“Resentful son must identify legendary wines to inherit father's estate from rival adopted critic.”
The Drops of God
神の雫
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Synopsis
Resentful son must identify legendary wines to inherit father's estate from rival adopted critic.
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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Running avg · Aug 2013 → Nov 2022
- 8 “I don't really have the opportunity to immerse myself in long manga anymore, due to lack of time and motivation. But when I do, I always try to select manga that I think are relevant and...”
- 9 “Before reading this manga, I have never had interest in wine or whatsoever. But then I stumbled on this manga on accident and I enjoy it so much. I heard that this manga was quite popular in Japan...”
- 10 “[Spoiler Free] Drops of God/Kami no Shizuku has always been on my reading list and I'm so glad I finally got around to reading and finishing it. I originally picked this up when it was being...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 439 × 44 ch × vol
- Total read 58h 32m approx
- Published Nov 2004 – Jun 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M3355 catalog