Drops of God, Volume 5 (Korean Edition): Les Gouttes de Dieu

The Drops of God (神の雫 Kami no Shizuku) is a Japanese manga series about wine. It is created and written by Tadashi Agi, a pseudonym employed by creative team of sister and brother Yuko and Shin Kibayashi, with artwork by Shu Okimoto. All the wines that appear in the comic are authentic. The series was first published in November 2004 in Weekly Morning magazine in Japan. Vertical Inc. is publishing the series in North America under the title The Drops of God. A live action television adaptation, also titled Kami no Shizuku, was broadcast by Nippon Television in January 2009. It has been featured in the New York Times Best Selling list of manga. Plot Kanzaki Shizuku (神咲 雫) is a junior employee in a Japanese beverages company mainly focusing on selling beers. As the story opens, he receives news that his father, from whom he is estranged, has died. His father was the world-renowned wine critic Kanzaki Yutaka (神咲 豐多香), who owned a vast and famous wine collection. Summoned to the family home, a splendid European style mansion, to hear the reading of his father's will, Shizuku learns that, in order to take ownership of his legacy, he must correctly identify, and describe in the manner of his late father, thirteen wines, the first twelve known as the "Twelve Apostles" and the thirteenth known as the "Drops of God" that his father has described in his will.