xxxHOLiC
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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Kimihiro Watanuki can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures—for a price. She demands that he work at her "store" that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events.
1.Hitsuzen
7.206-04-200625mWatanuki'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 ap...
2.Falsehood
7.513-04-200625mA 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...
3.Angel
7.220-04-200625mHimawari-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 force...
4.Divination
7.527-04-200625mYūko 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...
5.Word-Chain Game
7.504-05-200625mWatanuki 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...
6.Indulgence
7.511-05-200625mWatanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
7.Hydrangea
7.818-05-200625mA rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
8.Contract
7.525-05-200625mA 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...
9.Promise
7.501-06-200625mYūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
10.Candlelight
7.706-06-200625mYūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
11.Confession
7.715-06-200625mWhen 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
7.722-06-200625mIt'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. Unbekn...
13.Transfiguration
7.729-06-200625mWatanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
14.Seal
7.706-07-200625mWatanuki 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
7.713-07-200625mThe situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
16.Reunion
7.720-07-200625mIn 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
7.727-07-200625mWatanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
18.Hozuki
7.703-08-200625mYūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
19.Irrational
7.710-08-200625mWatanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
20.Compensate
6.817-08-200625mA 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
7.707-09-200625mWatanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
22.Temptation
7.714-09-200625mWatanuki 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
7.721-09-200625mAs Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
24.Reminiscence
7.728-09-200625mWatanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.
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