Yuri is My Job!

私の百合はお仕事です！ (Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto desu!)

6.7(24,062)
MAL Score
Ranked #6766
Popularity #3142
  • Comedy
  • Girls Love
  • Workplace
Episodes
12
Duration
23 min per ep
Aired
Apr 6, 2023 to Jun 22, 2023
Status
Finished Airing

Synopsis

Hime Shiraki seems like the perfect sweetheart—soft-spoken, charming, and effortlessly lovable. Behind that carefully crafted image, though, she’s putting on a performance to serve a very practical ambition: winning over a wealthy future husband. When an accident leaves Mai Koshiba hurt, Hime learns Mai manages Café Liebe, a café that stages an all-girls academy atmosphere, and finds herself pressured into filling in as a part-timer until Mai can return.

Working at Café Liebe proves harder than Hime expected, and her polished persona doesn’t help much once the job’s demands—and her own inexperience—start showing. Her mistakes quickly draw the sharp criticism of coworker Mitsuki Yano, the refined “onee-sama” figure who has little patience for Hime’s slipups. Caught between the café’s elegant roleplay and Mitsuki’s constant disapproval, Hime’s true self begins to peek through, complicating both her work and the relationships forming around her.

Otaku Consensus

Yuri is My Job! lands as a sharp, drama-forward girls-love workplace comedy whose best asset is its layered use of performance: Hijiri Sanpei’s direction and Naoki Hayashi’s series composition make the café roleplay feel like both a gag engine and an emotional pressure test. Critics and fans most often praise the Hime-Mitsuki friction and the meta-theatrical “ojou-sama academy” structure, while the recurring complaint is pacing: the 12-episode season leans harder into interpersonal drama than immediate romance, which can frustrate viewers expecting a faster sapphic payoff.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Yuri is My Job! if you want yuri built around masks, customer-facing performance, and social misreads rather than instant confession scenes. It scratches a similar itch to Maria Watches Over Us by borrowing the elegance of onee-sama school culture, then filters it through workplace comedy and self-aware parody instead of treating the genre conventions as sacred. It also has a touch of Kaguya-sama-style social chess, though with more emotional awkwardness than gag density. The appeal is in watching characters manage personas until the performance starts revealing too much; if you want cute-girl aesthetics without frictionless comfort-food pacing, this is the sharper pick.

Key Characters

  • H
    Hime Shiraki

    Hime is compelling because her charm is treated less as a trait than a practiced survival strategy, making every stumble at Café Liebe feel like a crack in a carefully maintained public image.

  • M
    Mitsuki Yano

    Mitsuki stands out as the refined onee-sama figure whose severity gives the series its strongest dramatic tension and keeps the café’s fantasy from becoming harmless cosplay.

  • M
    Mai Koshiba

    Mai functions as the workplace catalyst: her management of Café Liebe turns theatrical yuri etiquette into actual labor with consequences, expectations, and pressure.

What Makes It Stand Out

  • 1

    The anime was produced by Passione and Studio Lings as a 12-episode Spring 2023 TV series, giving the adaptation a compact structure that aired weekly from April 6 to June 22, 2023.

  • 2

    Its most distinctive structural hook is meta-performance: AniList tags it highly for Acting at 92% and Meta at 74%, and the series uses staged ojou-sama behavior as a way to examine identity rather than as simple genre decoration.

  • 3

    The show is officially positioned as Girls Love, but its reputation is more drama-forward than romance-forward; fan commentary often notes that romantic progression is sparse compared with the amount of interpersonal conflict.

  • 4

    The café setting makes the Workplace theme concrete rather than cosmetic, with AniList marking Work at 96% and Restaurant at 79%, an unusual combination for a yuri comedy built around academy-roleplay aesthetics.

  • 5

    Reception reflects a niche but divided response: it sits at 6.69/10 on MyAnimeList from 23,821 votes and 64/100 on AniList, suggesting a series appreciated for its concept and character friction more than for broad crowd-pleasing momentum.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1
Yuri is My Job! adapts Miman’s original work, with Hijiri Sanpei directing, Takashi Ikehata as assistant director, and Naoki Hayashi handling series composition.
Fun fact 2
The production credits highlight a full visual pipeline: Taisuke Iwasaki designed the characters, Yukako Ogawa served as art director, Arisa Komatsu handled color design, Suguru Shiga directed photography, and Yoshikazu Suzuki oversaw CG.
Fun fact 3
Ryousuke Naya served as sound director, an especially relevant role for a series where customer-facing performance, staged dialogue, and shifts between public and private personas are central to the viewing experience.
Fun fact 4
AniList’s tag spread reveals the show’s hybrid identity: Yuri is listed at 93%, LGBTQ+ Themes at 79%, Ojou-sama at 75%, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things at 62%, and Parody at 36%.
Fun fact 5
Online reactions split in a revealing way: some readers and viewers describe it as having “practically no romance” compared with its drama, while other reviews point to genuine sapphic relationship development emerging sparingly near the end.

Studios

  • Passione
  • Studio Lings

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