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 Comics.[1] The English release also marked Kodansha Comics debut into publishing yuri manga in 2019.[2] It has also been licensed in Germany.[3]

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
Volumes7

Synopsis

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's willing to cover some shifts to keep her facade intact. Hime ends up working as a waitress at a place that's part café, part theater, where all the waitresses pretend to be students at a fictional all-girls boarding school knowns 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's 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.

Shiraki Hime / Shirasagi
Voice - Yui Ogura [4]
Hime dreams of marrying rich and living an easy life of wealth. To archive her dream she always presents a charming persona to endear herself to others, leaving few to know her true character.
Yano Mitsuki / Ayanokouji
Voice - Sumire Uesaka [4]
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.
Mamiya Kanoko / Amamiya
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.
Chibana Sumika / Tachibana
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.
Mikoshiba Mai
The manager of the café. Mai guilts Hime into working at the cafe after Hime accidentally injured her arm.

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"[5] Anime UK News gave the first volume 8/10, praising its strong setup and additional German translation notes.[6]

In 2018, Yuri Is My Job! was part of the top 20 finalist featured in the Niconico and Da Vinci's Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards.[7] The series has also been featured on BookWalker's top-selling manga for 2019 and 2020.[8][9]

References
  1. "Hotter than Ever, Anime Expo 2018 Attracts Big Crowds". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  2. "New year, new yuri & BL! Featuring Yuri is My Job! Plus interview with Comic Yuri Hime's Editor-in-Chief!". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  3. "Café Liebe". Tokyopop (in German). Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  4. 【9月18日発売】『私の百合はお仕事です！』第7巻発売記念PV（著：未幡） (YouTube). ichijinshaPV. 2020-09-15. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  5. Rebecca Silverman (February 3, 2019). "Yuri Is My Job! GN 1". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  6. "Yuri is My Job! Volume 1 Review". Anime UK News. January 17, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  7. Lynzee Loveridge (August 23, 2018). "Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, Senpai ga Uzai Kōhai no Hanashi Take Top Prizes at Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  8. "Best of 2019 BOOK☆WALKER Ebook Ranking - Manga Top 25". BookWalker. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  9. "Best of 2020 BOOK☆WALKER Ebook Ranking - Manga Top 30". BookWalker. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
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