"Horror Otaku" Limited Digital on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag 308 gsm
(100% acid free cotton) 
Print Size : 210mm x 297mm. Editions : 20.
Andrea Innocent (a.k.a innocentgirl),2007.

All images © Andrea Innocent 2005 - 2008
Japanese horror film and related paraphenalia + person obsessed with Japanese horror 
films = Horror Otaku.

Unlike the horror films found in Western cultures, J-horror (Japanese Horror) has 
a distinctly different style and relies heavily on psychological horror and the build          
up of tension to scare its audiences. Japan, traditionally, has a strong ‘ghost story’ 
folklore, these ghosts, known as yurei linger in the earthly world for various reasons, 
the most common being that of  vengeance. “Ringu” (The Ring) and “Juon” (The          
Grudge) and two such examples.

 
Wikipedia definition of Otaku:

Otaku, in modern Japanese slang refers to an overtly obsessive fan of 
any one particular theme, topic, or hobby. Common uses are anime otaku
and manga otaku (comic book geek), pasokon otaku (personal computer geek),
gemu otaku (video game otaku) and otaku that are extreme fans of idols,
heavily promoted singing girls.

“The otaku, 
the passionate obsessive, the information age's embodiment of the 
connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects,          
seems a natural crossover figure in today's interface of British and Japanese          
cultures. I see it in the eyes of the Portobello dealers, and in the eyes of the 
Japanese collectors: a perfectly calm train-spotter frenzy, murderous and 
 sublime. Understanding otaku -hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding          
the culture of the web. There is something profoundly post-national about it, 
extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the post-modern world, whether we 
want to be or not”. 

William Gibson, The Observer 2001-04-01