History Manga / KamiNoShizuku

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''Kami no Shizuku'' started serialization in 2004, written by Tadashi Agi[[note]]a pseudonym of siblings Yuko and Shin Kobayashi[[/note]] and with art by Shu Okimoto, and finished in 2014, having been collected into 44 Japanese volumes. It started being released in the United States in late 2011 by Vertical, under the title ''The Drops Of God''. However, releases in the US came to a grinding halt, due to low sales numbers. To add insult to injury, the author requested that the release skip about 120 chapters and jump to the so-called New World arc, a decision that was received with contempt by readers. With no new release dates on the horizon, [[NoExportForYou it is unlikely that the series will be picked up again]].

Shizuku Kanzaki is an average office worker at a beer company. One day, he receives the news of the death of his estranged father, Yutaka Kanzaki, a world-renowned wine critic. Shizuku was trained from an early age to be a terrific wine taster, but he rebelled against his father and now disregards wine. In his father's will, it is stated that he will leave the house, his wine collection and a sum of two billion yen to Shizuku, so long as he can identify which wines are the "Twelve Apostles" and "The Drops of God". Shizuku would have refused the inheritance, if not for the fact that Issei Tomine, a renowned young wine critic whom Yutaka adopted just before dying, wants the wine collection for himself. Shizuku, together with apprentice sommelier Miyabi Shinohara, sets out into the world of wine, armed with strong senses and an uncanny ability to describe each and every wine.

This manga is most notable for being extremely influential on the Eastern wine business, especially as [[TheRedStapler it shot up little known wines to fame and overall increased wine sales exponentially]].

A live-action adaptation was made in 2009.
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!!Tropes include:
* TheAce: Tomine.
* AnimalMotifs: Shizuku as a dog.
* CrackIsCheaper: InUniverse; Shizuku is constantly driving himself broke due to all the wine he has to buy.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: So far (in the American release) Chosuke and Soichiro.
* FoodPorn
** Almost literally in chapter 7.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Tomine.
* GameBetweenHeirs: The whole plot is basically Shizuku getting into a wine tasting contest with his adoptive brother to inherit his father's vast and valuable wine collection.
* GenderBlenderName: Shizuku.
* GratuitousItalian: Chosuke.
* IAteWhat: Shizuku's training included licking such things as belts, pencils and ''flint''.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Yutaka.
* MissingMom: Shizuku's mother died when he was a little kid.
* MsExposition: Mostly Miyabi.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Applying Shonen fighting tropes to ''wine preparation'' should be hilarious (and it is, a little,) but it ''works''.
* NeutralFemale: Kiryu, Yutaka's lawyer.
* PlayingSick: [[spoiler:Kenya and Junya's father pretends that he has cancer so they'd quit fighting and work together to further their wine store.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Shizuku and Tomine.
* {{Seinen}}
* SeriousBusiness: TruthInTelevision, wine IS taken this seriously in real life.
* ShipperOnDeck: Every other character seems to be rooting for Shizuku/Miyabi.
* SiblingRivalry: Shizuku and Tomine are technically brothers, since the latter got adopted. A straighter example is twins Kenya and Junya.
* SmugSnake: Saionji and sometimes Tomine.
* SommelierSpeak: The manga is drowning in this, with the protagonist having LSD-like visions from the wine flavors.
* ThisIsMySide: Kenya and Junya divide their store with a bunch of wine boxes.
* TrainingFromHell: Shizuku thinks he had this.
* UptownGirl: Anne Guillemard is from a wine-making noble family and played this (unintentionally) to Soichiro when they were students, which is why he is so bitter.
* WineIsClassy: A big draw of the manga. A more specific example is the SiblingRivalry between wine store owners Kenya and Junya. Junya wholeheartedly embraces this trope and only stocks top ranked high class wines, while Kenya specifically looks for good bargain wines. They both get a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from their father, who tells Junya that he only looks at reputation without actually trying the wines, and Kenya that he's stifling his palate by ignoring the top vineyards.
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* YouHave48Hours: Shizuku always has a time limit to find the wine he's looking for.

