If you subscribed to the Right Stuf Anime email newsletter, you might have noticed that the company sent out coupons for the Crunchyroll Store instead of its own website recently. It was announced on the company’s homepage that the North American anime and manga online store Right Stuf will be shut down on October 10, 2023 due to a Crunchyroll acquisition. All of its products will be moved to the Crunchyroll Store. [Thanks, Manga Alerts & Restocks!]
This comes after a Right Stuf reassurance that no branding changes or merging of any kind would take place after Crunchyroll acquired it in early August 2022. Now about a year later, that previous statement from has been entirely contradicted. From now on, the name Right Stuf will be no more and all of its inventory will belong to Crunchyroll.
Here's the Right Stuf newsletter statement shared by Manga Alerts & Restocks:
BREAKING NEWS
It was announced RightStufAnime will be shutting down on October 10th, 2023 & will migrate all listed products over to the Crunchyroll Store
• The RightStufAnime winter sale will still be ongoing, but it'll be renamed the Crunchyroll Holiday Sale along with… pic.twitter.com/DbKtcRL7Io
— 🧭Manga Alerts & Restocks #uw7s🌊 (@MangaAlerts) September 22, 2023
This isn’t the first time Crunchyroll acquired a large western anime company. In March 2022, Crunchyroll also acquired Funimation and all of its licenses.
The Right Stuf online store will be shutting down on October 10, 2023. All of the products will be sold on the Crunchyroll Store from now on.
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