Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime is set to release on July 5! The anime’s website revealed exciting details like the new cast, staff, opening theme song, and its artist. A key visual and promotional video revealed its debut date, increasing the anticipation for the new isekai anime.
Animated by two studios, Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ, Reborn as a Vending Machine, the I Now Wander the Dungeon anime adaptation was announced in August 2022. The anime is based on the light novel of the same name, written by Hirukuma and illustrated by Itsuwa Kato. It was initially serialized on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō novel website in 2016. Gaining recognition, it was later published by Kadokawa Shoten.
A very strange and fresh take on the isekai genre, Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon features a vending machine named Boxxo, who can only talk in vending machine terms, and a female hunter who carries Boxxo around on adventures together. How would you feel if you were reincarnated into something you loved? We’ll know how Boxxo feels when the anime releases!
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Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon Details
Noriaki Akitaya takes the director chair for the anime at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ, with Slowcurve Co. producing the anime. Masayuki Takahashi will accompany Akitaya as assistant director. Tatsuya Takahashi wrote the scripts, and Takahiro Sakai was in charge of the animation, following the original designs by Yuki Hagure. The chief animation directors helping Sakai are Naoki Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Tsubata, and Nanako Tatsu.
Other new staff members include Ryou Akizuki on monster design, Shigeyuki Koresawa and Tom on sub-character design, and Michiru Odaka and Monta Tokita on vending machine design. Yuko Suzuki is the colour key artist, with Eiji Iwase as the art director. Editing and sound directing will be handled by Kentarou Tsubone and Fumiyuki Go, respectively.
The promo video features the opening theme song, “Fanfare,” performed by Bradio, with music composed by Yuta Uraki and Keita Takahashi.
Synopsis
Funnily enough, the plot of the series is pretty ironic. A falling vending machine kills the protagonist, a vending machine fanatic, and reincarnates him into the object of his death in another world. Immobile but with a “defensive force field” magic power, he can see and hear, but he can only speak in common vending machine language such as “Welcome” or “Too bad.”
He learns that he can function as a vending machine, dispensing any item he had purchased in his previous life, the profits turning into life-supporting points. He can change and add new features to the machine by using more coins and has control over the stock and price of the items he can dispense.
In the middle of nowhere, he meets Lammis, a hunter. She possesses Blessing of Might, a power that grants her incredible strength, but she’s still inexperienced in controlling her strength. After he gives Lammis some food, the two become friends; after she calls him “Boxxo,” our protagonist receives a name though his real name is never disclosed. Though Boxxo is very heavy, Lammis can carry him around. The series follows the two as they adventure through dungeons and the allies they meet during their ventures.
Characters
Hakkon or Boxxo is voiced by Jun Fukuyama, and Lammis is voiced by Kaede Hondo. The newly announced cast members include Hyūrumi, voiced by Shiki Aoki, Shui voiced by Miyu Tomita, Kerioiru voiced by Kazuya Nakai, Firumina voiced by Ai Kayano; Director Bear, voiced by Atsushi Miyauchi, Aka voiced by Daiki Yamashita Shiro, voiced by Junya Enoki and finally, Michelle voiced by Takuya Eguchi.
Worth a Watch?
Green and red flags everywhere. The isekai community has different opinions on the anime adaptation of this light novel. Some are in full support, and some claim there are better options that deserve an anime. For a light novel to get two other media adaptations, you could say it has immense potential. While some may dislike it, isekai fans searching for a different trope may enjoy this piece.
Its video game pacing undoubtedly sets it apart. While we’ve seen other questionable plotlines like being incarnated into a slime monster or a man reincarnated as a small girl, the whole premise of the sale points helping Boxxo survive and Lammis’ ability complementing Boxxo, the series can be a satisfying read during the first volume but might run stale as there is nothing more to it, other than a vending machine and a super strong hunter.
