Live-Action Drops of God TV Series Takes Its Wine Tasting to Apple TV+

 

A live-action TV series based on the Drops of God Manga—written by Yuko and Shin Kibayashi and featuring artwork by Shu Okimoto—was first announced back in August 2021, and now it has a home. According to Deadline, Apple TV+ picked up the project from Legendary Entertainment, reportedly beating out substantial competition to acquire the international series.

 

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This is a rare instance of Apple licensing an international co-production rather than producing an original scripted series. The Drops of God show—which is a co-production between Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Televisions and Hulu Japan, in partnership with Adline Entertainment—is planned for eight parts and reportedly has a budget of around $30 million, with filming taking place in France, Japan and Italy.

 

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).

 

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: Deadline

 

 

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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.