A Barrel Built to Outlast the Sweets
The candy is the excuse. The barrel is the product.
URAKITA Kobo, a Tokyo workshop that builds wooden barrel mugs for a living, treats the container here with the same care. Each barrel is made from domestic Japanese wood, assembled one at a time with traditional joinery, and measures 13.5 cm wide by 11 cm tall at around 330 grams. The front carries a large 滅 (metsu), the single character worn on Demon Slayer Corps uniforms and engraved on the Nichirin blades that Tanjiro and his fellow slayers carry. Flip it around and the back shows the anime's logo, so it reads as Demon Slayer from any angle.
The press release openly pitches the barrel's second life. Once the sweets are gone, it works as a storage box for small items or plushies, or as a piggy bank. The product photos also show two washi-paper stickers printed with 惡鬼滅殺 (akki messatsu, roughly "destroy all demons"), the four-character phrase associated with the Corps.
The set carries the official ©Koyoharu Gotouge / Shueisha, Aniplex, ufotable credit, so this is licensed merchandise rather than a fan project.
What's Inside the Barrel
The four sweets are all classic wagashi, the traditional Japanese confections usually served with tea. The PR TIMES release lists them as:
- Monaka stamped with 滅. Monaka is a crisp wafer shell filled with sweet bean paste; this one uses chunky azuki paste made from Hokkaido-grown beans.
- Konpeito in a wisteria motif. Konpeito are the tiny star-shaped sugar candies, and the wisteria color nods to the flower demons can't stand in the series.
- Rakugan pressed with 滅 and the wisteria family crest. Rakugan are molded dry sugar sweets, and these are made with wasanbon, a fine-grained premium Japanese sugar.
- Wa-ramune tablets featuring the Corps' members. These are the chalky, fizzy ramune candies, here made with wasanbon and Yoshino kuzu starch from Nara Prefecture.
The wisteria angle is the one detail that pulls the set past generic logo merch. In Demon Slayer, wisteria is the plant that keeps demons at bay, and the flower crest marks the households that shelter Corps members. Putting it on the konpeito and rakugan is a specific callback for people who actually watch the show.
The Shimokitazawa Workshop Behind It
URAKITA Kobo is the craft brand of Ashitaka Works, a small company based in Tokyo's Setagaya ward. The company was founded in 1995, incorporated in 2014, and runs restaurants and makes confectionery and wooden tableware in Shimokitazawa, the Tokyo neighborhood better known for vintage clothing and live-music venues. The barrels themselves are made there.
The workshop is not new to anime tie-ins. Its own release history on PR TIMES shows a Demon Slayer wooden barrel mug in August 2025 and a gold- and silver-foil-style "Demon Slayer Corps 滅" mug this May, alongside barrel mugs for Naruto Shippuden, Spice and Wolf, Monster Hunter, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End and Delicious in Dungeon. The Demon Slayer mugs are still listed on the store at ¥7,040. This wagashi set is the first time the company has put its barrels around food instead of drink, going by that list, and the 壱 (ichi, "one") in the product name hints the shop sees it as a first entry rather than a one-off.
Looking Ahead
The set went on sale at noon Japan time on September 18, 2026 through the URAKITA Kobo online store, priced at ¥4,860 including tax. The store listing adds a launch-day perk not in the press release: free domestic shipping on September 18 only.
The catch for international fans is that URAKITA Kobo's products are Japan-only sales. The shop's own global shipping page tells overseas buyers to go through a proxy purchasing service, naming WorldShopping (which adds a 10% service fee plus international postage) and One Map by FROM JAPAN (¥500 per item plus shipping). Whether the sweets themselves can clear customs in your country is on you to check, since the shop handles inquiries in Japanese only and can't change orders placed through a proxy.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba streams on Crunchyroll and Netflix, and the Infinity Castle film is available on Crunchyroll. Koyoharu Gotouge's original manga is published in English by Viz Media.