Yuri Is My Job!

Yuri Is My Job! (Japanese: 私の百合はお仕事です!, Hepburn: Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu!) is a Japanese yuri manga written and illustrated by Miman which was first serialized in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime on November 18, 2016, and is licensed in English by Kodansha USA as the company's first yuri release.[1][2] An anime television series adaptation by Passione and Studio Lings premiered in April 2023.

Yuri Is My Job!
Cover of the first Japanese volume
私の百合はお仕事です!
(Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu!)
GenreComedy, yuri
Manga
Written byMiman
Published byIchijinsha
English publisher
MagazineComic Yuri Hime
Original runNovember 18, 2016 – present
Volumes11
Anime television series
Directed by
Produced by
  • Naruki Fukuya
  • Kayo Fukuda
  • Shougo Ikenori
  • Takashi Jinguuji
  • Yuuki Konishi
  • Norihiro Kurosawa
  • Takema Okamura
  • Hiroyasu Oyama
  • Fumihiro Ozawa
  • Tomoko Shibuya
  • Natsumi Tamura
  • Yuuki Uchiyama
Written byNaoki Hayashi
Music byMegumi Ōhashi
Studio
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkAT-X, Tokyo MX, BS Fuji, BS NTV
Original run April 6, 2023 – present
Episodes1

Plot

Hime is a high school girl who deeply cares about her image as a sweet, helpful princess but on the inside only cares about herself. So when she accidentally injures a café manager named Mai, she is willing to cover some shifts to keep her facade intact. Hime ends up working as a waitress at a place that is part café, part theater, where all the waitresses pretend to be students at a fictional all-girls boarding school known as Liebe Girls Academy. Hime finds herself drawn to another waitress at the café, who in front of the customers gives Hime love and devotion like she has never known. However, behind the scenes, the girl seems to hate her guts.

Characters

The name represents a character's real name / Liebe Girls Academy name.

Hime Shiraki (白木 陽芽, Shiraki Hime) / Hime Shirasagi (白鷺 陽芽, Shirasagi Hime)
Voiced by: Yui Ogura[3][4] (PV, anime)
Hime dreams of marrying rich and living an easy life of wealth. To achieve her dream she always presents a charming persona to endear herself to others, leaving few to know her true character.
Mitsuki Yano (矢野 美月, Yano Mitsuki) / Mitsuki Ayanokōji (綾小路 美月, Ayanokōji Mitsuki)
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka[3][4] (PV, anime)
A beautiful and graceful girl who plays the role of a kind senpai at the salon. She very quickly comes to dislike Hime, since unbeknownst to Hime, the two are old friends who parted on bad terms.
Kanoko Mamiya (間宮 果乃子, Mamiya Kanoko) / Kanoko Amamiya (雨宮 果乃子, Amamiya Kanoko)
Voiced by: Minami Tanaka[5] (anime)
A shy girl who has been Hime's friend since middle school and actually knows Hime's true personality. Kanoko comes to work at the café after following Hime there.
Sumika Chibana (知花 純加, Chibana Sumika) / Sumika Tachibana (橘 純加, Tachibana Sumika)
Voiced by: Makoto Koichi[5] (anime)
Sumika plays a cool and collected senpai in the café, however outside of work she is considered a gyaru. Sumika becomes more involved with Kanoko once she begins to believe that Kanoko may harbour unrequited feeling for Hime.
Mai Koshiba (小柴 舞, Koshiba Mai) / Mai Mikoshiba (御子柴 舞, Mikoshiba Mai)
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura[5] (anime)
The manager of the café. Mai guilts Hime into working at the cafe after Hime accidentally injured her arm.
Nene Nishidera (西寺 寧々, Nishidera Nene) / Nene Saionji (西園寺 寧々, Saionji Nene)
Voiced by: Asami Seto[5] (anime)
Oone of the first waitresses hired at the café alongside Sumika, however she has since moved to become part of the kitchen staff instead.
Youko Gotou (後藤 葉子, Gotou Youko) / Youko Goeidou (五影堂 葉子, Goeidou Youko)
A former member of the café. When she worked there, she played a seductress character who got between Nene and Sumika's personal and professional lives.
Haruko Shinooka (Shinooka Haruko)
A new member of the kitchen staff, she works alongside Nene and while she doesn't fully understand the concept of the café she still finds it charming.

