xxxHOLiC — Season 1
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 ine
About this season
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 (24)
1. Hitsuzen
7.2Aired 6 April 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.
2. Falsehood
7.5Aired 13 April 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.
3. Angel
7.2Aired 20 April 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.
4. Divination
7.5Aired 27 April 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.
5. Word-Chain Game
7.5Aired 4 May 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.
6. Indulgence
7.5Aired 11 May 2006 • 25 min
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
7. Hydrangea
7.8Aired 18 May 2006 • 25 min
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
8. Contract
7.5Aired 25 May 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.
9. Promise
7.5Aired 1 June 2006 • 25 min
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
10. Candlelight
7.7Aired 6 June 2006 • 25 min
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
11. Confession
7.7Aired 15 June 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.
12. Summer Shadow
7.7Aired 22 June 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?
13. Transfiguration
7.7Aired 29 June 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.
14. Seal
7.7Aired 6 July 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.
15. Release
7.7Aired 13 July 2006 • 25 min
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
16. Reunion
7.7Aired 20 July 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.
17. Circumstances
7.7Aired 27 July 2006 • 25 min
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
18. Hozuki
7.7Aired 3 August 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.
19. Irrational
7.7Aired 10 August 2006 • 25 min
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
20. Compensate
6.8Aired 17 August 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.
21. Nail Clippers
7.7Aired 7 September 2006 • 25 min
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
22. Temptation
7.7Aired 14 September 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.
23. Choice
7.7Aired 21 September 2006 • 25 min
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
24. Reminiscence
7.7Aired 28 September 2006 • 25 min
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.