Yoshio was a thirty-year-old unemployed shut-in when a mysterious village-building sim, The Village of Fate, showed up at his door. Through watching and caring for the game's intensely realistic NPCs, Yoshio has started getting his life back on track--getting a job to pay for microtransactions, and using the villagers' care for each other as inspiration to reconnect with his family. But despite overcoming the first challenges thrown at him, more complicated issues, both in and out of the g...

The game is over for Yoshio. His villagers are gone, all dead as far as he can tell. But just as he is overcome with despair, one final gift arrives from the Village of Fate--a package containing the NPC Carol, and she's clearly a real, live girl. With Carol in tow, Yoshio leaves the safety of his home to travel to Hokkaido, where the developers are located. He will uncover the truth of this mysterious game once and for all!

Love consultations, cook-offs, magic-item exhibitions, and more...I already had my "hands" full with requests from the people of Clearflow Lake, and now Captain Kerioyl and his Menagerie of Fools have roped Lammis, Hulemy, and me into some sort of investigation! But after a series of unfortunate events, I've gotten separated from Lammis and find myself all alone in an area far deeper than I've ever been before! Something tells me I have another major battle ahead...What's a vending machine...

After dying in a traffic accident, I find myself standing near an unfamiliar lake. My body won't move, I can't hear my voice, and when I try to shout in confusion, words that I never expected come out!"Get one free with a winner."-it seems I've turned into a vending machine...! I can only do what actual vending machines can. It's impossible to move by myself, and there's no way for me to have any meaningful conversation-how am I going to survive some fantasy world's dungeon like this?!

When Fantasy Invades RealityYoshio was a thirty-year-old unemployed shut-in when a mysterious village-building sim, The Village of Fate, showed up at his door. Through watching and caring for the game's intensely realistic NPCs, Yoshio has started getting his life back on track--getting a job to pay for microtransactions, and using the villagers' care for each other as inspiration to reconnect with his family. But despite overcoming the first challenges thrown at h...

I actually beat the lord of the Labyrinth stratum! This vending machine's not doing too bad for himself, huh? However, an increase in notoriety means an increase in requests. To name a few, we've got mapmaking, monster hunting, and...getting loaned out to the winner of an eating contest?!"Boxxo is all mine for the whole day!"...I guess I've got a date with Shui and her bottomless pit of a stomach. I'm up to the challenge, though. I just hope her boundless gluttony doesn't exhaust all the f...

What IS Real?Yoshio is thirty years old, and his life is a mess. A shut-in living with his parents, he has no job, no relationship, and no prospects. When he receives a new sim computer game that boasts characters created with a new kind of A.I., he doesn't think much of it--until he gets drawn into a fantasy world so vibrant and lifelike that its residents can't just be game characters. Suddenly finding himself the benevolent god of a scrappy fantasy village is a ...

Yoshio is thirty years old, and his life is a mess. A shut-in living with his parents, he has no job, no relationship, and no prospects. When he receives a new sim computer game that boasts characters created with a new kind of A.I., he doesn't think much of it--until he gets drawn into a fantasy world so vibrant and lifelike that its residents can't just be game characters. Suddenly finding himself the benevolent god of a scrappy fantasy village is a lot for Yoshio to handle, but it might...

THE SHUT-IN'S JOURNEYThe game is over for Yoshio. His villagers are gone, all dead as far as he can tell. But just as he is overcome with despair, one final gift arrives from the Village of Fate--a package containing the NPC Carol, and she's clearly a real, live girl. With Carol in tow, Yoshio leaves the safety of his home to travel to Hokkaido, where the developers are located. He will uncover the truth of this mysterious game once and for all!

Waiting for spring to arrive and for the Menagerie of Fools’ next expedition, Boxxo learns more about Lammis’s tragic past! Read the next chapter of Reborn as a Vending Machine the same day as Japan!

Boxxo has finally been reunited with Lammis, and now she won’t ever let him go! Is there a reason behind her strong reaction? Read the next installment of Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon the same day as Japan!

When the world’s biggest vending machine fan meets an unfortunate end, he’s transported to another world…as a vending machine! Unable to walk or talk, and fated to only dispense goods, how will he survive in a world of magic and monsters?! Read the first chapter of Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon the same day as Japan!