Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu! (Yuri is My Job!)

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Synonyms: Schwestern in Liebe!, Watayuri

Japanese: 私の百合はお仕事です！

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 6, 2023 to Jun 22, 2023

Premiered: Spring 2023

Broadcast: Thursdays at 22:30 (JST)

Producers: Frontier Works, Sotsu, AT-X, Nippon Columbia, KlockWorx, Asmik Ace, BS Fuji, Tokyo MX, Infinite, Ichijinsha, BS NTV, arma bianca, Happinet Phantom Studios

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Passione, Studio Lings

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Girls Love

Theme: Workplace

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.70¹ (scored by 18,755 users)

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Ranked: #5759²

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Popularity: #3040

Members: 52,437

Favorites: 282

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Ranked #5759Popularity #3040Members 52,437

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Hime Shiraki appears to have it all: an angelic voice, an innocent personality, and an adorable face that enamors all onlookers. However, her cuteness is all a lie—it is purely an act to achieve her self-centered goal of marrying a rich suitor. Though she often plays up her innocence to gain favor from those around her, Hime's facade does not absolve her of responsibility when an accident leaves Mai Koshiba injured.

Learning that Mai is the manager of Café Liebe—a cafe themed as an all-girls academy—Hime is coerced into taking up a part-time position until Mai recovers. However, Hime's facade cannot cover up her shortcomings at being a waitress, earning her the ire of one of her coworkers, Mitsuki Yano, the elegant "onee-sama" who often berates Hime over her mistakes. As Hime struggles to adjust to her new job in addition to Mitsuki's unrelenting hostility, her real personality begins seeping through the cracks.

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Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu! was released on Blu-ray in three volumes from June 28, 2023, to August 23, 2023.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yano, Mitsuki

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Uesaka, Sumire
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Chibana, Sumika

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Koichi, Makoto
Japanese

Shiraki, Hime

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Ogura, Yui
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Mamiya, Kanoko

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Tanaka, Minami
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Koshiba, Mai

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Tamura, Yukari
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Nishidera, Nene

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Seto, Asami
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Gotou, Youko

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Itou, Shizuka
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Nagatani, Takayuki

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Ozawa, Fumihiro

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Hamabe, Ena

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Kurosawa, Norihiro

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Opening Theme

"秘密♡Melody" by Yui Ogura

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"夢が覚めても" by Hime (CV: Yui Ogura), Mitsuki (CV: Sumire Uesaka)

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Jul 15, 2023

RebelPanda

Recommended

Yuri is My Job is a charmingly self-aware romance with a pretty clever twist. It gleefully makes fun of tropes, cliches, and stereotypes associated with the girls' love genre—then subverts each one. The satire seems to have flown over the vast majority of viewers' heads, unfortunately. Upon first impressions, it appears to be a one-note comedy, so I initially dropped it, but humor is not its main strength.

I.e., fine comedy, great drama.

People seem to have missed the point that the Café Liebe, where most of the anime takes place, imitates the traditional girls' love genre known as "Class S" (Maria-sama ga Miteru, Oniisama e…). ... The characters are merely actors in this themed cafe putting on a show for those enticed by melodrama and queer longing. Quite literally, the anime mocks viewers of the genre in a toying manner so as not to condescend and with passion for the genre's pedigree. It's a genius idea to juxtapose a parodied version of typical girls' love with the drama that plays off-stage, classic queer romance themes with a modern twist…

…And no, it is not queerbait.

There's plenty of explicitly lesbian love to go around, none of that beating around the bush are they/aren't they BS. It's not some crushing depiction of homosexuality, either. For every heartbreak, there is levity—you can always see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Themes fittingly revolve around hiding one's true self. Each of the four main characters, Sumika, Kanoko, and Mitsuki, but primarily led by Hime, have a persona they choose to show the world and one they hide. Throughout the series, their true identities become apparent, challenging their ability to balance life acting in the cafe with turmoil in the real world. Flashbacks to before the characters met at the cafe do not come off as heavy-handed and provide a relatable glimpse into their pasts as well as round out their present personas. Their motives and character arcs flow naturally without over-relying on narration or exposition.

Don't expect tons of animation because the production is lightweight, but the direction is solid. It is nicely storyboarded, frequently employing the traditional shoujo flower frames during cafe scenes for an over-the-top effect. Adding to that extravagance is the abundant expressive character animation. One thing I really admire about Passione and Studio Lings' work is how even though there are a lot of faces to draw in the cafe, the artists never resort to 3D models. It simply wouldn't have fit the cafe's aesthetic. Drawing each patron adds to the immersion, showing their excitement and shock as they watch Class S madness unfold. I liked how the understated piano enhanced dramatic moments, and swelling strings punctuated the more pivotal scenes.

