![]() ![]() ![]() MUSIC & VOICE ACTING: The cast of Polar Bear Café has to be one of the most star-studded I’ve ever encountered. The show also experiments with unusual visuals in its many EDs – stop-motion, live action, shadow-puppets and paper cut-outs all get a turn, and it is clear that the staff had a lot of fun making this series. On the flipside the humans in general are actually terrifying in their inexpressiveness – Sasako in particular has completely dead eyes that are rather unnerving. The over all look of the show is quite soft and pastel, and there is creative use of sparkles, bubbles, hearts, flowers and sweatdrops to punctuate gags or emotion. The animals are well drawn and surprisingly expressive given many of them lack the usual facial features humans rely on to determine emotion (just where are Penguin & Panda’s eyes anyway?). After 50 episodes these characters feel like old friends and I was desperately sad to see the series end, I do hope we get more at some stage.ĪNIMATION: The animation is by Studio Pierrot and is very simple but serviceable. The side characters are also wonderful and all get their own episodes to shine – my favourites have to be Polar Bear’s long suffering childhood friend and bar owner Grizzly and poor overlooked but utterly charming Llama.Polar Bear Café also has “The Feels” in spades – it just gets under your skin and forces a reaction out of you with alarming frequency. The characters are probably what kept me coming back to the show so much – the central quartet of Polar Bear, Penguin, Panda and Sasako just have superb chemistry and play off each other brilliantly. I don’t usually get on well with s’life shows, but I adored Polar Bear Café – it just balances the mundane with wit so well. The series uses all the run-of-the-mill s’life situations (festivals, onsen, road-trips, all the holidays you can think of) but simply having the characters be animals puts an interesting spin on things, as they have a unique outlook on things. It’s also consistently hilarious, and displays excellent use of puns, parodies, basic comedic timing and the usual tsukkomi/boke routines. Polar Bear Café is a show I couldn’t watch without a smile on my face (trust me I desperately tried when watching the later half of the series on my own in public, being caught grinning and giggling like an idiot when there’s pastel renditions of wild animals emitting showers of sparkles and hearts on my screen is not fun) the show just thrums with feel-good vibes. And yet there is a fully functional zoo where a number of the characters actually work! You kind of take this strange setting for granted after a few episodes – it just works. a bar – they’re fully integrated into society. Animals that no one bats an eye at when when they’re casually wandering about town buying groceries, or working in a bakery or running There are a few random humans thrown in there too – the perma-smiling Sasako, the bumbling zookeeper Handa and the panda obsessed florist Rin-Rin, but the cast is mainly animals. PLOT: Polar Bear Café is about the daily lives of a bunch of animals who frequent a café run by the titular Polar Bear, including a panda, a penguin, a llama and a sloth (among many others). Jumbo Shrimp, chicken and Beef with vegetable top over cripsy pan fried noodleīeef Noodle Soup Soup.18.Polar Bear Café (Shirokuma Café): A charming, puntastic show filled with memorable moments – 9/10 (shrimp, chicken and Beef cook with garlic sauce) Seafood Fried Rice.16.50Ĭook without soy sauce (shrimp, flounder, crab meat)įried Rice with Garlic Sauce.14.50 14.00Ĭhicken, Shrimp and Beef with green onion (choice of Vegetable, Chicken, Shrimp, Pork or Beef) Shrimp, flounder and crab meat with spinachįried Rice.14.50 General Tso's Shrimp.23.00Ĭurry Shrimp.23.00 Jumbo shrimp, Scallop, and crab meat with Vegetable Jumbo shrimp with vegetable in Hunan sauce Jumbo Shrimp with Broccoli.22.25Įggplant with Jumbo Shrimp.22.25 Jumbo shrimp with garden fresh vegetable. Moo Shu Chicken (with 4 crepes).18.50Ĭurry Chicken. ![]() 15.00Ģ Spring Roll, 2 Fried Shrimp, 2 Crab Puffs, 6 Mini Chicken Dumplings ![]()
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