Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

[shinta|hikari]

It wouldn't be wish fulfillment, if the author wasn't wishing for it.

Aside from audience demand that Kraco already mentioned, wish fulfillment in fiction has nothing to do with actually intending or even wanting to do those things in real life. People know what is wrong to do in reality, so they turn to fiction for it. Equating what people enjoy in fiction to automatically equal something they will enjoy, condone, or even endorse in reality is baseless. Proof of this is everywhere.

To be clear, I am not saying there are no authors or people like what you describe. What I am saying is it definitely isn't necessarily true or even common, as such, we shouldn't lump them all together and accuse everyone of being depraved just because they know the difference between reality and fiction.

EDIT:
Some quick examples, since I did claim there is proof everywhere:
1. People who develop or play violent video games where violence is accepted and even glorified do not actually turn violent or even want to do violent things in real life. Because they aren't bloodthirsty psychopaths.
2. People who watch strange porn do not actually want tentacles to attack people in real life. Because that would be insane??
3. People who love Game of Thrones where for most of the show betrayal and lies reigned supreme do not actually betray or even want to lie to people around them. Because lying is bad.
4. People who love Shield Hero and see Raphtalia wanting to remain a slave don't actually want to own or be a slave in reality. Because enslaving real people is fucking evil.
5. People who love OP Isekai stories that build nations don't actually want to build their own nation. Because that is honestly too much responsibility and a huge pain. Easier just to go on the internet for dopamine.
6. People who play RPGs or CRPGs like DnD or Divinity OS2 and loot and murder entire populations in the game do not want to genocide in real life. Because they aren't fascist.
7. My wife wanted to add, people who read Omegaverse and werewolves fucking each other in the ass do not actually even want to see guys fucking each other in the ass in real life, not even in fully consensual, live action, non-furry porn. Because that is ew, apparently. Source: her lol. Anecdotal, but still one example.

These people just want to escape reality and try/enjoy different things in a harmless manner by using fantasy and imagination. It may be just curiosity, a passing fancy, or even a serious obsession. But as long as it stays in fiction, and it normally does, there is nothing wrong with that, and they should definitely not be accused of anything negative.