Following the success of the live-action adaptation, Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto’s The Drops of God manga series is coming to fans in the form of an anime for the first time ever! Final Weapon has everything you need to know about The Drops of God, including the weekly schedule, release dates and timing for new episodes, and much more about the new anime.
After the passing of world-renowned wine critic Toyotaka Kanzaki, a collection is left behind at his estate. His will promises that anyone who correctly guesses the brand and year of the 12 greatest wines he selected will be granted his estate. Among the collection is the legendary wine known as “Drops of God.” With such a prize at stake, the challengers wouldn’t be far removed from the family at all. In fact, the main challengers are Toyotaka’s blood-related son, Shizuki Kanzaki, and the young critic Issei Tomine, who was adopted by Toyotaka.
The Drops of God Release Dates, Exact Premiere Time and Schedule
New episodes of The Drops of God will release on Fridays at 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET on Crunchyroll. The Drops of God will be streaming with English subs and an English dub, and there will be 24 episodes in total across two cours.
Here are the release dates and schedule for The Drops of God (subject to change):
- First Cour
- Episode 1 – April 10 – OUT NOW
- Episode 2 – April 17 – OUT NOW
- Episode 3 – April 24 – OUT NOW
- Episode 4 – May 1 – OUT NOW
- Episode 5 – May 8 – OUT NOW
- Episode 6 – May 15 – OUT NOW
- Episode 7 – May 22 – OUT NOW
- Episode 8 – May 29 – OUT NOW
- Episode 9 – June 5 – OUT NOW
- Episode 10 – June 12
- Episode 11 – June 19
- Episode 12 – June 26
- Second Cour
- Episode 13 – TBA
New episodes of The Drops of God will premiere at the following times (subject to change):
- Pacific Daylight Time: 8:30 a.m. PDT
- Mountain Daylight Time: 9:30 a.m. MDT
- Central Daylight Time: 10:30 a.m. CDT
- Eastern Daylight Time: 11:30 a.m. EDT
- Greenwich Mean Time: 3:30 p.m. GMT
OP/ED, Cast and Staff
HOKUTO performs the opening theme song “hate you? love you?,” and Maaya Uchida performs the ending theme song “Kami no Shizuku.
The main cast of the anime 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
Where Can I Watch The Drops of God?
Crunchyroll is streaming The Drops of God in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, CIS, India and Southeast Asia. In Japan, the anime is airing on the Tokyo MX, Kansai TV, and BS NTV channels, along with various streaming services.
What is The Drops of God About?
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…
