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TBS
Aug 20, 2005

TBS
Aug 20, 2005

Summary Haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits, Kimihiro Watanuki seemingly encounters a mysterious witch named Yuko, who claims she can help. Kimihiro accepts her help out of desperation, but realizes that he has just been tricked into working for the witch in order to pay off the cost of her services. He is soon employed in her little shop w...

Directed By: Tsutomu Mizushima

Written By: Mokona Apapa, Satsuki Igarashi, Mick Nekoi, Michiko Yokote, Nanase Ôkawa

TBS
Aug 20, 2005

TBS
Aug 20, 2005

S1 • Episode 25

OVA 1: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Air Date: Aug 20, 2005

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Summary Haunted by visions of ghosts and spirits, Kimihiro Watanuki seemingly encounters a mysterious witch named Yuko, who claims she can help. Kimihiro accepts her help out of desperation, but realizes that he has just been tricked into working for the witch in order to pay off the cost of her services. He is soon employed in her little shop w...

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Episode 1 • Apr 6, 2006 • 25 m

Watanuki, who has been haunted by dark spirits his entire life, meets Yuko, a mystical woman of insight and luxury, quick to help those in a bind... For a fee!

Episode 2 • Apr 13, 2006 • 25 m

The reality of the deal between Yuko and Watanuki is settling in, the young man slaving over a hot stove in exchange for freedom from his haunting visions. Nobody said it was going to be easy!

Episode 3 • Apr 20, 2006 • 25 m

The tasks given Watanuki are being pulled from an ever expanding queue, and this night brings something rather more intense than refilling a sake glass.

Episode 4 • Apr 27, 2006 • 25 m

Yuko senses the yearning in Watanuki's heart, her servant smitten with a young girl from school. Now the witch will test the bounds of his love, seeking an audience with a fortune teller.

Episode 5 • May 4, 2006 • 25 m

Word-Chain Game

Following his nose, Watanuki meets some magical furry friends of Yuko's, their culinary offerings legendary. While the food is good, their lessons and insight are invaluable...

Episode 6 • May 11, 2006 • 25 m

One of Yuko's friends from the net pops up, the woman so hooked on the virtual world as to neglect the realm of flesh and blood. And Yuko will test the web addict's will with the simplest advice of all.

Episode 7 • May 18, 2006 • 25 m

It's the rainy season and she who controls the precipitation is looking for Watanuki. An Ame-warashi, a creature with a higher existence than a demon, tasks the haunted helper with a mission...

Episode 8 • May 25, 2006 • 25 m

Yuko is cleaning out her vaults. And the strange monkey paw which a young graduate student finds among Yuko's dusty archives will strangle logic with its ancient grasp.

Episode 9 • Jun 1, 2006 • 25 m

The summer days are sweltering, and soul mates are seeking happiness under the blistering sun. One young woman lives among many suitors, with each man none the wiser.

Episode 10 • Jun 8, 2006 • 25 m

The beating of summer days continue and Yuko and her entourage seek relief in the not so subtle chill of ghost stories.

Episode 11 • Jun 15, 2006 • 25 m

When a mysterious girl at the park expresses her affections in front of Watanuki and Domeki, one of the guys will be left speechless... And lifeless!

Episode 12 • Jun 22, 2006 • 25 m

Yuko takes her crew to a lovely beach house for a respite from the heat, and while Watanuki dreams of seeing Himawari in her bathing suit, something creepy is scratching at his slumber.

Episode 13 • Jun 29, 2006 • 25 m

Transfiguration

Watanuki encounters a withdrawn girl, talented in the arts, but with increasing frequency she is laying aside her pencil to ball up her fist.

Episode 14 • Jul 6, 2006 • 25 m

So strange to be a twin; surface similarities hide separate souls and separate hopes. The connection between hearts is buoyed on waves and Watanuki sees firsthand the swells and crashing between two sisters...

Episode 15 • Jul 13, 2006 • 25 m

Twin sisters struggle to stand out, and the blood they share will continue to flow freely unless they can tame their twisted talk.

Episode 16 • Jul 17, 2006 • 24 m

Episode 17 • Jul 24, 2006 • 24 m

Episode 18 • Jul 31, 2006 • 24 m

Episode 19 • Aug 10, 2006 • 25 m

The snow is deep and the still white winter has settled over Yuko's curious shop of desires and dreams. Within a box from the witch's archives, every hope and wish waits to spring forth.

Episode 20 • Aug 31, 2006 • 25 m

A snapshot can be considered truth; a moment captured, unchanged by the impression of an artist. In Watanuki's world, however, even the plain facts are given to interpretation by the spirits.

Episode 21 • Sep 7, 2006 • 25 m

Watanuki is on a rare paid vacation while Yuko is away on business. He will have plenty of time to get to the bottom of any tale that he chooses.

Episode 22 • Sep 14, 2006 • 25 m

Watanuki may be surrounded by the unseen, but to look into soft eyes after years of loneliness may be his greatest wish of all. He spends time with a forlorn woman with whom he shares a certain misery.

Episode 23 • Sep 21, 2006 • 25 m

Episode 24 • Sep 28, 2006 • 24 m

Watanuki's is a tale of survival, of independence with no other option. The earliest memories of an odd young boy are peppered with visions of the unthinkable, a lonesome lad never alone when apart.

Episode 25 • Aug 20, 2005

OVA 1: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Top Cast

Sayaka Ôhara

Yuko Ichihara, Yûko Ichihara

Jun Fukuyama

Kimihiro Watanuki

Kazuya Nakai

Shizuka Domeki, Haruka Domeki, Domeki

Shizuka Itô

Himawari Kunogi

Mika Kikuchi

Mokona

Todd Haberkorn

Watanuki

Colleen Clinkenbeard

Yuko Ichihara

Carrie Savage

Mokona

Kazuko Kojima

Maru

Hisayo Mochizuki

Moro

J. Michael Tatum

Shizuka Doumeki

Emiri Kato

Friend B, Announce, Female High School Student 1, Maid, Shop Assistant, Shufu B, Voice of Flower

Fumie Mizusawa

Child, Female High School Student #3, Fortune Teller, Friend A, Friend C, Nurse, Shufu A, Voice of Flower

Sumi Mutoh

Zashiki Warashi

Akiko Yajima

Ame Warashi

Chô

Karasu Tengu Keith, Karasu Tengu

Yoshinori Fujita

Karasu Tengu Eric, Karasu Tengu

Makoto Yasumura

Karasu Tengu Jimmy, Karasu Tengu

Akiko Suzuki

Karasu Tengu Jeff, Karasu Tengu

Noboru Yamaguchi

Karasu Tengu Brian, Karasu Tengu

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