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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Anime Review

The Diary of Ochibi

“So little time, so little to do.” – Oscar Levant.

While most anime fans are used to ordinary 2D animation and perhaps some 3D CGI animation, there are few stop-motion anime.…

• 24th April 2015
Anime Review

Log Horizon Volume 1

“Everybody has got to die, but I’ve always believed an exception would be made in my case.” – William Saroyan. 

Anime set in the world of gaming have been popular recently,…

• 13th April 2015
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 9

Episodes 206-229, may contain spoilers.

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be one or the other.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.…

• 11th April 2015
Anime Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 2

“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.” – Charles Fort

This second season…

• 29th March 2015