xxxHOLiC Season 1, Episode 5: Word-Chain Game

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.

25 min

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.

25 min

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.

25 min

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.

25 min

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.

25 min

6

Indulgence

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

25 min

7

Hydrangea

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

25 min

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.

25 min

9

Promise

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

25 min

10

Candlelight

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

25 min

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.

25 min

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?

25 min

13

Transfiguration

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

25 min

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.

25 min

15

Release

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

25 min

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.

25 min

17

Circumstances

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

25 min

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.

25 min

19

Irrational

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

25 min

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.

25 min

21

Nail Clippers

Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.

25 min

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.

25 min

23

Choice

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

25 min

24

Reminiscence

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

25 min