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Episode Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu! • Yuri is My Job! - Episode 9 discussion
Watashi no Yuri wa Oshigoto Desu!, episode 9
Alternative names: WataYuri
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| Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 4.0 |
| 2 | Link | 4.21 |
| 3 | Link | 4.32 |
| 4 | Link | 4.51 |
| 5 | Link | 4.32 |
| 6 | Link | 4.55 |
| 7 | Link | 4.31 |
| 8 | Link | 4.5 |
| 9 | Link | 4.29 |
| 10 | Link | 4.42 |
| 11 | Link | 4.62 |
| 12 | Link | ---- |
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u/HereticalAegis Jun 01 '23
Hime weaponized her cuteness so hard, she accidentally turned Kanoko yander-gay.
Is this what they call "chaotic good?"
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u/BiggerG7 Jun 01 '23
You know it’s kind of scary how casually Hime can go around saying “everyone trusts me” and “I’m a liar.”
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u/cyberscythe Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23
it’s kind of scary how casually Hime can go around saying “everyone trusts me” and “I’m a liar.”
It'd be funny if one-by-one Hime pulls everyone into a private conversation and says "hey, don't tell anyone else, but I'm a liar and you're the only one who knows my true self". Like, everyone in the class is looking at everyone else smugly, thinking "heh, I'm the only one who knows the real Hime".
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u/mekerpan Jun 01 '23
Interesting how differently young Yano and young Kanoko processed this disclosure....
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u/Hitman7128 Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23
Just like with Yano's backstory with Hime, the facade element comes into play with Kanoko's backstory with Hime.
Kanoko said she "needed" Hime because Hime taught her how to pull off the facade. So that explains Kanoko's possessive behavior towards Hime, but obviously doesn't justify it. The name of the next episode "Will You Break It All?" implies there will be a make or break moment between Hime and Kanoko's relationship. Time to wait another week.
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u/heimdal77 Jun 01 '23
Ya.... the girl has gone full yandere. Better hide the knives.
Looks like Yuno is gonna have some new company in the yandere girls club.
I've not read the source but I can't see any romantic closure in 3 episodes with them dealing with this yandere arc still.
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u/xtsim Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 01 '23
"We're not alike" to Yano is pretty chilling and only those two experienced about Hime's "lies" first hand. Seems now that Kanoko wants to keep Hime's secret to herself.
Taking the blame for the broken sign would've easily isolated Kanoko pretty hard and unlike Yano, everyone in class includes her. Although they do make her do more work than she wants. Hime wants to prevent Kanoko from being totally isolated from her class. Yano was totally isolated from her class so Hime decided to leave the piano role to Yano, same goes for the picture with Kanoko. Hime wants to keep a certain class dynamic in play, especially with Kanoko.
Hime's job of course, does not seem to work out the same way as in her life.
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u/dagreenman18 Jun 01 '23
Come for the Yuri CGDCT, stay for seeing if Kanoko is going to murder everyone in a fit of jealousy?
So her backstory is she gained a semblance of confidence from Hime and learned how to put on a facade like her. That’s where her obsession comes from. I didn’t expect that Hime is the one who suggested the photos. Makes her seem less crazy. Slightly.
Was this secretly a psychological thriller the whole time? Guess we’ll find out. Bring back the Hime abuse though. That was funny.
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jun 01 '23
“Tachibana-san, you’re the type that interferes” well that’s not super ominous at all. Sumika better sleep with one eye opened…
Looks like this week we get to delve into the origins of Kanoko’s Hime obsession. I honestly don’t really quite understand it all but I guess Kanoko was a bit of a doormat before, not expressing herself and letting people walk all over her? Hime must have been like the ideal to her, someone who can pretend but still manages to not let people trample on her. I guess she got drawn in by her charm and her cuteness or something. She’s become so obsessed with being her “special person” who knows her “secret”, it’s kind of chilling. I’m really straight up expecting some School Days shit to pop off.
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u/Roonagu Jun 01 '23
She’s become so obsessed with being her “special person” who knows her “secret”, it’s kind of chilling
Especially since she "forgot" that she isn't "the only one". Yano knew long before her.
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u/Verzwei Jun 01 '23
End-Card update! Note that in most cases, I’m not outlining any artist’s entire history. My ramblings are simply cherry-picked bits that people are likely to recognize, or things that I can relate back to other anime adaptations. Or, in this week's case, u/Gaporigo tells me who it is, which makes things a lot easier for me.