''Kami no Shizuku'' started serialization in 2004, written by Tadashi Agi[[note]]a pseudonym of siblings Yuko and Shin Kobayashi[[/note]] and with art by Shu Okimoto, and finished in 2014, having been collected into 44 Japanese volumes. It started being released in the United States in late 2011 by Vertical, under the title ''The Drops Of God''. However, releases in the US came to a grinding halt, due to low sales numbers. To add insult to injury, the author requested that the release skip about 120 chapters and jump to the so-called New World arc, a decision that was received with contempt by readers. With no new release dates on the horizon, [[NoExportForYou it is unlikely that the series will be picked up again]].

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''Kami no Shizuku'' started serialization in 2004, written by Tadashi Agi[[note]]a pseudonym of siblings Yuko and Shin Kobayashi[[/note]] and with art by Shu Okimoto, and continues to this day, having been collected into 34 Japanese volumes. It started being released in the United States in late 2011 by Vertical, under the title ''The Drops Of God''. However, releases in the US came to a grinding halt, due to low sales numbers. To add insult to injury, the author requested that the release skip about 120 chapters and jump to the so-called New World arc, a decision that was received with contempt by readers. With no new release dates on the horizon, [[NoExportForYou it is unlikely that the series will be picked up again]].

This manga is most notable for being extremely influential on the Eastern wine business, especially as it shot up little known wines to fame and overall increased wine sales exponentially.

Shizuku Kanzaki is an average office worker at a beer company. One day, he receives the news of the death of his estranged father, Yutaka Kanzaki, a world-renowned wine critic. Shizuku was trained from an early age to be a terrific wine taster, but he rebelled against his father and now disregards wine. In his father's will, it is stated that he will leave the house, his wine collection and a sum of 2 billion yen to Shizuku, so long as he can identify which wines are the "Twelve Apostles" and "The Drops of God". Shizuku would have refused the inheritance, if not for the fact that Issei Tomine, a renowned young wine critic whom Yutaka adopted just before dying, wants the wine collection for himself. Shizuku, together with apprentice sommelier Miyabi Shinohara, sets out into the world of wine, armed with strong senses and an uncanny ability to describe each and every wine.

''Kami no Shizuku'' started serialization in 2004, written by Tadashi Agi[[note]]a pseudonym of siblings Yuko and Shin Kobayashi[[/note]] and with art by Shu Okimoto, and continues to this day, having been collected into 34 Japanese volumes. It started being released in he United States in late 2011 by Vertical, under the title ''The Drops Of God''. However, releases in the US came to a grinding halt, due to low sales numbers. To add insult to injury, the author requested that the release skip about 120 chapters and jump to the so-called New World arc, a decision that was received with contempt by readers. With no new release dates on the horizon, [[NoExportForYou it is unlikely that the series will be picked up again]].

''Kami no Shizuku'' started serialization in 2004, written by Tadashi Agi[[hottip:*:a pseudonym of siblings Yuko and Shin Kobayashi]] and with art by Shu Okimoto, and continues to this day, having been collected into 34 Japanese volumes. It started being released in he United States in late 2011 by Vertical, under the title ''The Drops Of God''. However, releases in the US came to a grinding halt, due to low sales numbers. To add insult to injury, the author requested that the release skip about 120 chapters and jump to the so-called New World arc, a decision that was received with contempt by readers. With no new release dates on the horizon, [[NoExportForYou it is unlikely that the series will be picked up again]].

''Kami no Shizuku'' started serialization in 2004, written by Tadashi Agi[[hottip:*:a pseudonym of siblings Yuko and Shin Kobayashi]] and with art by Shu Okimoto, and continues to this day, having been collected into 28 Japanese volumes. It started being released in he United States in late 2011 by Vertical, under the title ''The Drops Of God''.

* HeirOfMystery: The whole plot is basically Shizuku getting into a wine tasting contest with his adoptive brother to inherit his father's vast and valuable wine collection.

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* WineIsClassy: A big draw of the manga. A more specific example is the SiblingRivalry between wine store owners Kenya and Junya. Junya wholeheartedly embraces this trope and only stocks top ranked high class wines, while Kenya specifically looks for good bargain wines. They both get a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from their father, who tells Junya that he only looks at reputation without actually trying the wines, and Kenya that he's stifling his palate by ignoring the top vineyards.

* UptownGirl: Anne Guillemard is from a wine-making noble family and played this (unintentionally) to Soichiro when they were students, which is why he is so bitter.

* CrackIsCheaper: Shizuku is constantly driving himself broke due to all the wine he has to buy.