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.
25min
April 6, 2006
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.
25min
April 13, 2006
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.
25min
April 20, 2006
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.
25min
April 27, 2006
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.
25min
May 4, 2006
6. Indulgence
Watanuki and Yūko pay a visit to a client who desires to abandon her addiction to computers.
25min
May 11, 2006
7. Hydrangea
A rain sprite (Ame-warashi) seeks Yūko's help to save a friend of hers.
25min
May 18, 2006
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.
25min
May 25, 2006
9. Promise
Yūko receives a Pipe Fox as payment from Ame-warashi, while another client with bad habit problems arrives at the shop.
25min
June 1, 2006
10. Candlelight
Yūko decides to arrange a ghost stories meeting with Watanuki and his friends.
25min
June 6, 2006
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.
25min
June 15, 2006
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?
25min
June 22, 2006
13. Transfiguration
Watanuki investigates a classmate of his who started to behave strangely since a pair of wings started to grow from her back.
25min
June 29, 2006
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.
25min
July 6, 2006
15. Release
The situation involving the twin sisters start to get dangerous as one of them starts to bleed for apparently no reason.
25min
July 13, 2006
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.
25min
July 20, 2006
17. Circumstances
Watanuki brings to the shop a woman with an urge to always take irrational decisions in her choices.
25min
July 27, 2006
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.
25min
August 3, 2006
19. Irrational
Watanuki and the gang, including the Zashiki-warashi and the Ame-warashi, have an interesting snowball fight.
25min
August 10, 2006
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.
25min
August 17, 2006
21. Nail Clippers
Watanuki ignores some old superstitions and put himself in trouble.
25min
September 7, 2006
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.
25min
September 14, 2006
23. Choice
As Watanuki has more encounters with the mysterious woman, his condition worsens and Doumeki decides to intervene.
25min
September 21, 2006
24. Reminiscence
Watanuki reminisces about his childhood, when he was saved by a boy who became a precious friend of his.