xxxHOLiC Season 1

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Jun Fukuyama

Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)

Age : 45 | Popularity : 26%

Sayaka Ohara

Yūko Ichihara (voice)

Age : 48 | Popularity : 11%

Kazuya Nakai

Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)

Age : 56 | Popularity : 12%

Shizuka Itoh

Himawari Kunogi (voice)

Age : 43 | Popularity : 12%

Mika Kikuchi

Mokona (voice)

Age : 40 | Popularity : 7%

Hisayo Mochizuki

Moro (voice)

Age : 46 | Popularity : 3%

Kazuko Kojima

Maru (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Episodes

Episode 1

06 April 2006 - 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.

Episode 2

13 April 2006 - 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.

Episode 3

20 April 2006 - 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.

Episode 4

27 April 2006 - 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.

Episode 5

04 May 2006 - 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.

Episode 6

11 May 2006 - Indulgence

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

Episode 7

18 May 2006 - Hydrangea

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

Episode 8

25 May 2006 - 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.

Episode 9

01 June 2006 - Promise

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

Episode 10

06 June 2006 - Candlelight

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

Episode 11

15 June 2006 - 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.

Episode 12

22 June 2006 - 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?

Episode 13

29 June 2006 - Transfiguration

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

Episode 14

06 July 2006 - 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.

Episode 15

13 July 2006 - Release

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

Episode 16

20 July 2006 - 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.

Episode 17

27 July 2006 - Circumstances

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

Episode 18

03 August 2006 - Hozuki

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

Episode 19

10 August 2006 - Irrational

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

Episode 20

17 August 2006 - Compensate

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

Episode 21

07 September 2006 - Nail Clippers

Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

Episode 22

14 September 2006 - 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.

Episode 23

21 September 2006 - Choice

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

Episode 24

28 September 2006 - Reminiscence

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

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Katsuji Morishita Naohiro Tafu Takuya Matsushita Yoshihisa Nakayama
Directing	Series Director	Tsutomu Mizushima
Sound	Music	Akihiko Fukaura
Visual Effects	Character Designer	Kazuchika Kise
	Color Designer	Izumi Hirose
Writing	Series Composition	Michiko Yokote Nanase Ohkawa
Art	Art Direction	Hiromasa Ogura
Department	Role	Name

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