Miman’s Yuri Is My Job! is getting a live-action adaptation. Donuts announced Friday that Tatedora, its vertical streaming app, is producing the short-form drama, and it will run exclusively on the service in spring 2027.
Daiki Nakayama is directing. Nishioka To Neil is writing the scripts. No cast has been named, and Donuts has not said how many episodes the adaptation will run or how long each one lasts. The announcement came through Tatedora’s official drama account on X, where the post described the story as one about “lies and true feelings” hidden behind the face a person shows the world.
A drama built for phone screens
Tatedora is built around vertical video, the portrait-orientation format that plays on a phone without rotating the screen. Short episodes, tight framing, a plot beat every minute or so. It is a very different rhythm from a 24-minute TV episode, and it suits a story like this one, where most of the tension comes from small social disasters rather than action. Whether the drama keeps the café setting’s stage-play feeling or pushes it somewhere more naturalistic is one of the open questions.
What Yuri Is My Job! is actually about
If you have not read the manga, the premise is a comedy about a girl who cannot stop performing. Hime looks like the perfect high school student and works hard to keep that image in one piece. When she accidentally injures a café manager named Mai, she agrees to cover shifts so the incident does not turn into a scene. The café, it turns out, is themed around a private girls’ school, and the all-female staff stays in character for the customers. Hime’s plan to glide through a few quiet shifts falls apart the moment she meets the most elegant waitress on staff.
Where the manga stands in print
Miman has serialized the series in Ichijinsha’s Comic Yuri Hime since November 2016. Volume 13 shipped in Japan in January 2024, and volumes 14 and 15 arrive together on November 18. That simultaneous double release gives the drama a deep stack of material to draw from, and it also explains why the timing works: there is more finished story now than at any point in the series’ run. Kodansha USA Publishing handles the English edition and released volume 13 in January 2025.
The anime version premiered in April 2023, with Crunchyroll streaming it as it aired in Japan. So this is the third format for a story that started as a magazine serial in a niche yuri publication.
What has not been announced
The biggest open question is reach. Donuts has only announced the spring 2027 window and the exclusive Tatedora release. Nothing has been said about a simulcast, subtitles, or availability outside Japan, and Tatedora’s catalogue has historically been aimed at a domestic audience. English-speaking readers who want the story in the meantime still have the Kodansha USA volumes.
Worth noting what this adaptation is not. It is not a second anime season, and it is not a feature film. Yuri Is My Job! sits in a strange spot where the manga keeps selling well enough to justify a double volume release, but the anime side has stayed quiet since 2023. A live-action short drama is a cheaper way for a publisher and an app to test whether the audience is still there. It follows a path that manga-to-live-action projects have taken repeatedly in Japan, including the recent short series for I’m Kodama Kawashiri. If it works, the format is repeatable. If it does not, the manga keeps going regardless, since volumes 14 and 15 are already at the printer.
For now the concrete dates are these: volumes 14 and 15 on November 18, and the Tatedora drama sometime in spring 2027.
Source: Anime News Network, citing PR Times and Comic Natalie.
Featured image: the cover of Yuri Is My Job! volume 1 by Miman, via Anime News Network.
