An Imagined Community Called Newtype or an analysis of contemporary discourse concerning Mobile Suit Gundam

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  • 想像の共同体としてのニュータイプ : 『機動戦士ガンダム』をめぐる同時代言説
  • ソウゾウ トシテノ ニュータイプ キドウ センシ ガンダム オ メグル ドウジダイ ゲンセツ

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This essay not only disregards privileged signifiant which is called newtype in Mobile Suit Gundam as a tear of text, but also captures it as a field in which some different discourse were intermingling, and argues its various aspects. 　Concretely, this essay not only reduces that concept to the intention of the Tomino Yoshiyuki’s author-subject, but also connects it to wide-ranging contemporary situation, furthermore, discloses the generation-strife of its consumers which had a estrangement between the literary-cultural generation and the visual-cultural generation. Moreover, it confirms the birth of the imagined communities which consist of peculiar to “accepter-creater” of a limited animation, and states that such events symbolized a shift between meaning and sense or between stories and databases, and suggests that they（newtypes）born then have supported supply and demand of real-robot-anime which is like Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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