MyAnimeList.net

Ranked #280
xxxHOLiC

xxxHOLiC

Alternative Titles

Japanese: XXX ホリック

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 7, 2006 to Sep 29, 2006
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 8.201 (scored by 40443 users)
Ranked: #2802
Popularity: #125
Members: 80,843
Favorites: 1,966
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top anime page.

My Info


Popular Tags

clamp comedy fantasy mystery supernatural
Jul 19, 2008
marauder9082
Prepare to be taken on a tour de force through the world of the supernatural. Or maybe just a regular tour. I wouldn't know. Having only recently experienced the genre of "supernatural" anime, xxxHOLiC (hereby referred to as simply "Holic") was a breath of fresh air from my usual action/fantasy fare.

The story behind Holic is intriguing and interesting, revolving around spirits, ghosts, and the very strange. Geared towards an older and more sophisticated audience, there's little action, but loads of thought-provoking and amazingly insightful dialogue. Holic is the kind of anime that gets your mind pumping about topics such as fate, destiny, and one's purpose read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
May 29, 2010
unclesnapple
There are no coincidences in this world. There is only inevitability. If you find Yuko's shop, then that too was fate. It means you have a wish that can be granted. For a price of course. This is the simple premise for xxxHolic, a stylish and magical anime and manga series by CLAMP.

xxxHolic is a show that tries to stimulate the viewer in many different ways. There's adventure, philosophy, plenty of comedy, and sometimes action, all with a distinctly CLAMPy flair. The routine nature of Watanuki's life between school and the shop allows for episodes to be largely interchangeable with no heavy storyline that covers read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Jul 7, 2007
jet2r0cks
Funny, creepy, dark, interesting and clever. Those would be the words that could describe this anime.

It’s funny – thanks to Watanuki’s wild antics as well as Mokona’s drunkenness. Creepy – mostly because it scared the heck out of me sometimes (especially episode 10, 12 and 24). Dark, because it presents the world in a way that people rarely see. It’s interesting – you get hooked into it and you actually become an xxxHOLIC-holic. Finally, it’s clever because it doesn’t take the viewers for fools.

The characters are just great. Doumeki and Watanuki are yin and yang. They always seem to have this love-hate comedy routine wherein read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Mar 9, 2008
cafekun
xxxHOLiC, is a project of the famed group CLAMP. Let's begin the reviews ne

Story
- xxxHOLiC is about the daily lives of Watanuki and Yuuko. Two characters whos fate has intertwined. xxxHOLiC is a collection of different strange yet interesting stories which happens to produce a happy ending on every episode. One particular viewer would learn something from the episodes of xxxHOLiC. It's about the mistake of humans and the solution to them were given by the main character "Yuuko". I'd say that some episodes were mediocre but interesting enough.

Art
- Production IG was involved, judging the fact that this anime were made in the read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Oct 7, 2007
Belinda
Oh CLAMP! I’ve always loved their works; there is (albeit, sometimes misguided) sincerity in their stories that many other anime/manga can’t quite manage. An example of this is in the second episode that revolved around a girl with a pinky problem. It is revealed that it’s not mere limb stiffness, because to Yuuko and Watanuki, they see that she has a trail of black smoke coming out from her finger. The episode goes to reveal what the black smoke is about and the type of life this girl leads. There is obvious social commentary going on, and in a very CLAMP-esque way, rather than any read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Jun 24, 2009
JesuOtaku
On the technical side of things, I have many bones to pick with the art and animation here. Actually there are too many bones to pick out on these spaghetti people, who I feel like I could easily snap across my thumb if I ever pat them on the back, even the supernaturally voluptuous Yuuko. Seriously, that woman should have SPINAL PROBLEMS with a rack of that magnitude on that beanpole, and throughout the entire series’ run, I never got used to the tiny-headed, long-bodied creatures they call people in this show, or the way they move either. Really fluid animation could have compensated for read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Dec 21, 2008
graysky14
"Coincidence is nothing but an illusion", such are the words of Yuuko that influenced my life choices since I've watched this CLAMP masterpiece.

Xxxholic is a slice of life anime that showcases several supernatural settings that is in one way or another, very similar to real life situations. It shows how greed brings loss, lies can be fatal and how love andfriendship can save.

The story is about extra-ordinary events in Watanuki's life such as meeting creatures seen from folk and fairy tales and exploring different grounds known only from myth books, while working as a part-timer in a mysterious shop of Ichihara Yuuko, the witch that read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Mar 9, 2013
thatleftnut
Where do I begin with this amazing anime? I suppose I'll start with the lowest rated category: Story. The reason this is so low, is well, bluntly, there isn't much of a story. The first episode segways into the rest of the show, and is more of an excuse than anything to at least make sense of the series. There's very little persistence throughout the story, other than tiny character progression. Each episode is typically unrelated to the previous one. Now, although there isn't plot, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Each episode is unique from one another, aside from the typical antics of Watanuki read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Apr 24, 2010
rioyoki
Music: Excellent, the background music was perfect at all times and I loved the theme songs. The Credits song was okay, but the intro won out :)

Art_ I loved the artwork, it could have been touched up or more vibrant, but for this anime it definitely suited the dark atmosphere. The detailed kimonas, the cat like eyes, everything was perfectly in place. The way they did Yuuko's hair so beautifully.

