For Tsuritama fans, you can always go home again. I decided to pay another visit to Enoshima on my last day of Spring break. I’ve been fighting a nasty cold but I was able to make the trip thanks to the wonders of Japanese ibuprofen, which contains lots of caffeine […] Read more
In all of my blogging career, there may be no other show with so great a gap between how much I love it and how much I can write about it as there is with this one. For the second time today, I’m blogging a series with a truly […] Read more
I fear next Thursday evening isn’t going to be pretty for me… It can’t really be any surprise that an episode featuring the double-bill of Grizzly-kun and Llama-san would be a winner. In a show full of hilarious and totally endearing supporting characters, these two may just be the best. […] Read more
They say you only appreciate something once it’s gone, but there’s no danger of that with Shirokuma Cafe. I’m gutted already and we still have two episodes left. This is one of those shows where my affection for it outweighs the amount of time I’ve spent writing about it. […] Read more
At long, long last, the moment we’ve all been waiting for (well, at least I have) has finally arrived. In many ways it feels as if this episode of Shirokuma Cafe was made just for me, and it doesn’t even have anything to do with the content of the main […] Read more
The big news is the news that isn’t – still no Shirokuma-san ED. The clock is ticking. Shirokuma Cafe’s grand tour of Japanese holidays continues this week with Hina Matsuri, the quite famous “Girl’s Festival” (boys get theirs in May, though sadly it appears we won’t see Shirokuma’s take on […] Read more
You just don’t get enough good sophistry jokes in anime these days. After last week’s uncharacteristically heavy and somber Shirokuma Cafe, it’s nice to get back into a more conventional humorous mode this week. That said, we still had an appearance from probably the creepiest character in anime, the pandacon […] Read more
Why isn’t there ever a Panda on my train? It seems funny to start a post by saying that this was definitely the least funny Shirokuma Café ever, and have it be a positive one – but it definitely will be. We’ve seen this show go the serious route on […] Read more
Surely, there’s no art form more (ig)noble than than manly art of the pun. That a series can devote an entire half-episode to puns in a language I barely speak and still make me laugh is testament to just how well-executed the first half of this week’s Shirokuma Café was. […] Read more
For a minute there I thought I was watching “Bears on the Slope”. There are many relationships in Shirokuma Café that pack plenty of charm, but the one between Shirokuma-san and Grizzly-san may just be my favorite of the lot. It sounds funny to say considering the premise of this […] Read more