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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

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
Manga Review

Ayako

“No one who has not sat in prison knows what the State is like.” – Leo Tolstoy.

In terms of Osamu Tezuka’s work, Ayako certainly fits into his darker side. It is not as dark however …

• 27th February 2013
Anime Review

Needless Volume 2

“…and with the bowels of the last priest let us strangle the last king.” – Denis Diderot.

When I reviewed the first half of this series, I wrote that it provoked a range…

• 16th February 2013