Last month marked the end of an era in the North American industry as the Right Stuf website and store were officially folded into Crunchyroll. It was the latest in a long line of corporate consolidations, but I feel this one because Right Stuf was part of anime history. The North American anime industry was a very different place in 1987 when The Right Stuf International was founded in Grimes, Iowa by Shawne Kleckner and Robert Ferson. So different, in fact, that it’s hard to see how you could even call it an “industry” compared to 2023. What little anime […]
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