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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. .


 * Badass Adorable
 * Dragons Up the Yin-Yang: Her hakke crystal whenever it activates.
 * Expy: Of Serena, from Sailor Moon. Or Miaka, from Fushigi Yuugi. Frankly, the entire series is built as a Homage to these two, so it should be expected.
 * Foil: Against Asuka.
 * Fortune Teller: Using her feng shui powers as the anonymous Dr. Rin.
 * Genki Girl: Particularly on the walk to school with Asuka, where she invariably goes into Super-Deformed mode and hovers around Asuka as a Human Hummingbird.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Hair of Gold
 * Henshin Hero
 * Love Freak: In true Shojo Messiah fashion.
 * 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.
 * Magical Girl
 * The Messiah
 * Motor Mouth: Whenever she's thinking about Asuka.
 * Naive Everygirl
 * Odango Hair: Heck, she's a Sailor Moon Expy, so these come with the terrain.
 * Opposites Attract: She's a Genki Magical Girl Love Freak. He's a straight-laced skeptic. Naturally, they make an adorable couple.
 * Secret Identity Identity
 * Weirdness Magnet
 * Victorious Childhood Friend: It's so obvious from the start of the series that you don't even need the spoilers.
 * Victorious Childhood Friend: It's so obvious from the start of the series that you don't even need the spoilers.

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. .


 * Badass Normal: He does a lot of damage for one of the few main cast members without magic powers..
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * : Well, he is the one.
 * Even The Wombats Want Him: Once Cynthia does a Heel Face Turn, she decides that she's in love with Asuka too. This would be bad enough, given Meirin's obsession with him, but it's made even worse, because not only is she not human, she is not even a carbon-based lifeform.
 * : Once he.
 * Foil: To both Meirin and Tokiwa.
 * Opposites Attract: She's a Genki Magical Girl Love Freak. He's a straight-laced skeptic. Naturally, they make an adorable couple.
 * Ordinary Middle School Student
 * Straight Man
 * The Team Normal:.
 * : His rivalry against Tokiwa, given their.
 * Victorious Childhood Friend
 * : His rivalry against Tokiwa, given their.
 * Victorious Childhood Friend

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. Once his is cleared up, 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. .


 * Bishonen: Although most of the other guardians have this to some extent or another, it's really played up with Tokiwa.
 * Blond Guys Are Evil - Subverted
 * 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.
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Fortune Teller: The resident one at the Nikumo Shrine using Onmyodo. Mostly, he does love fortunes.
 * Handsome Lech: Definitely for the first few episodes.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Tokiwa is voiced by Yuuto Kazama, who also played Yamato Ishida in Digimon Adventure. Heck, Tokiwa even has the same haircut Yamato's 02 incarnation.
 * 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.
 * Miko: A rare male example.
 * Murder the Hypotenuse: Through the first few episodes.
 * Parental Abandonment: Unlike Asuka and Meirin, his family never appears except in flashbacks. One wonders how he convinced them to let him transfer schools after falling for Meirin.
 * The Rival: Against Asuka. He declares it himself.
 * Stalker With a Crush: For the first few episodes.
 * : Same as Asuka.
 * Yandere: While he's.

Banri Shijou
"Voiced by: Yumi Kakazu"

A young 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. As it turns out, Banri was being. After Cynthia herself was purified, Banri went back to being a. .


 * Cute Mute: Until Meirin institutes some Epiphany Therapy on.
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * : At least partially due to the Gender Bender, but even under normal circumstances, Viewer Gender Confusion can still pop up.
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita: While.
 * Epiphany Therapy: It only takes one Whoopi Epiphany Speech from Meirin and, and the trauma and mutism had suffered is gone.
 * First Law of Gender Bending - Turns out.
 * Fortune Teller: Using tarot cards.
 * Kid Samurai
 * Missing Mom - Banri.
 * Tagalong Kid
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair - More evident when.
 * Tagalong Kid
 * You Gotta Have Purple Hair - More evident when.

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. .


 * Bishonen
 * Long-Haired Pretty Boy
 * Blond Guys Are Evil - Subverted.
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Fortune Teller: Using astrology.
 * Kansai Regional Accent: Despite the fact that most Americans learning Japanese as a second language learn the Tokyo dialect.
 * Stern Teacher: He quickly gains a reputation for this sort of treatment of the soccer team.
 * Token Foreigner: The only gaijin in the cast.

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.


 * Beta Couple: With Shinagawa.
 * Cool Big Sis: Although she takes on this role, she's exactly the same age as Meirin.
 * Foil: Against Shuuko.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: She jokes with Meirin a lot about this.
 * Those Two Girls: With Shuuko.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

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.


 * Fan Girl: For... just about any cute guy.
 * Foil: Against Yue.
 * Hollywood Dateless
 * In Love With Love
 * Naive Everygirl: Even more than Meirin, Shuuko really embodies this trope.
 * Serial Romeo
 * Those Two Girls: With Yue.

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.


 * Beta Couple: With Yue.
 * Bromantic Foil: Although later on, Tokiwa starts to take on this role more often.
 * Butt Monkey
 * Plucky Comic Relief: His raison d'etre.
 * 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.
 * Cunning Like a Fox: Nanao
 * Everything's Better With Monkeys: Tenshin
 * 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.
 * Kansai Regional Accent: Takoyaki.
 * Living Toys: Cynthia.
 * Pinocchio Syndrome - The reason (along with ) for Banri's.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critters
 * Polly Wants a Microphone: Takoyaki.
 * Small Annoying Creature: At least one of them for most fans.
 * Talking Animal: Three out of the four. The one exception is Tenshin, who only squawks, although he can still communicate with Meirin.
 * Team Pet

Emiko Kanzaki
Meirin's mother.


 * Women Are Wiser
 * Cute Bruiser: In her younger days.
 * Tsundere: Toward Meirin's father.
 * 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.


 * Bumbling Dad
 * Chivalrous Pervert: He seems to pay an inordinate amount of attention to his female fans while he's already married.
 * Phony Psychic: Well, he believes he's good at it, anyway.

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.


 * Cool Old Guy
 * Rummage Sale Reject

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


 * Stoic Spectacles:.
 * Stoic Spectacles:.