7.1/1065 votes#1 - Hitsuzen
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.
Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer: Michiko Yokote
7.3/1049 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Taiki Sakurai
7.4/1042 votes#3 - 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
7.6/1044 votes#4 - 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
7.3/1044 votes#5 - 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
7.6/1039 votes#6 - 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
7.3/1041 votes#7 - 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
7.5/1040 votes#8 - 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
7.6/1038 votes#9 - 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
7.8/1036 votes#10 - 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
7.6/1036 votes#11 - 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
7.8/1034 votes#12 - 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
7.7/1036 votes#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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1037 votes#14 - 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
7.6/1037 votes#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
7.5/1036 votes#16 - 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
7.7/1036 votes#17 - 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
7.6/1037 votes#18 - 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
7.8/1034 votes#19 - 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
7.4/1035 votes#20 - Compensate
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/17/2006
A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.
Director: Yukio Kuroda
Writer: Nanase Okawa
7.3/1035 votes#21 - Nail Clippers
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/7/2006
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
Director: Masahiko Watanabe
Writer: Miharu Hirami
7.8/1036 votes#22 - 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
8.0/1039 votes#23 - 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
7.6/1037 votes#24 - 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
The Best Episodes of xxxHOLiC Season 1
Every episode of xxxHOLiC Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of xxxHOLiC Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Hitsuzen" is the best rated episode of "xxxHOLiC" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and written by Michiko Yokote, it aired on 4/6/2006. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Falsehood".