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Wanting to share their visions with other people, Shin suggested creating a manga centered around wine. Whenever the siblings drank wine, they played a game of describing the "image" of wine, much like how characters in manga tend to do, and realized they shared "similar imagery without much diversion of vision from each other". One day, the siblings tried a 1985 DRC Echézeaux and become more entranced in the deeper aspects of the wine world, stating "when had it, it made us think about the culture, the people, and we started to see these complex pictures and patterns like a rug.
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Neither of the authors have professional wine qualifications, but they grew up learning about French food and wine from their grandfather and drinks wine every day as a hobby. In this, he is also helped by knowledge gained from his time as a child with his father, and supported by his friends, including trainee sommelier Miyabi Shinohara and colleagues in the newly formed wine department of his company, which he now joins.Īll the wines that appear in the comic are authentic, with Yuko and Shin Kibayashi being passionate wine lovers and even owned a 3,000-bottle collection. However, with strong senses of taste and smell, and an uncanny ability to describe his experiences from those senses, Shizuku submerges himself in the world of wine and tries to solve the mysteries of the 13 wines and defeat Issei. Shizuku has never drunk wine, in part a reaction against the ruling passion of his late father, nor had any previous knowledge about wines. He also learns that he has a competitor in this, a renowned young wine critic called Issei Tomine, who his father has apparently recently adopted as his other son. Summoned to the family home, a splendid European style mansion, to hear the reading of his father's will, Shizuku learns that, in order to take ownership of his legacy, he must correctly identify, and describe in the manner of his late father, thirteen wines, the first twelve known as the "Twelve Apostles" and the thirteenth known as the "Drops of God" ("Kami no Shizuku" in the original Japanese edition and "Les Gouttes de Dieu" in the French translation), that his father has described in his will.
His father was the world-renowned wine critic Yutaka Kanzaki, who owned a vast and famous wine collection. As the story opens, he receives news that his father, from whom he is estranged, has died. Shizuku Kanzaki is a junior employee in a Japanese beverages company, Taiyo ("Sun" in Japanese) Beer mainly focusing on selling beers.
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Drops of God also inspired two live-action TV adaptations. ĭrops of God is widely successful, receiving praise for its accurate knowledge of wines, characters, story, and art, and is famous for its global impact on the wine market, especially the sales of wines profiled in the manga. The story takes place after Mariage, with Shizuku traveling the world and arriving in Paris, and meeting a girl with a good nose. On September 13, 2023, another sequel was announced, titled Drops of God deuxième ( 神の雫 deuxième, Kami no Shizuku deuxième) and will begin publication in Weekly Morning magazine on September 21. Serialization began on May 28, 2015, a few months after the original manga ended its serialization, and was completed on October 15, 2020, collected into a total of 26 volumes. The manga's theme is the "marriage" between wine and food, exploring the many different combinations between them. A sequel manga, titled Drops of God: Mariage ( マリアージュ ～神の雫 最終章～, Mariage - Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō) continued where the original manga left off, focusing on Shizuku traveling abroad to deepen his knowledge of wine and his search for the "Drops of God".
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The series was first published in November 2004 in Weekly Morning magazine in Japan and ended in June 2014, with the final volume out in July. The story is told in two parts – the first part focusing on protagonist Shizuku Kanzaki and his rival Issei Tomine on their search of the "Twelve Apostles" wines, and the second focusing on finding the "Drops Of God". It is written by Tadashi Agi, a pseudonym employed by creative team of sister and brother Yuko and Shin Kibayashi, and illustrated by Shu Okimoto.
The Drops of God ( 神の雫, Kami no Shizuku) is a Japanese manga series about wine.
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