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How do you think Boxxo will impact the economy of the village?
Jul 8, 2023 7:35 AM
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As one interested in markets and how they impact the quality of people’s lives, this anime disturbs me. I’ll cover everything in spoilers just in case, but if you’ve seen the first episode, the reasons why are apparent.


Will Boxxo be a burden to the local economy, or am I looking too far into this (probably)?
Jul 8, 2023 7:46 AM
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What happens to the money bothered me for the same reason, especially given how much people like the guards were spending. Then again, it's an anime about a guy who gets reincarnated as a vending machine. I wasn't planning on watching the first episode, but the premise was too stupid for me to ignore.
Jul 8, 2023 9:25 AM
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just watch some chaps, and you find the response, it's not really bad the impact
Jul 8, 2023 11:49 AM
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Village will become America.
Which means, cheap, easily accessible food rich with sugar, fat and carbs, but low vitamins and protein will cause obesity spike.
We have already seen those two guards getting hooked on it, which foreshadows their addiction.

Jul 8, 2023 2:16 PM
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I wish they explained the money thing. Like. It’s a “game” world. So does the money go into a magic pool that gets given to monsters as loot that will be grabbed by adventurers and then create a full circle? One thing that Boxxo does do is provide food and water out of thin air that does not come from the local resources of the population. So they could maybe sell their natural resources to outsiders to make up the deficit? Or maybe it is based on a light novel and we shouldn’t think too deeply about it.
Jul 9, 2023 6:22 AM
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ItsYaBoiYungIan said:
As one interested in markets and how they impact the quality of people’s lives, this anime disturbs me. I’ll cover everything in spoilers just in case, but if you’ve seen the first episode, the reasons why are apparent.


Will Boxxo be a burden to the local economy, or am I looking too far into this (probably)?

I feel that we have similar thinking, I too was thinking along these lines. I have not read the LN so I do not know anything about it the story but I am thinking they will either not address the issue or they will use an external source of revenue like adventuring to make up the difference.
Jul 9, 2023 6:35 AM
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I feel the same way too. I don't read the LN or the manga.

If they keep spending like that where would the money go? If the money goes one way out from the fantasy world to the real world where the products came from, the economy of the other world will collapse sometime in the future. And Where will they take out the waste? Like almost all of those are plastic.

This is a ridiculous series with a ridiculous premise and is just fiction I know that, but still!
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Jul 9, 2023 6:42 PM
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The money he takes isn’t getting recirculated, so there’s probably gonna be some kind of economic recession if they keep using him at this rate
Jul 12, 2023 7:20 PM
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I'd say negative, but I doubt the series will address it.
Jul 13, 2023 10:13 AM

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I doubt economics will be addressed in the anime, but tbh I think its going to be positive as it kinda attracts people to the town/tavern.

But the real question is, how does Boxxo affect the environment and such? There is no way these normal villagers are going to recycle his materials, let alone know how to deal with all the trash they make from buying cans and bottles. But the anime probably won't deal with that either. Same as that cooking in another world (or something) anime, where the main character just kept buying ingredients from a webshop and dumping boxes and stuff everywhere. 
Jul 13, 2023 10:18 AM
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FernTekip said:
I doubt economics will be addressed in the anime, but tbh I think its going to be positive as it kinda attracts people to the town/tavern.

But the real question is, how does Boxxo affect the environment and such? There is no way these normal villagers are going to recycle his materials, let alone know how to deal with all the trash they make from buying cans and bottles. But the anime probably won't deal with that either. Same as that cooking in another world (or something) anime, where the main character just kept buying ingredients from a webshop and dumping boxes and stuff everywhere. 
In this show, the refuse just disappears, so you don't have to worry about it. In Campfire Cooking, he originally kept it in his item box, but eventually, the slime eats it. 
Jul 13, 2023 10:59 AM

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Fail_Man_X said:
In said:
In this show, the refuse just disappears, so you don't have to worry about it. In Campfire Cooking, he originally kept it in his item box, but eventually, the slime eats it. 

oh, i forgot about that, its all basic isekai anyway. Fun to watch, but you forget about it after the last episode

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Jul 13, 2023 11:30 AM
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Fail_Man_X said:
FernTekip said:
I doubt economics will be addressed in the anime, but tbh I think its going to be positive as it kinda attracts people to the town/tavern.

