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

Tropic of the Sea

“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grape-nuts on principle.” – G. K. Chesterton.

This manga by the late Satoshi Kon dates…

• 14th October 2013
Anime Review

Cowboy Bebop Volume 2

“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” – Sir Fred Hoyle. 

Anime Ltd. concludes their re-release…

• 11th October 2013
Anime Review

K-On! The Movie

“I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” – Groucho Marx.

This film does make for a pleasant change, because usually…

• 9th October 2013
Anime Review

One Piece Volume 3

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I’m bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

The…

• 23rd September 2013
Anime Review

Deadman Wonderland

“I’m a student of violence because I’m a student of the human heart.” – Sam Peckinpah

As the title of the series suggests, this is a series which is pretty heavy on the …

• 7th September 2013