All her life, Sasami Aoba has dreamed of being a champion of justice, but if she can't be a magical girl, she'll be the next best thing: a cop! Aoba is a polizi, an undercover officer assigned to Hanagaki Girls' High School. But when she arrives on the scene, she discovers that Hanagaki is a perfectly peaceful school with no crimes to solve, and that her new partner, Sakuraba Midori, is a stern, by-the-book polizi who has no patience for Aoba's novice antics. Will Aoba and Midori becomes friends, rivals...or something more? An all-new yuri series from the creator of Girlfriends and Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink!

Since she was a child, Aoba has had only one dream: to fight evil and protect the weak. To achieve this dream, Aoba became a polizi, a teenaged undercover cop stationed at all-girls Hanagaki High. While Aoba will go to any length to solve a crime, her no-nonsense, by-the-book partner Midori constantly tries to reign her in. Just as this odd couple is starting to get along, Midori's former partner, Akari, shows up. Akari seems to have her own agenda at the school, and even worse, is determined to steal Midori away! Will this mysterious newcomer break up their partnership before Aoba gets the chance to tell Midori how she really feels?

Gakuen Polizi is the newest manga series by yuri icon Milk Morinaga, author and artist of Girl Friends and Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink. This ongoing manga series is illustrated in a delightful shoujo art style that features a color insert in each volume. 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 an apparent book thief at school is actually another 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?

In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokémon; the ecological justice of Nausicaä; Shinto’s focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.

The first volume of the acclaimed global sensation, from one of Japan's most notable manga artists: Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, and father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself to be the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it's been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it. (Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads back to front and right to left.)

'" Fujiwara is the school''s most admired student and captain of the volleyball team, but her reputation is at risk when she accidentally breaks the principal''s most prized possession, a priceless vase. Fellow student Miu witnesses the accident, and Fujiwara begs her not to tell. In exchange, she''ll do whatever Miu wants. It turns out that what Miu wants is to date Fujimaru! Although this wasn''t an arrangement that either girl expected, the two soon discover that breaking the vase may have been destiny''s way of bringing them together. "'

From Milk Morinaga, the author of the New York Times bestselling manga Girl Friends! When the cherry blossoms bloom it means the start of another school year—and for the girls at Sakuraki High, it signals the birth of new dreams, fears, and relationships. In "Even If We're Not Friends," Nana and Hitomi have been dear friends since childhood, but when Nana gets into the exclusive Sakuraki High while Hitomi doesn't, their true feelings for each other emerge. In "The Summer Closest to Heaven," Natsuka is a ghost who resides at the school, still in love with one of the former students who is now the school nurse. In "A Kiss, Love, and a Prince," Narumi gets her first kiss from Tachiba in the school play, and is shocked at being kissed by a girl. Fourteen stories of blossoming romance between girls are interspersed throughout this heartfelt and adorably illustrated manga collection.