xxxHOLiC Season 1

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 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.

Air date: 2006-04-06

Episodes: 24

Episodes

E1: Hitsuzen

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.

Air date: 2006-04-06 • ★ 7.2

E2: Falsehood

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.

Air date: 2006-04-13 • ★ 7.5

E3: Angel

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.

Air date: 2006-04-20 • ★ 7.2

E4: Divination

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.

Air date: 2006-04-27 • ★ 7.5

E5: Word-Chain Game

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.

Air date: 2006-05-04 • ★ 7.5

E6: Indulgence

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

Air date: 2006-05-11 • ★ 7.5

E7: Hydrangea

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

Air date: 2006-05-18 • ★ 7.8

E8: Contract

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.

Air date: 2006-05-25 • ★ 7.5

E9: Promise

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

Air date: 2006-06-01 • ★ 7.5

E10: Candlelight

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

Air date: 2006-06-06 • ★ 7.7

E11: Confession

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.

Air date: 2006-06-15 • ★ 7.7

E12: Summer Shadow

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?

Air date: 2006-06-22 • ★ 7.7

E13: Transfiguration

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

Air date: 2006-06-29 • ★ 7.7

E14: Seal

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.

Air date: 2006-07-06 • ★ 7.7

E15: Release

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

Air date: 2006-07-13 • ★ 7.7

E16: Reunion

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.

Air date: 2006-07-20 • ★ 7.7

E17: Circumstances

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

Air date: 2006-07-27 • ★ 7.7

E18: Hozuki

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

Air date: 2006-08-03 • ★ 7.7

E19: Irrational

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

Air date: 2006-08-10 • ★ 7.7

E20: Compensate

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

Air date: 2006-08-17 • ★ 6.8

E21: Nail Clippers

Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

Air date: 2006-09-07 • ★ 7.7

E22: Temptation

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.

Air date: 2006-09-14 • ★ 7.7

E23: Choice

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

Air date: 2006-09-21 • ★ 7.7

E24: Reminiscence

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

Air date: 2006-09-28 • ★ 7.7