Frieren is the best example of Japan's cringe holding something back. But they can't tell a story that would require meaning and purpose.

I don't know. You know the Lord of the Rings movies are probably the best movies ever made, if only for the fact they depict addiction better than anything ever has in the history of our world. Which I've written many text walls about. But the LotR movies have two major flaws as far as I know, and one that I myself have thought of is that you actually can't take out Tom Bombadil. We assume it works for what the movie was going for. And I think that's why Tolkein's son didnt' like it. Taking out Tom Bombadil does kind of undo the ENTIRE story.
Because Tom Bombadil is the creator of the LotR world. He created it and put himself into the story as Tom Bombadil, and at the end of the LotR books, the thing Tolkein felt necessary to say the last thing, was about Tom Bombadil, and how the dream Frodo had that night sleeping in his house was the same scene he was entering in the grey havens. Which means Tom Bombadil was showing him a glimpse of heaven. Which is very christian of course in fact his friend C.S Lewis used the exact same story element in the Pilgrim's Regress with the island the character was wanting to go to.

I mentioned all that for a reason and I forget what it was. But it was something about Japan and the way they can't tell stories. Evident by the fact they never finish anything, you think Frieren is ever going to finish? It already is too late. It should have ended already. But the destination doesn't matter in Japan because that's not the POINT AAAAAAAAAAH YES I understand I see you see. I told you it was the agnostic Pilgrim's Progress, it doesnt' matter, Frieren is such a perfect example of everything I say.