sasuraiger

going your days grow up

Enthusiast and gamesofter. Writer. Creator of @Kawaiikochans.


I've been enjoying Yuri is My Job much more than I expected to when I first started it, as it's been getting more and more soapy and melodramatic as it's gone on. This one is a romcom about girls working at a cafe themed after "sisterly love" romances like Marimite: people come in to be served by the "student" waitresses, but more importantly to watch them flirt, pine over each other, etc.

The series uses the meta-framing of the cafe to peel back the layers of the characters and explore their relationships in both the cafe's meta-fiction (they observe a kayfabe exactly like that of pro wrestling) and the "real" interactions happening backstage and outside of work. The series has the most fun with the way they intertwine.

The girls are all total messes across the board, starting with an incredibly unlikable sociopath protagonist who just gets scolded with no adequate explanation or instruction for the entire first chunk of the show.

A lot of the comments take it as face value and think the show is just kind of weird and cruel, and I get that. But I think-- especially as I've read further in the manga-- that the fact that none of these characters can have a direct conversation with each other is just part of the mess, in the same way as you'd think of the contrivances of shoujo manga. And like the owner of the cafe, I have to admit... the most important thing is putting on a good show, right?


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