8.0/1039 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
7.8/1036 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.8/1034 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.8/1034 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.8/1036 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.8/1021 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.7/1036 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.7/1036 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.7/1021 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.7/1020 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.6/1044 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.6/1039 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.6/1038 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.6/1036 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.6/1037 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.6/1037 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.6/1037 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.6/1034 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.6/1020 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.6/1020 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.5/1040 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.5/1036 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.5/1017 votesLoading...#23 - Repaying Kindness
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Daishiro Tanimura
7.4/1042 votesLoading...#24 - 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.
Director: Tarou Iwasaki
Writer: Tsutomu Mizushima
7.4/1037 votesLoading...#25 - 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
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
Best Episodes Summary
"Choice" is the best rated episode of "xxxHOLiC". It scored 8/10 based on 39 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, "Candlelight".