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.

1x52 - Reunion at the Grizzly Bar

September 27, 2012

At the Grizzly Bar, a Tiger, Wolf and Lion have a little reunion. As they lament how they've lost their youth, Polar Bear, who used to be a rap artist, gives them a surprise performance as a present.

1x53 - Animal Field Baseball

October 4, 2012

The zoo animals from the Polar Bear's Cafe and the wild animals from Grizzly's bar face off against each other in a baseball match.

1x54 - What's Jacu Coffee!?

October 4, 2012

The Red Squirrels teach Misaki about how coffee changes taste depending on how much it has been roasted.

1x55 - Panda's Apology

October 11, 2012

Polar Bear attempts to fill in for Panda but is questioned by the police. As way of apologise, Panda decides to give Polar Bear a day off by working at the cafe, though it's not as easy as he thinks.

1x56 - RinRin Is Invited

October 11, 2012

RinRin is invited out drinking by Full Time Panda, who is curious as to why he considers Panda to be cute but not him.

1x57 - Panda's New Part Time Job

October 18, 2012

Panda goes through various part time jobs, including a car dealership, a stock marketer and a lecturer, where he somehow manages to make the respective companies successful and even become a CEO.

1x58 - Mr. Penguin Goes Flying

October 18, 2012

Penguin has aspirations of flight so the others try various attempts to get him airborne.

1x59 - Halloween

October 25, 2012

Polar Bear, Panda and Penguin go trick or treating on Halloween, getting some curious treats from the homes they visit.

1x60 - Llama Day

October 25, 2012

Tired of being passed over all the time, Llama suggests the zoo should hold a Llama Day. However, the animals struggle with coming up with ideas to make Llama more appealing.

1x61 - Mr. Penguin's Dilemma!

November 1, 2012

As Penguin is put under the pressure to choose one of the Penko sisters, Llama helps him to differentiate between them, but this soon backfires.

1x62 - Idol: Yama Arashi!

November 1, 2012

Panda Mama goes with King Penguin Mama to a concert by porcupine pop group Yama Arashi.

1x63 - The Café Garden

November 8, 2012

Polar Bear takes the others to see the café's garden where all the ingredients are grown.

1x64 - Sales Penguin's Sales

November 8, 2012

The sales penguins attempt to pitch their penguin trading card game to Handa so they can sell it in the zoo's shop, even suggesting they hold a penguin themed hero show to attract customers.

1x65 - Panda Corner's Contest / Coffee Roaster Masaki

November 15, 2012

Panda becomes depressed as the penguin hero show appears to take customers away from the panda corner. Rin-Rin suggests to Panda that the zoo put on a photo contest to attract more customers. Meanwhile, Masaki has a go at roasting coffee, learning the meaning behind hand picking coffee beans. Despite some initial interest in the photo contest, the panda corner is still overshadowed by the penguin show, which Penguin also participates in. Thus Polar Bear suggests the Panda family put on their own performance, which proves to be a big hit.

1x66 - Panda Corner's Project

November 15, 2012

1x67 - Wolf's Occupation Change

November 22, 2012

Wolf ends up quitting his job at a bakery, so Tiger recruits him for his sweets shops. After Wolf hears about a position at a famous bakery from Panda-Mama, Tiger encourages Wolf to go for it, and he manages to get the job.

1x68 - Mr Penguin's New Love

November 22, 2012

The gang hear from Llama that Penguin has been visiting the neighbouring town's Brown Bear Cafe. As Polar Bear decides to check it out, he learns Penguin has gained a crush on the waitress penguin there, deciding not to come to Polar Bear's Cafe until he works up the courage to ask her out.

1x69 - Sloth Wants to Work

November 29, 2012

Sloth starts working part-time at the cafe, though it doesn't prove easy with his speed.

1x70 - Mr. Handa's Present

November 29, 2012

Handa asks for Polar Bear and Lesser Panda's help in figuring out what to get Sasako for Christmas.

1x71 - Grizzly's Hibernation Preparations!

December 6, 2012

The pandas look for ways to hibernate at the zoo, but Handa calls them out on it. Grizzly takes Polar Bear shopping for a pillow to sleep on during hibernation.

1x72 - Grizzly's Hibernation!

December 6, 2012

When Grizzly does get to hibernate, he is rudely interrupted by Polar Bear, who takes him to the driving range. When Panda and Penguin turn up, Grizzly, cranky from lack of sleep, takes them all out to a hot pot bistro.

1x73 - Christmas Planning

December 13, 2012

Panda wonders whether he'll get a present for Christmas — until Rin Rin shows up with a knitted pochette for Panda, which the latter accepts reluctantly.

1x74 - Christmas Trouble

December 13, 2012

Penguin, eager to show off his storytelling, tries in vain to find a party to appear at before deciding on Bar the Grizzly. Panda and Mei Mei argue over whose picture should be sent to Handa as a Christmas present, and Llama and Alpaca use their wool to create scarves and other garments.

1x75 - Big Cleaning at the Café

December 20, 2012

Polar Bear ropes in everyone to do some spring cleaning around the cafe before Panda-Mama brings a salmon for everyone to have hotpot.

