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Welcome to Polar Bear's Café
Polar Bear Cafe - S1 - E1
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 Polar Bear Café, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin.
Polar Bear Cafe: Season 1 - 51 Episode s
1x1 - Welcome to Polar Bear's Café
April 5, 2012
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 Polar Bear Café, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin.
1x2 - Panda-kun's Employment
April 5, 2012
Penguin point Panda towards a part-time job at a petting zoo, where he works with a full-time panda entertaining school children.
1x3 - Everyone's Café
April 12, 2012
Panda, Penguin and Llama come up with ideas for if they ran their own café.
1x4 - The Café's Flower Viewing Party
April 12, 2012
Everyone goes to a flower viewing party where Penguin gets very drunk and goes on about a penguin he likes.
1x5 - Polar Bear at the Zoo
April 19, 2012
Polar Bear and Penguin come to the zoo Panda works at, where they have trouble catching Panda when he's awake and visiting the other attractions.
1x6 - Panda's Anguish
April 19, 2012
Panda and the other animals discuss the problems they face doing their jobs.
1x7 - Obsessed with Smartphones
April 26, 2012
After seeing everyone with smartphones, Panda convinces his mother to buy him one, only for him to soon break the panda cover it had. Polar Bear cheers Panda up by making him an origami panda cover, only for him to end breaking the actual phone.
1x8 - Super Fun Driving Lesson
April 26, 2012
Wanting to learn some driving techniques, Penguin joins Polar Bear and Panda on a drive.
1x9 - Panda Gets Enthusiastic
May 3, 2012
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 and becomes more energetic when he starts receiving flowers from a supposed fan named Rin-Rin, only to later learn it was the male flower shop owner, Rintaro Hayashi.
1x10 - Everyone's Parfait
May 3, 2012
Polar Bear decides to do a parfait fair and tries to come up with some special parfaits to serve.
1x11 - Panda's Diet
May 10, 2012
Following an incident at work, Panda feels he is overweight and decides to go on a diet.
1x12 - Strive for It! Wild Panda
May 10, 2012
Panda decides he needs to get in touch with his wild side, so Polar Bear takes him to meet his childhood friend, Grizzly, who runs a bar.
1x13 - Mr Handa's Remodeling Plan
May 17, 2012
Feeling he could do with being more popular, Panda decides to give Handa a makeover, although it ends up turning into a day out with Handa paying for everything.
1x14 - The Great Love Love Driving Operation
May 17, 2012
Having received his driving license, Penguin is tested by Polar Bear to try and achieve his 'dating license.'
1x15 - A Magazine Interview Comes By
May 24, 2012
Polar Bear is interviewed about his café by a magazine headed up by the editor who is a Shoebill.
1x16 - Salmon Hunter: Mr. Grizzly
May 24, 2012
Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly to catch some ingredients.
1x17 - Rin Rin Deeply Moved! Panda's House!
May 31, 2012
Rintaro gets excited when he gets to make a delivery to Panda's house and meet his family.
1x18 - Mr. Penguin's Confession
May 31, 2012
The others try to support Penguin as he tries to work up the courage to confess to Penko.
1x19 - Mr. Handa's Blind Date?
June 7, 2012
Thanks to Panda's interference, Handa is set up by his fellow employee, Kirino, to go on a mixer to meet some girls.
1x20 - Mr. Handa's Blind Date!
June 7, 2012
When one of the guys cancels, Panda and Polar Bear fill in for the guy's side. However, the girls become more interested in Panda than they are in Handa.
1x21 - Mr. Penguin's Broken Heart
June 14, 2012
Penguin gets heartbroken when he assumes Penko is dating Tortoise.
1x22 - Panda's Night Out
June 14, 2012
Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly on a night out, visiting a batting center and a public bath.
1x23 - Panda, Tired of Boredom
June 21, 2012
Panda and the Full-time Panda attempt to distract themselves during a boring and rainy day at the zoo, much to Handa's chagrin.
1x24 - Panda's Advice Room for Troubles
June 21, 2012
Handa once again questions his love life once but finds some peace during his first visit to the Polar Bear's Café.
1x25 - Tanabata Decorations
June 28, 2012
As the café prepares for a Tanabata party, everyone has trouble deciding what they should wish for.
1x26 - Panda's Wish
June 28, 2012
Noticing Handa seems to have a crush on Sasako, Panda tries to help him work up his confidence.
1x27 - Enthusiastic Polar Bear
July 5, 2012
As Panda laments having nothing to due whilst Polar Bear wishes he had more free time, Polar Bear takes Panda's place at the zoo pretending to be a panda, proving to be a hit.
1x28 - Let's Go to the Beach!
July 5, 2012
Polar Bear, Panda and Penguin take a trip to the beach.
1x29 - Weeding in the Summer
July 12, 2012
The backyard of the Polar Bear's Café needs weeding, but Penguin seems to be the only one taking things seriously.