The Subject: Most then anything I enjoyed the offbeat plot. Most of the themes in this series revolved around bad vices and good vices and what control we really have over them. All in all read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
May 10, 2010
Xzhieaenne
To begin with, xxxHolic is what you could call "once in a lifetime ANIME"....
Everything about it, the story, the art, sound, characters, even the enjoyment were simply SPECTACULAR... I might be exaggerating, but really, its 'that' amazing! Though I haven't finished reading the manga, i swear the anime was good enough that i almost cried the hell out after I finished watching it.
Yuuko Ichihara really has her own way to touch my soul,, everything she says, every deliberate acts she do, it is as if she knew everything since the very beginning. (Indeed, she do!)
What she says, it read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Mar 25, 2009
Neko123
xxxHolic is a another awesome work of CLAMP and is a crossover to Tsubasa. It has a good english and japanese dub ( especially with Yuuko :3) and also its supernatural-like artwork. We've seen Yuuko in Tsubasa's OVAs and episodes, but there's more to her and Watanuki's ,the main charater,story. It all began with Kimihiro Watakuni, a boy who saw spirits all his life and came into a magical shop and met the one and only, Yuuko Ichihara. She said the reason that he came to the shop was that he had a wish to not see spirits anymore. So she made a deal read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Dec 17, 2008
alienninjasaiyan
xxxHolic is a 26-episode anime series produced by TBS and Production I.G. and is based on the CLAMP manga of the same name. It's a highly exciting and delightful anime, and will offer the viewer a different side of the CLAMP franchise.
The art of the anime is superlative. It takes time to get adjusted to the slightly unconventional art, but one soon gets used to it. Additionally, every character except the lead characters is not clearly drawn; rather, you get gray silhouettes which serve to further accentuate the lead characters’ behavior.
The lead characters themselves are very-well conceived read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Jan 28, 2010
Akuma-Shitsuji
Ok,so,the story is about a high school student called Watanuki,and the mysterious facts that happen to him every day,such as being able to see spirits.Everything gets even more fun and complicated when he inevitably stops by a shop that is owned by Yuko,a jack-of-all-trades shop owner.From that day on,Watanuki starts changing his attitude towards people and changes little by little while meeting the strangest creatures and philosophies...The series is very funny,but at some points scary,and it is definitely worth watching!!!The animation and music are very interesting too,making it one of the most awesome series out there right now :)
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
May 22, 2009
dbaranyi
The anime interpretation of CLAMP's story "xxxHolic" is a marvelously witty and stylishly animated look into the old saying, "Be careful of what you wish for, because you might get it." High school student Watanuki is not much different from most other guys his age. He just wants to outdo his rival Doumeki, and to win the affection of a pretty girl named Himawari who is in his class. But the "difference" in Watanuki is a bit more "different" than normal, because Watanuki attracts and can see spirits, but he can't keep them from bothering him.

This "attraction" eventually brings Watanuki to the very mysterious read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Sep 13, 2010
lovelyphantom
What can I say, I honestly know that the only thing I felt from watching this (though it was only four episodes) was that I was completely disappointed. And that has never really happen before other than with most dubs.

First off we have a the story. A plot about a boy meeting a strange young lady who forces him to work for her, and together they discover the world isn't as what it appears to be. No matter how much I read and re-read the discription here, anime-planet, and many other fan sites, it still turned out with the same feeling when I was watching read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Feb 25, 2013
lastmann
(Spoiler Free)
A misleading title is one of my only qualms with this series. Far from being some sort of ecchi comedy, xxxHolic was one of the most thought provoking, moving, and beautiful animes I've had the pleasure of viewing.

The roots of the show are set deep in the grounds of Japanese folklore. Fans of the animated movie Spirited Away or of animes like Natsume Yuujinchou are sure to love the world of spirits and mysteries crafted in xxxHolic.

The story is mostly episodic with numerous different stories taking palce over 1 or 2 episodes each. While I usually prefer serial animes with longer arcs, xxxHolic read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Jan 12, 2011
pacuuuuu3
xxxHolic is an anime I just finished not long ago. It's based on the manga of the same name by CLAMP. It is also a spin-off of another CLAMP famous anime/manga, called Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.

The story is basically about a guy called Watanuki who can see spirits and other supernatural things. One day, while he is being chased by a spirit, he finds himself entering a store with no reason. Once he enters, he meets Yuuko, the owner of the store. He finds out that it's not a normal store, but a store that grants wishes for a cost. Watanuki asks Yuuko to get rid read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Mar 30, 2008
galluvton
Its possibly the BEST anime i'v ever seen.

It combines fun and adventures, but it also has an aura of seruisness around every episode.

I never saw an anime that had a better script than this one, and there wasen't even a second that I thought of anything else while watching this anime.

The art isen't the level you would expect for an anime of this rank to be, but even though it lookes kind of chieldish, I would like to see you find an anime that can give such a story with such an atmosphere with this art.

I labeled it as Holy. You should too.
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Jun 27, 2012
angelsreview
I do love this show a lot but there are some problems in it too. Inconsistencies between the manga and the anime make me cringe just a tad. Now I have not actually read the manga, but I have seen enough to find that some of the artwork is not right, but we will get to that in a moment. This is pretty much Pet Shop of Horrors with wishes and spirits; sometimes their good, and sometimes they will try to rip you apart.

The story follows a fail of a boy named Watanuki. Pretty much everything he does, he messes up with and is read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Jun 2, 2009
mburke875
a wonderfull anime it has a darkness that is brilliantly done and an underplayed horror theme dealing with peoples actions and the reactions that follow. the show gets better and better further in and seems to me like this fill be my first time rewatching an anime in order to put the story in perspective. the story its self has a good flow linking episode to episode perfectly if i had the time i could definitly watchit all in one. i would recomend this anime to anyone but in particular those who enjoy darker anime and want something that they can read more
I found this review Helpful  Not Helpful
Help     FAQ     About     Contact     Terms     Privacy     AdChoices