History Trivia / ShirokumaCafe

** JunkoTakeuchi is Baby king penguin.

** Episode 4: Parts A and B.              Episode 30: Parts A[[hottip:*:There is a Halloween chapter in the manga, but the two share no similarities(]] and B.

** Episode 4: Parts A and B.

** Episode 3: Part B.                     Episode 29: Part A and 95% of Part B. [[hottip:*:The 5% being Penguin getting into a basket to see a view of the town. The reasoning for it and what happens after is different.]]

** Episode 1: Part A.                      Episode 27: Both baseballs parts.

** Episode 3: Part B.                     Episode 29: Part A and 95% of Part B.

** Episode 3: Part B.                             Episode 29: Part A and 95% of Part B.

** Episode 1: Part A.                  Episode 27: Both baseballs parts.
** Episode 2: Part A.                  Episode 28: Parts A and B.
** Episode 3: Part B.

** Episode 1: Part A.
** Episode 2: Part A.

** TomokazuSugita is Chinstrap Penguin.

** Episode 25: Part A.

** Episode 1: Part A. Part B is partly present, but since Shirokuma doesn't start hiring until after Panda already has his zoo job, some things are swapped around.

** Episode 1: Part A. Part B is partly present, except for everything involving Panda's job search, as he already had his zoo job at this point.

** HiroShimono is Masaki.

* CrossdressingVoice: Rare male-as-female examples in anime: ToshiyukiMorikawa as Panda Mama, NobuyukiHiyama as a mother king penguin.

* {{Irony}}: Both Panda (three younger siblings) and Full-Time Panda (two daughters with a third on the way) have or are part of fairly large families. In real life, pandas are endangered and getting them to breed in captivity is...non-trivial.

* CrossdressingVoice: A rare male-as-female example in anime: ToshiyukiMorikawa as Panda Mama.

** NobuyukiHiyama is King Penguin
** TomakazuSugita is Chinstrap Penguin
** DaisukeHirakawa is Gentoo Penguin
** AiNonoka is Penguin's nephew

** HiroShimono is Masaki

** KatsuyukiKonishi is Full-Time Panda.

** NobuyukiHiyama is King Penguin.

** HiroshiKamiya is Penguin

** YuuichiNakamura is Grizzly
** AyaEndo is Sasako
** WataruHatano is Handa

** MamikoNoto is Mayumi Oosaki, the journalist who came to interview Shirokuma.
** KenichiSuzumura is [[FanNickname Mr. necktie]] in episode 16

* HeyItsThatVoice:

** MamikoNoto is Mayumi Oosaki, the journalist who came to interview Shirokuma.

** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Who do the hell do you think]] [[KatsuyukiKonishi Full-Time Panda]] is?!
** KanaHanazawa voices Mei Mei, Panda's younger sister.
** The high school girl in Episode 17 is voiced by RieKugimiya.
** Grizzly is voiced by YuuichiNakamura.

** The high school girl in Episode 17 is voiced by RieKugimiya.

* HeyItsThatVoice: ''Manga/BlackButler'' fans will recognize a few voices among the cast.
** [[JunFukuyama Grell]] is Panda.
** [[TakahiroSakurai Claude Faustus]] is Shirokuma.
** [[DaisukeOno Sebastian]] himself is Llama.
** [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Who do the hell do you think]] [[KatsuyukiKonishi Full-Time Panda]] is?!

** [[DaisukeOno Sebastian]] himself is Llama.

* CrossdressingVoice: A rare male-as-female example in anime: ToshiyukiMorikawa as Mama Panda.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to Aloha Higa's [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-05-29/shirokuma-cafe-manga-goes-on-indefinite-hiatus twitter]], the publisher went and commissioned the anime without her knowledge and she was repeatedly denied by the publisher and the anime studio to address her concerns. She has since come to terms with the anime studio, but has put the manga on hiatus because of her problems with the publisher.