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3	[[caption-width-right:350:Meirin Kanzaki [[SecretIdentityIdentity AKA]] Dr. Rin and Tenshin]]
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5	->''Haoyung Laila, please grant this maiden's wish.''
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7	''Ask Dr. Rin!'' (''Dr. Rin ni Kiite Mite!'') is a manga by Kiyoko Arai, which ran in the {{shoujo\|Demographic}} magazine ''Ciao'' from 1999 to 2003. It received an anime adaptation that ran for 51 episodes from 2001 to 2002.
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9	The plot at first follows the everyday life of Meirin Kanzaki, a 13-year-old girl with the power to predict the future using feng shui magic. In order to test her powers, she creates a Web site under the pseudonym of Dr. Rin. On that page she tries to provide fortunes to whoever happens to wander by. By the time the anime has started, the Web site has become wildly popular (so much so that it threatens to drive her father - a feng shui diviner by trade - out of business). However, the one boy who wishes that she would shut up every so often about fortunetelling, Asuka Yuuki, is Meirin's romantic obsession. The show switches constantly between being a romantic comedy and a magical girl adventure.
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12	!!This series contains examples of:
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14	* AllLoveIsUnrequited - Meirin follows Asuka around like a lost puppy while Tokiwa chases after her, Shinagawa makes a pass at Yue only to get dissed every episode, Shuuko can never seem to get the attention of any boy she crushes on for that episode... probably the only couple that's actually together is Meirin's parents.
15	%% * AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle - Dr. Rin's Feng-Shui corner
16	%% * BecauseDestinySaysSo - After this anime, you will never want to hear the term "fated lover" again.
17	%% * BigEater - Meirin's mother.
18	%% * BumblingDad - Meirin's father.
19	* ButtMonkey - Shinagawa and Ooimachi. Heck, Ooimachi seems to exist purely in order to do the pratfalls that even Shinagawa has too much dignity for.
20	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull - "O Shenlong, who governs my power of Feng Shui, Haoyung Laila, please grant this maiden's wish."
21	%% * CherryBlossoms - "Shinagawa, the Man's Love In Full Bloom," lampshade hung multiple times.
22	%% * ChickMagnet - Tokiwa
23	%% * CollapsingLair
24	%% * CoolBigSis - Yue serves this role, but is the same age as Meirin.
25	%% * CoolOldGuy - Meirin's grandfather
26	%% * CunningLikeAFox - Nanao
27	%% * CuteMute - [[spoiler:Banri]], before Meirin institutes EpiphanyTherapy on him.
28	%% * ElegantGothicLolita - Banri [[spoiler:as a girl]].
29	%% * FaceHeelTurn - [[spoiler:Asuka]]
30	%% * {{Fangirl}} - Shuuko
31	* FictionalCounterpart - The Ayu Hanasaki concert that Asuka took Meirin to bears a resemblance to a certain [[JapanesePopMusic Ayumi Hamasaki]], doesn't it?
32	%% * TheFourGods
33	* FortuneTeller - Many of the characters do this. Meirin uses feng shui, Tokiwa uses {{UsefulNotes/Onmyodo}}, Banri uses tarot cards, and Eddy uses astrology. Meirin's father also uses feng shui, but he's [[PhonyPsychic not so good at his job]].
34	%% * GrandTheftMe - [[spoiler:Banri]]
35	* HandsomeLech - Tokiwa both during and after being possessed, apparently - during, he's a borderline rapist, and after, he's very ditzy and narcissistic
36	%% * HeelFaceTurn - Each of the four guys does this, [[spoiler:but Asuka takes the cake for doing a full 180]].
37	* HeroSecretService - [[spoiler:Asuka, Tokiwa, Banri, and Eddy are the reincarnations of (respectively) Seiryuu, Byakko, Genbu, and Suzaku, and are sent to protect Meirin, the reincarnation of their master, Haoyung Laila]].
38	* HeroicFireRescue: When Tokiwa was still in his Yandere phase, one of his attempts to woo Meirin involved using his shikigami to set her school on fire while she was trapped in one of the rooms. His plan was to invoke this trope, even though he set the building on fire in the first place. Naturally, Asuka managed to show up and rescue her first.
39	%% * HitMeDammit - "Well then, please hit me until you are satisfied!"
40	%% * InterspeciesRomance - Cynthia has a one-sided crush on Asuka.
