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SoraNews24
11-08-2025
- Entertainment
- SoraNews24
Gundam Wing dinner show to be held at fancy hotel in downtown Tokyo with brand-new scene
Heero Yuy isn't going to kill you while you eat, but his voice actor is going to read an all-new Gundam Wing scene. When I hear the term 'dinner show,' the first image that springs to mind is an old-school supper club, the sort of place where guests would sit in Naugahyde booths and dine by the light of candles in red glass holders while listening to Henny Youngman deliver one-liners or enjoying the music from Cab Calloway's band (which was most likely big). After that, the next thing I'd picture would be local actors putting on a play, maybe a well-known classic like West Side Story or a murder mystery that's simple enough to let you play detective while also deciding between the apple pie or chocolate cake for dessert. What I don't picture, though, is for a dinner show to have anything to do with giant robots. It turns out that this is simply a lack of imagination on my part, though, as there's going to be a Gundam Wing dinner show in Tokyo. The Prince Park Tower Tokyo, a luxury hotel located near downtown Tokyo's Shiba Park, will serve as the venue for New Mobile Report Gundam Wing 30th Anniversary Dinner Show-Operation Reunion, the most recently revealed part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gundam Wing anime's debut on Japanese TV in 1995. The organizers are promising a special menu crafted just for the event, with dishes drawing inspiration from the story of five smooth-faced teens who each have their own Gundam. Actual mecha warfare is, however, a poor match for the sort of elegant eating experience dinner show customers expect. So instead, the on-stage entertainment will come courtesy of the voice actors for Gundam Wing's five core characters: Heero's Hikaru Midorikawa, Duo's Toshihiko Seki, Trowa's Shigeru Nakahara, Quatre's Ai Orikasa, and Wufei's Ryuzou Ishino. The quintet will perform a live reading of famous scenes from Gundam Wing and also talk about their experiences making the landmark anime. The cherry on top, though, is that they'll also perform a brand-new scene as their characters that's exclusive to the dinner show. ▼ Left to right: Orikasa, Seki, Midorikawa, Nakahara, and Ishino Prices for tickets, which include the meal, range from 38,500 yen (US$260) to 55,000 yen, depending on how close you're sitting to the stage, or the ステージ, as it's marked in the diagram below. ▼ The letters represent seating sections, not mobile suit variants. The Gundam Wing dinner show will be held on December 27 only. Two shows will be held that day, though, at 1 and 6 p.m., meaning that one of the 'dinner shows' is, oddly enough, actually a lunch show. With only two shows, tickets are limited, and so purchase eligibility is being provided by a lottery. A portion of the seats are being set aside for Gundam Fan Club premium members, who can apply for them online between now and August 24 here, with results to be announced August 30. Non-fan club premium members, meanwhile, can apply for tickets between now and September 7 here, with winners to be informed of their purchase eligibility by September 12. Source: Gundam official website via Oricon News via Hachima Kiko Images: Gundam official website ● Want to hear about SoraNews24's latest articles as soon as they're published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Follow Casey on Twitter, where any mention of Ai Orikasa will have 'Up-Walk in Galaxy' playing in his head.
Gizmodo
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Gundam Wing' Celebrated 30 Years at Comic-Con With an Epic New Short
It's been an important year for Gundam, between the afterglow of the franchise's 45th anniversary last year, the launch of a brand new series in Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and the alignment of several key anniversaries for major entries in the franchise—including the 30th anniversary of the show that introduced Gundam to America, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Of course then, Heero and the gang weren't going to let an opportunity like San Diego Comic-Con come by without being able to celebrate 30 years of mecha goodness with western fans. Last night Bandai took to SDCC with a slew of celebrations for Wing's 30th, including new merch, a new manga to bridge the gap between previous releases, and even a theatrical re-release of the sequel movie Endless Waltz in both Japan and the U.S.. But it was all anchored around a brand new animated short, Gundam Wing: Operation 30th, a celebration of the series' legacy that was also packed with some tempting glimpses of what could be to come. Animated by Frieren: Beyond Journey's End action director Toru Iwasawa and set to the second opening theme of Gundam Wing, 'Rhythm Emotion', Operation 30th starts out as a nostalgic recreation of the opening title sequence of the anime's back half, re-introducing us to Heero, Duo, Wufei, Trowa, Quatre, and Relena, and re-acquainting us with the villainous Treize Kushreneda, Lady Une, and of course the series' Char analog, the mysterious Zechs Merquise. There's even a brief flash of Dorothy! But what's really interesting is saved for the fifteen seconds or so: for the first time, officially animated sequences recreating key moments from Frozen Teardrop, the sequel novel set decades after the events of Gundam Wing. We get to see flashbacks to Adin Lowe, the gunman who ultimately trains his young son to take on the mantle of Heero Yuy after assassinating the original colonial politician of the same name. There's also a fascinating look at Wufei's wife from the Mission Zero manga, Long Meilan, and tantalizing shots of some of the new mobile suits from Frozen Teardrop. Although the official website describes only one of them as the mysterious 'Cloaked Custom,' there are certainly parallels to prior depictions of the Snow White from Frozen Teardrop, among others like the Warlock and Prometheus. An adaptation of Frozen Teardrop is probably not on the cards beyond the tiny glimpses in this video—Gundam is preparing to move on to more anniversaries soon, like the upcoming 10th anniversary of Iron-Blooded Orphans. But it's still nice that in looking back across 30 years of Wing's influence, we got to see this tease of what could've been. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
