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Kimihiro Watanuki can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures—for a price. She demands that he work at her "store" that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events.
01. 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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Michiko Yokote
Writer
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
Tsutomu Mizushima
Storyboard Artist
Yasunori Miyazawa
Key Animation
Miyako Yatsu
Key Animation
Hiroyo Izumi
Animation Director
Mizuka Takahashi
Key Animation
Hiroyuki Itai
Key Animation
Takao Suzuki
Key Animation
Takaharu Ookuma
Key Animation
Yui Enomoto
Key Animation
Chie Hashimoto
Key Animation
Miyoko Shikibu
Key Animation
Yuuko Yamamoto
Key Animation
Mitsunobu Nakamura
Key Animation
Kazuhiro Muto
Key Animation
Masashi Nomura
Key Animation
Hideki Hashimoto
Key Animation
Jouji Sawada
Key Animation
02. 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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Yoshiki Sakurai
Writer
Hwang Mi-jeong
Key Animation
03. 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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer
Tarō Iwasaki
Director
Tarō Iwasaki
Storyboard Artist
Yasunori Miyazawa
Key Animation
Miyoko Shikibu
Key Animation
Kazuhiro Muto
Key Animation
Junichiro Taniguchi
Animation Director
Tomoko Fukunaga
Key Animation
Mamiko Nakanishi
Key Animation
Etsuko Tomita
Key Animation
Toshiharu Sugie
Key Animation
Shinya Kokaji
Key Animation
Keigo Sasaki
Key Animation
Kazunori Akiyama
Key Animation
Yoshie Komoto
Key Animation
Takeshi Miyamoto
Key Animation
Mitsuhiro Okumura
Key Animation
Kōji Matsuyama
Key Animation
Takeshi Miyamoto
Key Animation
04. 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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Michiko Yokote
Writer
Miyuki Honda
Key Animation
Kenichi Ishimaru
Animation Director
Ayumi Namiki
Key Animation
Misato Ootani
Key Animation
Kouichiro Kawano
Key Animation
Masaya Yasutome
Key Animation
05. 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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Tomoka Karino
Key Animation
Masato Umejima
Key Animation
Chiho Mifune
Key Animation
Naoto Satō
Key Animation
Tsutomu Yamamoto
Key Animation
Yuuji Kondou
Key Animation
Tomoyuki Matsumoto
Animation Director
06. Indulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
07. Hydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
08. 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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
09. Promise
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Hiroshi Matsuzono
Storyboard Artist
10. Candlelight
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Michiko Yokote
Writer
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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Mizuka Takahashi
Key Animation
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?
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Nanase Ohkawa
Writer
13. Transfiguration
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Hwang Mi-jeong
Key Animation
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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
15. Release
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Tarō Iwasaki
Director
Tarō Iwasaki
Storyboard Artist
17. Circumstances
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Nanase Ohkawa
Writer
Masahiko Watanabe
Director
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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Tsutomu Mizushima
Writer
Tsutomu Mizushima
Director
Tsutomu Mizushima
Storyboard Artist
Mizuka Takahashi
Key Animation
19. Irrational
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
21. Nail Clippers
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Masahiko Watanabe
Director
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.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
23. Choice
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
24. Reminiscence
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.
Jun Fukuyama
Kimihiro Watanuki (voice)
Sayaka Ohara
Yūko Ichihara (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Shizuka Dōmeki (voice)
Shizuka Itō
Himawari Kunogi (voice)
Mika Kikuchi
Mokona (voice)
Hisayo Mochizuki
Moro (voice)
Kazuko Kojima
Maru (voice)
Tarō Iwasaki
Director
Tarō Iwasaki
Storyboard Artist