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Reborn as a Vending Machine Anime Gets 3rd Season
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the anime of Hirukuma's Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon (Jidōhanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyū ni Samayō) light novel series confirmed on Wednesday that the anime will have a third season.
Takashi Yamamoto (Jewelpet Twinkle, Nanatsuiro Drops) replaced Noriaki Akitaya as director for the second season at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ. Tatsuya Takahashi (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls both seasons, Domestic Girlfriend) returned to oversee the series scripts, Takahiro Sakai (Yuki Yuna Is a Hero, Ms. vampire who lives in my neighborhood) again adapted Yūki Hagure's original designs for animation, while the first season's chief animation director Naoki Yamauchi also designed the characters for the second season.
BRADIO performed the opening theme song "Mirai Cider" (Future Cider). Aina Aiba performed the second season's ending theme song "Boku Dake no Chiheisen" (A Horizon Only for Me).
The anime's first season premiered in July 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan, and is also streaming an English dub.
Yen Press published all three volumes of the light novels in English, and it describes the story:
A middle-aged man with only one passion in his life meets a fitting end in a traffic accident. That's where most stories would end, but instead, this is when his story begins when he's reborn as what he admired the most in life--a vending machine! But his new lease on life(?) happens in the worst place possible--what can a vending machine do in a monster-infested dungeon when he can't speak or even move on his own?
Hirukuma began serializing the story on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website in March 2016, and ended it in December of that year, with epilogue stories serialized in January to February 2017. Kadokawa's Sneaker Bunko began publishing the novels in print editions with illustrations by Itsuwa Katō, beginning with the first volume in July 2016. The third and final volume shipped in February 2017.
Kunieda launched an ongoing manga adaptation of the novels in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in August 2021. Yen Press is releasing the manga digitally at the same time as chapters debut in Japan.
Sources: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime's website via Otakomu
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