Round Rice Cake

The Round Rice Cake is a Heartless that appears in Kingdom Hearts χ. It appeared during the New Years event in 2014.

Design
The Round Rice Cake and its variant, the Large Round Rice Cake, are based on ', a Japanese New Year's decoration consisting of two round ' or rice cakes. A smaller mochi would be placed on top of a larger mochi, symbolizing yin and yang, the going and coming years, the human heart, and the moon and the sun. On top of these mochi, a , or Japanese bitter orange, would be placed, to symbolize the continuity of a family from generation to generation. It would be stood on a sanpō, or stand, over a sheet called shihōbeni, which is believed to ward off fires from the house for the years to come.

The Round Rice Cake's body appears to be made of a combination of the aforementioned smaller and larger mochi, and its head appears to be made of mochi as well. On top of its head is the above-mentioned bitter orange. A black stalk appears to be growing out of that orange.

At the bottom of the Round Rice Cake's body are two green leaves, and below these, a white shihōbeni with a red border. It is stood on a brown wooden sanpō .