We went with only Piplup as he’s become the mascot of Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl in Japan and we already had to eat five donuts. This raises confusing questions as to whether or not all blue Pokémon taste the same, but perhaps that’s a question better left unanswered. There were two other varieties of the Piplup donut – a Glaceon and a Pachirisu – but they were of the same flavour. Donut cleverly designed them to match each Pokémon’s posterior as they look back at potential consumers in anticipation (or malice in the case of Eevee). As you can see from the above picture, Mr. Piplup, Pikachu, and Eevee all received the Pokébutt treatment. We could only think of filthy captions for this, so best keep those to ourselves (Image: Lowell Bell) The second type of donut does away with the traditional ringed shape in favour of the disembodied heads of Pikachu and Eevee, and are simply called ‘Pikachu and Eevee donuts’ in Japanese, which is no fun so we’ll refer to them as Pokéheads. ‘Over the shoulder donuts’ is a mouthful, so henceforth we’ll refer to them as Pokébutt donuts. First are the furimuki donuts, which translate roughly as ‘to look over one’s shoulder’ in Japanese. Donut and bought all five varieties, of which there are two types.
To uncover what these Pokémon donuts are all about, we marched down to our local Mr. donuts? A Jack Frost donut for Shin Megami Tensei V? Yes please. We can’t think of a better way to herald the release of a video game, because who doesn’t love donuts? Seriously – other franchises should get on it. Donut and release throughout Japan a lineup of fried dough inspired by some of our favourite Generation IV Pokémon.
In celebration of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s release, The Pokémon Company had the brilliant idea to partner with Japanese company Mr.