Episode
xxxHOLiC: Word-Chain Game
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- xxxHOLiC
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2006-05-04
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Word-Chain Game is Episode 5 in xxxHolic of xxxHOLiC. It aired on 2006-05-04. The runtime is 25 min.
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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 6: Indulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
More episodes from this season
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 7: Hydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
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 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 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 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.