Otanjoubi Omedetou, Oishi Shuichirou!

Today is the very reliable Oishi-fukubucchou's birthday! He's a very likeable character, so cute when he goes red in front of girls and cares a lot about the people around him. He's definitely going to be a very popular doctor in future if he follows his dad's path... Maybe he should do something about that two strands of the fringe which makes him look quite comical. Whatever came over him to do that since his hairstyle was pretty "normal" when he was in Sec 1 and 2? ^__^

Anyway, it's going to be May tomorrow and there's only 8 weeks to get the movie DVDs. Can't wait for that to come soon! Vol 40 of the DVD is all about Ryoma... I don't dislike him but that match with Kevin is too exaggerated. I'll probably run through that DVD to check only... Somehow, I feel that for the Senbatsu arc, the matches get more boring as it progresses. The Atobe-Sanada match was simply the best, Eiji and Oshitari were good too, Sengoku was fighting well and even Fuji showed his skills even though he sort of won easily. Akaya was doing fine until they had to pull him off to make way for Ryoma...sigh...

I've finally bought the remaining volumes of the manga so I can continue my "love-affair" with Tenipuri in this form now that the anime has ended...Hopefully, Konomi-sensei will finish the Nationals arc properly before ending the series. I'm still looking forward to Seigaku vs Rikkaidai where Tezuka can fight head-on with Yukimura or maybe a Hyotei vs Rikkaidai match sometime where Atobe and Sanada can finish their half-done match during the Senbatsu. Eh, is there even a Senbatsu arc in the manga? Vol 28 is their preparation for the Nationals so from then on, the actual matches should begin...