NABC Store Manager's Diary October 1, 2026 (Thu)

Fine weather for the first time in a while. I thought it would be a clear autumn day, but it turned out hot—more like lingering summer heat. When I arrived at 1:00 PM, there was already one customer at the register. Nice. A young man came in. He was looking at the red-light district/pleasure-quarter corner, so I mentioned, 'We're holding a photo exhibition by Beniko from the 10th,' and he said he'd just seen that on social media and came because of it. He bought a lot: zines by Kotobuki and others, a new book by Harumi Kato, and Fubaisha's Kanraku no Nagoya. Thank you very much! In the evening, a young woman stopped by. When I spoke to her, she said she had come to Nagoya from Fukuoka for a live show. She lives in Hakata and told me there are only large bookstores there and hardly any small independent shops, so I introduced her to Books Cubrick in Hakozaki. She also told me how Tenjin has changed recently. I might take part in Fukuoka's Bun-Fri next year. Speaking of which, a young man on a business trip from Tokyo came looking for Gekkan Nagoya at my shop—his mother had asked him to find it. We have a specialty area for free papers called ONLY FREE PAPER on the second floor, so he may have found it online. But we don't carry that magazine, and the cafe's owner hadn't heard of it either, so I did a bit of digging: it seems to be a booklet distributed mainly through long-established restaurants. Unfortunately none of the nearby places distribute it, so I couldn't give him a copy to take home.