Shirokuma Cafe (Japanese: しろくまカフェ Hepburn: Shirokuma Kafe, lit. Polar Bear Café) is a Japanese manga series by Aloha Higa (ヒガ アロハ Higa Aroha). It revolves around the everyday lives of a group of animals mingling with humans at a café run by a polar bear. An anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot aired in Japan between April 2012 and March 2013. While it never received an official international release (mostly due to its heavy emphasis on Japanese wordplay, which complicates the potential for dubbing into other languages), it is available on the streaming website Crunchyroll alongside the television broadcast for global audiences.