Very nice short story by Kazurou Inoue-sensei about relations between strong and cool big brother and a girl-looking little brother.

Nobody wants “Grubby Forager” Rudd on their adventuring team. His nickname—and his stench—come from his constant treks into the Noxious Labyrinth to gather medicinal herbs, a job he survives only thanks to his status immunity skill. When he’s finally recruited as a party porter, things seem to be looking up… Until a deadly dungeon monster appears and his fake allies use him as bait before abandoning him! Wounded, destitute, and barely surviving the attack, Rudd breaks a forbidden taboo to stay alive: eating monsters. But the more he devours, the more power he gains, kicking off a thrilling, adventurous gourmet fantasy! *Source: Manga UP! Global*

I'm in love with you. Like, the kind where I want you to make love to me." 10 years after losing his wife, Haru receives this confession from his step-son Ryo. The two may not be related by blood but have up to this point lived a peaceful life as a family. Haru doesn't want for their relationship to change. He just wants things to stay as they are so nothing is broken. But love doesn't always work like that. "Playing Family," the carefully written story of a step-dad battling his emotions for his step-son, and other sentimental love stories are contained in this bittersweet volume. (Source: Manga Club)

After her death on Earth, teacher Aoi Konominato awakens as a child in an unfamiliar world, filled with regret about her lackluster life and unfinished goals. An elven sage named Owain takes her in, mentors her, and instructs her in the art of sorcery. Twelve years later, Aoi has mastered everything he’s thrown at her, and Owain deems her ready to further her studies of sorcery by becoming an instructor at the illustrious Fiddich Academy, the finest sorcery school in the world. Though she’s hesitant at first, Aoi sees this as a second chance to become her ideal vision of a teacher, albeit in a fantasy world. However, this magical school is brimming with problems—and misbehaving students. The children of nobles and royalty are used to doing whatever they want, but soon they’ll learn to pay attention in this fearsome witch’s class! *Source: J-Novel Club, Vol. 1*

Follow Ryuu as he plays mahjong with gangsters, crooks, and all sorts of dangerous people.

Nagai (aka Bat-kun), is a junior high school student, who joins the baseball team as a substitute. Now, he aims to become a regular player in team. *Note: It is considered to be the first baseball manga in Japan. It was initially cancelled due to the author passing away in May 1949, the last chapter being published in the March 1949 issue, but was finished by [Eiichi Fukui](https://anilist.co/staff/189181/Eiichi-Fukui).*

Reiji wants two things in life: a black belt in karate and Misa, the girl of his dreams. Luckily, Misa's big brother is the captain of the university karate club and is ready to strike a deal: Reiji can join the club if he tutors Misa in linear algebra. Follow along in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra as Reiji takes Misa from the absolute basics of this tricky subject through mind-bending operations like performing linear transformations, calculating determinants, and finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues. With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, Reiji transforms abstract concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun. As you follow Misa through her linear algebra crash course, you'll learn about: \-Basic vector and matrix operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication \-Linear dependence, independence, and bases \-Using Gaussian elimination to calculate inverse matrices \-Subspaces, dimension, and linear span \-Practical applications of linear algebra in fields like computer graphics, cryptography, and engineering But Misa's brother may get more than he bargained for as sparks start to fly between student and tutor. Will Reiji end up with the girl—or just a pummeling from her oversized brother? Real math, real romance, and real action come together like never before in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra. (Source: No Starch Press)

The blood-stained truth can’t be hidden… Hiromu Morinaga has lived through the unspeakable. Traumatized since witnessing the murder of his parents, the high school student is cursed with a haunting ability: He can now see the terrified faces of victims on the backs of the murderers he encounters. When transfer student Yuzuka Kohaku arrives, a staggering number of ghosts cling to her back. This mysterious girl may be an unstoppable killer! (Source: Alien Books)

Naomi, Makoto, Yuji, and Kaede all have psychic powers of some sort and make up the Supernatural Phenomenon Research Group of their school. They battle the Zeyrey, terrible monsters invisible to most people’s eyes, out to suck the life-energy of humans. (Source: Anime News Network)

Mahjong.

A BL anthology by seven up-and-coming authors. It consists of seven individual short stories, each themed and named after a line in the poem "A Kiss" by the 19th century writer Franz Grillparzer.

From Yen Press: In the Cold War era of an alternate history, the Soviet Union has taken control of the northern island of Japan and cut it off from the rest of the country. Just south across the strait, a boy named Hiroki is fascinated by the mysterious tower the Soviets have constructed on the unreachable island, and he and his friend Takuya decide to build a plane that will take them over to see it. As they work, a girl named Sayuri becomes a part of their lives and the promise to one day fly to the tower. But when she disappears without a trace, their promise I left unfulfilled—possibly forever.