しろくまカフェ 🐻‍❄️ Volume 5

Welcome to しろくまカフェ Volume 5! :chipmunk:

bis version

:house: Home Thread

Note this club is based on the originally published series. If you have the bis version the content will be mostly the same but there are differences in page numbers and chapter titles



:clock1: Schedule :clock1:

Important Info
  • Make sure to use the half of the table that matches your version of the books! Left half for original, right half for bis!
  • *bis readers will have to do some jumping about as the chapters are in different orders
  • Original has some coloured pages at the beginning that are scattered in the different bis volumes, feel free to read them as you come across them in your different versions
Week Start Date Original Chapters Bis Chapters
Week 1 17 Feb 2025 1-3 99+76-78
Week 2 24 Feb 2025 4-6 100+83-84
Week 3 03 Mar 2025 7-9 85-87
Week 4 10 Mar 2025 10-12 88-90
Week 5 17 Mar 2025 13-15 91-93
Week 6 24 Mar 2025 16-18 94-96
Week 7 31 Mar 2025 19-20 97-98

Thanks to @Micki for providing the bis information



:question: Discussion Questions :question:

  1. What was your favourite joke each week?
  2. What is your favourite picture each week?

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Posting Advice
  • Don’t be afraid to ask questions, someone else might be struggling with the same thing you are and its a great opportunity to help each other out!
  • Please mention the page number and book version (orig or bis) if you’re asking help on a specific section so people can find it easily (or week number)
  • You can search to see if someone has already asked your question!
  • Do join in with the conversation even just to share your thoughts on the current chapters.

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Week 1

Original: Chapter 1-3
bis: Chapter 99+76-78


bis readers have this extra chapter (76) at the start of volume 4, so if you’ve already read it great, and if not you get to dunk on me the orig readers who don’t have it!

Participation

Will you be reading along with us this week?

  • I’m reading along
  • I have finished this part
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Chapter 1/bis 99

Some of these katakana words can be tricky! カフェラテ I got fairly quickly, but カフェオレ took me a little bit of time to figure out!

Do love this manga but I’m ready to move on from chapters teaching me about the subtleties of coffee now…

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I also don’t need such a deep knowledge of coffee :laughing:, but at least I realized that drip coffee doesn’t equal espresso! So I definitely prefer カフェオレ, as it’s milder.

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Ch 1-3 / bis 99, 76-78

My partner is really into coffee, so I’m using these chapters to impress him with coffee related facts - roasts, beans, how to serve, I’m developing an encyclopedic knowledge about coffee and I don’t even drink it :sweat_smile:

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Week 2

Original: Chapter 4-6
bis: Chapter 100+83-84

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Chapter 6/84

We’ve had some great ideas over this manga series imagining how these animals might live their lives in a human-like existence. But I think the idea of a panda wanting to wear mascara is one of the best ideas we’ve had so far!

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Week 3

Original: Chapter 7-9
bis: Chapter 85-87

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I read it as ‘cafe olé :dancer:t2:’ at first lol

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oops I wanted to write about last week

Ch 4/ bis 100

This must be the climax of coffee related episodes :sweat_smile:

Two katakana words really surprised me (not spoiler) -

Ch 6 / bis 84

フリーター from フリーアルバイター someone subsisting on part time work

An amalgamation of the English free and the German Arbeiter worker (Arbeit / work, the same root for the abbreviation used in Japanese for part time work バイト). I love how they have taken two words from two different languages, given each a unique interpretation, and then just chopped out the middle part so you can’t even tell where it came from :joy:

ニート wow - from the acronym not in education employment or training

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Chapter 7:

Would’ve been useful to get those how-to-tell-pandas-apart tips 4 volumes ago :grin:

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Ch 7 / bis 85

Yes :joy:

I love リンリン’s blog and enthusiasm for pandas

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Ch1

I don’t drink coffee but I do like a nice diagram

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ch 1

Ooh in color!! I’m jealous of the original edition folks

:sweat_smile: I don’t drink coffee either but I was totally using this diagram to mangasplain these to my SO

Ch 8 / bis 86

:sweat_smile: red panda eavesdropping
And this omake

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Week 4

Original: Chapter 10-12
bis: Chapter 88-90

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Woohoo, I’m in the same thread as everyone else now!

Week 1

I have to admit when the chapters are super coffee focused I look up fewer words and I’m just like okay it’s a long coffee making instruction… something something pour… something something beans… Got it

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Week 2/ ch 6/84

You’ve heard of panda bag, now get ready for…


Panda box!

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Week 4/ch 12/90

Summary

So I’ve felt like this manga has started to lose some of its sparkle recently, perhaps becoming a bit repetitive and not much in the way of fresh ideas. So I really enjoyed the Tai Chi chapter! I loved the drawings showing the panda (not sure which one) in their outfit doing the Tai Chi poses. And a great finish with the three of them in unison at the zoo!

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week 1

:joy:
I do that sometimes, then i try to impress my SO with my coffee facts and then when he asked what’s the difference between foamed and steamed milk I was like, hmmm I glossed over that…

Ch 11/bis 89

Loved the cute little wild boar that found panda :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Ch 12 / bis 90

I was feeling the same way. And yes, loved this scene!!!

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I had the same question :joy:
So I have no other choice but to google it.

More coffee trivia nobody asked for

As I understood they can be created with the same steam wand. For foamed milk you don’t sink the wand deep into the milk so the texture is more light and bubbly, and it takes more time.

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