This site is a neutral dataset: every English anime disc release we can find, machine-readable, updated daily. This page is not neutral. It’s the reason the site exists.
Over nine years, Sony assembled nearly every layer of English-language anime distribution into one company:
Follow the arc: buy the competition, absorb it, promise continuity, then dismantle the parts that served collectors. A store you must subscribe to browse is not a store. It’s a loyalty program with a paywall.
This mostly reads as a US story — Right Stuf was the US storefront — but the same playbook ran in three markets. Australia lost Madman’s anime arm to the same owner. The UK’s Funimation operation became Crunchyroll UK. When one company controls streaming, licensing (Aniplex), and the dominant storefronts across the English-speaking world, “we’ve deprioritized physical media” isn’t a business decision you can shop around. It’s the market deciding for you.
And no, Amazon isn’t the answer. It’s currently the fallback of necessity for Crunchyroll and Aniplex discs — and genuinely useful for out-of-print hunting — but it’s a packaging lottery run by another giant, not an anime retailer. Relying on it is how we got here.
The good news: the distributors who still treat discs as the product, not merch-adjacent inventory, are easy to find — and most of them are exactly who this site tracks.
North America
United Kingdom & Ireland
Australia & New Zealand
Every release from these distributors that we can index is in the tracker, with dates, formats, regions and identifiers — as open data anyone can download, archive, and build on. No affiliate links, no ads, no subscription. That’s the point.
Corrections and additions welcome — open an issue.