| XxxHolic | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Release | |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original release | April 6 – September 28, 2006 |
| Season chronology | |
xxxHolic is an anime adaptation of a manga series written by Clamp. It was developed by Production I.G and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima.[1] The season aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System on April 6, 2006, in Japan and ended on September 28, 2006, with 24 episodes in total.[2][3] The first season was licensed by Funimation Entertainment in July 2007.[4]
This season uses three pieces of theme music: one opening theme and two ending themes. "19sai" (19才)" by Shikao Suga is used as the opening theme. The ending themes are "Reason" by Fonogenico for the first thirteen episodes and "Kagerou" (蜉蝣, Kagerō) by BUCK-TICK for the following ones.
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "The Inevitable" Transliteration: "Hitsuzen" (Japanese: ヒツゼン) | April 6, 2006 | |
| Watanuki Kimihiro has been able to see spirits ever since he was small. One day 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. | |||
| 02 | "Falsehood" Transliteration: "Kyogen" (Japanese: キョゲン) | April 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 and Dōmeki both make their first appearance in this episode. | |||
| 03 | "Angel" Transliteration: "Enzeru" (Japanese: エンゼル) | April 20, 2006 | |
| Himawari asks for Yūko's help to solve a series of mysterious incidents occurring at the school, involving a game called angel. Yūko meets Himawari, and Watanuki is forced to work with Dōmeki. Dōmeki begins to learn about his true nature. | |||
| 04 | "Fortune Telling" Transliteration: "Uranai" (Japanese: ウラナイ) | April 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. | |||
| 05 | "Game of Letters" Transliteration: "Shiritori" (Japanese: シリトリ) | May 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 little fox an arrow of virtue. The full moon brings new life to Yūko's shop. | |||
| 06 | "Indulgence" Transliteration: "Tandeki" (Japanese: タンデキ) | May 11, 2006 | |
| Yūko takes Watanuki shopping and they visit Yūko's customer, a housewife who wants to cure her addiction to the internet. Even though the housewife wants to quit, she lacks the willpower and starts using the internet again. Yūko returns with Watanuki and paints the word Zantetsuken (iron-cutting sword) on a red baseball bat, and cuts the housewife’s computer in half. | |||
| 07 | "Hydrangea" Transliteration: "Ajisai" (Japanese: アジサイ) | May 18, 2006 | |
| A rain sprite, named Ame-warashi, seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers. Ame-warashi directes Watanuki and Dōmeki to a huge Hydrangea bush. Watanuki is drawn into the Hydrangea and finds a human girl who died a year ago, but is caught between the living and the dead. Dōmeki helps expose the body so that she can be laid to rest. This releases the Hydrangea from her curse, which was the aim of Ame-warashi. | |||
| 08 | "Contract" Transliteration: "Keiyaku" (Japanese: ケイヤク) | May 25, 2006 | |
| During a clean-up of Yūko's treasure warehouse, a new practice teacher in Watanuki's school is attracted to a decorative container with something inside. Yūko gives it to her with a warning not to open it. The container accidentally opens revealing a monkey's paw. The teacher uses it to make wishes, but it eventually leads to her downfall and the monkey's paw choking her to death. | |||
| 09 | "Pinky Promise" Transliteration: "Yubikiri" (Japanese: ユビキリ) | June 1, 2006 | |
| Yūko receives a pipe fox as payment from Ame-warashi. Another client arrives at the shop having problems with her right little finger and Yūko tells her that it is happening because of a bad habit of hers. Watanuki and Dōmeki Follow her and find that she has made promises of faithfulness to many boyfriends, but she is finally exposed when they all meet. | |||
| 10 | "Lamplight" Transliteration: "Tomoshibi" (Japanese: トモシビ) | June 8, 2006 | |
| Yūko decides to arrange a meeting to tell ghost stories with Watanuki and his friends. Watanuki, Dōmeki and Himawari are invited to the meeting and are told to prepare a ghost story and share it during the meeting. Yūko explains Watanuki’s ability to see and attract spirits and Dōmeki’s ability to drive them away. | |||
| 11 | "Confession" Transliteration: "Kokuhaku" (Japanese: コクハク) | June 15, 2006 | |
| Watanuki and Dōmeki encounter a girl in a park, who is really a vestal sprite, named Zashiki-warashi. She accidentally steals Dōmeki's soul while taking an ohagi from within him for an Obon gift. Watanuki goes after her to get it back and Yūko provides a giant bird for him to chase her. When Watanuki catches her, she confesses that she took it as an Obon present for him. | |||
| 12 | "Summer Shade" Transliteration: "Natsukage" (Japanese: ナツカゲ) | June 22, 2006 | |
| It's summer and the gang decides to spend some days in a house by the beach. Watanuki continues to refuse to ask Dōmeki for help. He encounters the ghost of a woman who’d been locked inside still lurking within the house. Watanuki then discovers it was an elaborate plan by Yūko to use him and Dōmeki to free her spirit. | |||
| 13 | "Transfiguration" Transliteration: "Henbō" (Japanese: ヘンボウ) | June 29, 2006 | |
| Watanuki notices a pair of wings started to grow from the back of a classmate. When he brings home a feather Yūko warns him not to become bait. As the wings on the girl’s back grow bigger, her personality changes and she becomes unkind. Eventually she attacks Watanuki, but Dōmeki and the pipe fox intervene, and the pipe fox destroys the wings parasite that was controlling her. Yūko explains that the parasite will only inhabit certain susceptible people. | |||
| 14 | "Seal" Transliteration: "Fūin" (Japanese: フウイン) | July 6, 2006 | |
| Yūko and Watanuki encounter a pair of twin sisters with different characters while on a shopping trip. Watanuki meets one sister again and helps her search for a lost contact lens. Watanuki and Dōmeki meet the other sister in a burger restaurant and they go on a double date but Watanuki has a strange feeling about the shy older sister. During a scary movie she starts to bleed for no apparent reason. | |||
