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Reborn as a Vending Machine Season 3's New Video Reveals Song Artists, April 1 Debut

The staff 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 revealed on Wednesday the third season's main promotional video, key visual, theme song artists, and April 1 premiere. The video reveals and previews the opening theme song "Jihankism" (literally, "Vending Machinism") by the group VIVARUSH, and the ending theme song "Mekurumeku Rendezvous" (Dazzling Rendezvous) by Hololive English's VTuber unit FUWAMOCO.

The anime will premiere on the Tokyo MX channel, and will also stream on d Anime Store, U-NEXT, and Anime Hōdai, on April 1 at 10:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EDT). The anime will then run every Thursday on BS NTV at 11:00 p.m. JST, and on AT-X every Friday at 9:30 p.m. JST. The anime will regularly stream on other streaming services from April 6 at 11:00 p.m. JST.

The story will enter its final arc in this upcoming season.

Takashi Yamamoto from the second season is again directing at Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ. Tatsuya Takahashi also returns to oversee the series scripts, Yūki Hagure's original designs are being adapted again for animation, with character designs by Naoki Yamauchi and Takahiro Sakai.

Other returning staff members include: 

• Monster Design: Ryō Akizuki
• Chief Animation Director:: Naoki Yamauchi, Masaru Koseki, Mi Jung Hwang, Hyun Ju Song
• Main Action Animator: Wen Shan Zhong
• Deformed Character Design: Yukiko Ibe
• Main Prop Design: Shigeyuki Koresawa (Digital Noise), Tom (Digital Noise)
• Vending Machine Design: Michiru Odaka (Digital Noise), Monta Tokita (Digital Noise)
• Color Key Artist: Yoko Suzuki
• Art Setting: Katsuhisa Takiguchi (Studio Tulip), Michiru Odaka (Digital Noise)
• Art Director: Ken Naitō (Studio Tulip)
• Compositing Director of Photography: Hisashi Matsumuko (STAR Laboratories)
• Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya
• Sound Director: Noriyoshi Konuma
• Music: Keita Takahashi, Yūta Uraki
• Animation producer: Tetsuya Tomioka

Jun Fukuyama and Kaede Hondo returns as Hakkon (Boxxo) and Lammis, respectively. Satomi Akesaka is also in the new season's cast as Pitii.

Additional returning cast members are:

• Kotomi Aihara as Hyūrumi
• Miyu Tomita as Shui
• Kazuya Nakai as Kerioiru
• Ai Kayano as Firumina
• Atsushi Miyauchi as Director Bear
• Daiki Yamashita as Aka
• Junya Enoki as Shiro
• Takuya Eguchi as Michelle
• Rena Maeda as Mikene
• Shiori Izawa as Suko
• Yū Serizawa as Pel
• Sora Tokui as Short
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Hebui
• Rie Takahashi as Kikoyu
• Ryōko Shiraishi as Sullimu
• Mao Yabuki as Black Yata
• Satomi Akesaka as Pitii

The second season of the anime premiered in July 2025. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and is also streaming an English dub.

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, Comic Natalie