I’ve been covering the various bits of mythwear news since Right Stuf announced that they wouldn’t be restocking any of the company’s products through rumors that the company would no longer produce any items.

Today the company officially announced its demise, with CEO Jean-Binh Valente citing the 2006 Musicland Group bankruptcy and his own health problems as reasons for the company’s closure. It’s a sad day indeed, but Valente suggests that he may have new projects in the future. Here’s hoping!

For my final A-kon post…the booth at which I saw that sign declaring MythWear bags to be out of print at Fanime was at A-kon, and this time I found time to chat up the main guy at the booth.

He told me that the man who runs MythWear has run into some serious health problems and as such the company has more or less suspended activity– unfortunately without contacting many retailers; this fellow apparently seems to know the MythWear guy and went to his warehouse and saw him (and picked up some bags).

That said, he hopes to get the company going again with more bags, so let’s root for him!

So we never got any official word on MythWear after Right Stuf broke with them, but I noticed a sign at Anime Depot that said that MythWear bags were out of print and that they were only available while supplies lasted.

Meanwhile, MythWear’s website has long since been down. Does this mean that MythWear, long known for their popular anime-themed bags,

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According to a report from Anime on DVD, Right Stuf is no longer going to carry Mythwear products once they run out of current stock, and all licensing agreements for Mythwear to produce merch for Right Stuf’s titles are hereby cancelled. (Mythwear, for those who don’t know offhand, is the company that makes all those anime bags.)

Yowch! Harsh breakup, amirite? You’d think Mythwear was cheating on Right Stuf!

But as it turns out, Right Stuf is just fed up with Mythwear’s inaccessibility– apparently the company’s phone has been disconnected and no one’s answering their e-mails. I can’t help but notice that their website is dead as well. Hmm!

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