1990年代、日本のアニメはキャラクター造形のための「視覚的データベース」と「声のデータベース」を洗練させた。通常これら二つのデータベースは、相互補完的に作動しキャラクターを構築するが、両者がずれる可能性は常に存在し、新しいキャラクター類型を生み出すこともある。「美少女戦士セーラームーン」（1992-97）の天王はるかはその最たるものである。彼女を構成する視聴覚的側面はデータベースから逸脱し続け、彼女にジェンダーの境界を何度も越境させる。東浩紀が指摘する「データベース消費」の傍らで、当時のフェミニスト批評は、動かされ声を与えられるキャラクターの自由を発揮するはるかに鋭く反応し、ジェンダーとセクシュアリティの多様性と可能性を示す身体として受容していた。

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This study analyzes the relationship between the usage of media and subculture in extended adolescence. The media seen as most characteristic of people in extended adolescence include chatting and electronic bulletin boards on the Internet, and comic magazines. Sherry Turkle thinks that the use of the Internet has influenced the establishment of the identity of adolescents since they can experiment with multiple identities in the world of the Internet. She also presented the concept of an “online persona, ” where one can assume a fluid and multiple identity and act differently from one's true self.
During the 1960s and 1970s, young people were fond of popular television programs known as teen dramas, which were set in high schools and involved young teachers and their students. The shows were based on themes such as “effort, ” “dreams” and “love, ” and the heroes fulfilled their dreams, overcoming various obstacles. One effect of these shows was that during this period, young Japanese people discovered their own stories of adolescence by reproducing the teen drama programs in their everyday lives. However, after the 1980s, young people started to read comic magazines targeted at teens and the postadolescence stories gained in popularity. At that time, animated cartoons such as “Mobile Suit Gundam, ” “Dragon Ball” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion” became very popular. Their heroes all experienced an “awakening, ” in which they became super-heroes. Unlike the heroes of the teen drama shows, who were regular high school students, they realized that they had latent superhuman powers. In these animated cartoons, the “adherence to identity” is typically represented in the form of an ominous alien.
The sense of liberation from one's actual self through means such as chatting and electronic bulletin boards, as well as the post-adolescence stories, is thought to be closely related to the problem of extended adolescents who are a focus of social attention in the present world. It is clear that the adolescent strategy toward the media, which uses the media as a means to arouse one true self, has a parasitic relationship with the media.

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