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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Hitsuzen 7.3
Air date: 2006-04-06
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Falsehood 7.5
Air date: 2006-04-13
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Angel 7.3
Air date: 2006-04-20
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Divination 7.5
Air date: 2006-04-27
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Word-Chain Game 7.5
Air date: 2006-05-04
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Indulgence 7.5
Air date: 2006-05-11
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
Hydrangea 7.8
Air date: 2006-05-18
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
Contract 7.5
Air date: 2006-05-25
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Promise 7.5
Air date: 2006-06-01
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
Candlelight 7.7
Air date: 2006-06-06
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
Confession 7.7
Air date: 2006-06-15
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Summer Shadow 7.7
Air date: 2006-06-22
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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?
Transfiguration 7.7
Air date: 2006-06-29
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
Seal 7.7
Air date: 2006-07-06
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Release 7.7
Air date: 2006-07-13
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
Reunion 7.7
Air date: 2006-07-20
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Circumstances 7.7
Air date: 2006-07-27
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
Hozuki 7.7
Air date: 2006-08-03
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
Irrational 7.7
Air date: 2006-08-10
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
Compensate 7.7
Air date: 2006-08-17
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.
Nail Clippers 7.7
Air date: 2006-09-07
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
Temptation 7.7
Air date: 2006-09-14
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: 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.
Choice 7.7
Air date: 2006-09-21
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
Reminiscence 7.7
Air date: 2006-09-28
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.
Seasons
Episodes 24
Episodes 13
Episodes 4