Even though the outdoors in Japan still feels decidedly like summer, food makers have already begun shifting their focus to autumn selections. That grouping includes the highly anticipated release of this year’s Mister Donut‘s autumn-themed donuts. After learning that the popular donut chain would be significantly renewing its offerings from last year’s lineup, we decided to do a little digging into the past to see just how much the chain’s autumn-themed donuts have evolved since their introduction.
The results of our research are summarized in the chart below. While this is the sixth consecutive year that Mister Donut has sold sweet potato-flavored donuts, there’s not a single 100-percent carry-over from years past in this year’s lineup. Interestingly, even the Daigaku-imo and Sweet Potato donuts, first introduced in 2019, aren’t making an appearance this year for the first time ever.
Would this be a cause for crying, or would the new donuts more than make up for the loss of the old ones? There was only one way to find out, so we headed to our local Mister Donut branch after this year’s autumn flavors were released on August 28. ▼ Mister Donut’s five autumn-themed donuts of 2o24 We elected to focus on the sweet potato offerings first, starting with the Fragrant Brulée (Kobashi Buryure) donut. While the brulée style of donut was first introduced in 2022 for the Mitsu-imo Brulée donut and returned the following year exactly as is, the chain announced .
