High school first-year Hime has a plan for her life. It’s a really banal and superficial plan – be universally beloved and cute, marry wealthy- but it is a plan, which puts her ahead of most of us, I guess. ^_^
When Hime bumps into a very young looking girl, slightly injuring her, she finds herself subbing for the other girl at a Yuri concept café, based upon a popular set of light novels. In these novels, students at an old, and old-fashioned, girls’ school form passionate platonic sisterly bonds called “schwestern.” As a plot concept, it’s fun, light-hearted and appealing to Yuri fans who are familiar with ‘S’ tropes and/or Maria-sama ga Miteru.
I’ve been reading Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu! since the first chapter came out in Comic Yuri Hime at the beginning of 2017, and I guess I became inured to how deeply screwed up everyone in the series is. ^_^ Watching the anime, which is about as funny as a fake broken arm, has really hammered home that Yuri is My Job! now streaming on Crunchyroll, is not really a comedy set in a Yuri concept cafe, but a drama about deeply dysfunctional teenagers who will step all over each other’s toes and feelings and generally fuck up in every possible way. All while serving custom tea blends and German-inspired sweets in a syrupy ‘S’ environment.
It’s less like Marimite and more like Mad Max in long dresses at a café as a Bravo television series. This is not comedy…this is survival. We’ve hardly even met everyone yet and we dislike them all for their own reasons. ^_^Except Nene. I like Nene.
Ratings:
Animation: Mediocre, but adequate
Story: Off the rails, and kind of compelling, but also repulsive?
Characters: Mostly completely unlikable, but does that matter?
Service – The customers at the café squeal convincingly when classic Yuri tropes happen
Yuri – None, until there is
Overall – I have no idea how to score this. Let’s hedge my bets at a 7
If you’ve read my reviews of the manga you know why. If not, don’t start now. Grab yourself some popcorn and watch the drama, the obsession, the mental instability, the lesbianism (and, technically, an actual lesbian or two, although you may never get to the second.) There is a lot of everything to come.
