A new key visual for the anime has also been released.
The upcoming wine-themed drama anime “The Drops of God” just released a new trailer. In the latest update, it was revealed that the series will air on 10 April, 2026. Moreover, five new cast members and a key visual were also unveiled.
The Drops of God anime new cast, staff, and other details
The newly added cast members of the anime are:
- Yuhko Kaida as Ryoko Kiryu
- Shinshu Fuji as Shiro Fujieda
- Misa Watanabe as Maki Saionji
- Yuuya Uchida as Soichiro Mishima
- Jin Urayama as Robert Doi
The previously announced main cast of the anime includes:
- Kazuya Kamenashi as Shizuku Kanzaki
- Banjo Ginga as Yutaka Kanzaki
- Takuya Sato as Issei Tomine
- Maaya Uchida as Miyabi Shinohara
Kenji Itoso directs the anime at Satelight with Yuu Mitsuru handling series composition and script writing. Sodai Suwa designs the characters while Eishi Segawa composes the music. Other staff members of the anime includes:
- Art Setting: Yoko Komiya
- Colour Setting: Hiromi Uchibayashi (Graphinica)
- 3DCG Director: Hiroyuki Goto
- Composition Direction: Tetsuya Kawada (Graphinica)
- Editing: Ryoko Kaneshige
- Sound Director: Chikako Yokota
- Sound Production：Studio Sound Bee
- Music Production: Pony Canyon
- Animation Production Cooperation: Yanchester
The anime is based on a manga series written by Tadashi Agi (a pseudonym for brother and sister duo Yuko and Shin Kibayashi) and illustrated by Shu Okimoto. It was serialised in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning magazine from 2004 to 2014. The manga received a live-action Korean drama series adaptation in 2008 later on, and a Japanese live-action drama in 2009. A 2023 drama has also debuted on AppleTV+.
Kodansha also publishes the series in English and describes the story as:
Yutaka Kanzaki, a wine critic whose reviews have enough clout to move the industry worldwide, has died—leaving behind a wine collection worth over two billion yen. Only the one who can name his favorite bottles, plus vintages, will inherit this dream of a cellar. It’s a battle between Yutaka’s biological son Shizuku and adopted child Issei to identify these “Twelve Apostles”—along with the very best wine in his collection, the so-called “Drops of God.”