Yuri Is My Job! manga gets live-action short drama in spring 2027
DONUTS is adapting Miman’s Yuri Is My Job! manga as a Tatedora vertical short drama, with streaming planned for spring 2027 and casting still to come.
DONUTS is taking Yuri Is My Job! into live action, with the manga set to become a vertical short drama on the company’s Tatedora app in spring 2027. The announcement comes from DONUTS itself, which says production has been approved but has not yet revealed the cast or an exact release date.1
The project adapts Miman’s Yuri Is My Job! (私の百合はお仕事です！), a manga published in Ichijinsha’s Comic Yuri Hime. The series follows Hime Shirasagi, a high-school student who carefully performs a perfect, charming persona until she is pulled into working at Liebe Girls Academy, a concept café where staff act as students at an elite school. The story’s staged politeness gradually collides with old grudges and real feelings.1
DONUTS describes the source as a popular title with more than one million copies in circulation. It previously received a TV anime adaptation in 2023, making the Tatedora announcement the property’s second major screen adaptation.12
A short-drama format for a carefully staged story
Tatedora is DONUTS’ vertical short-drama service, built around episodes of roughly two minutes that can be watched in sequence on a smartphone. That format is a natural fit for Yuri Is My Job!: the manga’s concept café depends on quick shifts between the characters’ public performances and the feelings they keep hidden underneath.
The format will still change the rhythm of the story. The manga has room for long-running misunderstandings, relationship reversals and the details of the café’s invented social rules. A vertical drama will need to make each short episode land quickly, while preserving the contrast between Hime’s polished “outside face” and the more complicated relationships beneath it. DONUTS has not said how many episodes are planned or whether the adaptation will cover the full manga.1
The announced creative team includes director Daiki Nakayama, whose previous short-drama work includes Make 30 Million!, and screenwriter Nishioka To Neil, who also worked on the 2026 television drama My Future Son. DONUTS says the cast will be announced in stages, so there are no confirmed live-action performers to identify yet.13
The first promotional image is not a photograph from the new production. It is official key art supplied with the announcement, showing the existing Yuri Is My Job! characters alongside Tatedora branding. That makes it useful as a sign of which property is being adapted, but readers should not mistake it for a first look at the drama’s cast or costumes.
What has been confirmed so far
The drama is scheduled to begin streaming around spring 2027, with Tatedora named as the platform. The announcement does not confirm a precise day, international availability, episode count, cast or whether the production will be subtitled or dubbed outside Japan.1
The project’s official site is already live, but it currently offers the same broad announcement rather than a full cast reveal. DONUTS also points readers towards the Tatedora app and its official social accounts for future updates. Those channels are likely to carry the first performer announcements as production moves forward.1
For now, the important news is that Yuri Is My Job! has moved from manga and anime into a new live-action development. The unusual concept-café setting gives the adaptation a clear visual hook, while the short-drama format could make its public-versus-private character dynamics especially immediate. Whether it can preserve the story’s slower emotional turns will depend on how much room Tatedora gives the relationships to breathe.
Our opinion
This is a promising adaptation announcement because the format and the material are not an arbitrary pairing. Yuri Is My Job! is already built around performance, compressed social rituals and dramatic reveals, all of which can work in short episodes if the production treats the characters as more than a succession of cliffhangers. The warning sign is the lack of practical detail: without a cast, episode count or confirmed international release, it is too early to judge the drama itself. The next meaningful update will be the first look at the performers and how closely the production recreates the Liebe café’s deliberately artificial world.