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 Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants wishes. The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value; so, as payment, he must become Yūko's temporary, part-time cook and housekeeper.
Cast: Jun Fukuyama, Sayaka Ohara, Kazuya Nakai
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24 episodes
1. HitsuzenWatanuki'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.TV-PGCC25minApr 6, 2006
2. FalsehoodA 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.TV-PGCC25minApr 13, 2006
3. AngelHimawari-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.TV-PGCC25minApr 20, 2006
4. DivinationYūko 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.TV-PGCC25minApr 27, 2006
5. Word-Chain GameWatanuki 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.TV-PGCC25minMay 4, 2006
6. IndulgenceWatanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.TV-PGCC25minMay 11, 2006
7. HydrangeaA rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.TV-PGCC25minMay 18, 2006
8. ContractA 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.TV-PGCC25minMay 25, 2006
9. PromiseYūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.TV-PGCC25minJun 1, 2006
10. CandlelightYūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.TV-PGCC25minJun 6, 2006
11. ConfessionWhen 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.TV-PGCC25minJun 15, 2006
12. Summer ShadowIt'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?TV-PGCC25minJun 22, 2006
13. TransfigurationWatanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.TV-PGCC25minJun 29, 2006
14. SealWatanuki 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.TV-PGCC25minJul 6, 2006
15. ReleaseThe situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.TV-PGCC25minJul 13, 2006
16. ReunionIn 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.TV-PGCC25minJul 20, 2006
17. CircumstancesWatanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.TV-PGCC25minJul 27, 2006
18. HozukiYūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.TV-PGCC25minAug 3, 2006
19. IrrationalWatanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.TV-PGCC25minAug 10, 2006
20. CompensateA desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.TV-PGCC25minAug 17, 2006
21. Nail ClippersWatanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.TV-PGCC25minSep 7, 2006
22. TemptationWatanuki 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.TV-PGCC25minSep 14, 2006
23. ChoiceAs Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.TV-PGCC25minSep 21, 2006
24. ReminiscenceWatanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.TV-PGCC25minSep 28, 2006
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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 Watanuki stumbles, seemingly by chance, into a shop that grants wishes. The shop is owned by Yūko Ichihara, a mysterious witch of many names and esoteric renown. For a price, she offers to grant Watanuki's wish to be rid of the spirits. The price, according to Yūko, must be of equal value; so, as payment, he must become Yūko's temporary, part-time cook and housekeeper.
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