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

Flowering Harbour

“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.” – Mignon McLaughlin

This is a somewhat exciting title: not in terms of plot, content, or the avant grade…

• 13th July 2014
Manga Review

xxxHolic: Omnibus 2

“A wet man does not fear rain.” – Russian proverb.

The second omnibus edition of CLAMP’s supernatural series continues to feature more unusual activity in witch Yuko…

• 3rd July 2014
Anime Review

Girls Und Panzer: OVA

“Well there’s egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and…

• 18th June 2014
Anime Review

Accel World Volume 1

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we wouldn’t.” – Emerson Pugh

It is interesting to look at this series now, because…

• 13th June 2014
Anime Review

Girls Und Panzer Volume 1

“Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.” – Edward Abbey

There are many anime that could arguably…

• 3rd June 2014
Manga Review

xxxHolic: Omnibus 1

“A lasting relationship with a woman is only possible if you’re a business failure.” – John Paul Getty

Kodansha has now begun releasing omnibus editions of xxxHolic,…

• 2nd June 2014