The small but growing manga publisher Seven Seas has been beefing up its line lately, and it has announced a new license today: Gakuen Polizi, a lesbian romantic comedy by Milk Morinaga.

Morinaga is well known in yuri (lesbian) manga circles; Seven Seas has also published her earlier manga, Girl Friends, and her short story collection Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink. There isn't a lot of yuri manga — it's a niche of a niche — so it's good to see a creator's works being brought over with some consistency. In addition, this is quite a recent series—it launched last year and is still being serialized in Japan. Here's the blurb:

As a child, Sasami Aoba fantasized about becoming a defender of justice, like the magical girls and "Sentai Rangers" she admired on TV. Years have passed and now Sasami has become a police officer herself. Her first assignment is to infiltrate Hanagaki All-Girls High School and ferret out any trouble she may find.

On her first day posing as a student, Sasami is shocked to discover that a supposed book thief at school is actually a fellow undercover police officer, Sakuraba Midori. What's more, Midori insists that she herself is the officer in charge of the school, not Sasami. Will the two girls become rivals, partners...or something more?

If that piques your curiosity, blogger Katherine Hanson has a review up at her site, Yuri no Boke, in which she traces that magical-girl bit back to Morinaga's love of the genre and the doujinshi (fan comics) she makes. Hanson's conclusion: "So far, Gakuen Polizi is one part much-needed social commentary and one part love letter to a genre its author loves, with some romance seeds being planted."

The first volume is due out in June 2014.