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XxxHolic: Kei

season of xxxHolic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ104841230 ↗
Source-derived summary

The second season of xxxHolic, xxxHolic: Kei (xxxHOLiC◆継, Horikku: Kei; literally "xxxHolic: Sequel"), is an anime adaptation of a manga series written by Clamp. It was developed by Production I.G with the main staff and cast remaining the same as in the first season. The season aired on TBS on April 3, 2008 in Japan and ended on June 26, 2008, with 13 episodes in total.

The opening theme is "NOBODY KNOWS" by Shikao Suga and the ending theme is "Honey Honey" by Seamo.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “XxxHolic: Kei” as season of xxxHolic. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where XxxHolic, season and xxxHolic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as season of xxxHolic. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104841230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “XxxHolic: Kei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.