With a cute face, good grades, and a flawless friendly facade, Hime Shiraki hopes to land herself a rich husband by being the picture of perfection.
However, after she takes a tumble down some stairs, she lands on Mai Mikoshiba, injuring the girl’s arm. It turns out that Mai is the manager of a cafe, and she uses her injury to make Hime help out there.
This is how Hime ended up at Cafe Liebe, an all-girls academy-themed cafe where she stumbles through the work and one of the other waitresses seems to hate her for no apparent reason.
In what I thought was going to be standard cute yuri-baiting in a cafe setting actually turned out to be some pretty good drama! If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Yuri is My Job, head on down below.
Anime Like Yuri is My Job!
For Fans of Working Service Jobs
Blend S
Maika is a person with naturally bad luck, although much of that comes from her mean-looking eyes. These eyes have since prevented her from gaining part-time employment in order to fund her dreams of studying abroad.
However, one day she meets a man named Dino who runs a very special café. Inside, the waitresses all adopt very specific personas for the customers, and Dino wants Maika to be his sadistic-type girl.
However, despite having the eyes for it, Maika isn’t a sadist.
Both Yuri is My Job and Blend S build their plots around characters working in a theme cafe. However, instead of the girls’ love experience that is presented in Yuri is My Job, Blend S targets degenerates that enjoy anime character tropes like tsunderes, imoutos, onee-sans, ect.
Both series explore the characters as both the character they play in the cafe and the character they are in real life. However, aside from that and being about theme cafes in general, that is where the similarities between these two series end.
Unlike Yuri is My Job which is more of a drama, Blend S lives very firmly in the comedy genre. It is light-hearted and the characters are meant to be amusing rather than the well developed characters that you find in Yuri is My Job.
Working
Due to his love of cute things, Souta Takanashi ends up taking a job at the Wagnaria family restaurant in Hokkaido at the behest of the small and cute Popura Taneshima.
However, while he enjoys doting on Popura, he must stay on his toes while working with his more eccentric colleagues.
Unlike Yuri is My Job that is about working in a theme cafe, Working is about working in a family restaurant. However, both series put a focus on the characters and their building relationships with each other.
The biggest difference is that Working, while it does have some drama in it, is primarily a more light-hearted slice of life series. It isn’t quite the dramatic, girl’s love-laced experience that Yuri is My Job is.
Is The Order a Rabbit?
It’s the positive attitude and energy that Kokoa Hoto exudes which allows her to become friends with anyone in just a few seconds. This is her story as she moves away from home to attend school and ends up working in a café for room and board.
Of course, by very nature, she befriends everyone she comes in contact with, including the granddaughter of the cafe founder who is often seen with a talking rabbit.
Both Yuri is My Job and Is The Order a Rabbit follow the all-female working staff of a cafe. However, while each girl has their own unique personality quirks, the cafe in Is The Order a Rabbit isn’t a theme cafe.
Unlike Yuri is My Job, which is all about the relationships between the girls and the drama between some of them, Is The Order a Rabbit is from the moe age of anime where cute girls doing cute things in cute ways was all the plot an anime needed. It’s a heart-warming comedy and really just focuses on how cute the girls are while they are working.
For Fans of Dramatic Girl’s Love
Bloom Into You
As a young girl, Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and has awaited a love confession that sets her heart aflutter. However, when she gets one from a junior high classmate, she feels nothing.
Unsure how to respond, she watches Nanami, her high school student council president, expertly let someone down who just confessed to her. Seeking her guidance, she asks for Nanami’s help.
However, the next love confession she receives is from Nanami herself, could this be the romance she was waiting for?
Both Yuri is My Job and Bloom Into You are drama-leaning girl’s love. However, while Yuri is My Job is initially pretty coy with its intentions, Bloom Into You makes it very obvious that it will be a girl’s love romance.
While they are both innately similar in that they are girl’s love stories that enjoy their drama, they explore different sorts of drama. Yuri is My Job dives into Hime and her lies causing all sorts of problems while Bloom Into You is more about unraveling confusing new feelings.
Adachi and Shimamura
One day while skipping class, Adachi Sakura and Shimamura Hougetsu meet in the second floor gym.
