Ian Wolf

Ian works as an anime and manga critic for Anime UK News, and was also the manga critic for MyM Magazine. His debut book, CLAMPdown, about the manga collective CLAMP, is available now. Outside of anime, he is data specialist for the British Comedy Guide, is QI's most pedantic viewer, has written questions for both The Wall and Richard Osman's House of Games, and has been a contestant on Mastermind.

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Manga Review

Toppu GP Chapters 1 & 2 Review

Review of Toppu GP, Chapters 1 & 2

Ian Wolf’s review

 “What I like about a bike is that if you get it wrong, you die. See what I mean? What’s good about that is that it sort of keeps me on my toes.” – Ross…

• 15th June 2016
Anime Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 5 Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! 5 

Ian Wolf’s Review

Warning: may contain spoilers

“Well, as L. P. Hartley said: ‘The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.’ That was the opening of The …

• 13th June 2016
Anime Review

Flowers Of Evil

“O douleur! O douleur! Le Temps mange la vie.” (Oh pain! Oh pain! Time eats life.) – Charles Baudelaire. 

Flowers of Evil was one of the more controversial anime of recent years,…

• 3rd November 2015
Anime Review

Outbreak Company

“I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.” – ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

This is a series that has seemingly passed everyone at AUKN by. It …

• 26th October 2015
Manga Review

QQ Sweeper Volume 1

“Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.” – Quentin Crisp 

Fumi Nishioka is a new transfer student at Kurokado Private High School. She has suffered a lot: her…

• 21st October 2015
Manga Review

Komomo Confiserie Volume 1

“There are two things I like stiff and one of them’s jelly.” – Dame Nellie Melba

When she was growing up, the five-year-old Komomo Ninomiya had just about everything.…

• 13th October 2015
Anime Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 3

Warning: may contain spoilers

“Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.”  Muhammad Ali

The semi-finals of the Battle City Tournament are now due, taking…

• 10th October 2015
Anime Review

A Certain Scientific Railgun

“Every scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed in it.”…

• 6th October 2015
Anime Review

Sword Art Online II Volume 1

Warning: may contain spoilers.

“Happiness is a warm gun Happiness is a warm gun, mama When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobody can do me no harm” –…

• 21st September 2015