
xxxHOLiC
S1 · E1IMDB:
7.2
Released
4/6/2006
Duration
0h 25m
Genre
Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Country
Japan
Cast
Jun Fukuyama, Sayaka Ohara, Kazuya Nakai
Overview
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by ayakashi spirits, both of which are invisible to everyone else but him. The series begins when Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants wishes. The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value; so, as payment, he must become Yūko's temporary, part-time cook and housekeeper.

xxxHOLiC
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDB:
7.2Released
4/6/2006
Genre
Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast
Jun Fukuyama, Sayaka Ohara, Kazuya Nakai
Duration
0h 25m
Country
Japan
Overview
Kimihiro Watanuki is a high school student plagued by ayakashi spirits, both of which are invisible to everyone else but him. The series begins when Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants wishes. The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value; so, as payment, he must become Yūko's temporary, part-time cook and housekeeper.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableHitsuzen
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.

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.
EP 2AvailableFalsehood
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.

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.
EP 3AvailableAngel
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.

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.
EP 4AvailableDivination
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.

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.
EP 5AvailableWord-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.

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.
EP 6AvailableIndulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.

Indulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
EP 7AvailableHydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.

Hydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
EP 8AvailableContract
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.

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.
EP 9AvailablePromise
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.

Promise
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
EP 10AvailableCandlelight
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.

Candlelight
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
EP 11AvailableConfession
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.

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.
EP 12AvailableSummer 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?

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?
EP 13AvailableTransfiguration
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.

Transfiguration
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
EP 14AvailableSeal
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.

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.
EP 15AvailableRelease
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.

Release
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
EP 16AvailableReunion
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.

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.
EP 17AvailableCircumstances
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.

Circumstances
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
EP 18AvailableHozuki
Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.

Hozuki
Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
EP 19AvailableIrrational
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.

Irrational
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
EP 20AvailableCompensate
A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.

Compensate
A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.
EP 21AvailableNail Clippers
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

Nail Clippers
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
EP 22AvailableTemptation
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.

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.
EP 23AvailableChoice
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.

Choice
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
EP 24AvailableReminiscence
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.

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

Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Jun Fukuyama

Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Sayaka Ohara

Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Kazuya Nakai

Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Shizuka Itoh

Mokona (voice)
Mika Kikuchi

Moro (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki

Maru (voice)