Media

Manga
No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 June 16, 2017[6]978-4-7580-7693-7January 22, 2019[7]978-1-63236-777-8
2 October 18, 2017[8]978-4-7580-7739-2March 26, 2019[9]978-1-63236-778-5
3 April 18, 2018[10]978-4-7580-7804-7May 21, 2019[11]978-1-63236-779-2
4 November 15, 2018[12]978-4-7580-7868-9July 16, 2019[13]978-1-63236-806-5
5 June 18, 2019[14]978-4-7580-7948-8October 12, 2019[15]978-1-63236-862-1
6 January 17, 2020[16]978-4-7580-2075-6March 11, 2020[17]978-1-63236-930-7
7 September 18, 2020[18]978-4-7580-2161-6July 13, 2021[19]978-1-64651-079-5
8 April 16, 2021[20]978-4-7580-2242-2February 8, 2022[21]978-1-64651-238-6
9 November 18, 2021[22]978-4-7580-2325-2July 12, 2022[23]978-1-64651-417-5
10 May 18, 2022[24][25]978-4-7580-2413-6 (regular edition)
978-4-7580-2414-3 (special edition)		November 15, 2022[26]978-1-68491-105-9
11 November 17, 2022[27]978-4-7580-2472-3——

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on May 14, 2022. It will be produced by Passione and Studio Lings, and directed by Hijiri Sanpei, with scripts written by Naoki Hayashi, character designs handled by Taisuke Iwasaki, and music composed by Megumi Ōhashi.[4] The series premiered on April 6, 2023, on AT-X and other networks.[5][28] The opening theme song is "Himitsu♡Melody" (秘密♡Melody, "Secret Melody") by Yui Ogura, while the ending theme song is "Yume ga Sametemo" (夢が覚めても, "Even If I Wake Up from This Dream") by Ogura and Sumire Uesaka.[29][30] At Anime NYC 2022, Crunchyroll announced that they had licensed the series.[31]

No.Title [32][33]Directed by [32]Written by [32]Storyboarded by [32]Original air date [34]
1"Welcome to Liebe Girls Academy"
Transcription: "Yōkoso Rībe-jo Gakuen e!" (Japanese: ようこそリーベ女学園へ！)		Mitsuki KitamuraNaoki HayashiHijiri SanpeiApril 6, 2023 (2023-04-06)
Hime is beautiful, intelligent and popular but beneath her façade of perfection she is selfish and manipulative and her life’s goal is to be a billionaire’s trophy-wife. One day Hime falls down stairs onto Mai, breaking her arm. Mai reveals she manages Café Liebe, a cafe where waitresses cosplay as students of fictional Liebe Academy. Unable to work injured, Mai and waitress Sumika guilt Hime into working at the café until her arm heals. Hime is uncomfortable with the café’s shojo manga atmosphere and doesn’t perform well. To her surprise fellow waitress Mitsuki treats her kindly before customers but becomes cruel to her once the café closes. Kanoko, Hime’s friend who knows her true, personality, frets over Hime getting such a strange job. Mai decides, due to customer reviews, Hime and Mitsuki will act as sister-like best friends. Mitsuki rejects the idea immediately. Hime does her best to convince Mitsuki to agree during their next performance, but it comes off as pushy and manipulative and Mitsuki is forced to agree to the role in front of the customers. Hime has no idea what she did was wrong and so is confused when Mitsuki privately reveals she deeply despises her.
2"Let's All Be Waitresses Together"
Transcription: "Minasan de Okyūji o Hajimemashō?" (Japanese: みなさんでお給仕を始めましょう？)		TBATBATBAApril 13, 2023 (2023-04-13)

Reception

Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network gave the first volume an overall B+ grade. Silverman noted that the first volume was "much more interested in the parodic aspects of the story, though, so readers should be prepared for more humor than actual yearning glances, and a certain degree of familiarity with Class S yuri is probably going to make the book more enjoyable".[35] Anime UK News gave the first volume 8/10, praising its strong setup and additional German translation notes.[36]

In 2018, Yuri Is My Job! was part of the top 20 finalists featured in the Niconico and Da Vinci's Next Manga Awards.[37] The series has also been featured on BookWalker's top-selling manga for 2019 and 2020.[38][39]

Notes
  1. Chief episode director (チーフ演出)

References
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