A former human now reincarnated as a vending machine, Boxxo has the ability to procure and sell everything from drinks to snacks! Along with Lammis (the super-strong girl who named him), Boxxo offers refreshments to adventurers fighting monsters. But what will happen when they draw the attention of a famous adventuring party?
I'm a big fan of the anime and am looking forward to when the manga finishes catch-up and starts providing new content. For those if you familiar with the anime, this volume clears the kidnapping event.
This is still a curiously hilarious series! ...docking a star, though, since it succumbs to the usual trope of "Japan LOVES naked women in baths"... look, I get it, but this is OLD HAT.
Hulemy is a much more fun character than I'd remembered, though—like, curiously prescient in order to quickly advance the narrative and shorten the language barrier between Hakkon (which I still mentally insert) and the other characters. It sort of feels like when Joseph Joestar taunts enemies by telling them what they will say next! (I've seen a comment that he does this because, as an American, he reads from left-to-right, thereby seeing their words before they appear right-to-left, haha... Hulemy doesn't quite break the fourth wall like that, unfortunately.)
Otherwise, I think the only thing I would like about being a vending machine, myself, WOULD be the times when I would be able to just dispense LITERALLY WHATEVER I COULD MAGIC INTO EXISTENCE to friends/needy folks, JUST BECAUSE I COULD. He goes into this a bit when he laments his lack of movement and dependency on Lammis; I'd imagine that the camaraderie he gets when people are hungry makes up for that SOMEWHAT, but still! Just existing to hand things out (if his patrons have money or he has enough leeway to be generous)! Gotta be frustrating!
Recommended for fans of the series, though the usual "newcomers may be lost" applies.