
Pushed by his mother to stop lazing around the house, a Panda searches for a part-time job but has troubling finding one to accommodate his laziness. He soon stumbles upon the Shirokuma Cafe, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin. Panda applies for the job but fails the interview, with the job instead going to a human girl named Sasako. However, the others soon point Panda towards a part-time job at a nearby zoo.
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Air Date: 2012-04-05
Pushed by his mother to stop lazing around the house, a Panda searches for a part-time job but has troubling finding ...
Air Date: 2012-04-05
Panda applies for the job but fails the interview, with the job going to a human girl named Sasako instead. However, ...
Air Date: 2012-04-12
Panda, Penguin and Llama come up with ideas for if they ran their own café.
Air Date: 2012-04-12
Everyone goes to a flower viewing party and Penguin gets very drunk.
Air Date: 2012-04-19
Polar Bear and Penguin come to the zoo Panda works at, where they have trouble catching Panda when he's awake and vis...
Air Date: 2012-04-19
Panda and the other animals discuss the problems they face doing their jobs.
Air Date: 2012-04-26
After seeing everyone with smartphones, Panda convinces his mother to buy him one, only for him to soon break the pan...
Air Date: 2012-04-26
Wanting to learn some driving techniques, Penguin joins Polar Bear and Panda on a drive.
Air Date: 2012-05-03
As Panda has to fill in for the full-time panda for a week, he is forced to ride packed trains for work. He cheers up...
Air Date: 2012-05-03
Polar Bear decides to do a parfait fair, and tries to come up with special parfaits to serve.
Air Date: 2012-05-10
Following an incident at work, Panda feels he is overweight and decides to go on a diet.
Air Date: 2012-05-10
Panda decides he needs to get in touch with his wild side, so Polar Bear takes him to meet his childhood friend Grizzly.
Air Date: 2012-05-17
Feeling he could do with being more popular, Panda decides to give Handa a makeover.
Air Date: 2012-05-17
Having received his driving license, Penguin is tested by Polar Bear to try and achieve his 'dating license.'
Air Date: 2012-05-24
Polar Bear is interviewed about his café by a magazine and its editor, who is a shoebill.
Air Date: 2012-05-24
Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly to catch some ingredients.
Air Date: 2012-05-31
Rin Rin gets excited when he gets to make a delivery to Panda's house and meet his family.
Air Date: 2012-05-31
The others try to support Penguin as he tries to work up the courage to confess to Penko.
Air Date: 2012-06-07
Thanks to Panda's interference, Handa is set up by his fellow employee, Kirino, to go on a mixer to meet some girls.
Air Date: 2012-06-07
When one of the guys cancels, Panda and Polar Bear fill in for the guy's side.
Air Date: 2012-06-14
Penguin gets heartbroken when he assumes Penko is dating Tortoise.
Air Date: 2012-06-14
Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly on a night out, visiting a batting center and a public bath.
Air Date: 2012-06-21
Panda and Full Time Panda attempt to distract themselves during a boring and rainy day at the zoo, much to Handa's ch...
Air Date: 2012-06-21
Handa once again questions his love life, but finds some peace during his first visit to Polar Bear Café.
Air Date: 2012-06-28
As the café prepares for a Tanabata party, everyone has trouble deciding what they should wish for.
Air Date: 2012-06-28
Panda notices that Handa has a crush on Sasako, and tries to help him work up his confidence.
Air Date: 2012-07-05
As Panda laments having nothing to do and Polar Bear wishes he had more free time, Polar Bear gets the idea to take P...
Air Date: 2012-07-05
Polar Bear, Panda and Penguin take a trip to the beach.
Air Date: 2012-07-12
The backyard of Polar Bear Café needs weeding, but Penguin seems to be the only one taking things seriously.
Air Date: 2012-07-12
Penguin finally works up the courage to confess to Penko, asking her out every day for a week.
Air Date: 2012-07-19
As the café starts serving a shaved ice dessert called "Polar Bear", Grizzly gets the wrong idea and believes Polar B...
Air Date: 2012-07-19
A salaryman from another town arrives at Polar Bear Café for the first time.
Air Date: 2012-07-26
Polar Bear, Panda, Penguin and Grizzly go on a camping trip together, where Penguin and Grizzly find they have a lot ...
Air Date: 2012-07-26
Rin Rin, believing he has met another panda lover, asks a high school girl to accompany him to the zoo.
