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Product Description People are capable of wishing for anything they think that they want. It could be happiness, or unhappiness The parade of those blinded by desire trudges even onward, and Watanuki without fail leads the procession of the petitioning. The world is getting smaller, faces from other realms more common every day. Lessons come hard and fast, with Yuko lounging blithely among the chaos. The litany of her demands is the same as it ever was, but how to play the game when the rules are set by one so arbitrary? There is always a price to pay Amazon.com The languid fantasy xxxHolic ends on a surprisingly gentle note. Typically, Watanuki sulks and complains when Dimensional Witch Yuko teaches him that some old superstitions conceal supernatural truths. (The Japanese superstitions may surprise American viewers: "if you cut your nails at night, you won't be present at your parents' death.") The three final episodes reveal how lonely Watanuki is underneath all that fussing and fuming. In the linked Episodes 22 and 23, he forms a potentially deadly friendship with a mysterious woman who lost her son years earlier. Her gentle melancholy touches the heart of the orphaned young man. In "Side Story: Reminiscence," Watanuki recalls his only childhood friend--and learns that he has people who care about him, even if he's too busy complaining to recognize them. Although the original xxxHolic ended with Episode 24, the characters proved so popular they returned in the theatrical feature xxxHolic the Movie: A Midsummer Night's Dream (released on disc as part of Clamp Double Feature, and the 2008 sequel xxxHolic: Kei. (Rated TV PG: comic violence, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon (21. Nail Clipper, 22. Temptation, 23. Choices, 24. Side Story: Reminiscence)