Crunchyroll is now streaming the English dub for the anime adaptation of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto’s The Drops of God manga series. The English dub cast and crew of The Drops of God episode 1 were also revealed.
English Dub Episode 1 Cast
- Shizuku voiced by Chirstopher Guerrero
- Miyabi voiced by Taylor Shaye
- Tomine voiced by Reagan Murdock
- Yutaka voiced by Mike Smith
- Fujieda voiced by Christopher Caz
- Kiryu voiced by Maganda Marie
- Maki voiced by Brianna Roberts
- Mishima voiced by Alex Hanback
- Morikubo voiced by Aaron Roberts
- Yoshida voiced by Greg Dulcie
English Dub Episode 1 Crew
- Voice Director: Jason Lord
- Producer: Susie Nixon
- Adaptation: Jared Smith, Kieran Flitton
- ADR Prep: BEnjamin Tehrani
- Mixer: William Dewell
- Engineer: Tina Son
New episodes of The Drops of God release on Fridays at 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll.
HOKUTO performs the opening theme song “hate you? love you?,” and Maaya Uchida performs the ending theme song “Kami no Shizuku.
The main cast includes:
- Takuya Satō as Issei Tomine
- Kazuya Kamenashi as Shizuku Kanzaki
- Maaya Uchida as Miyabi Shinohara
- Banjō Ginga as Yutaka Kanzaki
- Yūko Kaida plays Ryōko Kiryū
- Shinshū Fuji plays Shirō Fujieda
- Misa Watanabe plays Maki Saionji
- Yūya Uchida plays Sōichirō Mishima
- Jin Urayama as Robert Doi
Kenji Itoso directs the series at Satelight in collaboration with YANCHESTER. Yū Mitsuru supervises and writes the series scripts, Takehiro Suwa designs the characters, and Eishi Segawa composes the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Art Setting: Yōko Komiya
- Color Key Artist: Hiromi Uchibayashi (Graphinica)
- 3D CG Director: Hiroyuki Gotō
- Compositing Director of Photography: Tetsuya Kawada
- Editor: Ryoko Kaneshige
- Sound Director: Chikako Yokota
- Sound Production: Studio Sound Bee
Tadashi Agi, the pen name of siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi, launched The Drops of God with artist Okimoto in Kodansha’s Morning magazine in 2004. The first manga series in the franchise ended in June 2014. Kodansha USA Publishing publishes the manga in English digitally.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the manga, via Kodansha:
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…