Air Date: 2012-08-02
The café decides to hold a night of telling ghost stories, much to an easily-frightened Handa's dismay.
Air Date: 2012-08-02
Panda decides to run away from home when his mother decides to lump his birthday celebration with his siblings.
Air Date: 2012-08-09
As Penguin joins the gang to the pool along with his nephew, he ends up having to deal with an easily irritated King ...
Air Date: 2012-08-09
After becoming amazed by the taste of the Polar Bear Café brand of black coffee, a man named Misaki decides to become...
Air Date: 2012-08-16
Panda imagines a dream life living on his own. After struggling to find a place that meets his expectations, Panda, a...
Air Date: 2012-08-16
Polar Bear and Grizzly run a stand together at a summer festival, joined by a relative of Panda's, Lesser Panda. Afte...
Air Date: 2012-08-23
Panda is reassigned to one part of the zoo after another — even serving as a zookeeper.
Air Date: 2012-08-23
Panda's sister Mei Mei goes on about her crush on Mr Handa. However, after seeing Handa and Ms Badger at a realty off...
Air Date: 2012-08-30
The trio of Pygoscelis penguins from the water park try to figure out how to sell their excess of penguin cards.
Air Date: 2012-08-30
Penguin ends up having to date all the Penko sisters equally, but still has trouble telling them apart. Sasako sugges...
Air Date: 2012-09-06
Handa meets up with Polar Bear to ask his advice on how to ask Sasako out, but Polar Bear seems to be more interested...
Air Date: 2012-09-06
Panda Mama goes to buy walnuts and learns the trick of stuffing the bag full from Mama Red Squirrel, and then endures...
Air Date: 2012-09-13
Panda decides he wants to become someone's apprentice but is rather picky about who his master is. He eventually sett...
Air Date: 2012-09-13
Polar Bear abruptly tasks Sasako with being the host of a sport competition for animals (in which Handa is the only h...
Air Date: 2012-09-20
Penguin puts on an art exhibition, although none of the paintings are original and go unappreciated by the customers....
Air Date: 2012-09-20
As Polar Bear gets Grizzly to help out with a few things, they remember how they first met.
Air Date: 2012-09-27
As Full Time Panda takes on a side job, he starts to worry when he learns a temp Panda will be coming to the zoo, fee...
Air Date: 2012-09-27
At Grizzly Bar, a Tiger, Wolf and Lion have a little reunion. As they lament how they've lost their youth, they are t...
Air Date: 2012-10-04
The zoo animals from Polar Bear Café and the wild animals from Grizzly Bar face off against each other in a baseball ...
Air Date: 2012-10-04
The Red Squirrels teach Misaki about how coffee changes taste depending on how much it has been roasted.
Air Date: 2012-10-11
Polar Bear attempts to fill in for Panda but is questioned by the police. To apologize, Panda decides to give Polar B...
Air Date: 2012-10-11
Rin Rin is invited out drinking by Full Time Panda, who is curious as to why he considers Panda to be cute but not him.
Air Date: 2012-10-18
Panda goes through various part time jobs, including a car dealership, a stock marketer and a lecturer, where he some...
Air Date: 2012-10-18
Penguin has aspirations of flight, and the others try to help him experience it for the first time.
Air Date: 2012-10-25
Polar Bear, Panda and Penguin go trick or treating on Halloween, getting some curious treats from the homes they visit.
Air Date: 2012-10-25
Tired of being passed over all the time, Llama suggests the zoo should hold a Llama Day. However, the animals struggl...
Air Date: 2012-11-01
Penguin is pressured to choose one of the Penko sisters. Llama helps him differentiate between them, but this backfires.
Air Date: 2012-11-01
Panda Mama goes with King Penguin Mama to a concert by porcupine pop group Yama Arashi.
Air Date: 2012-11-08
Polar Bear takes the others to see the café's garden, where all the ingredients are grown.
Air Date: 2012-11-08
The sales penguins attempt to pitch their penguin trading card game to Handa so they can sell it in the zoo's shop, e...
Air Date: 2012-11-15
Panda becomes depressed as the penguin hero show appears to take customers away from the panda corner. Rin Rin sugges...
Air Date: 2012-11-15
Despite some initial interest in the photo contest, the panda corner is still overshadowed by the penguin show. Polar...
Air Date: 2012-11-22
Wolf ends up quitting his job at a bakery, so Tiger recruits him for his sweets shops. After Wolf hears about a posit...
