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Leisure information web site Deadline reported on Tuesday that the worldwide premiere for Drops of God, the brand new internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action tv series of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto‘s The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga, is at Lille’s Sequence Mania Discussion board. Drops of God screened on March 19, 21, and 24, and it competed within the Worldwide Competitors on the occasion.

Sequence Mania is happening from March 17 by means of March 24 in Lille, France.

The present will premiere on April 21. Apple TV+ has acquired the eight-part collection and can broadcast and stream it worldwide concurrently.

The official title in Japan is Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God. (Much like the title in Japan for the second Fullmetal Alchemist tv collection, the live-action collection’ title consists of each the Japanese and English titles of the manga.)

Legendary Television is dealing with worldwide distribution outdoors of France and Japan. Hulu Japan will solely stream the collection inside Japan alongside its world premiere. The collection filmed over 10 months in France, Italy, and Japan.

The collection is a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese corporations. Legendary Tv, Dynamic Tv, France Televisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the undertaking, and are producing the undertaking with Adline Leisure. Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man’s Land) is directing the collection, and Quoc Dang Tran (Marianne, Parallel) wrote the scripts. Dynamic’s Klaus Zimmermann (Borgia, Trapped) is producing the collection.

As beforehand introduced, Tomohisa Yamashita (pictured left) and French actress Fleur Geffrier (Elle) star within the collection. The announcement famous that Geffrier’s character is called Shizuku Kanzaki, the protagonist of the manga. A earlier announcement famous that rival character Issei Tōmine could be the present’s protagonist, however an earlier report in 2021 from leisure information service Selection described the collection as having a feminine protagonist, with Geffrier taking part in the position.

Selection describes the story of the TV collection:

The story includes a girl who discovers that her estranged father has left her the world’s best wine assortment in his will. However, to assert her inheritance she should compete in opposition to a Japanese man who her father considered a son and should have been extra.

Siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi — below the pen title Tadashi Agi — launched The Drops of God manga with artist Okimoto in Kodansha‘s Morning journal 2004. A live-action collection based mostly on the manga aired in Japan in 2009. The manga ended in June 2014, and the forty fourth and last compiled e-book quantity shipped in July 2014. The manga’s last arc, titled Marriage ~Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō~ (Marriage ~The Drops of God Last Arc~), launched in Might 2015, and it ended in October 2020.

Comixology and Kodansha USA Publishing have released the manga in English digitally.

All through its serialization, the manga had famously boosted the gross sales of wines profiled within the story. The French wine journal La Revue du vin de France has acknowledged the manga, giving it the journal’s prime award in 2010. The New York Occasions additionally profiled the manga in its Eating and Wine part in 2008.

Supply: Deadline (Jesse Whittock)