xxxHOLiC (Season 1)

Hitsuzen (Episode 1) 7.2

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 2) 7.5

Writer: Taiki Sakurai

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 (Episode 3) 7.2

Writer: Tsutomu Mizushima

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 (Episode 4) 7.5

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 5) 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 (Episode 6) 7.5

Writer: Miharu Hirami

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 (Episode 7) 7.8

Writer: Nanase Okawa

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 (Episode 8) 7.5

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 9) 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 (Episode 10) 7.7

Writer: Michiko Yokote

Air date: 2006-06-06

Runtime: 25 min

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

Confession (Episode 11) 7.7

Writer: Miharu Hirami

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 (Episode 12) 7.7

Writer: Nanase Okawa

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 (Episode 13) 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 (Episode 14) 7.7

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 15) 7.7

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 16) 7.7

Writer: Miharu Hirami

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 (Episode 17) 7.7

Writer: Nanase Okawa

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 (Episode 18) 7.7

Writer: Tsutomu Mizushima

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 (Episode 19) 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 (Episode 20) 6.8

Writer: Nanase Okawa

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 (Episode 21) 7.7

Writer: Miharu Hirami

Air date: 2006-09-07

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

Temptation (Episode 22) 7.7

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 23) 7.7

Writer: Michiko Yokote

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 (Episode 24) 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.