Reviewing is My Job!

This review took forever to write because, in the process of writing it, I decided I needed to rewatch/review all of Maria-sama ga Miteru… and that in itself was so much fun that I kept rereading my favorite bits and then when I did that too much, I went back to the beginning and started rereading from there. I read a short paper that got a bit deeper into the current state of girls' novels in Japan, and it seems like Cobalt magazine, which published Marimite and other works of girls' fiction, stopped print publication and now only releases series online. The news does make me a bit sad... in any case, reading Marimite is really fun, while reading this series here was lmao less so... as such, I have not bothered to write beautifully... I can only ask for your forgiveness after the fact. 

Yuri is My Job!, ongoing - I had pretty conflicting feelings towards this one—like, there's something inherently absurd about the idea of a themed cafe where all the workers pretend they're lesbian high school students in order to sell you hot chocolate and sausages, but in a world where season four of Maria-sama ga Miteru had a Pizza Hut sponsorship, it's a surprisingly apt piece of commentary. Yuri sells. Would you like tea with your pizza?

 

( a polite review of yuri is my job! )