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Shirokuma Café's Additional Cast, Ending Song Artist Revealed

Additional cast members and the ending theme song for the television anime adaptation of Aloha Higa's Shirokuma Café (Polar Bear Café) women's manga were revealed on Tuesday. The additional cast is as follows:

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Panda Mama
Aya Endō as Sasako
Wataru Hatano as Handa
Daisuke Ono as Llama
Katsuyuki Konishi as Full-time Employee Panda
Kishô Taniyama as Namakemono (Sloth)

The main cast members for the show were revealed last month. Takahiro Sakurai will play Shirokuma (Polar Bear), Jun Fukuyama will play Panda, and Hiroshi Kamiya will play Penguin. Fukuyama will also sing the show's ending theme song "Bamboo☆Scramble."

Mitsuyuki Masuhara (Chi's Sweet Home, Kobato.) will direct the series off of scripts by Toru Hosokawa (Coji-Coji). Studio Pierrot will animate the series. The anime will premiere on April 5.

The gag comedy, launched in Shogakukan's women's magazine Monthly Flowers in 2006, follows the daily life of penguins, grizzly bears, and other animals at a café run by a polar bear.

Source: Comic Natalie

Image © Aloha Higa・Shogakukan/Shirokuma Café Production Committee 2012