They talk, play ping pong, and eventually become friends. However, as they spend more time together, their feelings begin to shift.
The nice thing about both Yuri is My Job and Adachi and Shimamura as girl’s love anime is they don’t come right out and fully declare themselves romance anime right away. In both series, you watch the girls interact and become increasingly dear friend or, in Yuri is My Job’s case, kind of start to repair a friendship.
Like Yuri is My Job builds the relationships and explores the characters through drama, Adachi and Shimamura focuses intimately on two characters who grow closer every day through their normal interactions. It has less drama, but keeps the characters feeling like real and complex people in a similar way to Yuri is My Job.
Citrus
After her mother remarries, fashionable Yuzu moves to a new city. However, with her all-girls school being strict and conservative, she immediately butts heads with the stoic student council president.
Worse yet, later that night she discovers that the student council president is now her new stepsister.
While both Yuri is My Job and Citrus are very clear girl’s love anime, Citrus goes about romance in a way that may not be appealing to those looking for relationships similar to the ones in Yuri is My Job.
Citrus approaches girl’s love like its is old school boy’s love where there is one dominant girl who constantly forces herself on the submissive girl. Adding further kink, they both happen to be step-sisters.
While Citrus heaps on the drama between these girls like Yuri is My Job, it is less nuanced and a lot more sexual. However, outside those moments, Citrus does explore interesting character drama, but focuses more on the romance.
For Fans of Sophisticated All-Girls’ Schools
Maria Watches Over Us
Yumi Fukuzawa is a first year at the prestigious all-girls Catholic school in Tokyo, Lillian Girls’ Academy. While excited for her high school life, she didn’t think that she would catch the eye of the beautiful Sachiko Ogasawara, one of the academy’s most popular students, on her first day.
When Sachiko suddenly asks Yumi to become her soeur, or sister that she will mentor, Yumi is hesitant due to all the attention it will bring, but ultimately falls for Sachiko’s alluring charms.
Now, she has to deal with being the center of attention as the school lights up with rumors about them.
If the aesthetic of the cafe is what charmed you about Yuri is My Job, then you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t watch the series that they are pretty clearly trying to evoke.
Maria Watches Over Us is, well, it’s Liebe Girls Academy. It is pretty much the story that the cafe is playing out in Yuri is My Job. It takes place in a Catholic all-girls school in which the older students take on “souers,” or sisters, in the form of younger students that they mentor in the academy. They then play out multiple dramatic romantic relationships between the girls.
Strawberry Panic
Aoi Nagisa has transferred to one of the three all-girls schools on Astraea Hill.
There, she discovers an innate hierarchy where Etoiles represent the student body of the three schools. However, one Etoiles named Shizuma finds herself drawn to this new transfer student.
Although not quite as glaringly similar as Maria Watches Over Us is to the story they are playing out in Yuri is My Job, Strawberry Panic lives in a similar space.
Like the story in Cafe Liebe, Strawberry Panic takes place in an all-girls school where the normal main character catches the attention of one special students known as “etoile,” or “star” that serves as a representative for the school between the other all-girls schools in the area. From there, they carry out a very yuri love affair.
Like Yuri is My Job, Strawberry Panic is all girl’s love shipping. It very obviously pairs the girls up and explores their stories with each other and the drama that happens between them.
Dear Brother
16-year old Nanoko Misonoo has recently entered the prestigious all-girls Seiren Academy. However, in this school where she once only saw her bright future, she finds cruelty and deceit among the hierarchy.
To make matters more complicated for her, she has been accepted into an elite Sorority that draws the ire of her classmates.
To cope with her increasingly difficult school life, Nanako starts writing letters to a former teacher, whom she affectionately refers to as her brother.
While Dear Brother isn’t quite as “obviously yuri” as Yuri is My Job, it is a story built on drama at an all-girls school.
While Yuri is My Job is split between drama for the storyline of the cafe and actual drama between the girls, it is still a series for those that love to see how that drama plays out. Dear Brother is an older anime, but it loves character drama above all else. This means it can be a bit hammy at times, but it paints troubled relationships between girls at an all-girls’ school in the same entertaining way that people at Cafe Liebe enjoy.
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