xxxHOLiC
xxxHOLiC: Season 1
Season 2

Air Date

April 6, 2006

Episodes

24 episodes

xxxHOLiC

Season 1

Overview

Kimihiro Watanuki can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures—for a price. She demands that he work at her "store" that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events.

Episodes

Hitsuzen

1. Hitsuzen

7.2
April 6, 2006
25 min

Watanuki's life changes completely when he meets Yūko for the first time. Watanuki is given a job at Yūko's shop, paying off his debt. Mokona, Maru and Moro all make their first appearance in this episode.

Falsehood

2. Falsehood

7.5
April 13, 2006
25 min

A client seeks Yūko's aid because she has problems with her right little finger; Yūko tells her that it is happening because of a bad habit of hers. Watanuki learns more about Yūko while becoming the shop's cook. Himawari-chan and Doumeki both make their first appearance in this episode.

Angel

3. Angel

7.2
April 20, 2006
25 min

Himawari-chan asks for Yūko's help to solve a series of mysterious incidents occurring at the school, involving a game called angel. Yūko meets Himawari-chan, and Watanuki is forced to work with Doumeki. Doumeki begins to learn about his true nature.

Divination

4. Divination

7.5
April 27, 2006
25 min

Yūko decides to show Watanuki what a real Diviner can do. Watanuki learns more about Yūko's powers, while his past is explained. The important butterfly symbolism found throughout the series is also explained.

Word-Chain Game

5. Word-Chain Game

7.5
May 4, 2006
25 min

Watanuki encounters an uncommon oden shop in the middle of the night, while engaging in a dangerous task with Mokona's aid. Watanuki meets the Fox family and later gives the Young Fox a Haja Arrow. The full moon brings new life to Yūko's shop.

Indulgence

6. Indulgence

7.5
May 11, 2006
25 min

Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.

Hydrangea

7. Hydrangea

7.8
May 18, 2006
25 min

A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.

Contract

8. Contract

7.5
May 25, 2006
25 min

A teacher in Watanuki's school gets her hands into a dangerous item from Yūko's shop, the monkey's paw. The teacher's discovery eventually leads to her downfall and of the monkey's paw choking her.

Promise

9. Promise

7.5
June 1, 2006
25 min

Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.

Candlelight

10. Candlelight

7.7
June 6, 2006
25 min

Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.

Confession

11. Confession

7.7
June 15, 2006
25 min

When a Zashiki-warashi accidentally steals Doumeki's soul, Watanuki has to go after her to get it back, aloof to what are her true intentions.

Summer Shadow

12. Summer Shadow

7.7
June 22, 2006
25 min

It's summer and the gang decides to spend some days in a house by the beach. For some reason Doumeki keeps asking Watanuki to call for his help, but he can't figure out why. Unbeknownst to them, there's a ghost lurking inside. When Watanuki discovers this, will he investigate alone?

Transfiguration

13. Transfiguration

7.7
June 29, 2006
25 min

Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.

Seal

14. Seal

7.7
July 6, 2006
25 min

Watanuki and Doumeki meet a pair of twin sisters and even go to a date with them, but Watanuki can't shake the feeling there is something strange about the older one.

Release

15. Release

7.7
July 13, 2006
25 min

The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.

Reunion

16. Reunion

7.7
July 20, 2006
25 min

In order to make the Pipe Fox revert to its original form, Yūko sends Watanuki to purify it in a mystical mountain, where he meets the Zashiki-warashi again.

Circumstances

17. Circumstances

7.7
July 27, 2006
25 min

Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.

Hozuki

18. Hozuki

7.7
August 3, 2006
25 min

Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.

Irrational

19. Irrational

7.7
August 10, 2006
25 min

Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.

Compensate

20. Compensate

6.8
August 17, 2006
25 min

A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.

Nail Clippers

21. Nail Clippers

7.7
September 7, 2006
25 min

Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

Temptation

22. Temptation

7.7
September 14, 2006
25 min

Watanuki meets a beautiful woman and starts to see her every day hoping to soothe her loneliness, but somehow he starts to get sick and can't figure out the reason.

Choice

23. Choice

7.7
September 21, 2006
25 min

As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.

Reminiscence

24. Reminiscence

7.7
September 28, 2006
25 min

Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.