/lit/ - Literature

>>16498664
I was really into anime when I was younger, but eventually started to grow out of it around the same time I grew out of western pop culture. I don't care about it at all now, but I don't dislike it any more than I dislike nerds in general.
People act like its radically different from anything made in the US, but anime really reminds me of old pulp sci-fi/fantasy magazines. Lots of derivative garbage and pornography, with a few great stories that blend in with the rest because they resemble them on a superficial level. The target audience is the same too, the Japanese have never tried to market nerd shit to the masses like Americans have been doing since Star Wars first came out. That difference between the two cultures is at the root of all the weirdness you see in the American anime fanbase.
There are a bunch of Japanese books on why otaku are so weird, but as far as I know nobody's ever written one on American anime fans. I think there's a lot of potential there, Americans don't experience anime in the same way the Japanese do and the two groups of nerds are different in some pretty significant ways. I've thought about trying to write something myself, but there's so much pseud-babble relating to anime floating around the English-speaking internet that I'm afraid anything I would write would instantly be lost in the noise.

How do I express sadness about lost youth / lifelong virginity without it sounding like a cringey houellebecq novel?

Does validity/soundness apply to all statements and expressions, not just arguments?