On the surface, Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! is just another isekai. After constant failures in his first life on Earth, Uchimura Dennosuke finally finds a meaningful existence upon reincarnating in a new world of demons and monsters. However, all similarities end there, with Headhunted to Another World flipping the genre's script entirely.

Uchimura doesn't even obtain some overpowered ability that makes him special in this new world, nor an ostensibly disappointing power that's secretly incredible. Better yet, his best traits from his former life are the reason why he's been summoned to this new world. By episode #1, Uchimura has already proven that his natural skill sets as a human from his former life are capable of making him a hero in his new world.

Although isekai is sometimes unfairly ridiculed for its overuse of too many tropes, the true problem with the genre lies in...