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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

Egoistic Blue

Egoistic Blue © 2012 Mio Tennohji/Libre Publishing Co., Ltd.

“The best way of reproducing the ancient Greek temperament would be to cross the Scots with the Chinese.” – Hugh MacDiarmid…

• 23rd April 2013
Anime Review

King of Thorn

“Botany is a sequel of murder and a chronicle of the dead.” – Julian Hawthorne.

One keen aspect for British anime fans concerning this film is that it is mostly set in a castle in Scotland.…

• 22nd April 2013
Anime Review

Loups=Garous

Japan, mid-21st century. Following a deadly virus, most of humanity avoids physical contact, carries iPod-like “monitors” that control their lives and eats synthetic food provided…

• 18th April 2013
Manga Review

Library Wars Volume 9

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.” – Joseph Joubert.

In this ninth volume of the manga adaptation of Hiro Arikawa’s light novels,…

• 14th April 2013
Manga Review

Jiu Jiu Volume 3

“The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.” – Ring Lardner

While the second volume for this shojo manga was a bit quiet, the third…

• 17th March 2013