Review of Initial D Second Stage

Spoiling bits of the story, but not too important ones. At first I thought Initial D was about racing, cars and kind of like a coming of age story featuring Takumi, but it's just so much more than that. While Season 1 was a near perfect introduction to the whole story, Season 2 was a 100% perfect continuation to it. And here are my reasons for that:First of all, the antagonists:
They started off very weak with Iwakii Seiji who just was like any other antagonist.
Mean, kind off stubborn and overall a prejudging idiot.
Just the kind of antagonist you are supposed to hate.
Don't get me wrong here, I hate it when an anime obviously wants to influence your opinion on a character, but the other antagonists made this part of the story completely enjoyable.

Akiyama Wataru and Sudou Kyouichi were the creme de la creme of antagonists to me.
Kyouichi with his kind of badass appearance but at the same time he was so kind and truly wanted Takumi to change for the better.
And Wataru which wasn't a good antagonist, because of how he behaved, but because of the fact that he was there to lead Takumi into something greater.
They both showed Takumi big weaknesess he has to lose in order for him to win his races.
Truly important and well written characters.

Another thing that made this anime season a 10 for me was the romance/feelings part:

First of all let's talk about Itsuki X Kazumi and Takumi X Mogi.

The almost GODLIKE behavior Takumi brought towards Mogi was just so satisfying to watch.
And Mogi reacted just like a normal person would.
She realized she did something wrong and now she would have to change for the better in order to get back to Takumi.
It was obviously not his fault and she should make that clear to him so that they can maybe reunite.
I don't know yet if I would be a fan of that though.

Itsuki X Kazumi was also so good.
I personally didn't like Itsuki in Season 1 at all, because he was always the guy that talked nonsense and cried, screamed and laughed like the biggest idiot ever, BUT in Season 2 this guy was just a whole different person.
A more reasonable and better person in my opinion.
He spitted facts all over the place.
I could spent a whole day just listening to Itsuki's sad life and romance experience, and why is that?
It's because I can completely understand his feelings.
I felt the same way. I guess everyone felt the same way when they got their heart crushed the first time for their life. I just could relate perfectly.

Talking about feelings I was so happy to see Takumi showing off his feelings FINALLY.
The moment he cried because of the race with Kyoichi I CRIED TOO. I loved it.
He finally opened up to his father and I for the first time felt like they had a father son connection.
Before that they always seemed so far apart.
Never talking to each other much and only about cars, but now they were talking about how they feel and they tried to solve a problem together.
I just loved seeing them so close together.
I mean his father is probably one of the best written characters as well since he just helps his son develop so much but not by telling him what to do, but by pushing him to his limits and letting himself discover how to get better. Loved it.

Also the use of soundtracks, especially Deja Vu was just amazing. I loved the art and the soundtracks all along!

Hope anyone can relate that this Season was extraordinary and one of the most important steps to take for Takumi.