It's amazing that takumi has come so far from the first few episodes, where he could care less about driving and now he wants to be the best, guess bunta making him drive with a paper cup filled with water really did do something to takumi, I really love that mogi is trying to be a better person, and the snow rescue for mogi was peak cinema. Ryo is now my favorite initial d character.
I now have to watch stage 4, the last stage before the point of translated subtitle reading, as there is no dubbed version of stages 5 and 6 because both Funimation and tokyopop both lost the licence to do so, so after I get done with stage 4 it will all be reading from there, and I'm going to watch MF Ghost (Mt Fuji's ghost), I love this anime series.