Season 1

1. Welcome to Polar Bear's Café

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.

2012-04-05 • 12 min

2. Panda-kun's Employment

Penguin point Panda towards a part-time job at a petting zoo, where he works with a full-time panda entertaining school children.

2012-04-05 • 12 min

3. Everyone's Café

Panda, Penguin and Llama come up with ideas for if they ran their own café.

2012-04-12 • 12 min

4. The Café's Flower Viewing Party

Everyone goes to a flower viewing party where Penguin gets very drunk and goes on about a penguin he likes.

2012-04-12 • 12 min

5. Polar Bear at the Zoo

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.

2012-04-19 • 12 min

6. Panda's Anguish

Panda and the other animals discuss the problems they face doing their jobs.

2012-04-19 • 12 min

7. Obsessed with Smartphones

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.

2012-04-26 • 12 min

8. Super Fun Driving Lesson

Wanting to learn some driving techniques, Penguin joins Polar Bear and Panda on a drive.

2012-04-26 • 12 min

9. Panda Gets Enthusiastic

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.

2012-05-03 • 12 min

10. Everyone's Parfait

Polar Bear decides to do a parfait fair and tries to come up with some special parfaits to serve.

2012-05-03 • 12 min

11. Panda's Diet

Following an incident at work, Panda feels he is overweight and decides to go on a diet.

2012-05-10 • 12 min

12. Strive for It! Wild Panda

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.

2012-05-10 • 12 min

13. Mr Handa's Remodeling Plan

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.

2012-05-17 • 12 min

14. The Great Love Love Driving Operation

Having received his driving license, Penguin is tested by Polar Bear to try and achieve his 'dating license.'

2012-05-17 • 12 min

15. A Magazine Interview Comes By

Polar Bear is interviewed about his café by a magazine headed up by the editor who is a Shoebill.

2012-05-24 • 12 min

16. Salmon Hunter: Mr. Grizzly

Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly to catch some ingredients.

2012-05-24 • 12 min

17. Rin Rin Deeply Moved! Panda's House!

Rintaro gets excited when he gets to make a delivery to Panda's house and meet his family.

2012-05-31 • 12 min

18. Mr. Penguin's Confession

The others try to support Penguin as he tries to work up the courage to confess to Penko.

2012-05-31 • 12 min

19. Mr. Handa's Blind Date?

Thanks to Panda's interference, Handa is set up by his fellow employee, Kirino, to go on a mixer to meet some girls.

2012-06-07 • 12 min

20. Mr. Handa's Blind Date!

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.

2012-06-07 • 12 min

21. Mr. Penguin's Broken Heart

Penguin gets heartbroken when he assumes Penko is dating Tortoise.

2012-06-14 • 12 min

22. Panda's Night Out

Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly on a night out, visiting a batting center and a public bath.

2012-06-14 • 12 min

23. Panda, Tired of Boredom

Panda and the Full-time Panda attempt to distract themselves during a boring and rainy day at the zoo, much to Handa's chagrin.

2012-06-21 • 12 min

24. Panda's Advice Room for Troubles

Handa once again questions his love life once but finds some peace during his first visit to the Polar Bear's Café.

2012-06-21 • 12 min

25. Tanabata Decorations

As the café prepares for a Tanabata party, everyone has trouble deciding what they should wish for.

2012-06-28 • 12 min

26. Panda's Wish

Noticing Handa seems to have a crush on Sasako, Panda tries to help him work up his confidence.

2012-06-28 • 12 min

27. Enthusiastic Polar Bear

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.

2012-07-05 • 12 min

28. Let's Go to the Beach!

Polar Bear, Panda and Penguin take a trip to the beach.

2012-07-05 • 12 min

29. Weeding in the Summer

The backyard of the Polar Bear's Café needs weeding, but Penguin seems to be the only one taking things seriously.

2012-07-12 • 12 min

30. Mr. Penguin's Romance

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.

2012-07-12 • 12 min

31. Mr. Grizzly Goes On an Adventure

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.

2012-07-19 • 12 min

32. A Strange Restaurant

A salaryman from another town arrives at the Polar Bear's Café for the first time and is astounded by the various customers.

2012-07-19 • 12 min

33. Let's Go Camping!

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.

2012-07-26 • 12 min

34. Rin Rin and the High School Girl

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.

2012-07-26 • 12 min

35. The Cafe's Ghost Stories

The café decides to hold a night of telling ghost stories, much to an easily-frighted Handa's dismay.

2012-08-02 • 12 min

36. Panda Runs Away from Home

Panda decides to run away from home when his mother decides to lump his birthday celebration with his siblings.

2012-08-02 • 12 min

37. There Are Many Kinds of Penguins

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.

2012-08-09 • 12 min

38. What Is Baisen!?

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.

2012-08-09 • 12 min

39. The Ideal Single Life

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.

2012-08-16 • 12 min

40. Summer Festival

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.

