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This Week in Anime - Yuri Is My Job! Is the Best Gayfabe We Could Ask For




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yuricon



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 9:51 am Reply with quote
The piano duet is one of the oldest Yuri tropes we have. In my book on the history of Yuri, I talk about the origin of the piano duet in a 1920 novel, Yaneura no Nishojo and trace it through things like Marimite and Strawberry Panic - great calls on those.

Also, you're not wrong, Mitsuki's breasts get way larger when needed - even in the manga.

Sumika's flashback is to the ur-incident, the thing that created a problem in the cafe back at the beginning that is still plaguing Sumika and Nene (who is the actual best girl, but you can't know that yet.)

Excellent commentary!
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dm
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:02 pm Reply with quote
Great commentary.

Thanks to yuricon, above, I've been following the manga from its first translated volumes, and the anime has prompted me to go back and reread the released volumes, as there were some plot-points the gap-between-release-of-volumes caused me to lose the thread on. It's been a great pleasure to revisit the manga --- I think it stands up well to re-reading.
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rfletcher



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:23 pm Reply with quote
yuricon wrote:
Sumika's flashback is to the ur-incident, the thing that created a problem in the cafe back at the beginning that is still plaguing Sumika and Nene (who is the actual best girl, but you can't know that yet.)


Nene is indeed Actual Best Girl, and it's a shame that we'd have to get something like a third cour to get to her full story. Turns out the pale-haired cook that's been conspicuously present in the background of every episode is pretty darned important.

It's been kind of excruciating watching the story unfold to the anime-only audience, when I in the meantime am so deep in the manga that two weeks ago I drove to Los Angeles (which no one should ever do - even people who live there) and scoured four Kinokuniya bookstores to buy a copy of volume 12 in Japanese (which I cannot read) just so that I could at least "see" what happened.
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MiniMarps



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:39 pm Reply with quote
I enjoyed the first few episodes, when it had more of a quirky comedy vibe to it, but my interest has waned since it became an actual melodramatic romance instead of just a satire of them. Ironically, I feel like it could have done a better job of earnestly exploring certain themes as the latter than as the former.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:47 pm Reply with quote
yuricon wrote:
Nene (who is the actual best girl, but you can't know that yet.)


If you didn't know it before, you probably do after episode 10.
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John the Dark Lord



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 7:40 pm Reply with quote
MiniMarps wrote:
I enjoyed the first few episodes, when it had more of a quirky comedy vibe to it, but my interest has waned since it became an actual melodramatic romance instead of just a satire of them. Ironically, I feel like it could have done a better job of earnestly exploring certain themes as the latter than as the former.


The thing is, it is trying to be a satire of Class-S stories, not of melodramas in general. Even by Volume 12 (the anime is currently in Volume 4), it is still doing commentary on Class-S stories, and it does so through a melodramatic romance.
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