The Right Stuf International, Inc. is an American retailer based in Grimes, Iowa that markets and distributes anime and manga-related products throughout the United States and internationally. In addition to selling anime and manga series that other companies have released in North America, Right Stuf has also licensed and distributed a few series themselves, manufacturing the DVDs for American release. During Anime Expo 2007, Shawne Kleckner at the TRSI panel announced that they had changed the name of their production division to Nozomi Entertainment. The first title that was released under the new Nozomi Entertainment label was The Third.
The company is headed by Shawne Kleckner, co-founder and CEO since 1987.
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Nozomi Entertainment is RightStuf's division for mainstream anime titles.
Critical Mass is a branch company of The Right Stuf International which licenses and releases h anime, also known as hentai. Mostly, the titles licenses are hentai titles associated with "The Vanilla Series", a series of hentai titles produced in Japan by Digital Works, and are mostly tied-in with computer sim-games of the same title.
Some of these titles were originally released by SoftCel Pictures, a now-defunct hentai arm of ADV Films, as well as hentai anime originally licensed by NuTech Digital. Such releases are as indicated.