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In one of the early arcs of Mushoku Tensei the moral compass character repeatedly massacres slavers and it's unambiguously correct even from the vapid, amoral shitbag protagonist's perspective. It completely drops that later on as the protagonist literally has no values or beliefs and just wants to be some guy with a quiet life who doesn't do stuff, which is the biggest failing of the later arcs of the LN series.
May I Ask For One Final Thing is technically an isekai, but the protagonist is a local of the world and the first arc revolves around her beating the living snot out of aristocratic slavers.
Roll Over and Die is one of those fucking things instead of an isekai, but opens with the protagonist being sold into slavery and is notably quite negative on the whole institution and the systems that interact with it.
So nothing involving a hammer but close enough. Would you recommend either of the latter two shows?
Also, what do you mean by "one of those fucking things instead of an isekai"?
May I Ask For One Final Thing is great. I haven't watched ROLL OVER AND DIE yet but I read a few of the LNs and those were pretty good.
"One of those fucking things" is the genre of "protagonist gets kicked out of their party for being too cool and then they show everyone by being super cool and stuff", which is somehow an actual genre that's approaching isekais in sheer proliferation (and it overlaps with them a fair bit too). I think Geoff Thew coined the "one of those fucking things" name for the genre out of, uh, contempt and exasperation I believe it was.
ROLL OVER AND DIE is a good one, though, both because it's yuri and because it channels the typical antipathy of the genre towards the elitism, chauvinism, and general shittiness of the world's institutions instead of just doing the school shooter ass "everyone's laughing at me, but I'll show them, I'll show everyone!" tone the genre usually takes.