Shoujo and Girls' Love anime tend to be known for melodrama, and Yuri is My Job has a healthy dose of exaggerated emotions. Placing Class S situations into a workplace environment just feels right. The stress of juggling customer service makes the conflict between coworkers all the more intense. The stress reaches a fever pitch when Hime and Mitsuki squabbles outside of work impact their schwestern (little sister) act in the restaurant. Every minor element of body language or suggestive language evokes extreme reactions. However, the writer never relies on contrivances to fuel melodrama. If Shinkai and Okada come to mind when you think of melodrama in anime, this will feel different. Although lacking in bombastic set pieces, stunning animation, or over-the-top climaxes, the drama in Yuri is My Job won't leave you feeling cheated by cheap tricks.

Though the satire doesn't go nearly as far as the superb Yuri Kuma Arashi, it handles drama remarkably. It would've found an audience here if it wasn't mismarketed as a gag comedy. I'm glad I gave it another chance because it's worth a second look. Yuri is My Job presents a fine balance of comedy and great drama, exploring themes of identity and the challenges of balancing personal and professional lives. With its solid direction, expressive character animation, and fitting classical score, the anime delivers a satisfying showcase of explicitly queer romance. Although casual viewers may feel out of the loop, fans of drama and girls' love will see its merit.

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Jun 22, 2023

Mcsuper

Mixed Feelings

Facades are something people use as their armor to shield their true selves from the world around them. One can fake being a happy, giddy person, one can fake whatever emotions they want, but for the main character, Shirasagi Hime, she pretends to be the “perfect girl”, the most likeable girl in the entire world, so she can get with a good-looking millionaire, the ideal husband. One day however, she runs into the manager of a peculiar cafe, and to repay her debt for injuring her, she must work in this cafe until her injury is fully recovered. Now, you can guess what happens to ... said injury…

Now let me take you on a journey through my experience of “Yuri is My Job” through three stages: The initial intrigue, the frustration, and the acceptance.

To start this journey, we start with the initial intrigue, where Hime has to work at this cafe, where its theme is an all-girls academy where there are hierarchies, complex relationships, and many rules to adhere to in order to entertain the customers. In short, the customers simply watch all the employees yuri-bait each other. A cafe built upon yuri-baiting, how fun am I right? Hime struggles at understanding her role in all this, and the other employees run out of patience despite not teaching her anything? Truly reflective of a typical work environment, right?

Then comes the frustration. There’s a level of drama in this show that is shown through the character interactions. Eventually, the line between work and life gets blurred, and the employees start taking everything very seriously, forming relationships among themselves through sisterly bonds and the like. A friend of Hime’s gets dragged into the mess as well, and it turns out she’s obsessed with Hime. We get some backstory of all the characters, with drama so mind-numbingly baffling, which also ended up making the workplace very tense. Virtually everything in the backstories were based on misunderstandings, and we’ve seen our fair share of shows like, for example, “Rent-A-Girlfriend”, “Girlfriend, Girlfriend”, or “Nisekoi”. All these trashy harem or romcoms just got on my nerves, and this show also made me quite angry at points.

Now, I’ve watched a solid amount of anime. At some point, even such trashy shows can produce an amount of fun, and hating things isn’t that fun, so I decided to accept it for what it is, a trashy show. I ended up liking it, and thought that it provided a very solid form of ironic entertainment. Seeing the interactions between the characters, the misunderstandings that built, the needless drama, everything just became a comedy for me, so I just revelled in the ironic beauty of it all. Why be so negative about things? All in all, I seemed to enjoy it.

This show isn’t good, but you can’t deny there’s entertainment there to be seen. Not only is the setting interesting, but the characters all have distinct and interesting personalities, ranging from a character who lies all the time, to an obsessed girl that has likely thousands of pictures of her best friend in her phone. Isn’t it all so entertaining?

Who am I kidding? This review was filled with lies. The three stages are just me catering to the masses who enjoy this stuff. This show isn’t good, and its attempts at drama are absolutely abhorrent and contrived. The characters are basically completely unlikeable, with the “yuri” being completely off the deep end with how inaccurately portrayed the romance is.

What’s the lie? What’s the truth? What to believe? In the end, that’s what Hime’s character is, a girl with a facade so strong that any attempt of trying to reconcile with others seems hardly believable. In the end, the truth lies somewhere in between all the chaos, just like my opinion on this show.

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Jun 23, 2023

Zakception

Not Recommended

Do you want to get bored to death? Do you want to get irritated while watching characters having the same annoying repetitive arguments nonstop? You will barely finish an episode trust me.

Overall this was a horrible watch, the characters don't evolve they stay the same throughout the show. The relationships between the girls are always stuck on childish behaviors. The main lead is a dumb f*cking written main character that only cares about her Façade. She wants everyone to like her through blatant lies.

Then you got Sumika whose jealous of people having relationships within the workplace, and she does absolutely nothing to stop it, ...

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