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

Yu Yu Hakusho Season 2 Review

Yusuke and his friends continue to progress through the Dark Tournament.

Ian Wolf • 4th October 2021

Manga Review

Sensor Review

Religion is tied up with natural disasters in Junji Ito's horror story about a woman protected by mysterious golden fibres from a volcano.

Ian Wolf • 12th September 2021

Anime Review

Is the Order a Rabbit? Season 1 Review

Cuteness, comedy and a hell of a lot of coffee are happily served at the Rabbit House cafe.

Ian Wolf • 10th September 2021

Manga Review

Battle Angel Alita Volume One (Paperback Edition) Review

A new paperback edition of Yukito Kishiro's cyberpunk manga - this first release covering the first one-and-a-half volumes.

Ian Wolf • 21st August 2021

News

Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl now streaming on BBC iPlayer

Anime is on the BBC!

Ian Wolf • 2nd August 2021

Anime Review

Yu Yu Hakusho Season 1 Review

An anime made back in the days when someone who was killed in a car crash would not automatically end up in another world.

Ian Wolf • 2nd August 2021

News

Junji Ito wins two Eisner Awards

The horror manga creator won "Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia" and "Best Writer/Artist".

Ian Wolf • 24th July 2021

Anime Review

Killing Bites Review

You have to expect violence in a series where the main character has the fangs of the world's most aggressive animal - the honey badger.

Ian Wolf • 19th July 2021

Manga Review

Boys Run the Riot Volume 1 Review

Transgender author Keito Gaku creates a story about a f-t-m transgender lead going into businesss with a cisgender classmate to make their own fashion label.

Ian Wolf • 11th July 2021

Anime Review

Hunter x Hunter Part 5 Review

Death, transformations and elections appear in the final (for now) part of Hunter x Hunter.

Ian Wolf • 21st June 2021

Manga Review

Sex Ed 120% Volume 1 Review

Meet Naoko Tsuji - a P.E. teacher whose passion for sex education means that she is not afraid to teach her girls the facts of life that are absent from Japan's curriculum.

Ian Wolf • 10th June 2021

News

2021 Eisner Award Nominations Announced

Nominees for "Best U.S. Edition of Interational Material – Asia" are I Had That Same Dream Again, I Wish I Could Say "Thank You", A Journal Of My Father, Ping Pong, Remina, and Spy x Family.

Ian Wolf • 9th June 2021

Anime Review

Kandagawa Jet Girls Review

This series is all about competitive jet-skiing... and fan service. OK, it's mainly about fan service.

Ian Wolf • 26th May 2021

Anime Review

Hunter x Hunter Part 4 Review

With a race of deadly Chimera Ants on the loose, Gon and his hunter friends have to deal with a case of extreme pest control.

Ian Wolf • 10th May 2021

Manga Review

I’m The Catlords’ Manservant Volume 1 Review

This short-lived manga gives a new spin on the harem genre - a guy not surrounded by loads of girls, but male shapeshifting cats.

Ian Wolf • 5th May 2021

Anime Review

Hetalia: World Party Collection (Seasons 5-6) Review

After a year of delays, a new two-season long DVD collection of multinational comedy finally arrives.

Ian Wolf • 12th April 2021

Anime Review

Fairy Tail: Final Season, Collection 26 Review (Final Part)

It's the final battle for survival, with Zeref and Acnologia threatening the world in the last collection of the fantasy shonen series.

Ian Wolf • 29th March 2021

Anime Review

Hunter x Hunter Part 3 Review

Gon and Killua find themselves hunting cards in a video game for their latest mission.

Ian Wolf • 24th March 2021

Manga Review

Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya Review

This prequel sees what happened to Senku's father when the world turned into stone... and the robot he took with him to the ISS.

Ian Wolf • 20th March 2021

Features

Lockdown Reads: Robot x Laserbeam

Tadatoshi Fujimaki's follow-up to Kuroko's Basketball was a manga about golf that only lasted a year before Shonen Jump dropped it. What went wrong?

Ian Wolf • 18th February 2021