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This season uses three musical themes: one opening themes and two ending themes. "19sai" (19才, Jūkyū-sai?)" by Shikao Suga is used as the opening theme. The endings are "Reason" by Fonogenico for the first thirteen episodes and "Kagerou" (蜉蝣, Kagerō?) by BUCK-TICK for the following ones.
| # | Title | Original airdate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | "The Inevitable" "Hitsuzen" (ヒツゼン) |
April 6, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki Kimihiro has been able to see spirits ever since he was small. One day 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. | ||||
| 02 | "Falsehood" "Kyogen" (キョゲン) |
April 13, 2006 | ||
| 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 and Dōmeki both make their first appearance in this episode. | ||||
| 03 | "Angel" "Enzeru" (エンゼル) |
April 20, 2006 | ||
| Himawari asks for Yūko's help to solve a series of mysterious incidents occurring at the school, involving a game called angel. Yūko meets Himawari, and Watanuki is forced to work with Dōmeki. Dōmeki begins to learn about his true nature. | ||||
| 04 | "Fortune Telling" "Uranai" (ウラナイ) |
April 27, 2006 | ||
| 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. | ||||
| 05 | "Game of Letters" "Shiritori" (シリトリ) |
May 4, 2006 | ||
| 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 little fox an arrow of virtue. The full moon brings new life to Yūko's shop. | ||||
| 06 | "Indulgence" "Tandeki" (タンデキ) |
May 11, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki and Yūko visit Yūko's customer, a housewife who is addicted to the internet. The customer wants to leave her addiction, hence the reason why Yūko helps her. | ||||
| 07 | "Hydrangea" "Ajisai" (アジサイ) |
May 18, 2006 | ||
| A rain sprite, named Ame-warashi, seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers. Watanuki and Dōmeki go to the place directed by Ame-warashi. Watanuki finds a little human girl amongst the Hydrangea. | ||||
| 08 | "Contract" "Keiyaku" (ケイヤク) |
May 25, 2006 | ||
| 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. | ||||
| 09 | "Pinky Promise" "Yubikiri" (ユビキリ) |
June 1, 2006 | ||
| Yūko receives a pipe fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client arrives at the shop having problems with her right little finger; Yūko tells her that it is happening because of a bad habit of hers. | ||||
| 10 | "Lamplight" "Tomoshibi" (トモシビ) |
June 8, 2006 | ||
| Yūko decides to arrange a meeting to tell ghost stories with Watanuki and his friends. Watanuki, Dōmeki and Himawari are invited to the meeting and are told to prepare a ghost story and share it during the meeting. | ||||
| 11 | "Confession" "Kokuhaku" (コクハク) |
June 15, 2006 | ||
| When a vestal sprite, named Zashiki-warashi, accidentally steals Dōmeki's soul, Watanuki has to go after her to get it back, aloof to what are her true intentions. | ||||
| 12 | "Summer Shade" "Natsukage" (ナツカゲ) |
June 22, 2006 | ||
| It's summer and the gang decides to spend some days in a house by the beach. For some reason Dōmeki keeps asking Watanuki why he doesn't ask for help, but he can't figure out why. Unbeknown to them, there's a ghost lurking inside. When Watanuki discovers this, will he investigate alone? | ||||
| 13 | "Transfiguration" "Henbō" (ヘンボウ) |
June 29, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back. | ||||
| 14 | "Seal" "Fūin" (フウイン) |
July 6, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki and Dōmeki 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" "Kaihō" (カイホウ) |
July 13, 2006 | ||
| The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason. | ||||
| 16 | "Reunion" "Saikai" (サイカイ) |
July 20, 2006 | ||
| 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 Zashiki-warashi again. | ||||
| 17 | "Self-Mutilation" "Jishō" (ジショウ) |
July 27, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki brings a woman to the shop with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices. | ||||
| 18 | "Ground Cherry" "Hōzuki" (ホオズキ) |
August 3, 2006 | ||
| Yūko receives a magic lantern, also called a "ground cherry", and asks Watanuki and Dōmeki to take it to a very uncommon festival. | ||||
| 19 | "Unreasonable" "Rifujin" (リフジン) |
August 10, 2006 | ||
| Yūko invites Watanuki and his gang including Ame-warashi and Zashiki-warashi to the park. Yūko tells them to make a snowman and then she makes them alive which is followed by an interesting snowball fight. | ||||
| 20 | "Atonement" "Aganai" (アガナイ) |
August 31, 2006 | ||
| A desperate customer seeks Yūko's help because she is being haunted by a strange photo that she can't get rid of, a photo that tells of a terrible secret. | ||||
| 21 | "Nail Clipper" "Tsumekiri" (ツメキリ) |
September 7, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki ignores some old superstitions like, if somebody buys new shoes the person shouldn't wear them at night or if somebody sleeps after eating, the person will become a cow. Watanuki then takes on a superstition about if somebody cuts their nails, the person will not be with their parents during their death. He ignores it and gets into trouble, he is then saved by Yūko. | ||||
| 22 | "Temptation" "Yūwaku" (ユウワク) |
September 14, 2006 | ||
| 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 | "Choices" "Sentaku" (センタク) |
September 21, 2006 | ||
| As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Dōmeki decides to intervene. | ||||
| Sidestory (24) | "Reminiscence" "Tsuioku" (ツイオク) |
September 28, 2006 | ||
| Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his. | ||||
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