Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!

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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Chibana, Sumika Main

Koichi, Makoto Japanese

Yano, Mitsuki Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Shiraki, Hime Main

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Mamiya, Kanoko Main

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Koshiba, Mai Supporting

Tamura, Yukari Japanese

Nishidera, Nene Supporting

Seto, Asami Japanese

Gotou, Youko Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Nagatani, Takayuki Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Okamura, Takema Producer

Hamabe, Ena Producer

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Aug 29, 2024

TheStrawberryV

Recommended

Yuri is my job is a one of a kind anime.

Im eatching this anime there are a bunch of unexpected twist and turns. I fully recommend this even if you don't nessarily like yuri animes.

ATTENTION, Im doing my best to be vage as to not spoil bit if you believe hints are enough to catch on then feel free to move to the next review as my judgement of "no spoiler" might not be the se as yours. If you still are okay keep reading.

The show explores several themes like:

-Dishonesty towards others
-How to take care of misunderstandings
-How to respect boundaries even if ... you don't understand what the other thinks (really trying to be vage out here)
-Representation of obsessiveness to cope with unrequited feelings (not saying more or who)
-Possibly Aromantic spectrum character (not canon comfirmed as far as im aware)
-The friendzone's harships
-The importance of communication in friendship
and so on!

I'm definitely going to read the manga

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 6, 2023

JennyAysgarth

Mixed Feelings

There is one big problem with this anime: no matter how you look at it, it shouldn't exist in its current form if it wants to be adequately understood or fulfil its purpose.

The original manga may be polarizing for some yuri fans, but there's one quality to it: its narrative is developing slowly and majestically, like Ravel's Bolero. With the same unchanging rhythm and repeating undertones, it piles layer after layer upon the same narrative thread. And it does take its time to reach the climax properly.

So, the problem is, with the standard cour and 12 episodes, the anime never had the chance to even ... reach the climax.

If the original manga were a classic drama, and you went to a theatre to watch a show based on it, you'd find yourself quite perplexed seeing the actors taking the bow before the end of the first act. If you read the drama beforehand, you would probably find yourself wondering, why they cut everything off so early. But if you never read the drama, you'd probably be insanely confused and start questioning yourself if wasting your time on something without a climax or conclusion was a wise choice.

This is exactly what happened here.

The anime basically adapted the source material up to volume 4 + added the first and partially second chapters of volume 5. And it's not surprising since, on average, that's how much you can squeeze into 12 episodes of an anime. The problem is that, in the manga, you only get your first kiss in the middle of volume 6, which can easily count as a climax in terms of classic drama, and would be a perfect ending for Act I. The anime never had a chance to reach that in the course of a single cour.

We're all aware that anime exists, apart from other things, in order to support manga sales. There's nothing wrong with that. But I get the feeling that this particular anime was made solely for this one reason, and nothing else. And, if it's true, it failed miserably. I'd read the manga before the adaptation, so I understand what was going on, but there was no need to market the manga I have already bought to me. On the other hand, the anime probably looks like an abominable mess to someone who hadn't read the manga, so it's very unlikely that they would want to pick up the manga after seeing something that looks half-assed at best. Either way, it fails at its mission to drive up sales.

On the upside, the anime is very faithful to the source material, the voice acting is impeccable, and the art is great. In every aspect, it should have been a great anime, but it isn't for the abovementioned reasons.

I rated it 7 out of respect for the source material since it was easier for me to watch the anime knowing what was going on. But if you never read the manga, I'm afraid the anime never gave you any chance to understand what was happening. No wonder there are so many dismissive reviews.

What a waste, my fellow yuri fans. What a disastrous waste.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 24, 2023

Justykanna

Not Recommended

Yuri is My Job! is complicated because I feel like the base story basically has nothing going for it and the 'thing' that starts the story is hilariously terrible. But there are some decent elements underneath that, you just need to be a little patient. But does it pay off?

Story: Yuri is My Job! is the latest in the Girls-Love series which kind of has a similar setting to Maria Watches Over Us, which is a really old series that takes place at a super catholic school. I say "sort of" because our cast of characters aren't actually at a school. ... They all work at a café where they role-play as students at a school. It's here they both role play, all while serving their customers casual café food and drinks.

I'm just going to say it - the beginning is borderline terrible. Hime Shiraki, a student at a nearby school, has this dream where she wishes to marry a rich boyfriend and basically be a gold digger, while putting on this cute façade. One day, she bumps into Mai Koshiba, knocking her down and injuring her hand. When Mai explains that it's broken, she basically makes Hime work at her maid café where they role play as catholic students at an academy, Café Liebe. The entire thing is pretty much as ridiculous as it sounds, and it doesn't get better when you're actually viewing this happening in front of you.

The entire series basically takes place at Café Lieve, where Hime is "hired". After the series finally gets going, many of the happenings at the café actually aren't half bad. There are mini-elections, different uniforms for the summer and even some conflict in between our characters' shifts. Our cast play it off pretty well and even if none of this is technically 'real', it was believable enough that it didn't bother me too much. We also get some pretty heavy insight into one of our characters, Mitsuki Yano, and this was easily my favourite part of the series. It was well told and pretty realistic.

In between shifts, there isn't a ton going on with our cast. Most of it revolves around Hime and one of her classmates, Kanoko, but those moments tend to be pretty brief. Pushing a different setting would have been nice, especially because the audience knows that Hime isn't exactly the most innocent character early on, but the absence of that didn't feel problematic.

The way the series ends is definitely questionable, as it leans into some fan-servicey moments very randomly when the rest of the series was pretty tame. It almost feels like this series could have ended one or two episodes earlier as this felt like a bit of a different arc, especially because outside of Mitsuki's brief arc, any character interactions between her and anyone else felt minor. Still, the series keeps this light mood throughout most of it, and acts to play as a fun series. (5/10)

Characters: Hime's big thing is that she wants to marry into wealth by putting on her cute façade, and this kind of thing really doesn't jive with me. What's somewhat ironic is that it lands her this "job" early on, and part of that feels like well placed karma. The serious flaw in her character is that it doesn't ever really feel like she grows as a character in the totality of the series, which is disappointing when she's literally the main character. Her co-worker, Mitsuki, really doesn't have a ton going for her either, again, outside of the short arc she had of her in the middle. It also feels like her personality was all over the place, and we really didn't know much about her, or any of the café workers. It would have been nice to know the 'real' her because it does feel like something's there.

Kanoko is one of Hime's classmates, with Hime really being her only friend. I tend to like the shy types because there's usually something there and even though she does have a reason to be in the story, she doesn't do anything with it. She has some minor conflict later in the series, but it's mediocre at best. Mai is the manager of the café and never really falls into the likable range for me. By the middle of the series, you question how truthful she is being about her hand, and her personality never shines through, Sumika and Nene are two other workers, but both didn't add much for me either. (5/10)

Art: This series actually looks pretty nice when all is said and done. Due to the light nature of the series, everything remains light and there's a certain polish that I can appreciate at most every time. (8/10)

Sound: Much of the music matches the tone of the series well enough, even if I wasn't a huge fan of it. Neither the OP or ED are within my style of music preferences, but they were again, fine for the series. Voicework was equally fine, thought I felt like basically the whole cast outside of Sumika sounded way to similar at times. (6/10)

Overall: Yuri is My Job! really doesn't have a ton going for it outside of some sorter arcs in the middle. The cast aren't all that likable and the setting being the same over and over again really doesn't push the plot forward at all with these characters. This series is just kind of there, as the plot and characters never develop enough for me to recommend a watching. (5/10)

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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