Kara Dennison
September 21, 2023 
With our summer anime ending, we can expect updates here and there about incoming second (or higher) seasons. Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon has concluded for now, for example, but not forever. It’s been confirmed that the bizarre isekai light novel adaptation will be getting a second season… and we’ve got questions. Oh boy, do we have questions.
While we could read the light novels, the anime-onlies among us have thoughts. Will the next season address these thoughts? Did the light novels even address them? Or will we be left wondering forever? We’ll find out when the new season airs. Also, what are your questions about this strange, and strangely engaging, series?
Vending Machine Lore
Reborn as a Vending Machine, besides its plot, is weirdly educational about… well… vending machines. In his previous human life, Boxxo was extremely knowledgeable about them. To that end, it’s no wonder he can transform himself into a relevant shape for just about any occasion. Some of these shapes feel like massive loopholes. Then again, a jukebox does provide a service in exchange for money, so technically it counts.
Here’s what we want to know: what other vending machines are there? Japan clearly goes above and beyond, even if we don’t count loopholes. What other forms does Boxxo have up his (metaphorical) sleeve? And how do we all feel knowing how much education we’re getting from an isekai anime?
What Boxxo Wants
Being reborn as a vending machine is actually pretty handy. At the same time, it’s very limiting. Boxxo can’t move around on his own, he can only marginally speak, and he can’t do much about that trio of kisses he got in the season finale. Many characters around him have assumed he’d want to resume a human form. Our question isn’t whether he will, so much as whether he wants that.
Boxxo seems pretty happy with his fate overall, and has even reclaimed a surprising amount of agency. So, while we as viewers may want to see him have a human form option, we’re more interested in what he’d wish for given the opportunity. Maybe he’s thinking on a different level from the rest of us.
And Beyond
Reborn as a Vending Machine originally ran for three volumes of light novel. And that may well be as much as author Hirukuma wants to write. But with the success of the series, we’re curious if there might be more.
The light novel finished in 2016, with a manga adaptation currently underway. If fans take to the story of Boxxo and Lammis, could the series get resurrected? In truth, the answer is “probably not.” But one wonders if the growing audience could inspire further adventures for our coin-operated hero and his super-strong sidekick.
You can now watch Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon in its entirety on Crunchyroll. Get caught up well ahead of season 2!
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