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

Love in Hell Volume 1

“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not…

• 5th November 2013
Manga Review

Sweet Rein Volume 1

“It’s Christmas in Heaven. The snow falls from the sky. But it’s nice and warm, and everyone looks smart and wears a tie.” – Monty Python

It’s November …

• 3rd November 2013
Manga Review

Tableau Numero 20

“A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.” – Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

The yaoi artist known as “est em” has risen through the ranks of her field…

• 1st November 2013
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