8.0/1038 votesLoading...#1 - Choice
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.
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.8/1042 votesLoading...#2 - Divination
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.
Director: Shinsuke Terasawa
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.8/1038 votesLoading...#3 - 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.
Director: Tarou Iwasaki
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#4 - Candlelight
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/2006
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.8/1033 votesLoading...#5 - Summer Shadow
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?
Director: Yoshitaka Koyama
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
Director: Shinsuke Terasawa
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.8/1034 votesLoading...#7 - 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.
Director: Tarou Iwasaki
Writer: N/A
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#8 - Hozuki
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.
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer: Tsutomu Mizushima
7.8/1033 votesLoading...#9 - Irrational
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1035 votesLoading...#10 - Temptation
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.
Director: Shinsuke Terasawa
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.8/1020 votesLoading...#11 - Truth
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/19/2008
Watanuki learns that Doumeki and Himawari became Yūko's clients in order to save his life and hears from Himawari the truth about her.
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.7/1035 votesLoading...#12 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1035 votesLoading...#13 - Circumstances
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.
Director: Masahiko Watanabe
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.7/1020 votesLoading...#14 - Half
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/2008
After learning that the Zashiki-Warashi disappeared while looking for his right eye's sight, Watanuki rushes to help her. Upon finding her, he also discovers the creature who possesses his stolen eye.
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#15 - Secret - Alone
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/2008
Watanuki's little finger continues to hurt and he becomes more suspicious of Himawari. In the following day, he suffers a serious accident just after she touches him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.6/1038 votesLoading...#16 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1037 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
Director: Shinsuke Terasawa
Writer: N/A
7.6/1035 votesLoading...#18 - 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1035 votesLoading...#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.
Director: Yukio Kuroda
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.6/1036 votesLoading...#20 - 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.
Director: Tarou Iwasaki
Writer: N/A
7.6/1033 votesLoading...#21 - Spiderweb
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.
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.6/1019 votesLoading...#22 - Dream-Buying
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2008
Watanuki and Yūko encounter a strange creature who deals with dreams and items which come from them.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.6/1019 votesLoading...#23 - Affinity - Kohane
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2008
Watanuki meets Kohane Tsuyuri, a little girl who is famous medium, and he discovers that they have much in common.
Director: Shinsuke Terasawa
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.5/1042 votesLoading...#24 - Word-Chain Game
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1039 votesLoading...#25 - Hydrangea
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2006
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nanase Okawa
The Best Episodes of xxxHOLiC
Every episode of xxxHOLiC ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
Genres:AnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:TBS
Top Episode Ratings Summary
"Choice" is the best rated episode of "xxxHOLiC". It scored 8/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and written by Michiko Yokote, it aired on 9/21/2006. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Divination".