“Okashi Otaku” Limited Edition Digital Print

Print Size : 297mm x 500mm
Andrea Innocent (a.k.a innocentgirl), 2007.

All images © Andrea Innocent 2005 - 2008


Okashi (Japanese snack food) 
There are many types of snacks in Japan ranging from 
the traditional and generic to the highly branded and 
bizarre. Often certain flavours or styles are released
as limited edition offerings, making them highly sort
after. The packaging and character designs are also
highly conceptual and refined.

Some well known brands are Meiji, Morinaga, Lotte,
Glico, Calbee and Tohato.



Otaku
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