Reborn as a Vending Machine Anime Gets 3rd Season

2nd season aired final episode on Wednesday

It was announced on Wednesday that there will be a third season of the anime adaptation of the light novel series "Jidōhanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyū ni Samayō" (Hirukuma's Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon).

Image via Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime's website

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The anime series' second season started streaming on July 2nd and ended with its twelfth episode on Wednesday. Crunchyroll broadcasted it live as it was released, and they are currently streaming an English dubbed version too.

In the second season of Studio Gokumi and AXsiZ's series, there were changes in leadership. Takashi Yamamoto replaced Noriaki Akitaya as director for the second season. Tatsuya Takahashi returned as the series script supervisor, while Takahiro Sakai adapted Yūki Hagure 's original designs for animation. Additionally, Naoki Yamauchi, who was the chief animation director for the first season, also designed the characters for the second season.

The opening theme for BRADIO was "Mirai Cider," which was sung by Aina Aiba during the second season of the show. Meanwhile, the second season's ending theme was "Boku Dake no Chiheisen," which was also sung by Aina Aiba.

In Japan, the anime series began its first season in July 2023. Crunchyroll broadcasted it live as it was being released, and they are currently streaming it with English subtitles as well as an English dubbed version.

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 ( link ) In March 2016, there was a story published on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website that ended in December of that year. Following this, epilogue stories were serialized from January to February 2017. Kadokawa's Sneaker Bunko began publishing the novels in print editions with illustrations by Itsuwa Katō in July 2016, with the first volume shipping in that month. The third and final volume was released in February 2017.

In August 2021, Kunieda started adapting the novels from Kadokawa 's Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine into a manga series. Simultaneously with the release of each chapter in Japan, Yen Press is making the digital version available.

Sources: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime's website ( link ) via Otakomu