The replies made me think a bit more about this and it's really a shame that both in the West and in Japan the serious, whether in literature or movies, is associated with depriving and with punishing your audience, which is so immature if you think about it. But this is all their nihilism allows them to do, punish the starving and seeking man for the sin of daring to seek where nothing is supposed to be (but there is and there should be), an affront to their absent god. They have already 'grown up' (died inside) and except you to do the same. Hollywood and Anime, on the other hand, are freewheeling, no gods no dogmas (except the woke Hollywood era; a new Western specter) with a fat monetary incentive and often genuine desire to please the audience, they are the venues, ironically, where true art does appear now and then because it allows for the possibility, not because the system leans toward it.