#jidou hanbaiki ni umarekawatta ore wa meikyuu wo samayou

[newtypezaku]

[a-titty-ninja]

[pissdrinkerpiko]

Me and the lil vending machine guy

[waifubuki]

[weepingfireflies]

[Photo ID - A meme with two screenshots from the office. Above them are the words, "'You're unironically invested in the vending machine Isekai anime?" in all caps. The first image is of two men behind a desk labeled, "ME," with the following caption: "You don't have all the facts." The second image show the same two men with two lines of dialogue in the subtitles. The first one reads, "Which are?" The second one reads, "Boxxo & Lammis are bestfriends." End ID]

[my-anime-goods]

Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou (Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon) - Nendoroid #2221 Boxxo by Good Smile Company. Release: February 2024

[spacevixenmusic]

ALRIGHT FINE I'LL WATCH YOUR STUPID ISEKAI ANIME

[tetrix-anime]

Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou (Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon) - Opening Theme "Fanfare" by BRADIO Jacket Illustration. Release: 26 July 2023

[ace-reviews]

Anime Review: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

All the anime in all the world, and you guys wanted me to review the vending machine isekai. I don't mind, of course, it just... Really? The vending machine isekai? Are you really curious about my opinion, or do you just want me to justify watching it? (Not that it makes much difference one way or the other.)

Well, what you want is what you get and what you get is a review of the vending machine isekai.

it's an isekai about a vending machine

For the unitiated, the vending machine isekai is about an autistic man who bravely sacrificed his life for his special interest being Reborn As a sentient, shapeshifting Vending Machine named Hakkon in Japanese and Boxxo in English. He is perfectly happy with this arrangement, because as a vending machine he doesn't have to worry about what his face is doing and can say the same things over and over with the same inflection all he likes and people will just accept it because he's a sentient snack dispenser. He manages to befriend an adventurer named Lammis, who has super-strength so she's able to carry him around on her back, thereby allowing him to Wander the Dungeon and occasionally participate in creative and fun battle scenes (though he's more often than not he's more of an observer while character vignettes happen around him).

The vending machine isekai is a very nice series. It's fairly episodic, with a roughly even ratio of low-stakes sitcom shenanigans to higher stakes conflicts involving monsters and magic. The animation is nothing to write home about, but the character designs are cute and the performances are better than one might expect from an isekai about a vending machine. There's a tiny bit of fanservice, but it's fairly tame, and undercut by Boxxo remarking each time that it does nothing for him since he's, y'know, a machine.

This is one of those premises that runs on "Try not to overthink it." They do attempt to address at least some of the issues inherent in the fact that Boxxo technically needs to eat money to survive, but with an air of "we're not taking this issue that seriously and neither should you!" and he's shown giving his products away for free at least as often as he's shown taking money for them. If you're still bothered by the logistics by the time he's defeating giant frog monsters with Diet Coke and Mentos, this series may not be for you.

Ultimately, though, if you want something a bit meatier, you'd probably be better served by That Time I Was Reincarnated As a Slime or So I'm a Spider, So What? But if you're just looking for something slightly silly to chill with for a bit, you'll get what you're looking for here.

[anime-of-the-day]

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Maboroshi

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Jidou Hanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyuu wo Samayou

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior

[kagerou-heathaze-daze]

[newtypezaku]

On the one hand, Lammis is very cute. On the other, I'M A POWERFUL WARLOCK.

[musicinanime]

Fanfare - BRADIO

Anime: Reborn as a Vending Machine, Now I Wander the Dungeon

[pissdrinkerpiko]

ms paint doodle

[waifubuki]

[prettytanuki]

This implication that there's a vending machine fandom in Japan is funny because I can't even tell for sure if it's a joke or not because it sounds absurd but it also sounds like something Japan would have.