{
  "id": 15831541,
  "title": "Japan’s Pokémon donuts are back at Mister Donut, with Slowpoke making dount debut! [Pics]",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/japans-pokemon-donuts-are-back-at-mister-donut-with-slowpoke-making",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-21T01:00:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SoraNews24",
    "slug": "soranews24",
    "url": "https://soranews24.com/2026/10/21/japans-pokemon-donuts-are-back-at-mister-donut-with-slowpoke-making-dount-debut-pics/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Japan's Mister Donut is bringing back its popular Pokémon donuts for 2026. This year, Fluffy Pikachu and Pon de Alolan Diglett are among the new additions to the lineup. Slowpoke makes its debut as the latest Pokémon donut. The Fluffy Pikachu donut features whipped cream and custard-flavored chocolate flakes, while the Pon de Alolan Diglett is a unique crossover design featuring a Diglett emerging from the Pon de Ring donut. The Slowpoke donut, priced at 345 yen and 352 yen for takeout and eat-in options, is a fluffier version of the classic donut, topped with white chocolate, strawberry milk sugar, whipped cream ears, and chocolate eyes and nose. Pre-orders for the Slowpoke donut began on November 18, with in-store pickup starting on November 23 and walk-in sales on November 25.",
  "summary": "Slowpoke will naturally, though, be arriving a little later than Pikachu and Diglett. It’s become a yearly tradition for Mister Donut, Japan’s favorite donut chain, to bake up batches of Pokémon donuts as we get into the back half of autumn. Every year sees the return of the Pikachu donut, because you can’t have a […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}