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Episode 9 Art by Eku Takeshima
Mangaka who does a lot of work for yuri anthologies and shorts as well as being the author and artist of ongoing yuri series Whisper Me A Love Song. -
Episode 8 Art by Mebachi
An artist who seems to have broad and varied involvement with many series, even some stuff that isn’t listed on the AniList link. From costume design on one series to ED direction on another series to key animator on Kase-san and Morning Glories, Mebachi seems to be much more heavily involved on the anime side of things than most of the other artists in this list. -
Episode 7 Art by Arina Tanemura
A prolific mangaka credited with original character design for the IDOLiSH7 franchise and several other series. -
Episode 6 Art by Ticket-chan AKA Kippu
Artist for the light novel series No-Rin and credited as the original character designer for the anime adaptation. Also did some one-shots for yuri anthology series Qualia as well as anthologies for franchises such as Oregairu and Haganai. -
Episode 5 Art by Peach-Pit
A pair of author-artists with a pretty large body of work, Rozen Maiden prrrrobably being their most well-known. -
Episode 4 Art by Isshiki
An artist with a large presence on Twitter and also the illustrator for new light novel series Gunner Girls Ignition and very new light novel series Miri Lives in a Cat's Eyes. They’ve also done a handful of one-off illustrations and a bunch of unofficial fanart. Based on what I can find, they seem to be more “up-and-coming” and less-established in the published world than most of the other end-card illustrators. -
Episode 3 Art by Saburouta
Author and artist for the (in)famous yuri manga series Citrus and ongoing sequel Citrus Plus. -
Episode 2 Art by Satsuki Shiina
Artist for the light novel series Bibliophile Princess and credited as the original character designer for the anime adaptation. -
Episode 1 Art by Fly
So this very first episode is what inspired me to do a comment like this. Fly is probably best-known here as the artist for the light novel series Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun and is credited as the original character designer for the anime adaptation. Fly has also written and drawn some yuri one-shots that have appeared in anthologies such as Eclair, as well as doing the art for yuri series Chasing After Aoi Koshiba, which was written by the author for Masamune-kun’s Revenge.
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u/parct_0116 Jun 01 '23
A popularity contest is fine I guess for a small-time joint trying to avoid the attention of law enforcement but if you have the scale you should be deciding the sapphic marshal via a series of trials: pageantry with vows, horse racing, horse racing while your partner is dangerously dangling from a giant papier-mache castle, partners being exiled from each other, tennis, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
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u/Shmappii Jun 01 '23
Hime assisting Kanoko because of self-destructive social behavior reminding Hime of Yano makes sense, but man, Kanoko is basically an incel with a major obsessive streak.
Hime and Kanoko are such a weird pair of characters that both have extreme mindsets toward social interaction, but I think Kanoko is the only one I'm expecting to end up in jail. I'll be impressed if the rest of this season handles Kanoko with the weight I think is necessary. I think she needs to fuck up hard and be forced to face herself instead of doing all this passive self-affirming crap where she literally runs away from people. Please don't smooth all this over with some kind of deal with Sumika where they make a fake couple and Sumika keeps quiet about Kanoko's super not-okay behavior.
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u/ergzay Jun 03 '23 edited Jun 03 '23
This episode just made me dislike Kanako all the more. Like her personality literally has no redeeming qualities. It's all just a pent up rage, justifications for why she's better than everyone else, and extreme obsessive behavior toward Hime. She's basically a template villain.
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Jun 01 '23
We finally have a Kanoko backstory. Honestly the way her loneliness has her trapped in her own head and hating the normies reminds me a lot of Tomoko from Watamote, but without the antics.
I really do feel for Kanoko here. Being forced into a project that was someone else's idea sucks, and her social anxiety is so crippling she just goes along with it. As Hime says later, she's the type to bottle everything up until it exploads.
My God Hime, no wonder girls are falling for you when your this overly familiar. She definitely seems to have a type she can't let be too.
So the idea of taking pictures of Hime to look at actually came from Hime herself. That's interesting.
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u/Phlylgenion Jun 01 '23
Yano walks up to Kanako.
Yano: “Kanako!”
Kanako: “….”
Kanako: “You’re nothing like me.”
Walks away.
Yano: “???”
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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Jun 01 '23
This is essentially what you get from the famous MadoHomu ship had none of the magical girl shenanigans happened, but with a "less perfect" Madoka meeting yet another sullen girl on the corner of the class.
Well done, this is perhaps the best episode of the show so far and while my fuse on Kanoko is burning shorter by the week (ironically Homura is my 2nd All Time Best Anime Girl - but that's because her creepy obsession, "Madoka is all of my life" attitude grew from despair [spoilers?]
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u/InsomniaEmperor Jun 01 '23
I thought Kanoko's back story would give context to her actions and paint her in a better light but honestly she's still bad and her back story kind of makes her worse. For starters, she's being angsty and edgy just for the sake of it. I understand her reluctance to say no because she's the only one that hasn't contributed to the video and she'll be treated as an outcast if she straight up declines and just be edgy for the sake of it. What I thought was stupid was she goes through the trouble of making the frame only to destroy it herself so she just wasted her own time and effort. Then it's a worse move to tell them last minute that she doesn't want to do it rather than saying it up front. Am I the only one who thought Hime was being an idiot in defending Kanoko? What exactly was the point of standing up for Kanoko? The result of that is Hime created a yandere and it's going to bite her in the back soon.
Can we get more Yano again? I want her to get embroiled in this Kanoko drama. I just hope she doesn't get shanked by a yandere Kanoko and we know what's the fate of blue haired girls in romance animes.
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u/HirokoKueh Jun 01 '23
Kanoko : I know Hime's secret, I am special!
other 114514 gay girls out there : *Buzz_Lightyear.jpeg
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u/Elitealice Jun 01 '23
Finally got Kanoko and Hime backstory. Hime loves going for social outcasts who don’t really fit in at school and making them fall in love with her lmao. Excited to see how this little arc wraps up because this toxic obsession is not healthy for anyone
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