You can tell I’ve been busy getting the new J-List website polished and traveling to an unexpected country, because it’s taken me a long time to prepare a post about the standout yuri anime series of the season. The show is Watashi no Yuri was Shigoto Desu!, aka Yuri Is My Job!, and it’s one of the best girl’s love anime series to come along in years. Keep reading for details!
Why Am I Loving Yuri Is My Job?
With a title like Yuri Is My Job, you know I’m going to be a fan. I’ve followed pretty much every yuri genre series that’s been produced.
This is the story of Hime Shiraki, a super cute girl loved by everyone in her class. This is because she carefully builds the perfect outer facade designed to make her popular. Her ultimate goal is to find a millionaire to marry so that she can live an easy life of wealth.
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But Hime is plagued by the fear that others will find out that her personality is fake. She had a traumatic event in her past when a friend named Mitsuki Yano told her classmates that she was a liar, making her a pariah in her class. This event scarred Hime, who can never forgive Yano for her betrayal.
One day Hime accidentally bumps into a girl named Mai Mikoshiba and injures her arm. To make up for this, Hime is asked to come work at a restaurant called Café Liebe, which is built around an all-girls school theme. The waitresses pretend to be students at the fictional Liebe Girls Academy and enact romantic scenes for the customers, who cheer and applaud. Hime gets along with her new co-workers, all except the mysterious girl who performs under the stage name of Mitsuki Ayanokoji, who seems to hate Hime for no reason. What could be behind this?
A Yuri Anime With Plot Twists
We can categorize yuri anime into several broad groupings, including:
- Slice-of-life yuri that are fun, although relationships never progress (Yuru Yuri, The Vampire Who Lives In My Neighborhood)
- Yuri comedy in which the lesbian element creates ironic humor (Uzamaid!, Wataten!)
- “Yuri-bait,” where potential lesbian relationships are set up, but not paid off for fans (Hibike! Euphonium, and Lycoris Recoil, according to some fans)
- Sexually charged lesbian anime aimed generally at men (Sakura Trick, Valkyrie Drive Mermaid, Citrus)
- Truly thoughtful stories that explore the drama created when two girls fall in love in violation of society’s rules (Aoi Hana: Sweet Blue Flowers, Bloom Into You, elements of Scum’s Wish).
Yuri Is My Job! definitely falls into the final category, telling a dramatic and well-structured story focusing on Hime and her mysterious co-worker who seems to dislike her intensely, well beyond any tsundere mechanic. The plot twist is especially well-executed, and I really appreciated the way the story goes back and re-tells important parts of the plot from other characters’ points of view so we can understand everything.
Yuri Is My Job Has Great Characters
I found I loved all the characters immediately. Super sweet Hime. Her too-shy friend Kanoko, who ends up working at the cafe, too. The cool-and-collected Sumika, who performs her yuri roles perfectly when in the cafe but is a gal outside of work. The sly loli manager Mai. And most of all, Mitsuki, whose personality is hard to pin down, although seeing her story with Hime progress is awesome to watch.
The voice acting by seiyu like Yui Ogura and Sumire Uesaka is outstanding, and the animation by Passione (Citrus, Interspecies Reviewers, Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo) is flawless.
Of course the best reason to enjoy any yuri anime is the sexy fanart, when all the amazing “yuri shippers” create art of the two girls we want to see together. I hope we can look forward to lots of this in the future!
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