Storyline
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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.
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…
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Episodes
Episode 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.
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.
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.
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 6 · Indulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
Episode 7 · Hydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
Episode 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.
Episode 9 · Promise
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
Episode 10 · Candlelight
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
Episode 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.
Episode 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?
Episode 13 · Transfiguration
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
Episode 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.
Episode 15 · Release
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
Episode 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.
Episode 17 · Circumstances
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
Episode 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.
Episode 19 · Irrational
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
Episode 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.
Episode 21 · Nail Clippers
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
Episode 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.
Episode 23 · Choice
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
Episode 24 · Reminiscence
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.
