Live-Action Drops of God Trailer Reveals Intense Full-Bodied Drama

 

This month marks the premiere of the live-action Drops of God series, based on the manga of the same name by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto. The international co-production brings its delectable wine-tasting drama to Apple TV+ around the world on April 21, and you can sample the oaky flavors in the new official trailer below.

 

 

Quoc Dang Tran (Call My Agent) is writing, Oded Ruskin (episodes of Absentia, No Man’s Land) is directing and the series stars Fleur Geffrier (Elle) and Tomohisa Yamashita (The Head).

 

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The Drops of God was previously published in English by the former Vertical Inc., now Kodansha Comics, beginning in 2011 with the first four volumes, until the fifth volume skipped ahead to compile volumes 22 and 23 of the Japanese release under the revised title Drops of God: New World to drive awareness of the series.

 

Here’s how Kodansha describes the series:

 

The award-winning comic about wine that has been a hit not just all over Asia but also in France! Learn about legendary bottles as well as affordable secrets while enjoying a page-turner that’s not about superheroes but people with jobs to keep. When world-renowned wine critic Kanzaki passes away, his will reveals that his fortune of a wine collection isn’t bequeathed as a matter of course to his only son, who in a snub went to work sales at a beer company. To come into the inheritance, Shizuku must identify—in competition with a stellar young critic—twelve heaven-sent wines whose impressions the will describes in flowing terms …

 

Source: Apple TV+

 

 

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.