Crunchyroll has dramatically reduced the physical-media selection in its newly relaunched online store, removing manga, light novels, manhwa, and danmei while cutting its anime Blu-ray and DVD catalog to fewer than 400 listings. The August 18 relaunch also places the store behind Crunchyroll’s Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan subscription tiers. Crunchyroll had described the redesign as a more curated shopping experience focused on collectibles, exclusive merchandise, and limited releases, but it has not said whether the missing books and home-video titles will eventually return.


The change is particularly significant because Crunchyroll acquired specialist anime retailer Right Stuf in August 2022 and folded its storefront into the Crunchyroll Store in October 2023. At the time of that integration, Crunchyroll advertised more than 30,000 products—including 17,000 manga titles—along with Right Stuf’s broad home-video catalog and collector-focused packaging. For physical-media buyers, the new store effectively removes much of what made Right Stuf useful: a single retailer where readers could find large manga selections, older or temporarily unavailable volumes, anime releases from multiple distributors, and restocks that could be difficult to locate through general retailers.


The current Blu-ray selection also appears heavily concentrated around releases from Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Aniplex, all within Sony’s anime business, although Crunchyroll has not confirmed that this is a permanent distribution policy. That uncertainty is important: the store may expand again, but for now collectors have lost one of the largest specialized sources for physical manga and anime in North America. The move also arrives amid broader concern among collectors about entertainment shifting toward subscription and digital distribution, where continued access depends on platforms retaining licenses rather than consumers owning a permanent physical copy.