Ran discovers through her interactions with Midori that she has tremendous telepathic and telekinetic powers, just like Midori herself. The only trouble is that the two girls don't hit it off well at first. They get a mutual understanding though once they decide to face an adversary with similar abilities, who at one point kidnaps Rui, Ran's boyfriend who possesses certain powers as well.
The series, fully called Telepathy Shoujo Ran Jiken Note, describes how Ran deals with her newly found abilities and how it affects her relationship with her friends and family, mostly in an "adventure per episode" format. The stuff Ran, Midori and Rui have to deal with ranges from fairly mundane school troubles, through low-key detective work to run-ins with local godhoods.
The show, which NHK aired in the latter half of 2008, is generally light-hearted family fun, with a strong-willed female lead and ditto friends.
Tropes:
- All of the Other Reindeer: Midori tries to pull this one on Ran at first.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Midori, "the most beautiful girl in middle school" and something of a princess to most of the population. That said, while she does set herself apart from others, her "dignity" is an easily-cracked facade.
- Amateur Sleuth: Ran, Rui and Midori are somewhere between this and kid detectives. Rin, being older, is this straight on.
- Big Eater: Midori. She does pretty well at eating contests.
- Brother–Sister Team: Ran is helped immensely by her older brother Rin during her adventures.
- Cherry Blossoms: All over. One episode is about returning a god to a sakura tree.
- Fantastic Racism: Most people with psychic abilities are victim to this. Ran's unusual in having a boyfriend and family who think her superpowers are awesome.
- I Am a Monster: Midori and Momoko both think that psychics are freaks and monsters and that ordinary people won't accept them. This doesn't quite mean being a Boomerang Bigot; rather, their philosophy is to set themselves apart from ordinary humans. In Momoko's case, this extends to lashing out with her powers.
- Loners Are Freaks: Averted with Midori, who is pretty normal, although perhaps a bit arrogant. Played straight with Momoko.
- Masquerade: it's a "magic/esper" series, what did you expect? Midori spends a lot of effort to hide from her classmates... her Kansai-ben accent. Oh, and her powers, too.
- Parental Abandonment: Averted with Ran, but played straight with Midori.
- Power Glows: Emitted by Ran and Midori when applying their powers. It seems to be invisible to others though.
- Psychic Link: Most prominently between Ran and Midori, although they can connect to other people too if they try hard enough.
- Really Dead Montage: Played straight, even though Midori doesn't really die.
- Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The show's introductory three episodes are fairly dark and serious, but after that it shifts into something resembling Scooby-Doo.
- Selective Obliviousness: Rin doesn't seem to notice Midori's crush on him, even though she doesn't exactly keep it a secret.
- He probably has noticed, but either doesn't take it seriously, or decided to ignore it, since he's looking for a girlfriend his age. An aversion of the Lolicon trope, if you wish.
- Sequel Hook: Ran hears another voice in the end, saying the same thing Midori did.
- Spoiler Opening: It is immediately shown that Ran and Midori will be on good footing.
- Tsundere: Midori just doesn't know how to be a friend, so when Ran drags her into friendship, she tends to be a little awkward and mask it with tsundere behavior.
- Weirdness Censor: Yamashita-kun, who is helped by Ran's powers but still can't believe it.