41	%% * {{Joshikousei}}
42	%% * LivingToys - Cynthia
43	%% * LoveFreak - Meirin
44	* LoveMakesYouEvil - Subverted-ish? Tokiwa is evil in the beginning, and even after his HeelFaceTurn, it's still pretty apparent he likes her. It's just that the connection between the two is feigned.
45	* LoveMartyr - Meirin's brother tosses Azusa's gifts each time and tells her that he's not interested in that.[[spoiler: Consequently, he is only using her in order to try and obtain Meirin's powers, and freely admits it (much to Azusa's distress.) After Azusa interferes quite a bit in his plans, he goes so far as to try and kill her.]]
46	* LuckyCharmsTitle - No, people who write the title aren't just very emotive. The exclamation mark in "Ask Dr. Rin!" is part of the official title.
47	%% * MacGuffin - The hakke crystal
48	%% * MadLove - Subverted, Meirin and Asuka
49	%% * MagicalGirl - Meirin, of course
50	%% * MegatonPunch - Meirin's mother is evidently quite capable of this.
51	* {{Miko}} - Oddly enough, Tokiwa seems to be a rare male version of this trope because his family is in charge of the Nikumo Shrine.
52	%% * MurderTheHypotenuse - Tokiwa tries this over and over for four episodes straight.
53	%% * NaiveEverygirl - Meirin to a limited extent. Shuuko, much more strongly.
54	%% * NewTransferStudent
55	* NotBloodSiblings - Meirin's [[spoiler:brother, Kyoumi, actually tricked her and her family into thinking he was their oldest by altering all their memories.]]
56	%% * OpenMindedParent - Meirin's parents have actually been found peeping when she and Asuka are alone
57	%% * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent - Well, middle school, anyway. Asuka.
58	* PinkIsForSissies - In "Victory Is Pink Pink Pink!" Meirin finds that the soccer team's lucky item for a big game is pink underwear. Asuka does not take to this revelation well.
59	%% * PluckyComicRelief - Shinagawa
60	%% * PollyWantsAMicrophone - Takoyaki
61	* ThePowerOfLove - Since Kyoumi[[spoiler:fell in love with Meirin, he developed a soft side, which she and Azusa are able to convert him back to.]] Also, during the final episode,[[spoiler: Meirin and Asuka's kiss reverses the effects of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
62	%% * TheRival - Tokiwa officially assigns himself this role against Asuka.
63	%% * {{Reincarnation}}
64	* RopeBridge: Nanao's trial for Tokiwa in her introduction episode ends with her hiding a contract between them on the middle of a flimsy rope bridge in what appears to be the windiest section of town.
65	* SaveTheVillain - Meirin takes a critical hit from[[spoiler: The King of Darkness, AKA Kyoumi, in order to save Azusa who he's trying to kill yet again. Of course this causes a HeelFaceTurn on Azusa's part.]]
66	%% * SerialRomeo / InLoveWithLove - Shuuko
67	%% * ShrinesAndTemples
68	%% * StalkerWithACrush - Tokiwa while he's possessed
69	%%* SuperDeformed
70	* {{Talking Animal}}s - Only three out of four of the main animals can talk. Nanao the kitsune, Cynthia the panda, and Takoyaki the parrot are all capable of speaking. Tenshin, Rin's pet monkey, can communicate, but only in squawks.
71	%% * TarotMotifs - Banri uses tarot cards
72	%% * TeamSpirit - Big {{Aesop}} during an episode about the soccer team.
73	%% * ThoseTwoGuys - Well, girls. Yue and Shuuko. Later on, Shinagawa begins to form a ThoseTwoGuys dynamic with Ooimachi.
74	* TigerVersusDragon - Two of the people who are supposed to be Meirin's guardians, [[spoiler:Tokiwa]] and [[spoiler:Asuka]], are reincarnations of [[TheFourGods Byakko the Tiger and Seiryuu the Dragon]] respectively. They are the [[spoiler:two big competitors for Meirin's affections]].
75	%% * TransformationSequence
76	%% * UnnecessaryRoughness - The opposing team in the "Pink Pink Pink" episode.
77	%% * UnwantedHarem
78	%% * VictoriousChildhoodFriend - Meirin and Asuka.
79	* WaifFu - Meirin's mom is [[InformedAbility stated to have previously been a pro-wrestler]], with accompanying pictures that show her laying the smackdown on a man at least twice her size.
80	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes - Or in Nanao's introductory episode, Why Did It Have To Be Dogs, Water, And Heights during her trial for Tokiwa.
81	%% * WiseBeyondTheirYears - Eddy.
82	%% * {{Yandere}}: Again, Tokiwa while he's possessed.

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