Within the last year, I've gotten back into anime BIG TIME! The amount of quality releases being put out by the major anime distributors is amazing and there are several titles that I've been following, including Godannar, Gankutsuou and Gantz. Titles like that should be reason enough why I'm loving anime again, but with groundbreaking, original shows like Gatchaman, Robotech and Star Blazers now available on remastered DVDs, I've been rediscovering a genre I grew up with and thought I grew out of. Mouse Vol. 2: Lusty Ambitions picks up right where Mouse Vol. 1: Stealing Temptation ended and adds some newfound danger, creating a series that doesn't take itself too seriously and providing more ecchi fun than your typical fan service series.

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Author and naturalist Zane Grey has been called the "greatest storyteller of the American West," drawing on his colorful past and rich life experiences to capture the elusive spirit of the "Old West" in the written word. In 1872 Pearl Zane Gray was born in Zanesville, Ohio, a town named for his mother's ancestors who settled it. Growing up, he took great delight in fishing and the American pastime, baseball. The latter would lead to a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in dentistry, and a brief stint in the minor leagues. It was after a fateful hunting trip to Arizona that Gray fell head over heels for the western frontier and its history and, with the support of his wife, turned his attention to writing full time. Under the pen name Zane Grey he would go on to popularize the western genre in literature and become one of the first millionaire authors.

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Author and naturalist Zane Grey has been called the "greatest storyteller of the American West," drawing on his colorful past and rich life experiences to capture the elusive spirit of the "Old West" in the written word. In 1872 Pearl Zane Gray was born in Zanesville, Ohio, a town named for his mother's ancestors who settled it. Growing up, he took great delight in fishing and the American pastime, baseball. The latter would lead to a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in dentistry, and a brief stint in the minor leagues. It was after a fateful hunting trip to Arizona that Gray fell head over heels for the western frontier and its history and, with the support of his wife, turned his attention to writing full time. Under the pen name Zane Grey he would go on to popularize the western genre in literature and become one of the first millionaire a...Read the entire review