Meet the enthusiastic customers of the bookstore who bring excitement and stimulation to Honda-san’s job.

Honda-san gives us insight into the interactions between a bookstore and a publisher.

It’s Honda-san’s turn to attend a customer service coaching session.

Honda is faced with restocking popular titles, dealing with energetic foreigners, overseeing the visit of a famous author, and mulling over questions of censorship.

Honda-san introduces Assistant Manager Majutsushi, who has the uncanny ability of knowing exactly which books to order.

Honda-san teaches us about the wonderful people known as wholesalers.

The bookstore is visited by all kinds of customers, some of whom like books, and some of whom love bookstores.

Books go out of print, but under certain special circumstances, they can be brought back from the dead.

What makes a good bookseller? The answer may not be as straightforward as it seems.

If you’ve ever worked in retail, you’ve dealt with nasty customers. But what if the good customers are worse than the bad ones?

Christmas is a time of madness at the bookstore. Closing time is also a time of madness at the bookstore.