Is "Seiyuu Radio no Ura Omote" (frequently translated as 'Two Sides of Seiyuu Radio'), the name of a currently airing anime based on a light novel with a manga adaptation, yuri? Well, it isn't not yuri, in a way similar to how American Psycho isn't not a gay novel. Yuri stuff happens throughout the story, but it's not built around romance as much as it is a certain kind of contentious rivalry. If anything, the characters seem to be confused about what they feel for each other even if we as the audience can name it with precision.
Another reason I cite American Psycho as a comparable story is that, like it, Seiyuu Radio is a commentary about a specific industry/lifestyle. In this case, it's more sympathetic to its subjects but is open about how unpleasant the field they work in (the main characters are all young voice actor idols) is. I presume that the anime will cover a similar amount of light novel material as the manga, which would mean that the back third of the series will probably be specifically about risks that the leads face as a result of being public figures in the industry.
And as the name suggests ("ura omote" doesn't have a direct translation; it refers to different sides or faces like one might refer to head and tail of a coin, and in this context specifically is used to reference the contrast between public and private personas of the main characters), the focus of the story is about the ways in which the main characters don't actually match up with the characters that play in the course of their work.
That might require a little context to elaborate on. I first saw scans of the manga long before I really had a context for what seiyuu radio actually is; I only really got a sense of what, exactly, seiyuu radio is from watching Bocchi the Rock! clips on youtube around the start of the year. From that, I found translated clips of Bocchi the Radio!, which is, in fact, a seiyuu radio series about Bocchi the Rock!, hosted by Yoshino "Yoppi" Aoyama (the voice actress for Bocchi) with guests also from the show. Most seiyuu radio is like this, spinoffs of other series meant as promotional material, broadly comparable to celebrity podcasts about shows they acted in like you might see for, say, The Office or New Girl. Bocchi the Radio! apparently stands out in its field, too, as it won several awards last year: best comedy radio, best female radio, and radio of the year1.
I cite Bocchi the Radio! in particular because Aoyama has been open about being misled, when she was young in the industry, by the way in which some other voice actresses presented their public personas as much more reclusive/socially anxious/introverted than was reflective of their character off-radio. A translated clip of the segment:
I would argue that the primary focus of the series is about all the ways in which Aoyama's expectations are harmful, but I also come at this from a perspective where labor solidarity is one of the most important things in the world, and thus why working relationships among colleagues has great value.
And, of course, this is an industry that has basically no job security because, like a lot of glamour/passion industries, there's a massive talent pool and a very small number of positions. It's incredibly competitive as a result, and thus even small mistakes can have major repercussions. Expect a lot of earnest examination of the anxiety complexes that working in the industry has on the main characters.
There's also a Bocchi the Radio! clip that's at least obliquely about that, too, in which Aoyama responds to some viewer mail:
And, like, you see how this goes, from this, right? Like on the one hand there's an earnest expression of gratitude here -- a future in the industry is never something to count on, and so fan support like that is profoundly valuable -- but it's also being done in a way that verges on a kind of self-aware pandering here?
I'm not sure if I know what earlier clip might be referenced in that sequence, but this one cited as from episode #16, where Aoyama wonders openly about the future of the program and her career, is at least also relevant to this -- in fact, the POV character of SRnUO has at least one introspective moment that almost exactly the same as this. Fortunately, Aoyama is still recording, with the program on the cusp of its 50th episode.
In conclusion: if you want a yuri romance, you won't find it here, but the show has a lot to recommend it for yuri fans.
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Here's a tweet recognizing the awards. Note that they refer to it as 'radio' (ラジオ), which might count as a pseudo-loanword. I don't know that most of these are actually broadcast over the air as the name might suggest as opposed to distributed more like podcasts. The easiest way to find episodes is probably from the aniplex youtube channel, where they're uploaded in full.