{"id":151962,"date":"2025-09-18T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:33:07","slug":"reborn-as-a-vending-machine-anime-gets-3rd-season-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151962\/","title":{"rendered":"Reborn as a Vending Machine Anime Gets 3rd Season &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2nd season aired final episode on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>The official website for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2022-08-05\/reborn-as-a-vending-machine-i-now-wander-the-dungeon-light-novels-get-anime\/.188412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anime<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=159015\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hirukuma<\/a>&#8216;s Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=29983\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jid\u014dhanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meiky\u016b ni Samay\u014d<\/a>) light novel series confirmed on Wednesday that the anime will have a third season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" alt=\"popup_3rdseason_announce\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max600x600\/cms\/news.8\/228925\/popup_3rdseason_announce.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/jihanki-anime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime&#8217;s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u663c\u718a\u30fbKADOKAWA\/\u300c\u81ea\u52d5\u8ca9\u58f2\u6a5f\u306b\u751f\u307e\u308c\u5909\u308f\u3063\u305f\u4ffa\u306f\u8ff7\u5bae\u3092\u5f77\u5fa8\u3046\uff12\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" alt=\"vending\" border=\"1\" src=\"\/thumbnails\/max300x600\/cms\/news.8\/225441\/vending.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\"\/>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jihanki_anime\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime&#8217;s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9\u663c\u718a\u30fbKADOKAWA\/\u300c\u81ea\u52d5\u8ca9\u58f2\u6a5f\u306b\u751f\u307e\u308c\u5909\u308f\u3063\u305f\u4ffa\u306f\u8ff7\u5bae\u3092\u5f77\u5fa8\u3046\uff12\u300d\u88fd\u4f5c\u59d4\u54e1\u4f1a<\/p>\n<p>The second season of the anime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-06-11\/reborn-as-a-vending-machine-season-2-new-video-reveals-more-cast-opening-song-july-2-debut\/.225441\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">premiered<\/a> on July 2, and aired its 12th and final episode on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=7606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crunchyroll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-06-18\/crunchyroll-announces-release-schedule-for-summer-2025-season\/.225751\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed<\/a> the series as it aired, and is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-07-16\/reborn-as-a-vending-machine-season-2-anime-reveals-english-dub-cast-july-16-debut\/.226735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming<\/a> an English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/lexicon.php?id=98\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=29598\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takashi Yamamoto<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=11285\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jewelpet Twinkle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=7645\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nanatsuiro Drops<\/a>) replaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=34872\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noriaki Akitaya<\/a> as director for the second season at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=9292\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Gokumi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=11434\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AXsiZ<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=72643\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tatsuya Takahashi<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=16098\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls<\/a> both seasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=21205\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Domestic Girlfriend<\/a>) returned to oversee the series scripts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=81639\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takahiro Sakai<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=16171\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Yuna Is a Hero<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=21135\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ms. vampire who lives in my neighborhood<\/a>) again adapted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=187744\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Y\u016bki Hagure<\/a>&#8216;s original designs for animation, while the first season&#8217;s chief animation director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=15816\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naoki Yamauchi<\/a> also designed the characters for the second season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=142281\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BRADIO<\/a> performed the opening theme song &#8220;Mirai Cider&#8221; (Future Cider). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=151515\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aina Aiba<\/a> performed the second season&#8217;s ending theme song &#8220;Boku Dake no Chiheisen&#8221; (A Horizon Only for Me).<\/p>\n<p>The anime&#8217;s first season premiered in July 2023. Crunchyroll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2022-08-06\/crunchyroll-to-stream-my-one-hit-kill-sister-reborn-to-master-the-blade-aristocrat-otherworldly-\/.188431\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed<\/a> the series as it aired in Japan, and is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2023-07-18\/reborn-as-a-vending-machine-i-now-wander-the-dungeon-anime-reveals-english-dub-cast-july-19-premiere\/.200432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streaming<\/a> an English dub. <\/p>\n<p>Yen Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2017-07-01\/yen-press-licenses-silver-spoon-kemono-friends-manga-a-sister-all-you-need-reborn-as-a-vending-\/.118307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> all three volumes of the light novels in English, and it describes the story:<\/p>\n<p>\tA middle-aged man with only one passion in his life meets a fitting end in a traffic accident. That&#8217;s where most stories would end, but instead, this is when his story begins when he&#8217;s reborn as what he admired the most in life&#8211;a vending machine! But his new lease on life(?) happens in the worst place possible&#8211;what can a vending machine do in a monster-infested dungeon when he can&#8217;t speak or even move on his own?<\/p>\n<p>Hirukuma began <a href=\"https:\/\/ncode.syosetu.com\/n7583de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">serializing<\/a> the story on the Sh\u014dsetsuka ni Nar\u014d website in March 2016, and ended it in December of that year, with epilogue stories serialized in January to February 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/company.php?id=15420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kadokawa<\/a>&#8216;s Sneaker Bunko began publishing the novels in print editions with illustrations by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=159014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Itsuwa Kat\u014d<\/a>, beginning with the first volume in July 2016. The third and final volume shipped in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=132466\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kunieda<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2021-07-29\/reborn-as-a-vending-machine-i-now-wander-the-dungeon-light-novels-get-manga\/.175587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> an ongoing manga adaptation of the novels in Kadokawa&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/manga.php?id=4379\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh<\/a> magazine in August 2021. Yen Press is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2021-08-27\/yen-press-licenses-reborn-as-a-vending-machine-i-now-wander-the-dungeon-manga-as-digital-simulpub\/.176742\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">releasing<\/a> the manga digitally at the same time as chapters debut in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon anime&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/jihanki-anime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/otakomu.jp\/archives\/39312574.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Otakomu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2nd season aired final episode on Wednesday The official website for the anime of Hirukuma&#8216;s Reborn as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-151962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}