A Requiem for Char: The Red Comet of My Youth is a memoir written by Shūchi Ikeda and published in 2007 in which he speaks about his time as a voice actor and how playing Char Aznable changed his life. It is not available in English and to my knowledge has no fan translation, so as a side project, I have been reading through the book myself and summarizing some of the interesting things I’ve come across.

All information is from the book, and therefore Ikeda himself. Any time I interject with additional information or my own thoughts is otherwise noted. The book includes screenshots to give context, so I include those in my summaries where applicable.

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Table of Contents

1. Steps to becoming an actor
2. And then I met “Him”
3. A man called Char Aznable
4. Friends connected by “Gundam”
5. To Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
6. To my departed friends…
7. New Encounters
8. A little more about Char