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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Episodes
1. Hitsuzen
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.
2. Falsehood
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.
3. Angel
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.
4. Divination
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.
5. Word-Chain Game
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.
6. Indulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
7. Hydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
8. Contract
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.
9. Promise
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
10. Candlelight
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
11. Confession
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.
12. Summer Shadow
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?
13. Transfiguration
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
14. Seal
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.
15. Release
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
16. Reunion
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.
17. Circumstances
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
18. Hozuki
Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Doumeki to take it to a very uncommon festival.
19. Irrational
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
20. Compensate
A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of.
21. Nail Clippers
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
22. Temptation
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.
23. Choice
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
24. Reminiscence
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.
Cast & Crew
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itoh
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Story & Production Details
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