Gundam Dining - Chic Geek Dining - G-Dining Bar Zeon in Aomori, Japan

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While I was up in Aomori recently, I came across a Gundam-theme restaurant called G-Dining Bar Zeon. Gundam is popular anime series that debut in 1979 and spawned a ton of spin-offs, movies, manga, and one giant life-size model.

Zeon was kind of the bad guys in the Gundam series. They fought using giant mobile suits called mecha and the Earth forces developed Gundam mecha suits in response (or something like that). The restaurant had quite a bit of Gundam props everywhere and TVs that played old episodes. Surprisingly it wasn't really for kids as you could drink and smoke in the place. I enjoyed a beer and some pasta while watching giant robots (sorry, mecha!) duke it out on the big screen. I was in Geek heaven.

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[ShuHibiki]

Char is watching you use the bathroom.

With his Zaku.

[RoninDave]

@ShuHibiki yeah I felt intimidated to be sure

[Ido013]

WTF they were all damned Earth Federation employees! You should've complained!! At least there should've been one Zeon employee :/

[RoninDave]

@Ido013 lol! the waitress did tell me she preferred Zeon so perhaps she was a spy

[Ido013]

@SWASDN They'd be in cells. No way they would touch Zeon's soldiers/citizens food.. XD

[SWASDN]

@Ido013 What if they were captured Feddies?

[SonsOfMalice]

Oh. my. god. It's like heaven.

[Hatterific]

The key that made it special is that it was one of the first anime that aimed for a more adult audience as opposed to kids shows. It portrayed both sides of the war as justified reasons and complex aspects, so there really wasn't a clear bad guy.

[Hatterific]

So cool. The round one eyed ones are called Zaku's. The red one is Char Azanable's who is one of the main heroes. The main idea with Gundam is that space colonies go to war with Earth, and a new type of human that has psychic powers and abilities is born in space.

[risingsun08107]

how is aomori city? I was thinking about doing JET in that city

[mokanaman]

Looks extremely similar to a bar I visited in Tokyo, will have to check it out...

[83LAdude]

Very cool. Background was playing Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories if I recall. Thanks for sharing!