1x76 - For Whom Does the Bell Toll?

December 20, 2012

Polar Bear, Panda, Penguin, Sasako and Llama spend New Year's Eve together, where they reminisce about the past year. They are soon joined by the other animals to see the New Year in.

1x77 - The Animals' Hidden Talent Competition

January 10, 2013

As the New Year rolls in, the Polar Bear's Cafe holds a hidden talent contest.

1x78 - New Year's Guest

January 10, 2013

Penguin comes to visit Panda's home whilst the cafe is closed, which doesn't please Panda very much.

1x79 - The Hammock Sea

January 17, 2013

Polar Bear sets up a hammock in his garden and invites Panda and Penguin to laze around with him.

1x80 - Panda Mama's Gardening

January 17, 2013

After Panda upsets Panda-Mama by eating her tulips, he tries and find something to replace them.

1x82 - The Café in the Afternoon

January 24, 2013

Sasako and Llama reminisce about their elementary school days.

1x83 - Polar Bear's Insomnia

January 31, 2013

The gang try and help Polar Bear as he has trouble sleeping due to insomnia.

1x84 - Mr. Grizzly' First Love

January 31, 2013

Polar Bear and Grizzly think back to their high school days, where Grizzly had a crush on a girl Grizzly named Tsukiko.

1x85 - Pun Café

February 7, 2013

Fed up with Polar Bear's annoying puns, Grizzly and Penguin try to get everyone in town to beat Polar Bear at his own game.

1x86 - The Secret to Delicious Coffee

February 7, 2013

Masaki is told how coffee can taste different depending on how it's prepared, and wonders if he can win over the Red Squirrels with advice from Polar Bear.

1x87 - Mr. Full-Time Panda, Mr. Llama and Rin Rin

February 7, 2013

Affter a long day at work, Mr. Full-time Panda and Mr. Llama decide to have a few drinks. They later invite Rin Rin, who takes the drunk Panda and Llama to Grizzly's bar, where everyone there gets drunk into the morning.

1x88 - The Everyday Zoo

February 14, 2013

Panda is shocked to learn that Full-Time Panda has been transferred to a zoo in Singapore. He agrees to work full time until another panda is hired, causing some worry amongst his friends.

1x89 - The Zoo in the Rain

February 14, 2013

When a Valentine's couple end up insulting Panda after two weeks of straight work, Penguin stands up against them. Panda soon cheers up after a new part-time panda is found and gives his thanks to Penguin.

1x90 - Rin Rin and Mei Mei's Super Exciting Plan

February 21, 2013

Rin Rin and Mei Mei find they have some common interests and work together to think of a plan to get closer to Panda and Handa. However, Rin Rin ends up catching a fever, so Mei Mei decides to instead look after him.

1x91 - Smelt Fishing

February 21, 2013

Polar Bear and the others go to the frozen lakes to do some smelt fishing, though soon get distracted. After Grizzly helps to catch a whole bunch, Polar Bear sets up an igloo cafe to make use of their ingredients.

1x92 - Doll Festival

February 28, 2013

The younger penguins set up a display for Hina Matsuri, which goes a little awry when the cafe-goers make their own contributions. Grizzly is called in to help them set it up, only to realize that, besides Sasako, there are no girls around to celebrate it.

1x93 - The Animal Doctor

February 28, 2013

Polar Bear develops a fever and goes to the animal hospital for some medicine. Panda and Penguin decide to come over to look after him, only to end up catching fevers themselves.

1x94 - South Pole Squad Penguinger

March 7, 2013

The Pygoscelis Penguins are approached by a TV studio to do a televised version of South Pole Squad Penginger alongside Yama Arashi, with some of the other animals making cameos.

1x95 - Even More, What Is Roasting?

March 7, 2013

Polar Bear teaches Masaki how a coffee's richness differs based on how it is prepared. He later learns Tree Kangaroo will let him start roasting his own coffee beans.

1x96 - Sloth's Trip

March 14, 2013

Panda and the others end up joining Sloth on a long walk to the hot springs, wanting to get their on his own two feet.

1x97 - I Became a Doll

March 14, 2013

The group become paper dolls as they converse in the real world.

1x98 - White Day

March 14, 2013

Handa tries to figure out what to get Sasako for White Day.

1x99 - Mr. Grizzly's Reunion

March 21, 2013

Grizzly is visited by his mother, who embarrasses him a little when she starts serving home cooking in his bar. After trying it for himself, however, it soon turns out to be a big hit.

1x100 - Mr. Llama's Time Capsule

March 21, 2013

Llama, Sasako and the others visit their hometown to find a time capsule Llama buried five years ago. Upon arriving, however, they discover the tree he buried it under is in the middle of a private property.

1x101 - Mr. Peguin's Secret

March 28, 2013

Panda becomes curious about what Penguin does when he's not at the cafe.

1x102 - Cherry Blossom Viewing in Spring

March 28, 2013

Polar Bear becomes downhearted when Penguin expresses interest in moving house, though feels relieved once he hears he just intends to renew his apartment lease. Afterwards, everyone gathers around to have a cherry blossom viewing party, looking back on the year they've spent together.