2012-08-16 • 12 min

41. Panda Is No Longer a Panda

Panda is reassigned to one part of the zoo after another — even serving as a zookeeper.

2012-08-23 • 12 min

42. Mei Mei's Prince

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.

2012-08-23 • 12 min

43. Sales Penguin

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.

2012-08-30 • 12 min

44. Mr. Penguin's Picnic

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.

2012-08-30 • 12 min

45. Mr. Handa's Discussion

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.

2012-09-06 • 12 min

46. Panda Mama's Daily Life

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.

2012-09-06 • 12 min

47. Panda's Apprenticeship

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.

2012-09-13 • 12 min

48. A Sports Day Filled with Animals

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.

2012-09-13 • 12 min

49. Mr. Penguin's Hobbies

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.

2012-09-20 • 12 min

50. Their Childhood Days

As Polar Bear gets Grizzly to help out with a few things, he tells about how they first met.

2012-09-20 • 12 min

51. The New Panda

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.

2012-09-27 • 12 min

52. Reunion at the Grizzly Bar

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.

2012-09-27 • 12 min

53. Animal Field Baseball

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.

2012-10-04 • 12 min

54. What's Jacu Coffee!?

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

2012-10-04 • 12 min

55. Panda's Apology

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.

2012-10-11 • 12 min

56. RinRin Is Invited

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

2012-10-11 • 12 min

57. Panda's New Part Time Job

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.

2012-10-18 • 12 min

58. Mr. Penguin Goes Flying

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

2012-10-18 • 12 min

59. Halloween

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

2012-10-25 • 12 min

60. Llama Day

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.

2012-10-25 • 12 min

61. Mr. Penguin's Dilemma!

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.

2012-11-01 • 12 min

62. Idol: Yama Arashi!

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

2012-11-01 • 12 min

63. The Café Garden

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

2012-11-08 • 12 min

64. Sales Penguin's Sales

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.

2012-11-08 • 12 min

65. Panda Corner's Contest / Coffee Roaster Masaki

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.

2012-11-15 • 12 min

66. Panda Corner's Project

2012-11-15 • 12 min

67. Wolf's Occupation Change

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.

2012-11-22 • 12 min

68. Mr Penguin's New Love

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.

2012-11-22 • 12 min

69. Sloth Wants to Work

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

2012-11-29 • 12 min

70. Mr. Handa's Present

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

2012-11-29 • 12 min

71. Grizzly's Hibernation Preparations!

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.

2012-12-06 • 12 min

72. Grizzly's Hibernation!

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.

2012-12-06 • 12 min

73. Christmas Planning

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.

2012-12-13 • 12 min

74. Christmas Trouble

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.

2012-12-13 • 12 min

75. Big Cleaning at the Café

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

2012-12-20 • 12 min

76. For Whom Does the Bell Toll?

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.

2012-12-20 • 12 min

77. The Animals' Hidden Talent Competition

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

2013-01-10 • 12 min

78. New Year's Guest

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

2013-01-10 • 12 min

79. The Hammock Sea

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

2013-01-17 • 12 min

80. Panda Mama's Gardening

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

2013-01-17 • 12 min

81. Scattering Beans with Everyone

The café holds a Setsubun event, where everyone takes turns being the ogre.

2013-01-24 • 12 min

82. The Café in the Afternoon

Sasako and Llama reminisce about their elementary school days.

2013-01-24 • 12 min

83. Polar Bear's Insomnia

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

2013-01-31 • 12 min

84. Mr. Grizzly' First Love

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

2013-01-31 • 12 min

85. Pun Café

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.

2013-02-07 • 12 min

86. The Secret to Delicious Coffee

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.

2013-02-07 • 12 min

87. Mr. Full-Time Panda, Mr. Llama and Rin Rin

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.

2013-02-07 • 12 min

88. The Everyday Zoo

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.

2013-02-14 • 12 min

89. The Zoo in the Rain

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.

2013-02-14 • 12 min

90. Rin Rin and Mei Mei's Super Exciting Plan

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.

2013-02-21 • 12 min

91. Smelt Fishing

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.

2013-02-21 • 12 min

92. Doll Festival

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.

2013-02-28 • 12 min

93. The Animal Doctor

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.

2013-02-28 • 12 min

94. South Pole Squad Penguinger

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.

2013-03-07 • 12 min

95. Even More, What Is Roasting?

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.

2013-03-07 • 12 min

96. Sloth's Trip

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.

2013-03-14 • 12 min

97. I Became a Doll

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

2013-03-14 • 12 min

98. White Day

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

2013-03-14 • 12 min

99. Mr. Grizzly's Reunion

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.

2013-03-21 • 12 min

100. Mr. Llama's Time Capsule

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.

2013-03-21 • 12 min

101. Mr. Peguin's Secret

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

2013-03-28 • 12 min

102. Cherry Blossom Viewing in Spring

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.

2013-03-28 • 12 min