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

K-On! Season 2 Volume 2

“Pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.” – Ian Anderson.

We are now moving into a closing movement in the life of Ho-kago Tea Time, the five-piece band unique…

• 22nd July 2013
Anime Review

Un-Go

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” – Aldous Huxley

Un-Go has a vast mixture of elements to it. It is a detective show. It has both fantasy elements and…

• 4th July 2013
News

Gurren Lagann to be released on Blu-Ray

Anime Limited have announced that they will release the highly acclaimed mecha series Gurren Lagann will brought out as both a complete DVD box set and a two-part Blu-Ray collection.

The DVD collection…

• 24th June 2013
Anime Review

Kids on the Slope

“Jazz is not dead … it just smells funny.” – Frank Zappa.

MVM clearly have high hopes with this series. For starters it was only released this year so it has been a quick turnaround…

• 23rd June 2013
Anime Review

Bakuman Volume 1

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

As a lover of manga and anime I believe that Bakuman is a must-read manga because…

• 17th June 2013
Manga Review

Paradise Kiss Volume 3

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

Due to these being larger collections of the original series, this Vertical…

• 3rd June 2013