As the isekai fantasy genre goes on, it gets harder to come up with truly original ideas. To do so, creators have to get increasingly weird and specific with what their protagonist gets reincarnated as, and this is a prime example.
REBORN AS A VENDING MACHINE, I NOW WANDER THE DUNGEON (Jidohanbaiki ni Umarekawatta Ore wa Meikyu o Samayo), based on the light novels by Hirukuma and character designs by Hagure Yuuki, with art by Kunieda. First published in 2021 and first published in North America in 2023.
PLOT:
Once he was just another salaryman, albeit one with an obsession fascination with vending machines. Then one day he is crushed by one, and when he awakens he discovers that he has become a vending machine. He is found by Lammis, a good-natured and super-strong country girl who takes him back to her village. It's there that his life as an adventurer begins, when he and Lammis are tasked with aiding with a hunt for ferocious frog-men.
