The Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! anime has gotten an izakaya-set special trailer and visual before its January 6, 2025 JST premiere.
The anime is based on the manga written by Benigashira and drawn by Muramitsu, which is serialized in OVERLAP’s Comic Gardo and has 10 tankoubon volumes as of December 25 JST. Seven Seas Entertainment describes the premise as:
Uchimura Denosuke is your normal, everyday salaryman trying to climb the corporate ladder. But then he’s summoned to a terrifying fantasy world by the Demon Overlord, who offers him a new job—as one of the Heavenly Kings in his army, with full benefits! Uchimura may not have muscles or magic, but he does have an office worker’s skills and savvy. Will they be enough to keep him alive?
Crunchyroll will stream Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!
Staff
• Director: Michio Fukuda (Failure Frame, Terra Formars Revenge)
• Assistant director: Seung Deok Kim (The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor Episode 2 director)
• Series composer: Hiroko Fukuda (Taisho Otome Fairy Tale, You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story)
• Character designer: Ayumi Nishihata (Migi & Dali)
• Animation production: GEEKTOYS and CompTown
Cast
• Yuki Ono as Dennosuke Uchimura
• Konomi Kohara as Urmander
• Akio Otsuka as Dark King
Source: @salaryman_big4