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25min

Animation

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

Episodes

Cast

Hitsuzen

1. Hitsuzen

25min

6th Apr 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.

Falsehood

2. Falsehood

25min

13th Apr 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.

Angel

3. Angel

25min

20th Apr 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.

Divination

4. Divination

25min

27th Apr 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.

Word-Chain Game

5. Word-Chain Game

25min

4th May 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.

Indulgence

6. Indulgence

25min

11th May 2006

Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.

Hydrangea

7. Hydrangea

25min

18th May 2006

A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.

Contract

8. Contract

25min

25th May 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.

Promise

9. Promise

25min

1st Jun 2006

Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.

Candlelight

10. Candlelight

25min

6th Jun 2006

Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.

Confession

11. Confession

25min

15th Jun 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.

Summer Shadow

12. Summer Shadow

25min

22nd Jun 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?

Transfiguration

13. Transfiguration

25min

29th Jun 2006

Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.

Seal

14. Seal

25min

6th Jul 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.

Release

15. Release

25min

13th Jul 2006

The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.

Reunion

16. Reunion

25min

20th Jul 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.

Circumstances

17. Circumstances

25min

27th Jul 2006

Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.

Hozuki

18. Hozuki

25min

3rd Aug 2006

Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.

Irrational

19. Irrational

25min

10th Aug 2006

Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.

Compensate

20. Compensate

25min

17th Aug 2006

A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.

Nail Clippers

21. Nail Clippers

25min

7th Sep 2006

Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

Temptation

22. Temptation

25min

14th Sep 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.

Choice

23. Choice

25min

21st Sep 2006

As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.

Reminiscence

24. Reminiscence

25min

28th Sep 2006

Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.

First air date

6th Apr 2006

Last air date

26th Jun 2008

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

ja

Networks