1x30 - Mr. Penguin's Romance
July 12, 2012
Penguin finally works up the courage to confess to Penko, asking her out every day for a week. However, it turns out he inadvertently asked out seven identical girl penguins, leading to disaster when they all show up on the day.
1x31 - Mr. Grizzly Goes On an Adventure
July 19, 2012
As the café starts serving a shaved ice dessert called "Polar Bear", Grizzly gets the wrong idea and believes Polar Bear had been eaten by otters.
1x32 - A Strange Restaurant
July 19, 2012
A salaryman from another town arrives at the Polar Bear's Café for the first time and is astounded by the various customers.
1x33 - Let's Go Camping!
July 26, 2012
Polar Bear, Panda, Penguin and Grizzly go on a camping trip together, where Penguin and Grizzly find they have a lot in common whilst trying to keep Polar Bear and Panda in check.
1x34 - Rin Rin and the High School Girl
July 26, 2012
A high school girl is asked by Rintarou to accompany him to the zoo, believing it to be a date, only to find he just wanted someone to talk about how cute Panda is.
1x35 - The Cafe's Ghost Stories
August 2, 2012
The café decides to hold a night of telling ghost stories, much to an easily-frighted Handa's dismay.
1x36 - Panda Runs Away from Home
August 2, 2012
Panda decides to run away from home when his mother decides to lump his birthday celebration with his siblings.
1x37 - There Are Many Kinds of Penguins
August 9, 2012
As Penguin joins the gang to the pool along with his nephew, he ends up having to deal with an easily irritated king penguin and the Penko sisters.
1x38 - What Is Baisen!?
August 9, 2012
After becoming amazed by the taste of the Polar Bear's Café brand of black coffee, a man named Misaki decides to become the pupil of a tree kangaroo in order to learn how to roast coffee beans.
1x39 - The Ideal Single Life
August 16, 2012
Panda imagines a dream life living on his own. After struggling to find a place that meets his expectations, Panda, along with Penguin, check out where the other animals live.
1x40 - Summer Festival
August 16, 2012
Polar Bear and Grizzly run a stand together at a summer festival, joined by a relative of Panda's, Lesser Panda. After selling everything, the gang enjoy the sights of the festival.
1x41 - Panda Is No Longer a Panda
August 23, 2012
Panda is reassigned to one part of the zoo after another — even serving as a zookeeper.
1x42 - Mei Mei's Prince
August 23, 2012
Panda's sister Mei Mei goes on about her crush on Mr Handa. However, after seeing Handa and Ms Badger at a realty office, Panda believes that the two are getting married.
1x43 - Sales Penguin
August 30, 2012
The trio of Pygoscelis penguins from the water park try to figure out how to sell their excess of penguin cards, eventually settling on creating a concentration game with them, which becomes a hit.
1x44 - Mr. Penguin's Picnic
August 30, 2012
Penguin ends up having to date all the Penko sisters equally, but still has trouble telling them apart. Sasako suggests he give the sisters differently colored ribbons to better identify them, but it backfires when they decide to trade them with each other.
1x45 - Mr. Handa's Discussion
September 6, 2012
Mr Handa meets up with Polar Bear to ask his advice on how to ask Sasako out, but Polar Bear seems to be more interested in the food where the meeting takes place. Meanwhile, Sasako winds up serving several good-looking men who come into the café, which worries Panda and Penguin.
1x46 - Panda Mama's Daily Life
September 6, 2012
Panda Mama goes to buy walnuts and learns the trick of stuffing the bag full from Mama Red Squirrel, and then endures a lecture from King Penguin Mama on how to eat at an all-you-can-eat cake buffet. The group then decides to eat at Polar Bear's Café, where they end up taxing his sanity.
1x47 - Panda's Apprenticeship
September 13, 2012
Panda decides he wants to become someone's apprentice but is rather picky about who his master is. He eventually settles on becoming Sloth's apprentice, but quits due to not being able match his levels of laziness.
1x48 - A Sports Day Filled with Animals
September 13, 2012
Polar Bear abruptly tasks Sasako with being the emcee of a sport competition for animals (in which Handa is the only human participant), while Panda Mama and Mama Red Squirrel quarrel over how to prepare rice balls.
1x49 - Mr. Penguin's Hobbies
September 20, 2012
Penguin puts on an art exhibition, although none of the paintings are original and go unappreciated by the customers. After Polar Bear and Panda see the exhibit, they and Penguin discuss what hobbies they and other café regulars have.
1x50 - Their Childhood Days
September 20, 2012
As Polar Bear gets Grizzly to help out with a few things, he tells about how they first met.
1x51 - The New Panda
September 27, 2012
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, feeling he might be replaced. As Temp Panda arrives and acts rather sternly towards the other pandas, a ballot is held as to who should be the central panda.