is more Chick Magnet than Stalker with a Crush. He still has a crush on Meirin and competes with Asuka for her affections.
  • Bromantic Foil: Really, either he or Shinagawa could be this. They both reflect different aspects of Asuka's personality.
  • Chick Magnet: Every girl in the school except Meirin and Yue seems to be one of his Fangirls.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Two of his antics included setting the school on fire while Meirin was in it, just so he could rescue her; and another was using Shikigami to try to drive Asuka's bus off a bridge. Thankfully, he gets better before anyone gets permanently injured.
  • Love Makes You Evil: Subverted-ish? Tokiwa is evil in the beginning, and even after his Heel–Face Turn, it's still pretty apparent he likes her. It's just that the connection between the two is feigned.

Banri Shijou

Voiced by: Yumi Kakazu
A young child who can tell fortunes using tarot cards. Banri appears first trying to trap Meirin in a white card in order to steal her powers, usually by manipulating her feelings for Asuka. After Cynthia herself was purified, Banri went back to being a child.

Eddy Tsukioka

Voiced by: Hidenobu Kiuchi
After an unfortunate accident that the soccer team's coach has after school hours, Eddy takes over as substitute coach while his parrot, Takoyaki, frustrates the team from his hangout on the net. He quickly gains a reputation for being particularly strict with them. He shows a bit of a crush on Meirin quite early on. During a date with her, he shows off some of his astrology skills.

Yue Konishi

Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi
One of Meirin's two best friends. Cool, calm, and collected; she serves as a foil for the much more excitable and ditzy Shuuko. Shinagawa pursues her with a passion that she seems to tolerate, but without actually giving him any ideas that she reciprocates.

Shuuko Kasukabe

Voiced by: Kana Kouguchi
The more ditzy and valley-girl-ish of Meirin's two best friends, Shuuko is nonetheless a devoted friend who will always be there for Meirin. Of course, if there's a chance to chase a cute guy in the process, that's even better.
  • Fangirl: For... just about any cute guy. Although she seems to have a persistent thing for Tokiwa in particular.

Daisuke Shinagawa

Voiced by: Kei Watanabe
A good guy at heart, Shinagawa is the earnest Plucky Comic Relief. He's Asuka's best friend and plays on the soccer team with him. He has an obvious crush on Yue, but can't convince her to give him the time of day.
  • Those Two Guys: Later on, after Ooimachi is introduced, this dynamic begins to show up between those two.

Tenshin, Nanao, Cynthia, and Takoyaki

The four pets of the main characters. Tenshin belongs to Meirin, Nanao to Tokiwa, Cynthia to Banri, and Takoyaki to Eddy. Two of them are not actual animals - Nanao is a shikigami that looks like a seven-tailed Kitsune, and Cynthia is actually a panda doll.
  • Abhorrent Admirer: Cynthia to Asuka. This is less because she's ugly and more because she's... well, a panda.
  • Interspecies Romance: Cynthia, a panda doll, is in love with Asuka, who is human.
  • Japanese Politeness: Nanao exclusively uses the most humble Japanese speech. Presumably, this is due to her status as a shikigami servant.
  • Talking Animal: Three out of the four. The one exception is Tenshin, who only squawks, although he can still communicate with Meirin.

Emiko Kanzaki

Meirin's mother.
  • Waif-Fu: Evidently, she used to be a pro-wrestler. She's shown in pictures and flashbacks beating up men twice her size.

Shou Kanzaki

Meirin's father. He works as a television feng-shui master, but the mysterious Dr. Rin puts him to shame and is his Arch-Enemy.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: He seems to pay an inordinate amount of attention to his female fans while he's already married.
  • Not-So-Phony Psychic: He has a show on TV, but he has a bad tendency to goof up the predictions, leaving an opening for Dr. Rin to eat into his business.

Meirin's Grandfather

A somewhat weird old guy who provides some background about the legacies of of the hakke crystal and the feng shui board.

Kyoumi Kanzaki

Meirin's big brother. Generally a decent guy who provides her with some advice.

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