Crunchyroll bought a leading anime store, and now you can’t buy hentai there anymore

polygon.com:

It appears that Crunchyroll-Hime, the bubbly orange mascot of the popular anime streaming service, is a bit of a prude.

Crunchyroll has acquired anime merchandise retailer Right Stuf, the companies announced Thursday. The deal further consolidates Crunchyroll as a central force in the distribution of anime products, and it already sparked criticism from anime fans, since the acquisition has resulted in the removal of erotic products from Right Stuf’s storefront.

Under its new ownership, Right Stuf is “phasing out the Erotica genre content and product,” the retailer says in an FAQ on its website. All sales, including pre-orders and unfulfilled orders, are being moved to a new storefront called the Ero Anime Store. That retailer will “carry the full line of the erotica content,” and customers “can look to them for current and future releases,” according to Right Stuf. As for the origins of this third party, the people behind the Ero Anime Store said in its own FAQ that the storefront’s owners “have worked with Right Stuf’s team for many years.”

Not everyone is thrilled. The acquisition has immediately impacted consumers, since erotic content like hentai anime and manga is now gone from Right Stuf’s website. Jacob Grady, the CEO of Fakku, the largest publisher of English hentai in the world, said on Twitter that the deal is a “massive blow” to his company. “Right Stuf was a big account for FAKKU and one of the only retailers that really embraced 18+ anime/manga. Not good,” Jacob said in a tweet. It’s unclear whether Fakku’s catalog will be available on Ero Anime Store.

Polygon asked Crunchyroll about criticisms of the deal. “We’ve worked with the Right Stuf team to ensure a smooth transition to another vendor (Ero Anime