Toro-Nama Oimo Cheesecake at FamilyMart with Annou Imo from Tanegashima, Kagoshima

For all the sweet potato snacks I've tried, for some reason I haven't tried or featured a sweet potato cheesecake yet. FamilyMart had a very nice version called Toro-Nama Oimo Cheesecake, which is a soft melty type of cheesecake with fresh cream cheese. The sweet potato is the mitsu-imo kind, known for their dense and sweet, honey-like texture when cooked. This one specifically used annou imo from Tanegashima, Kagoshima.
Toro-Nama Oimo Cheesecake at FamilyMart with Annou Imo from Tanegashima, Kagoshima
True to the "toro" description, this cheesecake had a pudding-like texture similar to bread pudding. 

The cheesecake flavour was like an eggy custard cheesecake, not sour and with no lemon-like taste. 
Toro-Nama Oimo Cheesecake at FamilyMart - texture and jelly layer close-up
There was also a prominent and satisfying dark caramelised yellow sweet potato flavour and top notes that leaned honey and caramel. 

There was also a thin layer of caramel sauce-looking transparent jelly at the top which seemed to be the imo sauce. 

Finally, even the roasted black sesame seeds on top had a nice dark and earthy flavour with aromatic woody and bright sesame top notes.

Overall, it was a very well executed treat.

Finally, here are the photos of the wrapper label close-up and the ingredients list (click photo to enlarge). Some ingredients I liked were actual satsuma-imo paste and natural cheese. Some that I didn't like were the first ingredient that just lumps things under dairy products and processed egg. Hopefully it didn't contain too many processed ingredients. There was also caramel sauce, which probably went into the jelly-like top layer as well.
Toro-Nama Oimo Cheesecake at FamilyMart - wrapper close-up
Toro-Nama Oimo Cheesecake at FamilyMart - ingredients list
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