But the real question is, how does Boxxo affect the environment and such? There is no way these normal villagers are going to recycle his materials, let alone know how to deal with all the trash they make from buying cans and bottles. But the anime probably won't deal with that either. Same as that cooking in another world (or something) anime, where the main character just kept buying ingredients from a webshop and dumping boxes and stuff everywhere. 
In this show, the refuse just disappears, so you don't have to worry about it. In Campfire Cooking, he originally kept it in his item box, but eventually, the slime eats it. 
There's another type of refuse that isn't recycled though that wasn't addressed in either one of the shows and I highly doubt will be addressed.  All these people are eating magic food that just appeared out of thin air.  I hope they figure out how to do a good waste disposal system, but considering it is a magical world they can just wave a staff at it and make it disappear.
Jul 13, 2023 11:48 AM

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Raistlarn said:
Fail_Man_X said:
In this show, the refuse just disappears, so you don't have to worry about it. In Campfire Cooking, he originally kept it in his item box, but eventually, the slime eats it. 
There's another type of refuse that isn't recycled though that wasn't addressed in either one of the shows and I highly doubt will be addressed.  All these people are eating magic food that just appeared out of thin air.  I hope they figure out how to do a good waste disposal system, but considering it is a magical world they can just wave a staff at it and make it disappear.
magic food is normal food, the waste will be similar and the impact on their health will be positive as is food normally does to organic human bodies, I'd worry about the fact the money being used one way than anything else really, i hope they address this issue.
Jul 13, 2023 1:14 PM
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Kirito_online said:
Raistlarn said:
There's another type of refuse that isn't recycled though that wasn't addressed in either one of the shows and I highly doubt will be addressed.  All these people are eating magic food that just appeared out of thin air.  I hope they figure out how to do a good waste disposal system, but considering it is a magical world they can just wave a staff at it and make it disappear.
magic food is normal food, the waste will be similar and the impact on their health will be positive as is food normally does to organic human bodies, I'd worry about the fact the money being used one way than anything else really, i hope they address this issue.
You missed the entire point.  Food is food, but what comes out of your rear is the problem I was pointing out.  They have food appearing out of thin air, essentially a globalized food supply, in a medieval town with what I assume is medieval waste disposal.  This also ignores the fact that vending machine food is in general not healthy food.
Jul 13, 2023 11:07 PM

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Raistlarn said:
Kirito_online said:
magic food is normal food, the waste will be similar and the impact on their health will be positive as is food normally does to organic human bodies, I'd worry about the fact the money being used one way than anything else really, i hope they address this issue.
You missed the entire point.  Food is food, but what comes out of your rear is the problem I was pointing out.  They have food appearing out of thin air, essentially a globalized food supply, in a medieval town with what I assume is medieval waste disposal.  This also ignores the fact that vending machine food is in general not healthy food.
i assume it gets reused somehow or they have some sort of magical way to dispose of it, so far it's just a guessing game, but from the sound of this anime it's not going to discuss those issues cuz they're too real and miss the point of the show which is the reincarnation and living in a new world as a vending machine.
Jul 13, 2023 11:17 PM
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Kirito_online said:
Raistlarn said:
You missed the entire point.  Food is food, but what comes out of your rear is the problem I was pointing out.  They have food appearing out of thin air, essentially a globalized food supply, in a medieval town with what I assume is medieval waste disposal.  This also ignores the fact that vending machine food is in general not healthy food.
i assume it gets reused somehow or they have some sort of magical way to dispose of it, so far it's just a guessing game, but from the sound of this anime it's not going to discuss those issues cuz they're too real and miss the point of the show which is the reincarnation and living in a new world as a vending machine.
Totally agree.  Those issues pretty much get ignored by all of them just like in ttrpgs.  The most I expect is them alluding to whatever happens to the coins once they get inserted, and how that affects the economy like you said.
Jul 16, 2023 12:13 PM

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Do you really think LNshit writer would think about it?
Jul 17, 2023 9:31 AM
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Do you really think LNshit writer would think about it?
This
I don't think we should expect an isekai anime where the MC is a vending machine to have realistic market dynamics. I also consider this anime to be my seasonal trash watch, so frankly the stupider it is the better. 
Jul 17, 2023 9:40 AM

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I hadn't though of it this far lol. But this is an interesting take. Maybe they could resell Boxxo's stuff at greater prices to other villages ?
Jul 19, 2023 8:27 AM
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I was also worried about this issue but this episode DID in fact have economics people in the isekai world come and confront boxxo about that very issue! They solved it by buying very cheap things from him with gold coins worth 100 silver coins each and by buying stuff worth 1 silver coin with a gold coin they quickly got a large amount of silver coins back and solved the issue splendidly. Now personally I think losing the gold coins seems like it might be just as big an issue as the silver ones but they addressed the issue and provided an in world solution to help keep the illusion of reality in the anime. 
Jul 20, 2023 7:32 AM
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My problem is that the prices don't make any sense. 1 silver coin is 1,000 yen, so a bottle of water costs $7 and an can of oden costs $21, of which they eat 2-3 cans. 1 silver = 100 Yen would make a lot more sense. Sure, maybe you earn an average of $500,000 a year in this World, but little things like that really annoy me



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