Production company Pony Canyon opened an official website for a television anime adaptation of Tadashi Agi and Shuu Okimoto's Kami no Shizuku (The Drops of God) manga on Thursday, revealing the cast, production staff, a teaser visual (pictured) and teaser promo. The anime series will air on Tokyo MX, Kansai TV, and BS NTV in 2026.

Cast
Issei Tomine: Takuya Satou (Yuukoku no Moriarty)
Miyabi Shinohara: Maaya Uchida (Kinsou no Vermeil)
Yutaka Kanzaki: Banjou Ginga (Solo Leveling)

Japanese actor and singer Kazuya Kamenashi, formerly of boy band KAT-TUN, is starring as the protagonist Shizuku Kanzaki.

Staff
Director: Kenji Itoso (Santa Company)
Series Composition, Script: Yuu Mitsuru (Sousei no Aquarion: Myth of Emotions script)
Character Design: Soudai Suwa (Sentouin, Haken shimasu!)
Art Design: Youko Furumiya (M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane)
Color Design: Yumi Uchibayashi (Graphinica) (Muv-Luv Alternative)
3DCG Director: Hiroyuki Gotou (Übel Blatt)
Director of Photography: Tetsuya Kawada (Graphinica) (Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun)
Editing: Ryouko Kaneshige (Helck)
Sound Director: Chikako Yokota (Mato Seihei no Slave)
Sound Production: Studio Sound Bee
Music: Eishi Segawa (Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai)
Music Production: Pony Canyon
Animation Production Cooperation: YANCHESTER
Studio: Satelight

Agi and Okimoto serialized the gourmet drama manga in Weekly Morning from November 2004 to June 2014, followed by the Mariage: Kami no Shizuku Saishuushou (Drops of God: Mariage) sequel manga in the same magazine from May 2015 to October 2020. The duo then ran Kami no Shizuku: Deuxième sequel from September 2023 to April 2024. Kami no Shizuku has a cumulative 15 million copies in circulation.

Vertical originally licensed the manga in English in January 2011, releasing the first eight volumes in 2-in-1 omnibus volumes. The fifth and final omnibus, subtitled New World, compiled the 22nd and 23rd volumes in September 2012 by the authors' request. Kodansha USA began redistributing the manga digitally on ComiXology and Kindle in October 2019, with a physical re-release planned to begin this year. The first volume went on sale on Tuesday.

The Drops of God was awarded the Special Award of the Year by the prestigious French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France in 2010, and was featured in the New York Times' Best Selling List of Manga in 2012.

Synopsis
Shizuku Kanzaki is the only son of world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki. From a young age, Shizuku has been subjected to strange education from his father all for the sake of wine. From learning to gracefully decant a drink to intently remembering the smell of leather belts and pencils, the training causes him to grow resentful of everything related to wine. Discontent with his father, he leaves home to become an average sales representative for a beer company, refusing to ever touch wine again.

When his father suddenly passes away, Shizuku finds himself being dragged back into the world he hates so much. As part of his father's will, the one who will inherit his prized wine collection and estate will be the person who can correctly identify the "12 Apostles" of wines as well as the legendary "Drops of God." In order to inherit the assets, Shizuku has one year to complete the task, but he finds the proposition ridiculous when he is the only living relative of Yutaka.

What Yutaka failed to tell his son before his death was that he had adopted Issei Tomine into the family a week prior to his passing. Issei is a famous veteran wine critic competing against Shizuku to claim the estate for himself. With no formal training in wine tasting, Shizuku stands no chance against "The Prince of Wine" and is at risk of losing everything in this competition. Will he be able to correctly identify the elusive "Drops of God" before he runs out of time? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Teaser PV


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