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 Polar Bear Café, a café run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin.

2. Panda-kun's Employment

Panda applies for the job but fails the interview, with the job going to a human girl named Sasako instead. However, the others soon point Panda towards a part-time job at a nearby zoo.

3. Everyone's Café

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

4. The Café's Flower Viewing Party

Everyone goes to a flower viewing party and Penguin gets very drunk.

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 visit the other attractions.

6. Panda's Anguish

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

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.

8. Super Fun Driving Lesson

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

10. Everyone's Parfait

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

11. Panda's Diet

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

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.

13. Mr Handa's Remodeling Plan

Feeling he could do with being more popular, Panda decides to give Handa a makeover.

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.'

15. A Magazine Interview Comes By

Polar Bear is interviewed about his café by a magazine and its editor, who is a shoebill.

16. Salmon Hunter: Mr. Grizzly

Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly to catch some ingredients.

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

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

18. Mr. Penguin's Confession

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

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.

20. Mr. Handa's Blind Date!

When one of the guys cancels, Panda and Polar Bear fill in for the guy's side.

21. Mr. Penguin's Broken Heart

Penguin gets heartbroken when he assumes Penko is dating Tortoise.

22. Panda's Night Out

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

23. Panda, Tired of Boredom

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

24. Panda's Advice Room for Troubles

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

25. Tanabata Decorations

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

26. Panda's Wish

Panda notices that Handa has a crush on Sasako, and tries to help him work up his confidence.

27. Enthusiastic Polar Bear

As Panda laments having nothing to do and Polar Bear wishes he had more free time, Polar Bear gets the idea to take Panda's place at the zoo.

28. Let's Go to the Beach!

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

29. Weeding in the Summer

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

30. Mr. Penguin's Romance

Penguin finally works up the courage to confess to Penko, asking her out every day for a week.

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.

32. A Strange Restaurant

A salaryman from another town arrives at Polar Bear Café for the first time.

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.

34. Rin Rin and the High School Girl

Rin Rin, believing he has met another panda lover, asks a high school girl to accompany him to the zoo.

35. The Café's Ghost Stories

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

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.

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 Mama and the Penko sisters.

38. What Is Baisen!?

After becoming amazed by the taste of the Polar Bear 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.

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.

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.

41. Panda Is No Longer a Panda

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

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.

43. Sales Penguin

The trio of Pygoscelis penguins from the water park try to figure out how to sell their excess of penguin cards.

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.

45. Mr. Handa's Discussion

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.

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 Café, where they end up taxing his sanity.

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 to match his level of laziness.

48. A Sports Day Filled with Animals

Polar Bear abruptly tasks Sasako with being the host 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.

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.

50. Their Childhood Days

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

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.

52. Reunion at the Grizzly Bar

At Grizzly Bar, a Tiger, Wolf and Lion have a little reunion. As they lament how they've lost their youth, they are treated to a surprise performance by a legendary rapper.

53. Animal Field Baseball

The zoo animals from Polar Bear Café and the wild animals from Grizzly Bar face off against each other in a baseball match.

54. What's Jacu Coffee!?

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

55. Panda's Apology

Polar Bear attempts to fill in for Panda but is questioned by the police. To apologize, Panda decides to give Polar Bear a day off by working at the café.

56. RinRin Is Invited

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

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.

58. Mr. Penguin Goes Flying

Penguin has aspirations of flight, and the others try to help him experience it for the first time.

59. Halloween

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

60. Llama Day

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

61. Mr. Penguin's Dilemma!

Penguin is pressured to choose one of the Penko sisters. Llama helps him differentiate between them, but this backfires.

62. Idol: Yama Arashi!

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

63. The Café Garden

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

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.

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 tries to roast coffee himself, and learns the meaning behind hand picking coffee beans.

66. Panda Corner's Project

Despite some initial interest in the photo contest, the panda corner is still overshadowed by the penguin show. Polar Bear suggests the panda family put on their own performance.

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.

68. Mr Penguin's New Love

The gang hear from Llama that Penguin has been visiting the neighboring town's Brown Bear Café. After Polar Bear decides to check it out, he learns Penguin has gained a crush on the waitress penguin there.

69. Sloth Wants to Work

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

70. Mr. Handa's Present

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

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.

72. Grizzly's Hibernation!

When Grizzly starts his hibernation, 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.

73. Christmas Planning

Panda wonders whether he'll get a present for Christmas — until Rin Rin shows up with a knitted pochette for Panda.

74. Christmas Trouble

Penguin, eager to show off his storytelling, tries in vain to find a party to appear at before deciding on Grizzly Bar. 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.

75. Big Cleaning at the Café

Polar Bear ropes in everyone to do some spring cleaning around the café.

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.

77. The Animals' Hidden Talent Competition

As the New Year rolls in, the Polar Bear Café holds a hidden talent contest.

78. New Year's Guest

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

79. The Hammock Sea

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

80. Panda Mama's Gardening

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

81. Scattering Beans with Everyone

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

82. The Café in the Afternoon

Sasako and Llama reminisce about their elementary school days.

83. Polar Bear's Insomnia

Polar Bear has trouble sleeping, and the others try to cure his insomnia.

84. Mr. Grizzly' First Love

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

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.

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.

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

After a long day at work, Full-Time Panda and Llama decide to have a few drinks. They later invite Rin Rin, who takes the drunk Full-Time Panda and Llama to Grizzly Bar.

88. The Everyday Zoo

Panda is shocked to learn that Full-Time Panda has accepted a transfer to a zoo in Singapore.

89. The Zoo in the Rain

Panda agrees to work full time until another panda is hired, causing some worry amongst his friends.

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.

91. Smelt Fishing

Polar Bear and the others go to the frozen lakes to do some smelt fishing, though they soon get distracted.

92. Doll Festival

The younger penguins set up a display for Hinamatsuri, which goes a little awry when the café-goers make their own contributions.

93. The Animal Doctor

Polar Bear develops a fever and goes to the animal hospital for some medicine. Panda and Penguin drop by to look after him.

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.

95. Even More, What Is Roasting?

Polar Bear teaches Masaki how a coffee's richness differs based on how it is prepared.

96. Sloth's Trip

Panda and the others end up joining Sloth on a long walk to the hot springs.

97. I Became a Doll

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

98. White Day

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

99. Mr. Grizzly's Reunion

Grizzly is visited by his mother, who embarrasses him when she starts serving home cooking in his bar.

100. Mr. Llama's Time Capsule

Llama, Sasako and the others visit their hometown to find a time capsule Llama buried five years ago.

101. Mr. Penguin's Secret

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

102. Cherry Blossom Viewing in Spring

Polar Bear becomes downhearted when Penguin expresses interest in moving away. Afterwards, everyone gathers around to have a cherry blossom viewing party, looking back on the year they've spent together.