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

Fairy Tail: Final Season Collection 23 Review

The disbanded guild members reunite as they prepare for their final battle.

Ian Wolf • 11th December 2020

Manga Review

Chainsaw Man Volume 2 Review

Denji learns about the deadly Gun Devil... and touches some boobs in the second volume of Chainsaw Man.

Ian Wolf • 2nd December 2020

Manga Review

Requiem of the Rose King Volume 13 Review

Volume 13, unlucky for some maybe, but not for all, as the Duke of Gloucester becomes King Richard III.

Ian Wolf • 9th November 2020

Anime Review

Sword Art Online: Alicization Part 1 Review

A decent story where Kirito is in a virtual world in which time moves at a different pace is once again overshadowed by writer Reki Kawahara's use of a violent rape scene.

Ian Wolf • 26th October 2020

News

Tokyo Babylon to get anime TV series in 2021

"Tokyo Babylon 2021" will be made by the studio GoHands.

Ian Wolf • 25th October 2020

News

Speculation growing over forthcoming news from CLAMP

A video to debut on 25th October appears to have connections to Tokyo Babylon, as the all-woman manga group celebrate 30 years working together.

Ian Wolf • 20th October 2020

Manga Review

Sneeze Review

The Beatles, psychic tramps, cartoon mice and tourists to a destroyed Tokyo all star in this short story collection.

Ian Wolf • 19th October 2020

Manga Review

Chainsaw Man Volume 1 Review

Is this The Tokyo Chainsaw Massacre? Whatever it is, the main character certainly stands out.

Ian Wolf • 4th October 2020

Manga Review

Clover: Collector’s Edition Review

CLAMP's stark, minimalist cyberpunk work is now out as an extra large, hardback edition.

Ian Wolf • 21st September 2020

Manga Review

Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku Volume 4 Review

This already violent story takes a more disturbing sexual turn in this volume.

Ian Wolf • 16th September 2020

Anime Review

Astra Lost in Space Review

A short but brilliant sci-fi story with so many revelations it is hard to keep count.

Ian Wolf • 28th August 2020

Anime Review

Magic Knight Rayearth: Collector’s Edition Part 2 Review

Hikaru, Umi and Fuu are now fighting to save Cephiro from invasion from other worlds (except in the OVA, where they are fighting to save Earth from invasion from Cephiro).

Ian Wolf • 26th August 2020

Manga Review

Venus in the Blind Spot Review

Junji Ito's latest collection includes stories of sewn-up bodies, a vanishing woman and a vile tongue.

Ian Wolf • 18th August 2020

Anime Review

Magic Knight Rayearth: Collector’s Edition Part 1 Review

Three schoolgirls find themselves spirited away to a magical land in the anime adaptation of an early example of isekai by CLAMP.

Ian Wolf • 28th July 2020

News

2020 Eisner Award Winners Announced

Cats of the Louvre & Witch Hat Atelier joint winners of "Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Asia". The Way of the Househusband wins "Best Humor Publication".

Ian Wolf • 25th July 2020

Manga Review

Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku Volume 3 Review

We learn more about the island, the elixir and the mysterious monsters that live on the island in this volume.

Ian Wolf • 23rd July 2020

Manga Review

Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams Review

A rather familiar bucktoothed schemer and a US President who looks like a cross between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton star in Naoki Urasawa's one-shot series.

Ian Wolf • 22nd July 2020

Manga Review

Prince Freya Volume 2 Review

The stand-in prince has to deal with enemies within her own kingdom in this second volume.

Ian Wolf • 14th July 2020

Anime Review

One Piece: Collection 22 (Episodes 517-540) Review

A new look is combined with a new adventure as the Straw Hat Pirates dive beneath the waves as they travel to Fishman Island.

Ian Wolf • 13th July 2020

Manga Review

act-age Volume 1 Review

Can 16-year-old Kei Yonagi become a great actress, despite her father running away from home, her mother's death, and with two younger siblings to look after?

Ian Wolf • 3rd July 2020