xxxHOLiC (2006)
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.
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Episode 1 - Hitsuzen
Release Date: 2006-04-06Watanuki'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.
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Episode 2 - Falsehood
Release Date: 2006-04-13A 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.
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Episode 3 - Angel
Release Date: 2006-04-20Himawari-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.
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Episode 4 - Divination
Release Date: 2006-04-27Yūko 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.
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Episode 5 - Word-Chain Game
Release Date: 2006-05-04Watanuki 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.
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Episode 6 - Indulgence
Release Date: 2006-05-11Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
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Episode 7 - Hydrangea
Release Date: 2006-05-18A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
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Episode 8 - Contract
Release Date: 2006-05-25A 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.
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Episode 9 - Promise
Release Date: 2006-06-01Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
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Episode 10 - Candlelight
Release Date: 2006-06-06Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
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Episode 11 - Confession
Release Date: 2006-06-15When 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.
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Episode 12 - Summer Shadow
Release Date: 2006-06-22It'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?
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Episode 13 - Transfiguration
Release Date: 2006-06-29Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
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Episode 14 - Seal
Release Date: 2006-07-06Watanuki 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.
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Episode 15 - Release
Release Date: 2006-07-13The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
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Episode 16 - Reunion
Release Date: 2006-07-20In 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.
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Episode 17 - Circumstances
Release Date: 2006-07-27Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
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Episode 18 - Hozuki
Release Date: 2006-08-03Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
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Episode 19 - Irrational
Release Date: 2006-08-10Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
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Episode 20 - Compensate
Release Date: 2006-08-17A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.
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Episode 21 - Nail Clippers
Release Date: 2006-09-07Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
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Episode 22 - Temptation
Release Date: 2006-09-14Watanuki 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.
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Episode 23 - Choice
Release Date: 2006-09-21As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
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Episode 24 - Reminiscence
Release Date: 2006-09-28Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.