xxxHOLiC - xxxHolic
1 - Hitsuzen
Air Date: April 6, 2006
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
Air Date: April 13, 2006
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
Air Date: April 20, 2006
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
Air Date: April 27, 2006
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
Air Date: May 4, 2006
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
Air Date: May 11, 2006
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
7 - Hydrangea
Air Date: May 18, 2006
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
8 - Contract
Air Date: May 25, 2006
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
Air Date: June 1, 2006
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
10 - Candlelight
Air Date: June 6, 2006
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
11 - Confession
Air Date: June 15, 2006
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
Air Date: June 22, 2006
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
Air Date: June 29, 2006
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
14 - Seal
Air Date: July 6, 2006
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
Air Date: July 13, 2006
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
16 - Reunion
Air Date: July 20, 2006
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
Air Date: July 27, 2006
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
18 - Hozuki
Air Date: August 3, 2006
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
Air Date: August 10, 2006
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
20 - Compensate
Air Date: August 17, 2006
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
Air Date: September 7, 2006
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
22 - Temptation
Air Date: September 14, 2006
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
Air Date: September 21, 2006
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
24 - Reminiscence
Air Date: September 28, 2006
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.