The essential episodes of xxxHOLiC
Watch these 15 in order and you've got xxxHOLiC — each pick states its reason.
- 01
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
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
- 03
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
- 04
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.
- 05
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?
- 06
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
- 07
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.
- 08
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
- 09
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.
- 10
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
- 11
Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
- 12
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
- 13
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
- 14
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.
- 15
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.
