Kami no Shizuku

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?

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Kanzaki, Shizuku Main

Kamenashi, Kazuya Japanese

Tomine, Issei Main

Satou, Takuya Japanese

Shinohara, Miyabi Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Kyrgyz, Loulan Supporting

Kohara, Konomi Japanese

Honma, Chousuke Supporting

Hori, Soushirou Japanese

Boss Hama Supporting

Yoshida Supporting

Hashimoto, Shinmei Japanese

Guillemard, Anne Supporting

Takasugi, Ryou Supporting

Azakami, Youhei Japanese

Kawarage Supporting

Ishizumi, Akihiko Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Watanabe, Yuuki Producer

Oomura, Keiichi Producer

Hata, Hideaki Producer

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Apr 25, 2026

NickAries

Recommended

Preliminary (3/24 eps)

I read the source material in the manga, and I've watched Apple Tv's live action adaptation, but I still miss the first Japanese Live Action.
With this premise allow me to say that the review, in my honest opinion, should be based on the anime itself and not by comparison without proper context! It's like asking NETFLIX's One Piece Live Action to adapt the story of One Piece with the same depth of Toei's animation.

If you really want to start by comparison I found that this anime would be the fastest way to experience this wonderful story without having to read 46 volume of a manga, ... as the manga may also be not be easy to access - and it's still way more faithful than Apple's Live Action which is filled with changes and a way too serious tone although it is quite good too. This being said the manga is the better medium to feel the whole story as we're talking about 46 volumes + 24 for the second part which is still being translated at the moment. I started reading manga thanks to The Drops Of God being free on Prime Reading in Italy years ago and never stopped since, it's one of my favorite stories ever hands down.

I think it's quite unreasonable to pretend a super long and faithfully paced adaption, as having two consecutive cours nowadays is already huge, so I really do appreciate all the effort by the studio - with an impressive combo of Opening and Ending Theme Songs + colors and voice actors up to the task. I read online that people would bury this anime on some sloppy animation on episode 1 but I can assure you this anime doesn't really need some shonen sakuga to tell its story. You should taste it slowly and enjoy it... like a fine wine.

P.S. I am watching this adaption with a friend who never experienced the story and she is enjoying it a lot, it's a mature story that could easily be adapted in asian drama and has pacing similar to The Apothecary Diaries or Journal with Witch. It's about people, bonding and emotions. Don't sleep on it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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May 6, 2026

P_F_V

Not Recommended

Informative

Preliminary (3/24 eps)

I read the manga this is based off of years ago. As if by fate, my Dad recently found a copy of the third volume just lying around, which I bought to replace a copy I lost from the library, but then either I or the library found the missing copy, so I kept the new copy. Long story short, I have a convenient comparison at hand. I had a fond impression of the manga and, true to my memory, the artist is very adept, rendering the characters in a grounded but expressive seinen style and making excellent use of contrast. ... You can see the care put into the world and the imagery, down to the drawing of each wine bottle.

That worthy source material is unfortunately put to waste, and I can tell even without seeing the same parts of the story being adapted. You might be tricked by the competent elements of the anime that Drops of God was meant to be read, and adaptational failure was a foregone conclusion. The decent color palette can’t compare to the black and white contrast, the silent ambiance is replaced by middling orchestral and piano music tracks, and the mundane-made-adventurous plot and sentimental diversions become a bit too melodramatic when earnestly acted aloud.

Look for more seams, however, and you can see how most of these issues tie back to the cheap production. The manga’s bold ink is washed over by a generic working animation style, with dull storyboards and stiff animation that only subtract from the stark manga. Even the painted inserts and fantasy sequences, a notch above the boring IRL scenes, fail to rise above the presentation of the source material. The lack of artistic care that so contrasts the source material can especially be felt in how it stages these once atmospheric and impactful scenes so carelessly they leave zero impact. It feels like the scenes are crammed together to try to make each episode feel complete, even though I don’t think it’s cutting material… wait, the third episode includes a chapter from the third volume?! The third 400-PAGE VOLUME?! I guess never mind that part about not having a direct comparison!

I get that you can only drag out scenes of people sitting around drinking wine for so long, and I'm perfectly fine with cutting content to make a more complete adaptation, but what is this pacing? Why does it take these encounters with one-off characters that had dedicated chapters in the manga and try to cram them into a fraction of the runtime of an episode alongside the progression of the main plot? Could they not be rearranged or competently storyboarded so it feels like we're watching episodes of a TV show instead of flipping through a truncated version of the book that's been amateurly colorized?

A bit more time and money could have made this work, but it seems most of the budget was sunk into computer-generated wine pouring. Definitely check out the manga if this premise intrigues you. The live-action drama from a 2023 also looks interesting. I think I’ll put that on my watch list and pour the rest of this spoiled vintage down the drain.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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