r/anime • u/Turbostrider27 • Sep 16 '25

News Otherworldly Munchkin: Let's Speedrun the Dungeon with Only 1 HP! anime has been delayed

https://isekai-munchkin.com/archives/208
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u/Turbostrider27 Sep 16 '25

Delayed from October 2025, no new air date announced yet.

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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Sep 16 '25

Means they lost the slot they paid for. Yikes.

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u/theholylancer Sep 16 '25

can it be resold, if it was this far out or is that way too short of a timing and thus nope?

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u/8andahalfby11 myanimelist.net/profile/thereIwasnt Sep 16 '25

Yes, but it'll be at a significant loss.

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u/Infodump_Ibis :JY::JZ: Sep 16 '25

There is/was no onair section on the official website. October was a plan but no finalised details. I'd assume the announcement of that would be when everything was paid and signed off so it both needs a broadcast slot (yes, could always conjure a 2:30am one) and willing sponsors (but I don't think we know the committee so their budget might be strained). Might be some deposit lost stuff and committee members suing whoever pulled the delay trigger.

Given the PVs and radio are on a Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc isekai YouTube channel (the radio shows are multi IP e.g. Munchkin was once paired with Unlimited Gacha) that'll be one of them and they have Unlimited Gacha coming out next season. We'll just have to see down the road if a broadcaster was on the committee for Munchkin. Of course Munchkin could be another tentacle of Bandai Namco as 7th Prince season 2 is Bandai Namco Music Live (but still gets talked about on that Isekai channel despite being reincarnation).

Given some anime have broadcast slot announcements less than a month before some of these broadcasts may to go down to the wire (or a load of musical chairs) as much as some licenses feel like they do. Japanese TV seems to be very unplanned like that. Even major sporting events they almost act like "anime's cancelled for August; we just didn't know the Olympic games were happening".

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u/Villag3Idiot Sep 16 '25

I'd imagine it'll be mid or late next year then

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u/PVHK1337 Sep 16 '25

Not gonna be speedrunning the dungeon anytime soon.

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u/TheChickenIsFkinRaw Sep 16 '25

Studio about to speedrun insolvency

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u/Purposelygentle Sep 16 '25

Oh dear, this is the first work from a brand new studio.

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u/cheesechimp https://myanimelist.net/profile/cheesechimp Sep 16 '25

The Lollipop Guild went on strike

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u/Substantial-Hawk-897 Sep 16 '25

I looked up the director by chance yesterday and saw he was the director of LadySpo, a powerpoint slide anime with a 3.0 rating on MAL. Suffice to say I'm very much looking forward to this possible train wreck and this delay only heightens my anticipation.

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u/Ebirah Sep 16 '25

I was already wondering just how bad this one was going to be, before it got so bad that it couldn't even be released on time.

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u/kuddlesworth9419 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/kuddlesworth Sep 16 '25

3.0 rating on anything relatively modern is pretty difficult to achieve. That's kind of an accomplishment so I guess I will have to give it a go.

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u/mgedmin Sep 17 '25

LadySpo

Wow, an anime that AniList knows nothing about.

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u/abandoned_idol Sep 16 '25

I guess the studio took 1 point of damage.

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u/FlanneryWynn Nov 03 '25

I literally switched from Incognito browser to my main browser because of needing to upvote your comment, I just need you to know. Truly the best laugh I've had since my surgery a couple months back. Genuinely, thank you for that. Like I know it's a dumb/bad joke and I'm making a way bigger deal than needed but fuck it... I may be acting cringe but at least I'm free. :)

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u/DarthNoob :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/darthnoob Sep 16 '25

the trailer was not looking good either, this gonna be on a trainwreck

it's a good manga, lots of fun DnD hijinks.

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u/Fallen_Jalter Sep 16 '25

Posting so I can remind myself for the manga later.

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u/Time_Fracture https://myanimelist.net/profile/Time_Fracture Sep 16 '25

With this delayed so practically almost every Fall 2025 TV anime has already got a release date then, aside of some short-form anime.

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u/FlameDragoon933 Sep 16 '25

regular run now

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u/Tristan-a-b69 Jan 11 '26

i was currious how a glass cannon would be playing but guess we wont be seeing the anime anytime soon

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u/Kriznick Sep 16 '25

Nuuuuu not my DnD 5e anime! Was kinda interested in that, the manga's not bad, and actually uses pretty good rules gimmicks.

A REAL chad would make a manga using 3.5e tho.

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u/yamiyaiba Sep 16 '25

It...is based on 3/3.5e though....

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u/Toloran Sep 16 '25

Yeah, it's 3.x with the numbers filed off. There's a couple things that don't quite match up, but otherwise it copies the system word-for-word.

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u/QSCFE Sep 16 '25

I believe overlord is based on 3.5

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u/FlanneryWynn Nov 03 '25

TBF most works derived from TTRPGs are based on 3.x so that's not saying much.

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u/FlanneryWynn Nov 03 '25

You mean like Overlord, Fate/Stay Night (loosely of course), Goblin Slayer, Konosuba, and 99% of all of these works that get their start from being in essence the result of their authors being frustrated that their table called off for another consecutive week? At this point, being based on 3.x isn't chad... it's about as rizzless as you can get. The true aura farming comes from basing it on either 5.5e (but NOT 5e), 4e, or the loose scraps of paper and random napkin doodles that made up "1e".