Polar Bear Café | |
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Cover of the first Blu-ray featuring Polar Bear, Panda, and Penguin
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しろくまカフェ (Shirokuma Cafe) | |
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Genre | Slice of life, slapstick |
Manga | |
Polar Bear Café | |
Written by | Aloha Higa |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Flower Comic Special |
Magazine | Flowers |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | 2006 – 2013 |
Volumes | 5 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Mitsuyuki Masuhara |
Produced by | Makoto Shiraishi Shōji Matsui Asakazu Iizumi |
Written by | Tōru Hosokawa |
Music by | Kenji Kondō |
Studio | Studio Pierrot |
Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
Original run | April 5, 2012 – March 28, 2013 |
Episodes | 50(List of episodes) |
Manga | |
Polar Bear Café: Today's Special | |
Written by | Aloha Higa |
Published by | Shueisha |
Magazine | Cocohana |
Demographic | Josei |
Original run | 2014 – present |
Polar Bear Café (Japanese: しろくまカフェ, Hepburn: Shirokuma Cafe) is a Japanese manga series by Aloha Higa. It revolves around the everyday lives of a group of animals mingling with humans at a café run by a polar bear. An anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot aired in Japan between April 2012 and March 2013, and was simulcast globally on Crunchyroll.[1][2]
The original manga by Aloha Higa began serialisation in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine from 2006. Five tankōbon volumes have been released. The manga went on hiatus between May and July 2012,[3] citing lack of communication concerning the anime adaptation.[4] The manga returned from hiatus in the September 2012 issue of Flowers, following Higa managing to talk with the anime production on her intellectual property.[5] The manga was retitled Shirokuma Cafe Today's Special and moved to Shueisha's Cocohana on its September 2014.[6][7] The manga is licensed in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment.[8]
An anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot aired in Japan on TV Tokyo between April 5, 2012 and March 28, 2013 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.
In 2019, Polygon named the anime series as one of the best anime of the 2010s.[9]
Chorus / Cocohana series
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Website: cocohana |