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Was talking with =Wasil the other day about spam musubi when in a fit of hunger-inspired creativity I said, "Now I gots to draw me a Spam Musume!"

This was about 3 weeks ago, but I've finally managed to pull together enough time to create this unholy fusion.

Oh yeah, so this character. This character's name is Spicy Yam - first name Spicy, last name Yam. It would have been more appropriate if she were a Yam Musume, but this is what she wanted to be and she's not going to change her family name based on her career choice. That might have been what her yam-planting ancestors did, but that was a different era and she is not like that.

So Spicy Yam is a Spam Musume, which is a Spam-themed musume that uh...I did not think this one through very much. But all you need to know is that she is all about the spam. Also, her e-mails have difficulty getting through filters.

Designing Spicy was very difficult, in part because I soon realized that the form of spam is not a very distinctive one: it is a pink oblong rectangle with rounded corners. To slap pink slices of spam all over her body would be just dumb (and kinky!), so I tried putting some more emphasis on the "musubi" part of "spam musubi" - hence all the riceballs.

I have mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, it felt kind of forced and uninspired, but on the other hand it turned out better than I thought it would have. Oh well.

Sorry for the boring background.

Made in Flash

EDIT: By the way, that pull-ring on her belt is supposed to be one of these: [link]
Pulling on it will open up a can of WHOOP ASS.

EDIT2: :spam:

EDIT3: She is not made of spam, people. Stop trying to eat her. That is cruel and wrong.
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:iconelleiancole:
Mood: Love ~Elleiancole Jan 24, 2010
I love your ideas. They're so kooky and funny.
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:icondarokan:
Mood: Love ~darokan Aug 20, 2009
YOSH!!!

Spam was originally made in Nebraska (aka: my home state) and im a distant relative to the inventor :D

anyways, good job :3 you are like one of my favorite artists ever :D

KEEP ON TRUCKING!
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:icondarokan:
Mood: Love ~darokan Aug 20, 2009
YOSH!!!

Spam was originally made in Nebraska (aka: my home state) and im a distant relative to the inventor :D

anyways, good job :3 you are like one of my favorite artists ever :D

KEEP ON TRUCKING!
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:iconpsychobuddhist:
Mood: Affection ~psychobuddhist Aug 18, 2009
I love that you know what a "spam musubi" is! You really nailed the colors ... so much so that I am compelled to make one right now.
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:iconstormyd:
Mood: Suggestive ~StormyD Jul 29, 2009
Well John, I'm not sure those people wish to eat her literally, if you know what I mean.
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:iconclarevoyant:
Mood: Love *clarevoyant Jul 28, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
ヤムさんはとてもかわいいですよ！
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:iconblackandwhiteincolor:
Mood: Adoration !BlackAndWhiteInColor Jul 26, 2009   Photographer
i love it!
you always have such creative ideas & cute characters
& all the little details [[like the pull tap]] & the background stories & clearificating links just make it 1000000x better =]
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:iconklara001:
Mood: Love ~klara001 Jul 26, 2009
I love it!!
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:icondemosthenes-101:
Mood: Love ~Demosthenes-101 Jul 25, 2009
She's cute and represents the compressed meat by-product well....but........You need to come here to Hawaii dude (if you have not already) and have the REAL spam musubi :w00t:.......me madre makes killer Teriyaki spam musubis!(I fear for my life sometimes:fear:)

So Spicy's name is not an unintentional rip off of the Burger King Chicken then? ^^;

I know I am not the first to say it but:

"....spam, spam spam Spam Spam Spam SPAM SPAM SPAM LOVELY SPAM WONDERFUL SPAM!!!!!!!" -- Monty Python [link]
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:iconkokonleolia:
Mood: Love ~kokonleolia Jul 25, 2009
i love it. it's so kawaii
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