The BEST episodes of xxxHOLiC season 1
Every episode of xxxHOLiC season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of xxxHOLiC season 1!
Yuuko is a witch who grants people's wishes, but in return the person has to give up something precious. Watanuki Kimihiro, a man who has visions, encounters Yuuko and she promises to get rid of the spirits that torment him. In return Watanuki must work in Yuuko's shop and help her grant other people's wishes. Based on the hit manga by CLAMP.
#1 - Summer Shade
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/22/2006
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?
#2 - Reminiscence
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/28/2006
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.
#3 - Ground Cherry
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/3/2006
Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
#4 - Choices
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/21/2006
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
#5 - Unreasonable
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 8/10/2006
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
#6 - Temptations
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/14/2006
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.
#7 - Nail Clipper
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/7/2006
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
#8 - Lamplight
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2006
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
#9 - Release
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/13/2006
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
#10 - Contract
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/25/2006
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.
#11 - Atonement
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/31/2006
A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.
#12 - Confession
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/15/2006
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.
#13 - Transfiguration
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/29/2006
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
#14 - Reunion
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/20/2006
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.
#15 - Pinky Promise
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/1/2006
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
#16 - Angel
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/2006
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.
#17 - Game of Letters
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2006
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.
#18 - Hydrangea
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2006
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
#19 - Seal
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/6/2006
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.
#20 - Fortune-Telling
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2006
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.
#21 - Self-Mutilation
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/27/2006
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
#22 - Indulgence
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/11/2006
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
#23 - Falsehood
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/13/2006
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.
#24 - The Inevitable
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/2006
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.