“Slice of Life” may just be the most overused word in anime, but Shirokuma Café really owns it when it wants to. I’ve said it before, but Shirokuma can be a confounding series to blog sometimes. How do I go about trying to convey why I enjoyed these two chapters […] Read more
It should be obvious but it really hits home this week – Panda-mama is a very hard woman… It almost goes without saying that there’s no other anime quite like Shirokuma Café, but the fact is I can’t imagine another one trying to pull off the first chapter this week. […] Read more
Damn it – now I really want to hear a Shirokuma Café report on the best ramen shops… OP4: “You & Me” by Saki and Rie Fu Seeing this cast again for the first time in the new year really does feel like happily greeting old friends. We have a […] Read more
Without question, no other anime has gotten so much mileage out of the soujiki. I was planning on writing about Shirokuma later tonight under a separate heading, and since so much of what I planned to say about this episode dovetails with what I planned to say in the first […] Read more
I’m with the Pandas on the whole kotatsu thing. I’d kill for one right now. I paid a visit to the Shirokuma Café shop at Shibuya Parco this week, just across from the NoitaminA store. It’s a pop-up that sticks around for about a month (the last one was Kuroko […] Read more
“Sasako-san – doko no aru daro?” Look out Handa-san – looks like you have some competition. Shirokuma is another one of those shows that’s so easy to watch and enjoy that you don’t have to think too hard – it’s great at providing the simple pleasures. But this one does […] Read more
In the annals of underrated anime this series surely comes near the top of the list, and an episode like this one goes a long way towards proving that. I think if you’re a fan of Shirokuma Café this ep would have pretty much everything you’re looking for in the […] Read more
There’s just nothing like real artisan lemur cheese. This was a pretty lighthearted and simple edition of Shirokuma this week, with two stories that definitely placed the comedy first. We had a sort of slightly off-kilter take on “The Secret Garden”, except that everything in this secret garden is edible […] Read more
Harem end! Sometimes a comedy tries to shed light on reality through absurdity, and that’s often true with Shirokuma Café – by highlighting ridiculous situations they remind us how ridiculous our real-life counterparts are, and that was certainly the case with the second chapter this week. But first we had […] Read more
He’s cute and all, but… This was one of those eps of Shirokuma Café that had me helpless with laughter from start to finish, but especially the first sketch. It probably came closer to epitomizing what makes Panda a great comedic character than any other – I would say it’s […] Read more