YMMV / Yuri is My Job!

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Has its own page.
• Arc Fatigue:
  • The events of the month of July, in which, among other things, Mitsuki confesses to Hime and Hime nearly resigns from the salon stretch from the start of Volume 5 to near the end of Volume 8, about half of the series to that point. Minman acknowledged that the arc would drag on for a while, lampshading in Volume 7 that "We've spent the past three volumes of the series in the month of July!"
  • For anime viewers, the Blume election arc dragged on too long, taking up almost all of the second half of the first season. While this wasn't nearly as long as the aforementioned arc, the length grew frustrating to people who wanted to see more of the main couple and/or didn't like Kanoko.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Hime. Supporters like her as a cute and funny, yet surprisingly complex character, while detractors are often turned off by her first scene establishing her as a Gold Digger, and don't even give the series a chance because of that.
  • Kanoko has also proven rather divisive. Some people find her sympathetic and appreciate her developing romance with Sumika, which became rather popular after the first season of the anime aired. Others, however, despise her for her selfish obsession with Hime and her intense jealous hatred of Mitsuki. The fact that she apparently agrees to enter into a fake relationship with Sumika at the behest of a third party(later revealed to be Yoko) despite not actually loving her doesn't help matters.
• Broken Base: The cast's status as a Dysfunction Junction. Detractors believe basically all the characters are unlikable, but supporters see them as realistically flawed and having room for Character Development. Kanoko and Hime get this the most, but Mitsuki, Mai and even Sumika, the latter of whom is the closest to the Only Sane Man in Liebe, are sometimes brought into these arguments.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: The fact that Nene and Saionji are the same person. The two have the same distinctive hair color, and are the only two close enough to Sumika to call her by her first name without honorifics. It's even more obvious in the anime, which gives a few additional scenes to Nene, as a cook.
• Diagnosed by the Audience:
  • Mitsuki's bluntness, difficulty considering others' perspectives, and inability to pick up on subtle social cues suggest that she might be on the autism spectrum.
  • Kanoko is socially inept, somewhat misanthropic and has an unhealthy fixation on her Only Friend Hime, so some viewers conclude that she's neurodivergent in some way.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • On a first reading, nothing seems particularly odd about Mitsuki's meeting Hime, even after it's made clear that Mitsuki dislikes Hime. Later on, though, it's made clear that Mitsuki was overwhelmed with emotion upon seeing her old friend again, and was quite upset to see that Hime didn't recognize her.
  • In Chapter 44, Nene gets offended when Sumika tells her "I love you," calling her out on joking about it. In Chapter 47, it's revealed that Nene had unrequited feelings for Sumika before falling for Goeido, which is all the more reason for her to be offended by a frivolous declaration of love.
  • In Chapter 20, Kanoko explains that Hime isn't the sort who'd consider a romance with other people and turns down all her confessions. Much later, in Chapter 62, it is revealed that Kanoko sent Hime an anonymous love letter, and heard Hime say to her face that she intended to turn down the person no matter who it was.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Both Hime and Mitsuki are to blame for their friendship falling apart, but the falling out was hard enough on both girls that you can still feel sorry for them. It's even worse considering that at the time, they were each other's only real friends, and ended up friendless for the rest of elementary school. It's especially bad in Mitsuki's case, since her crippling lack of social skills and difficulty reading between the lines causes her to have difficulty making friends throughout middle school.
  • Kanoko also counts. She selfishly wants Sumika to abolish the Schwester system, since Kanoko feels threatened by Hime's closeness with Mitsuki. That said, once you understand what Hime's friendship means to Kanoko, and how hard it can be for her to bear her unrequited love for Hime, you can see why Kanoko doesn't want to lose Hime. As Kanoko's jealousy of Mitsuki worsens, her relationships with Sumika and Hime suffer as they (rightfully) insist that she needs to learn to get along with Mitsuki, but Kanoko ends up becoming more isolated and emotionally unstable. As a result, she ends up allowing Yoko to manipulate her, and lies to Sumika to start a Fake Relationship with her, which is not a nice thing to do, to say the least... but then ends up getting sexually assaulted by Yoko.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: While Yoko, the closest thing to a main antagonist, doesn't quite get the Draco in Leather Pants treatment from the fandom, she still doesn't get as much vitriol from the fandom as Kanoko does for her jealousy toward Mitsuki, even though Kanoko seldom acts on that jealousy.
• Les Yay: Although some characters are explicitly in love with other girls, (Kanoko toward Hime, Sumika toward Kanoko, possibly Hime and Mitsuki), some interactions fall into this trope. In particular, Sumika, despite initially identifying as heterosexual, has a few moments with other characters, not just Kanoko.
  • Sumika performs a Wall Pin of Love on Hime twice in the first chapter.
  • While the Schwester bonds aren't supposed to be romantic, when Sumika tells Kanoko the story of how Goeido dissolved Sumika's Schwester-ship with Saionji by worming her way into the latter's heart, you can interpret Sumika's attitude as like that of a jealous loser in a Love Triangle, who's angry at Goeido for stealing the girl she loved.
    "We got along fine, but we weren't in love. I had no chance against Goeido and the romantic feelings she brought along with her."
  • Later on, Sumika is talking with Nene(also known as Saionji) about how "Same-sex crushes don't always pay off." Nene, assuming that Sumika is talking about her rather than Hime and Kanoko(the latter of whom refuses to confess to the former, knowing she'll never return her feelings) gets offended and starts to leave before Sumika clarifies. After Nene sits down and agrees to hear Sumika out, Sumika casually says, "Thanks, Nene-san. I love you." Nene calls Sumika out on joking about something like that, and Sumika apologizes, but one has to wonder if she still has feelings for Nene without realizing it, since she initially thinks her feelings for Kanoko are those for her schwester.
• Moral Event Horizon: While Yoko was always a sociopathic Manipulative Bitch, she leaps past this when she lures Kanoko to a hotel room and sexually assaults her.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The first volume is a relatively dull introduction to Liebe Girls' Academy, not to mention one that shows most of the cast as their least likeable selves. The story only really picks up by the end of that volume, when Mitsuki's true identity is revealed.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Hime once asks why a school for rich girls like the one that the café portrays is willing to let its students talk about taking part time jobs. In Japan, many schools do not allow their students to have part time jobs, especially not a prestigious one like the one portrayed by the café, and the localization notes explain this rule. That said, Hime's school seems to be an exception.
  • The series being a parody of "Class S" relationships and media is frequently lost on foreign audiences since the Class S concept doesn't really exist outside of Japan.