| 15 | "Release" Transliteration: "Kaihō" (Japanese: カイホウ) | July 13, 2006 | |
| Following the incident where the older twin started bleeding, Watanuki is conflicted over whether to see the twins again. He thinks over the information about the effect of waves and chains of words Yūko told him. He encourages the shy older sister to be more positive, but when she does, her younger sister undermines her confidence. Yūko grants her wish to change, and she finally gains the confidence to improve her life. | |||
| 16 | "Reunion" Transliteration: "Saikai" (Japanese: サイカイ) | July 20, 2006 | |
| In order to make the pipe fox revert to its original small form, Yūko sends it and Watanuki to a mystical mountain, but they have no way of returning home. He meets Zashiki-warashi again and she explains that he arrived via Kochuuten (Vase Middle Heaven) to Reizan (Spirit Mountain). He gives here a present of hair-clips that he bought earlier and she shows him the way back home. | |||
| 17 | "Self-Mutilation" Transliteration: "Jishō" (Japanese: ジショウ) | July 27, 2006 | |
| Watanuki sees a stranger, named Nurie, deliberately fall in front of a motorcycle and she is taken to hospital. He takes her flowers but she throws them back. It appears that she has a habit of doing things one is not supposed to do. Yūko explains that Nurie does these things not necessarily to avoid happiness but to dodge the reckoning required for such happiness. Watanuki takes Nurie to the shop and Yūko gives her a pair of cheap glasses saying that wearing them will stop her negative behaviour. The glasses help her to change. | |||
| 18 | "Ground Cherry" Transliteration: "Hōzuki" (Japanese: ホオズキ) | August 3, 2006 | |
| While cleaning Yūko’s warehouse, Watanuki encounters Akari, a cat-woman carrying a paper lantern. She appears every year at this time. She gives Watanuki the "ground cherry" lantern and disappears. Yūko tells Watanuki and Dōmeki to attend a celebration with the lantern. They join a procession of monsters, all holding similar lanterns and arrive at a giant blossoming tree. Watanuki lets go of the lantern and they are recognised as humans. The Monsters chase them, but they are helped by the Karatsutengu of Ame-warashi but still cannot escape. At the last minute, they are saved by the little fox to whom Watanuki gave the arrow of virtue. The tree fills the lantern with nectar which is why Yūko sent them on the dangerous errand. | |||
| 19 | "Unreasonable" Transliteration: "Rifujin" (Japanese: リフジン) | August 10, 2006 | |
| Yūko invites Watanuki, Dōmeki and Himawari to the park. They arrive and see Mokona, Ame-warashi and Zashiki-warashi. Yūko appears and tells them to make a snowman and then start a snowball fight. The winner can open a treasure box and make a wish. The snowmen come to life and have interesting snowball fight. Watanuki eventually wins, but Yūko tricks him at the last minute, and he ends up serving them all dinner and beer. | |||
| 20 | "Atonement" Transliteration: "Aganai" (Japanese: アガナイ) | August 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. Yūko keeps the photo but it resists a frame to contain it, and changes showing the woman pushing a rival off a cliff. Yūko agrees to destroy the photo, but the payment is high. If the woman ever appears in any recording medium again, the moving image showing the event will return. | |||
| 21 | "Nail Clipper" Transliteration: "Tsumekiri" (Japanese: ツメキリ) | September 7, 2006 | |
| Watanuki wears his new shoes at night and Yūko reminds him of the old superstition but Watanuki says he doesn’t believe in them. He then sleeps after eating a big meal, and Dōmeki reminds him of the superstition the person will become a cow after doing that. Watanuki starts feeling ill and having visions about being a cow, but still thinks superstitions are just cautionary tales. After he clips his nails at night, against Yūko's advice, he is threatened by giant scissors, Yūko saves him. He says that he stopped believing superstitions after his parents died, but that he might believe in them again now. | |||
| 22 | "Temptation" Transliteration: "Yūwaku" (Japanese: ユウワク) | September 14, 2006 | |
| Watanuki is given time off as Yūko is away for a while. He meets a beautiful woman passing Yūko;s house. At school Dōmeki tells Watanuki to wear the pipe fox. Watanuki befriends the woman who lost her young son hoping to soothe her loneliness. Watanuki starts feeling ill, and Dōmeki reminds him to wear the pipe fox in case of spirits. He continues to see the woman and his sickness worsens. He speaks with Yūko on the phone who warns him about the woman. Watanuki starts coughing blood and collapses. | |||
| 23 | "Choices" Transliteration: "Sentaku" (Japanese: センタク) | September 21, 2006 | |
| Dōmeki takes care Watanuki who is very sick, however as he has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens. Finally, Dōmeki decides to intervene. He shoots the woman with a spiritual arrow and frees her from her sadness, and Watanuki from her influence. Watanuki’s health recovers and Yūko advises him to think about his attitude towards Dōmeki. | |||
| 24 | "Reminiscence" Transliteration: "Tsuioku" (Japanese: ツイオク) | September 28, 2006 | |
| On April 1st, his birthday, Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when other students thought him strange because he could see things that they could not. Then he met another boy who had the same ability who saved him from spirit hands and they became friends. On Watanuki's birthday, and the day of the Junior High enrollment ceremony, They planned to meet, but Watanuki was confronted by many spirit hands. His friend saved him again, but revealed that he was the spirit of a boy who died seven years ago must now leave to join the spirit world. His thoughts are interrupted by the arrival of Yūko, Dōmeki and Himawari who bring food for his birthday, except it's Watanuki who has to prepare it. | |||