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| Polar Bear Café | |
 Cover of the first anime Blu-ray volume, featuring Polar Bear, Panda, and Penguin | |
| しろくまカフェ (Shirokuma Cafe) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Slice of life, comedy |
| Created by | Aloha Higa |
| Manga | |
| Polar Bear Café | |
| Written by | Aloha Higa |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Imprint | Flower Comic Special |
| Magazine | Flowers |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Original run | April 2006 – May 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) |
| English network | Crunchyroll |
| Original run | April 5, 2012 – March 28, 2013 |
| Episodes | 50 |
| Manga | |
| Polar Bear Café: Today's Special | |
| Written by | Aloha Higa |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Cocohana |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Original run | September 2014 – present |
Polar Bear Café (Japanese: しろくまカフェ, Hepburn: Shirokuma Cafe) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aloha Higa. It was originally serialized in the Shogakukan manga magazine Flowers from 2006 to 2013, while its sequel Polar Bear Café: Today's Special (Japanese: しろくまカフェ today's special) has been serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Cocohana since 2014. A television anime adaptation of Polar Bear Café produced by Studio Pierrot aired from 2012 to 2013 on TV Tokyo in Japan, and was simulcast globally by the streaming platform Crunchyroll.
The slice of life series follows the lives of anthropomorphic
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On May 12, 2012, Higa announced through posts on her Twitter account that the she was placing Polar Bear Café on indefinite hiatus in response to a dispute with Shogakukan over the anime adaptation of the series. Higa claimed that production on the series had commenced without her having signed contracts, that her requests to participate in the adaptation's development were ignored, and the editorial staff at Shogakukan responsible for the manga were providing content approvals for the adaptation without her knowledge or input. The dispute was resolved the following month – Shogakukan's media division assumed oversight of the Polar Bear Café manga after the original staff issued an apology, and Higa began having input on the anime adaptation's character designs and episode scripts – and the series resumed serialization in the September issue of Flowers.
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- Official anime website (in Japanese)
- Morgan695/sandbox8 (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Morgan695/sandbox8 (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia