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

Patema Inverted

“I wear a necklace, because I wanna know when I’m upside down.” – Mitch Hedberg

This is a very special film in terms of British anime history, in that it was one of the first…

• 11th December 2014
Anime Review

Kill la Kill Volume 1

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde.

Kill la Kill is an anime which has a lot to live up to. The series is directed…

• 28th November 2014
Anime Review

Dragon Ball Volume 5

This review contains spoilers.

“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” – Herbert Hoover.

In the last collection of Dragon Ball we witnessed…

• 25th November 2014
Anime Review

Yu-Gi-Oh! Volume 1

“Regarded as a game, chess is more intellectual than life… or bridge.” – Thomas Hardy

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a rare example of a project that became bigger in another format that…

• 17th November 2014
Manga Review

Witchcraft Works Volume 1

“Ah, fire: scourge of Prometheus, toaster of marshmallows, eradicator of dead wood.” – Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons.

Some people say it is best to fight fire with fire. In Witchcraft…

• 13th November 2014