Air Date: 2012-11-22
The gang hear from Llama that Penguin has been visiting the neighboring town's Brown Bear Café. After Polar Bear deci...
Air Date: 2012-11-29
Sloth starts working part-time at the café, though it doesn't prove easy with his speed.
Air Date: 2012-11-29
Handa asks for Polar Bear and Lesser Panda's help in figuring out what to get Sasako for Christmas.
Air Date: 2012-12-06
The pandas look for ways to hibernate at the zoo, but Handa calls them out on it. Grizzly takes Polar Bear shopping f...
Air Date: 2012-12-06
When Grizzly starts his hibernation, he is rudely interrupted by Polar Bear, who takes him to the driving range. When...
Air Date: 2012-12-13
Panda wonders whether he'll get a present for Christmas — until Rin Rin shows up with a knitted pochette for Panda.
Air Date: 2012-12-13
Penguin, eager to show off his storytelling, tries in vain to find a party to appear at before deciding on Grizzly Ba...
Air Date: 2012-12-20
Polar Bear ropes in everyone to do some spring cleaning around the café.
Air Date: 2012-12-20
Polar Bear, Panda, Penguin, Sasako and Llama spend New Year's Eve together, where they reminisce about the past year.
Air Date: 2013-01-10
As the New Year rolls in, the Polar Bear Café holds a hidden talent contest.
Air Date: 2013-01-10
Penguin comes to visit Panda's home while the café is closed, which doesn't please Panda very much.
Air Date: 2013-01-17
Polar Bear sets up a hammock in his garden and invites Panda and Penguin to laze around with him.
Air Date: 2013-01-17
After Panda upsets Panda Mama by eating her tulips, he tries to find something to replace them.
Air Date: 2013-01-24
The café holds a Setsubun event, where everyone takes turns being the ogre.
Air Date: 2013-01-24
Sasako and Llama reminisce about their elementary school days.
Air Date: 2013-01-31
Polar Bear has trouble sleeping, and the others try to cure his insomnia.
Air Date: 2013-01-31
Polar Bear and Grizzly think back to their high school days, where Grizzly had a crush on a grizzly bear named Tsukiko.
Air Date: 2013-02-07
Fed up with Polar Bear's annoying puns, Grizzly and Penguin try to get everyone in town to beat Polar Bear at his own...
Air Date: 2013-02-07
Masaki is told how coffee can taste different depending on how it's prepared, and wonders if he can win over the Red ...
Air Date: 2013-02-07
After a long day at work, Full-Time Panda and Llama decide to have a few drinks. They later invite Rin Rin, who takes...
Air Date: 2013-02-14
Panda is shocked to learn that Full-Time Panda has accepted a transfer to a zoo in Singapore.
Air Date: 2013-02-14
Panda agrees to work full time until another panda is hired, causing some worry amongst his friends.
Air Date: 2013-02-21
Rin Rin and Mei Mei find they have some common interests and work together to think of a plan to get closer to Panda ...
Air Date: 2013-02-21
Polar Bear and the others go to the frozen lakes to do some smelt fishing, though they soon get distracted.
Air Date: 2013-02-28
The younger penguins set up a display for Hinamatsuri, which goes a little awry when the café-goers make their own co...
Air Date: 2013-02-28
Polar Bear develops a fever and goes to the animal hospital for some medicine. Panda and Penguin drop by to look afte...
Air Date: 2013-03-07
The Pygoscelis Penguins are approached by a TV studio to do a televised version of South Pole Squad Penginger alongsi...
Air Date: 2013-03-07
Polar Bear teaches Masaki how a coffee's richness differs based on how it is prepared.
Air Date: 2013-03-14
Panda and the others end up joining Sloth on a long walk to the hot springs.
Air Date: 2013-03-14
The group become paper dolls as they converse in the real world.
Air Date: 2013-03-14
Handa tries to figure out what to get Sasako for White Day.
Air Date: 2013-03-21
Grizzly is visited by his mother, who embarrasses him when she starts serving home cooking in his bar.
Air Date: 2013-03-21
Llama, Sasako and the others visit their hometown to find a time capsule Llama buried five years ago.
Air Date: 2013-03-28
Panda becomes curious about what Penguin does when he's not at the café.
Air Date: 2013-03-28
Polar Bear becomes downhearted when Penguin expresses interest in moving away. Afterwards, everyone gathers around to...