The WORST episodes of xxxHOLiC

Every episode of xxxHOLiC ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of xxxHOLiC!

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.

Last Updated: 12/19/2024Network: TBS (JP)Status: Ended
The Inevitable
star
7.28
157 votes

#1 - 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.

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Falsehood
star
7.33
170 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Makoto Baba
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Indulgence
star
7.70
80 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Yoshitaka Koyama
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Self-Mutilation
star
7.81
77 votes

#4 - 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.

Writer: Ageha Ohkawa
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Fortune-Telling
star
7.91
114 votes

#5 - 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.

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Hydrangea
star
8.17
81 votes

#6 - Hydrangea

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2006

A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.

Directors: Makoto Baba
Writer: Ageha Ohkawa
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Seal
star
8.18
106 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Yukio Kuroda
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Angel
star
8.24
111 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Tarou Iwasaki
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Game of Letters
star
8.25
85 votes

#9 - 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.

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Spider's Web
star
8.33
70 votes

#10 - Spider's Web

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/2008

Due to an unfortunate incident, Doumeki's right eye is covered by a mysterious spider web. Watanuki, feeling guilty for his condition, takes a drastic measure to revert it.

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Pinky Promise
star
8.71
82 votes

#11 - 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.

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Reunion
star
8.80
51 votes

#12 - 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.

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Confession
star
8.85
80 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Daisuke Tsukushi
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Atonement
star
8.87
54 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Yukio Kuroda
Writer: Ageha Ohkawa
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Transfiguration
star
8.90
77 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Makoto Baba
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Contract
star
8.94
80 votes

#16 - 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.

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Nail Clipper
star
8.94
50 votes

#17 - Nail Clipper

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/7/2006

Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

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Lamplight
star
8.95
78 votes

#18 - Lamplight

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2006

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

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Temptations
star
8.98
50 votes

#19 - 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.

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Release
star
9.00
76 votes

#20 - 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.

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Return Gift
star
9.05
41 votes

#21 - Return Gift

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/26/2008

All is well now and Watanuki is now doing his regular errands for Yūko. Upon coming home from grocery shopping, he meets the Fox who is the son of the oden shop owner. He wanted to thank watanuki so he offered him fox oden. After eating the fox oden Watanuki wanted to thank to fox so he asked Yūko to grant him the wish to able to meet the fox spirit again.

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Unreasonable
star
9.08
51 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Yoshitaka Koyama
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Choices
star
9.10
48 votes

#23 - 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.

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Ground Cherry
star
9.14
51 votes

#24 - 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.

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Reminiscence
star
9.16
50 votes

#25 - 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.

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